Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-01-18
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The News Happenings of
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INFERNO JNTAIN.
News comes from Seattle that re-
ceiyer has been appointed for the Spo-
kane & Inland umpire Railroad com
pany. The receiver was appointed on
petition of attorneys for the First
| Trust & Savings bank of Chicago,
| holder of II trust deed as security for
n bond issue of $4,036,000 made in
| 1906.
Seattle's port commission has let an
initial contract for a pier to cost g.
| 100000, said to be larger than any on
the Pacific coast and designed to ham
die. new oriental trade.
Seattle Democrats have announced
they will urge all Democrat organiza-
tons in the country to light welcome
bonfires on the night President Wilson
returns from France.
One-fourth of an inch of land was
condemned In the superior court at
Tacoma because 1t was needed as a
part of the Camp Lewis military res
ervation. The appraiser sets its value
ut l cent, and the owner will have
to take this, as he did not hire u
lawyer to make a contest.
Attorney General S. G. Ford has
recommended to Governor Stewart of
| Montana the creation of the office of
Il state sheriff for enforcement of the
prohibition act.
| An effort will be made during the
present session of the legislature to
reinstate boxing as a legal athletic
| sport in Montana.
John ii. Emery, a hotelman of Cas-
cade, Iaaho, was killed and his brother
| Joseph severely injured at Phlladel-
| phia when struck by u hospital auto
mobile ambulance while crossing a
| street on the way 40 railroad station.
Hiram G. Gill, former mayor Of Sc
| attic, died January of influenza. Mr.
Gill, who was SO years old, had been
elected mayor of Seattle three times
| He was recalled from that office once,
in 1911.
DOMESTIC.
| The marine workers, whose strike
| had tied up the port of New York for
three days, voted Saturday to return
| to work as soon as possible in compli-
ance with the cabled request of Presi-
dent Wilson.
Cooperation of the entire nation in
| spreading to the alien population of
| the country the spirit and truths of
| American,sm and in ending illteracy
among the native-born population, was
urged by Franklin X. Lane, secretary
| of the interior, at an Americanization
| dinner at New York City.
Polish immigrants in America and
| the Jewish joint distribution commit
| tee have agreed to expend $780, 900
| for foodstuffs to be shipped from New
| York City within few days for the re-
lief of the destitute in Poland.
A movement to change the name of
| Yellowstone park, Americas greatest
| public pleasure ground and game re-
| serve to Roosevelt park as a national
memorial to Theodore Roosevelt has
been started by Major Harry Davis
and leading citizens of Cleveland.
Twenty-one persons were killed and
three We're seriously injured in a rear
| end collision on the New York Central
| railroad at South Byron, N. Y.
| John Mason, one of the best known
actors on the American stage, died
| In a sanitarium at Stamford, Conn.
| The cause of death was given as
Brlght's disease, with complications.
| Five members of the Miles +. Nc
knight family We're killed when the
was struck by Rock Island passenger
train at a crossing short distance
east of Lincoln, Neb.
| The injunction suit brought by the
! Commercial Cable company and the
| Commercial ePaclnc sable company to
restrain Postmaster General Burleson
from taking over for the government
their respective cable lines and merg-
| ing them with lines controlled by the
Western Union Ts!egrap company
has been dismissed.
Restrictions upon the importation of
| tanning extracts have been removed by
the war trade board. The chief sources
OF the American supply of these mate
rails are South America, the hast In
dies and India and the West Indies.
Arthur c. Davis, recently arrested
in San Francisco by Mrs. G. Baldwin
Portland policewoman, pleaded guilty
to robbery of the East Side bank al
Portland of approximately $4,000.
The board of supervisors ut San
Francisco passed an ordinance making
compulsory the wearing of gauze
masks as precautionary measure
against the spread of the influenza cpl
demic. There We're 612 new cases in
one day.
Pronunciation of Bolsheyism and in
sidious socialistic doctrines marked nu
merous addresses at the meeting OF
the Republican national committee NJ
Chicago, several speakers declaring
that the election of Republican pres