Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-01-18

INFERNO JNTAIN.

pany. The receiver was appointed on
petition of attorneys for the First
Trust & Savings bank of Chicago,
bond issue of $4,O36,O0O made in
1906.
Seattles port commission has let an
initial contract for pier to cost 81
100000, said to be larger than any on
the Pacific coast and designed to han
die new oriental trade.
Seattle Democrats have announced
they will urge all Democrat Organiza-
tons in the country to light welcome
bonfires on the night President Wilson
returns from France.
One-fouI III of an inch of land was
condemned in the superior court at
Tacoma because it was needed as a
part of the Camp Lewis military res
ervation. The appraiser sets its value
at l cent, and the owner will have
to take this, as he did not hire Il
lawyer to make a contest.
Attorney General s. c. Ford has
recommended to Governor Stewart of
Montana the creation of the office of
prohibition act.
An effort will be made during the
present session of the legislature to
reinstate boxing as legal athletic
sport in Montana.
John III. Emery, hotelman of Cas-
cade, Idaho, was killed and his brother
Joseph severely injured at Philadel-
phia when struck by IA hospital auto
mobile ambulance while crossing a
street on the way to railroad station.
Hiram c. Gill, former mayor of Sc
attle died January Z of influenza. Mr..
GIL. who was 50 years old, had been
elected mayor of Seattle three times.
He was recalled from that office once,
in 1911.
+ DOMESTIC.
The marine workers, whose strike
had tied up the port of New York for
three days, voted Saturday to return
to work as soon as possible in compli-
ance with the cabled request of Presi-
dent Wilson.
Cooperation of the entire nation in
spreading to the alien population of
the country the spirit and truths OF
Americanism and in ending illiteracy
among the native-born population, was
urged by Franklin X. Lane, secretary
of the interior, at an Americanization
dinner at New York City.
Polish immigrants in America and
the Jewish joint distribution commit
tee have agreed to expend $2,500,OOO
for fOodstuffs to be shipped from New
York City within few days for the re-
lief of the destitute in Poland.
A movement to change the name of
Yellowstone park, Americas greatest
public pleasure ground and game re-
serve to Roosevelt park as national
been started by Major Harry Davis
and leading citizens of Cleveland.
Twenty-one persons were killed and
three were seriously injured in rear
end collision on the New York Central
railroad at South Byron, N. Y.
John Mason, one of the best known
actors on the American stage, died
IN sanitarium at Stamford, Conn.
The cause of death was given as
Bright's disease, with complications.
Five members of the Miles r. Nc
knight family We're killed when the
automobile in which they We're riding
was struck by Rock Island passenger
train at a crossing short distance
east of Lincoln, Neb.
The injunction suit brought by the
Commercial Cable company and the
Commercial Paclnc liable company to
restrain Postmaster General Burleson
from taking over for the government
their respective cable lines and merg-
ing them with lines controlled by the
Western Union Telegram company
has been dismissed.
Restrictions upon the importation of
tanning extracts have been removed by
the war trade board. The chief sources
of the American supply of these mate
rails are South America, the East In
dies and India and the West Indies
Arthur G. Davis, recently arrested
in San Francisco by Mrs. G. Baldwin
Portland policewoman, pleaded guilty
to robbery of the East Side bank a,
Portland of approximately $4,000.
The board of supervisors at Sar
Francisco passed an ordinance making
compulsory the wearing of gauZt
masks as precautionary measure
against the spread of the influenza cpl
demic. There We're 612 new cases in
one day.
Denunciation of Bolshevism and in
sidious socialistic doctrines marked nu
merous addresses at the meeting OF
the Republican national committee al
Chicago, several speakers declaring
that the election of a Republican pres
ident is all that can save the country
from evil days in the future.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelts will
made in 1912. was read to members OF
the family at Sycamore Hill Thursday