Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-13
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Past Week.
The News Happenings of
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William Wilson and Parila Branner,
two Astoria, Ore, young men charged
with the murder of Frank Gowan, the
Chinese merchant and ex-seryice man,
have been arrested at Price, Utah, and
have confessed, it is said.
Fire which threatened the entire
business district of Pocatello, Idaho,
broke out at midnight Saturday in
the warehouse of the Home Products
company. With heavy wind blow
stubborn fight to prevent the confla-
grafton from spreading The loss was
about $4,000.
Judge Wilson of Olympia probably
will preside In trials of the alleged 1.
w. w. accused of the Armistice day
shooting at Centralia, Wash. The
cases will be brought into Grays Har-
NOR superior court at Montesano next
month.
If the coal situation In Ogden, Utah,
becomes more acute, theatres, churches,
dance halls and other forms of amuse-
ment will be closed.
Three men entered jewelry store
at Portland bound and gagged the
janitor and clerk, and made away
with diamonds and jewelry estimated
by the police to be worth $4,000.
Temporary suspension of the publ
cation of the Butte Daily Post fol-
hx, ri nj op,nlnval
In the composing room of the news
paper. The men are demanding 50
for 7-hour day.
Belief that the beet sugar factories
of Utah and Idaho have sufficient coal
supplies to continue their runs for six
to eight weeks during which time the
sugar beet crop can be utilized and
maximum production secured to pre-
vent a sugar famine, Is expressed at
Ogden, Utah.
DOMESTIC.
Attorney General Palmer announced
after midnight Saturday, that an
agreement was reached at Washington
between government officials and
John L. Lewis, acting president,
and William Green, secretary-treas-
urer of the United Mines Workers,
under which proposal for termina-
ton of the coal strike will be submitted
to a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the mine workers at Indian
apolis.
If the mayor of Lawrence, Kansas,
has his way, loafers will be put to
work In the Kansas coal mines. An
order to the police to arrest all able
bodied men without visible means of
support has been issued.
James w. Gerard, former ambas-
sador to Germany, was outspoken in
his opposition to America accepting a
mandate over Armenia or over any
country, when he addressed nearly
5000 Armenians at New York.
S. c. Pandolfo, president of the Pan
Motor company of st. Cloud, Mimi,
malls on four counts of federal in
dictment by jury in the district court
at Chicago, and twelve of his associates
in the company We're acquitted.
United States Senator Miles Poin-
dexter of Washington charged in a
speech at Chicago, that the govern
ment was encouraging the disastrous
coal situation by not exercising its
full power. He said back of the pres
ent labor unrest is an attempt to par
Ind, ,ptt. In, ord IN, off hA
abolition of the wage scale, the elm
ination of private property rights and
the adjustment of the constitution.
Chairman Payne has announced that
$37 100000 since January l. The esti-
mates included marine and harbor
strikes, longshoremen's and shipyard
strikes on the Atlantic, Pacific and
gulf coasts and did not include the
coal strike.
Following grlling at Lawton,
Mich, of Joseph Virgo, South Bend
undertaken, who was the sweetheart
of Maude Tabor whose dead body
was found In the basement of the
1dpor hoiie ultSI an hileiiHcht VI
three years, 1t was stated that Virgo
had married Miss Tabor in February
of 1916.
Three persons were burned to DEATH
eleven were injured and two are I'M
accounted for in the wreck of motor
bus which jumped the rails of the Mus
eatine, Burlington & Southern railway
near Muscatine, Iowa.
Gen. John j. Pershing, accompanied
by a staff of ten officers, has left
Washington on an inspection tour of
army posts in the south, on the Next
can border, the Pacific coast and the
middle west.