Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-04-19
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"A special committee of the city
council at Salem, Ore, decided TO
recommend that the council have n
proposal that the city establish its own
telephone system placed on the ballot
al the special election June 3.
Armed posses from Pueblo and Wal
sehDurg are searching the territory
south of Pueblo, Colo, for two armed
men, believed to be escaped convicts
from Buena Vista, who killed and rob
bed E. G. Parks, an automobile sales
man of Pueblo, and William Hunter. a
farmer of Rye, Colo. and escaped in
Parks automobile.
The war labor board in n finding
handed down April IL, recommended
that the Western Chemical company of
Denver. Col /. give women employees
equal pay with men for equal work.
George Mercer of Portland, has an
nounced his determination to spend
as high as 5000 if necessary to recover
6O cents spent at local vaudeville
theatre. The question involved is
whether a theatre patron can get his
money back If he is told to go I'D in
the gallery when he paid for seats
In the balcony.
Twenty-Five men born in Norway,
Sweden, Russia and Switzerland, who
between December It. 1905 and Aug
| ust II, 1918, made declaration of their
intention to become citizens of the
United States and who after the Unit
ed States entered the war renowned
these declarations, were forever de-
barred from American citizenship by
orders signed by Judge Ralph Bell in
superior court at Everett, Wash.
The Washington Safety First asso-
citation has started a movement to pre-
vent the solemnity of funeral process
sions from being broken by passing
vehicles.
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, mother OF
William Randolph Hearst, died at hei
home, 1.-The Hacienda" Pleasanton
San Francisco, Sunday afternoon al
80. Mrs. Hearst had been i'll sew
eral weeks and her deathswas not un
expected.
All the churches and church organi
cations in the country have enlisted il
an intensive national campaign to as
sist the United States employment ser
xrioa nd i,,f oil in, Fin
ing jobs for soldiers, sailors and wal
workers.
Branches of the American Legion
the newly formed organization OF
American soldiers and sailors who
served in the world war, will be known
as 'dugouts,' if a suggestion made al
the headquarters at New York of the
temporary executive committee is
adopted.
Impeachment of Gov. w. l.. Hard
ing of Iowa will be recommended to
the Iowa house of representatives by
its judiciary committee, as the result
of the Ernest Rathbun pardon case.
American employers "have it in
their power to keep Bolshevism out OF
the country" according to Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, who has just re-
turned from the peace conference.
Americas battle fleet was aug
mented last month by ten new de-
stroyers and one submarine, besides
the superdreadnaught Idaho, which
will Join Admiral Mayo's forces upon
their return from Guantanamo bay,
Cuba, within few days.
Re-arrest and enforcement of ten
A bill to provide for compulsory in
surance in New York passed the sen
ate by vote of 30 TO 20.
The toll of Tuesday nights storm
in northern Texas, southern Oklahoma
and portion OF Arkansas has reached
n total of 100 deaths, with hundreds
reported injured and property loss
that probably will run into millions
of dollars.
A counterfeiters den In full opera
ton has been discovered within the
walls of the eastern penitentiary at
Philadelphia. Three convicts were
doing the work in their cell at night,
Mrs. Alice Cult, an actress, and a
daughter of the late Clara Reed, who
created the role of Little Eva" In
"Uncle Toms Cabin" died at New
York in her fifty-second year.
wear prison sentence imposed upon
Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader con
yicted of violation of the espionage
net last summer. Is expected within
the next week.
There is little prospect of material
reduction In the high cost of living,
sent soaring to unprecedented heights by
the world war, in the opinion OF .. II.
Austin, statistician of the National
City Bank of New York.
In order to assist the government IN
recruiting $4,000 volunteers to replace
soldiers in the army ut present thirty
five men and officers from Camp