Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-03-22

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death penalty in Washington for first
degree murder. The bill is subject to
referendum for ninety days. The last
legal execution in Washington was on
February 25, 1911.
More than 100 natives of Sweden,
Norway, Switzerland and Holland were
forever denied the right to become
citizens of the United States by Judge
StapletOn at Portland. These men, it
was shown, when America was at war
withdrew their first papers and claim
ed their rights as aliens as an excuse
for not going to war.
Tbirty-eight prominent Colorado Re
publicans have filed articles of in
corporation with the secretary of state
of the Leonard Wood Republican CLUB
of Colorado" the object being to pro-
mote the candidacy of the commander
of the central department of the army
for the Republican nomination for
president next year.
Albert J. Perry, naval aviator, an
nounced at Spokane that he has been
ordered to report shortly at Cape May,
n. j., to act as chief engineer of a
dirigible balloon with which it is plan
ned to attempt trip across the At
lantic ocean under government direc-
ton.
Sixty per cent of the men of the
l6lst infantry of the Sunset division,
national guardsmen, who entered the
service as members of the second
Washington, were casualties, either
killed or wounded in varying degrees
Air gun riveters, silent in the Seattle
shipyards for weeks, on March II
started the prelude to the great indus
trial reopening that will again be
heard along Elliott bay here when the
yards get into full action again.
DOMESTIC.
The first organized action to evade
the daylight saving law was taken at
Terre Haute Ind, when committees
representing 5000 miners of the In
diana field decided not to recognize the
law.
Three persons are reported killed
and several others injured in tor
nado in Kingfisher county, Oklahoma
Colonel George Harvey editor of the
North American Review, in an address
before gathering of bankers at Chi
cago, declared the league of nations
covenant as drawn sis doomed to fail
ure," but that 1.-The substance of the
plan has not been and will not be
abandoned"
Rear Admiral William Taylor, chief
of the naval bureau of construction
and repairs. announced at New York
that the navy would be ready to at
tempt the flight by heavie. IMAM air
craft across the Atlantic ocean within
month.
More than 100000 worth of prop
erty was destroyed by the tornado
which swept over Il portion of Saun-
ders county, Nebraska killing one per-
son and injuring several others.
1t is reported that five Mormon res
idents of Mexico have been made pris-
toner's by Francisco Villa and Felipe
Angeles at Ell Vale, Chihuahua, and
were last seen in custody of Villa
troops going toward Namiquipa.
A tornado which swept over Malmo
and Colon, Neb., caused the death of
one the probable fatal injury of two
others and considerable properly dam
age in the limited district through
which it swept.
Action by the peace conference to
eliminate race prejudice, which he
tent and uneasiness among nations in
the past was urged by ViscOunt
Ishii, japanese ambassador to the
United States, speaking before the
Japan society at New York.
Fear that action of the peace com
mission in restricting Germany's army
10 a small unit of volunteers and abOl-
ishing the CONSUMPTION system may
operate against proposed universal
military training in the United
States has been aroused among advo
Gates of universal training in this
country.
Communicating by the government
or Il 1leet OF narDOf craft Suullcieht u
restore traffic in New York's strike
bound harbor to normal conditions
has been decided on by officials OF
the army, navy and United States
shipping board, according to apparent
ly authentic reports.
Joe Walker, a negro, charged will
having shot a Waterman at Greenville
Fla. was seized by mob and shot t.
death March u, while being taken t.
Madison, Fla, for safe keeping.
Restriction of immigration into Pal
estine to $4,000 a year during the frs
period of development of the new jew
ish commonwealth set up under Brit
ish trusteeship has been decided upol
by the interallied Zionist conference
I'm London.
IF the present league of nation
plan is adopted. Great Britain will rul
the Ieapue and l object to America