Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-01-11

cantain Emery Rice, born in Boston |
forty wears ago, who commanded the !!
Mongolia. the first American steam
ship TO sink German submarine anu |
who made forty-one voyages across the
Atlantic during the war, died Satnr- /
day at the New York navy yafo nos
pital of pneumonia, following 1n1iu-
enZa.
The influenza epidemic, which swept
the country during the latter part Oh
last year, caused 11l6SS deaths IN ,he
forty-six largest cities and Increased
the combined death rate for those
communities in 1918 to 1916 per thou-
sand
japan will enter the peace CONFER
ence pledged to a policy of peace ana
the "open door" in the far east, In the
maintenance of which she will wei
come the cooperation of the allies,
Baron Nobauki Maxine, of the Jap
anese peace commission, declared on
his arrival at New York, on his way
to the conference.
WASHINGTON.
With its holiday vacation ended,
congress is expected to settle down to
the task of clearing an unusually
heavy legislative calendar before the
session ends early in March.
| President Wilson has named Herbert
c. Hoover, director general of an in
ternational organization for the felle1
of liberated countries both neutral and
enemy. Norman Davis, formerly on the
staff of Oscar L. Crosby, special COM
missioner of finance for the United
States in Europe, will act as Mr..
Hoover's assistant.
Small change required to pay war
taxes caused the government mints TO
produce 307 ,614,000 1-cent pieces in
1918, record output, according to a
report by Raymond r. Baker, director
of the mint.
War bills pouring into the treasury
made the actual cash OutgO in De-
cember $2,O6O,O00,OOO, the highest fig
ure reached, and for the last six
months of the year the total was
$10,632 100000, excluding transac-
tons in the principal of the public
debt.
| Mexican laborers may be admitted to
the United States up to and includ-
ing June &c. solely for employment in
sugar beet production, under an order
issued by Secretary Wilson.
A protest against further shedding
of American blood in Russia was made
in the senate by Senator Johnson of
California. The senator called to the
attention of the foreign relations COM
mittee, to press dispatches from Arch
angel, telling of the advance of the
allied troops in northern Russia.
FOREIGN.
American troops, fighting desperately
near Kadish, have driven back Bolshe-
vik troops which made an advance
there. The Bolshevists also launched
attacks on the Omega sector and bonn
barded the allied front. The Ameri-
cans came into battle along the Petro-
grad road and in the frozen swamps
that border it.
One million well-equipped Bolshevik
troops are reported moving on Berlin.
Drunk with their success in the regions
through which they have been tearing,
they intend to hoist the red flag over
this capital
| Violence reigns in Berlin. The wait
ers are still on strike. They broke
up various establishments in the Ber-
lin suburbs and robbed one place of
$4,000. A Waterman was murdered
in prominent hotel and the place was
robbed of $4,000.
/ Count George r. Won Hertling, the
former imperial German chancellor,
died Saturday night at Ruhpolding,
Bavaria. He had been i'll for six days.
A second invasion of Belgium this
time by American capitalists, is report
ed imminent. An American syndicate
is said to have been formed for the
purpose of erecting mammoth hotels
for tourists who will visit the most
sanguinary battlefields.
William Hohenzollern, the former
German emperor, has undergone sue
cessful operation on one of his ears
by Professor Lang of Amsterdam uni
versity.
In parliament house at Rome on
January 3, joint reception was given
President Wilson by the members of
the senate and the chamber of depu-
ties. The function was an impressive
one. The large and distinguished
| gathering gave the president an ova
ton.
A storm said to be the worst in years
has seriously damaged several thous-
and acres of agricultural land with
loss of partly matured crops, in the
state Of Sinaloa Mexico.
News has reached Sydney of the
murder of two white traders on one of