Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-20
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and instantly killed by his father-in-
law, Charles V. Engiet, in the cellar
of the latter's home at Lyons Colo.
Formal call for the converting of
the state Legislature in special session
IN Salem, Ore, on January II was is
sued by Governor Olcott ON Deeem-
Der 10.
An automobile load of Tacomans
was plunged into the icy waters of
Puget sound, and one woman, Mrs. X
ID: Sprague was drowned when Il ear
smashed through the guard gate of Il
drawbridge while the span was lifted.
James Oakley, 10 years old, was
frozen to death in his cabin at Uklah,
Thursday morning. The body was
found seated in chair.
The heaviest December snowstorms
in the history of the city of Butte.
halted all operations of street cars
Thursday. Twelve inches of snow fell
in sixteen hours. The mercury fell
from 26 degrees above zero to II be-
low.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars is the
value fixed by a jury in the district
court at Logan, Utah, upon the alfec-
| lions of Mrs. l.. f. Smith, in the alien
atom damage suit brought by the hus-
| band l.. f. Smith, against Robert Shelf
! field.
With its heart lying outside the
chest wall, a child weighing about
nine pounds, born at Willard, was re-
ceived at an Ogden, Utah hospital. 1t
is being watched by the Ogden physi-
clans, who declare the case to be the
first of its kind on record as far as
medical works disclose.
DOMESTIC.
Senator Hiram w. Johnson of Cali
fornia announced formally on Decenl-
| Der IL that he would be candidate
for the Republican nomination for the
presidency. The senator said he would
make personal campaign in every
state, explaining that he did not in
tend to have his candidacy determined
by politicians in convention"
Great excitement has been caused
among the less educated and older
members of Indian tribes in southwest
ern Oklahoma as Il result of predic-
tons of the worlds end December II.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, president
of the National Woman Suffrage AS
sociation, in an address at New York,
| urged women of all political faiths To
| join with male voters equally dis
gusted with the present political sys
| tenn to lift the nation to II realization
| of the principles for which it stands.
The yacht, Grey Duck, on which
| David w. Griffith motion picture pro-
motor, and party of thirty-six left
Miami, Fla, Wednesday, arrived late
Sunday at Nassau, Bahama Islands,
with all on board safe, four days late
and following a trying time as II re-
suit Of storms.
Vice President Thomas l.. Marshall
will not be candidate either for the
presidency or vice presidency In the
1920 campaign. according to Informal
IlOll tO1DllS from Dtluo'idt fohh'N
headquarters at Indianapolis.
"Twenty-four dollars and a half is
q fair price for Il mans suit or over
coat the federal price regulating com
mission. working under direction of
District Attorney Clyne, announced at
Chicago.
Pancho Villas troops, who attacked
and captured Muzquiz, have been driv-
en- out by CarranZa forces, according
TO G. Nj. Segun, Mexican consul, who
reached Eagle Pass on Friday.
Regional directors of railroads have
| been given authority by Director Gen
eral Hines to remove restrictions on
| the use of light, heat and power deriv-
ed from coal as soon as the fuel sit
| untion warrants.
Rather than be separated from Alex
andor Berkman, her companion for
| years, Emma Goldman announced
through her attorney that she had
abandoned her fight in the supreme
court to prevent her deportation to
soviet Russia with Berkman and some
| eighty other radicals.
A charge of murder was entered ut
Lawton, Mich, against Joseph {. Vir-
| go, II former South Bend. Ind, under
taker. by Van Buren, county authorl-
ties who are investigating the death of
Maude Tabor.
Complete blame for the killing of
james Wallace, an American citizen,
by Mexican soldier two weeks ago
near Tamplco. Mexico, is placed upon
| Wallace himself by the Mexican gov
eminent In its note replying TO the
urgent inquiry made by the United
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