Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-07-12
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN eRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from Al
Quarters Of tho Globe and
Given In q Few line0.
INTERMOUNTAIN.


shocks when lightning struck crowd
ed grandstand at a homecoming week
celebration at Whitewood, 5. ID.
Five hundred automobiles, three
hundred of which carried liquor, We're
stopped by the state constabulary be-
tween Brighton, Colo, and the Wyom-
ing-ColoradO ST line during Monday
night and early Tuesday morning. The
drivers of the cars were allowed to
proceed because of lack of adequate
facilities to handle offenders.
A fine of $500 was imposed by
Judge r. Lee, at Helena, upon r. b.
Smith, president of the Butte Daily
Bulletin company, who was convicted
of sedition. The charge was based on
publication in the Bulletin of an edi-
torial in which it was alleged the
authority of the state council of de-
Tense was questioned.
There is no necessity for submitting
the dispute of the telephone operators
and the company to arbitration,
declared Postmaster General Burleson
in telegram TO Mayor Stewart of
Reno.
An Internal machine was found
inside a combined harvester at the
farm of Irwin Jacobs, near American
Fork, Utah. Jacobs blames l. W. w.
members for the attempted destruc-
ton of his property.
One hundred train dispatchers
pledged themselves to pay s. each
month until the end of the strike, to
help the commercial telegraphers at a
meeting held at Portland. A COM
mittee was appointed to handle all
funds collected.
DOMESTIC.
By virtue of one of the Speediest
and most one-sided battles which ever
decided big fistic vent, Jack Demp-
sey, on July 4, became the worlds
champion heavyweight boxer. Willard
threw up the sponge at the end of the
third round, never having had chance
to win.
Mrs. Arthur Kistler, wife of Il farm
er at Stoneham, her four children, the
oldest 10 years of age, and her mother
in-law, were drowned while trying TO
ford Pawnee creek, thirty miles east of
Sterling. Colo
a monument to the American sold
iers who persisted in France will be
erected in May of next year near the
tomb of Lafayette in the Picpus GEM
etery.
No one has claimed the body of DIR.
Walker Keene Wilkins, the aged physi-
clan who hanged himself in the Nassau
county Jail at Mineola, l.. l., Sunday.
after his conviction of first degree
murder for killing his wife at their
Long Beach home.
Lemuel Ely Quigg, former member
of congress and prominent in Republic
can politics in New York for many
years, died July ..
s. Francisco villa ordered all Ameri-
cans hanged when captured, following
the crossing of the American expedi-
ton, according to foreign resident
border Wednesday.
Violation of the law regarding farm
loans was charged against the federal
land banks ''as guided and controlled
by the federal farm loan board by
Representative McFadden, Republican,
Pennsylvania, under an extension of
remarks printed in the congressional
record.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary
president of the National American
Women's Suffrage association, died at
her home in Moylan, Penn, July 2.
She was II years old
Six weeks from now the American
troops in Germany will number not
mans show an intention in the mean
time faithfully TO carry out the terms
of the peace treaty.
Resignation of Herbert Hoover as
chairman of the board of directors of
the food administration grain corpora
ton and reorganization of the corpora
ton under the name United States
Grain Corporation" was announced
July l at New York.
During the first three months of the
present year $50 fewer persons were
killed and $500 fewer injured on the
eountry's railroads than during the
corresponding months of the preceding
year.
Failure by congress to appropriate
funds for the United States employ
ment service resulted in all but 26 of
the 45O offices of the organization
being closed on July /.
President Wilson will make his first
address in favor of the ratification of
the peace treaty at the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York, the evening
of the day of his arrival.
Departure from Houston, Tex,
shortly of four De Haviland battle
planes for flight along the Pacific