Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-31
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Aaude Llnker, are charged Win tne
murder of Joseph Briggs, "a wealthy
stockman, at Salt Lake, on January ).
Two Seattle residents, Louis Cook
and Miss Frances Hayward, were kill
ed and seven injured, two seriously
when two big automobiles, which vic
Tins said, were racing each other,
crashed together few miles north of
Seattle.
Rejection OF proposals for an organ
lied union of evangelical churches, &C
ceptance of the Interchurch World
movement, and the gift of $2,0OO,OO0
by John ID. Rockefeller for mission
work were the outstanding features of
Saturdays session of the northern Bap-
fist convention at Denver.
The Northern Baptist convention at
Denver unanimously adopted the re-
port of the national committee of lay
men providing for the creation of
general planning board to coordinate
activities of the church under one
governing body consisting Of 140 men,
bers.
Frederick Hansen, former first mate
of the schooner Edward II. West, was
indicted at Seattle by q federal grand
jury on charge of murder. The in
dictment charged Hansen threw
Charles Hannah, second mater, over
board during a storm off Cape Horn,
May 81, 1918.
"Day labor wages for Baptist cler-
gymen is blot on the denomination /;
more than half the nations Baptist
ministers receive less than $500 a
year" This declaration was made to
the Baptist convention at Denver.
George and Tom Bosko, arrested in
Utah last week, charged with the muir
der of w. L. Hunter and Il. G. Parks,
a few miles west of Pueblo. April IL,
have made complete confession.
DOMESTIC.
Missing for six days and virtually
given up for lost Harry G. Hawker
and his navigator, Lieut.. Commander
Mackenzie Grieve, British airmen, who
essayed flight across the Atlantic
ocean without protection against dis
aster save what their frail airplane
afforded, have been picked up at sea
by a Danish steamer. They were in
the water an hour and half before
being rescued.
Hundreds of persons saw Frank Nc
Cusker of New York, pilot of a mail
airplane, leap POO feet to his death
from a burning machine at Cleveland.
Fifteen minutes before he had an
nounced that he would attempt to
establish record on his flight to
Chicago.
Union workers of Calgary, Alberta,
have called n strike in sympathy with
the Winnipeg walkout. The vote to
practically all unions affiliated with
the trades and council are affected.
One man dead, two others reported
drowned. scores of persons injured
and property loss of more than mil
lion dollars at the Goose Greek oil field
Is the toll of storm which swept
about fifty miles northwest of Hous
ton, Texas, on Saturday.
Coroner James f. Hare of Mclean
county, ILL.,, has just been allowed 500
by the government for horse of his
which was killed in the civil war in
battle at Olllona. La. He had his
claim in since 1854.
Several of the 156 passengers on the
4 I To, Il
in Chesapeake bay, off the mouth of
the Potomac river were injured but
none lost their lives.
Uninterrupted production of war
have passed upon the claim of the
United States Brewers association
that the beverage. containing 2A per
cent alcohol, is Notwithstanding, was
assured when Federal Judge Mayer
granted an injunction restraining gov
eminent Interference with its manu-
facture.
On July 4, Black Hills pioneers will
honor the memory of the late Cononel
Roosevelt by naming the highest peak
of the hills Mount Theodore Roosevelt.
Leslie Nunamaker, catcher with the
Cleveland Americans, was awarded a
verdict of $500 in circuit court at st.
Louis against a motor car company for
personal injuries suffered in an auto
mobile accident December 10, last.
Nunamaker sued for $4,000.
A score of persons were killed and
hundred injured by an explosion at
the Douglas Starch Works at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. OF the $50 men and boys
who had just gone to work in the
night shift, few escaped injury or
death.
Ebert IL. Gary of the United States
Steel corporation, declared in Il speech
at New York that there was reason to
assume that the peace terms will be
agreed to and subscribed by at least
a majority of governments, and /,
league of nations for the continued
preservation of peace will be estab-