Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-07-12

| SeNent! were injured
Agents of the department of justice
and customs and revenue inspectors
have seized opiate drugs valued at
| $4,000 and arrested number of
Chinese at Woodstock. Ill. The officers
| said they believed they had uncovered
one of the most extensive drug rings in
! this part of the country.
WASHINGTON.
! An official announcement from the
office of the director of sales at the
war department said surplus stocks
of canned vegetables would be sold in
/ carload lots to municipalities at cost
and stocks of canned meat at 20 per
cent below cost, provided they were
resold to the public at the prices for
which they were purchased.
A contract signed by the railroad
ton of $S,319,3T6 for the Denver &
Rio Grande.
The deficit incurred in operation of
railroads under government control
during the month of May amounted to
approximately s39,OO0,O00 net operat-
ing income totaling S3S,530OO0.
Problems facing the railroad admin
istration will be among the first bust
ness laid before President Wilson on
his return to Washington.
Congress adjourned until next
Tuesday, July s, after enacting all
appropriation bills needed by the gov
eminent agencies for the new fiscal
year.
As war time prohibition took effect
on July /. the department of justice
announced that its agents throughout
the country would not attempt to stop
the sale of "a per cent beer.
Stringent regulations governing the
sale of alcohol for medicinal purposes
have been issued by the bureau of
internal revenue.
President Wilson signed the railroad
appropriation bill, the Indian bill,
some minor measures and other docu-
ments which needed signature to be-
come law before July, in mid-ocean.
FOREIGN.
William Hohenzollern, the former
German emperor, will be brought TO
England in a British ship and impris-
oned in the tower of London, accord
ing to the Daily Mail. The death pen
atty will not be sought, the newspaper
points out, but if he is found guilty
the allies ask his Punishment for life
to remote island, following the pre-
cedent of Napoleon's exile on st.
Helena.
Ignatius Tribich Lincoln, former
member of the British parliament, who
has been in prison at London since
1916, as self confessed spy, will soon
be deported TO Hungary.
The execution of forty youths of the
Budapest military academy and the
three officers was ordered by the Hun
garian soviet government as reprisals
against anti-communists, who attempt
ed to seize the telephone and telegraph
stations and who bombarded soviet
headquarters, according TO delayed de-
spatches from Budapest.
Premier Lloyd George delivered in
the house of commons on July 3, an
explanation of the peace treaty which
he described as the most ''momentous
document to which the British empire
ever affixed its seal"
Marriages between American sold
iers and German women are forbidden
by the army regulations pending rati-
fication of the peace treaty by the
United States and Germany.
The first duel to be fought in France
since the beginning of the war occur
red at Bayonne when NJ. Carat, mayor
and deputy, exchanged pistol shots
with NJ. Gemmes, vice president of the
chamber of commerce, without result.
The allies, according to the London
Daily Mail, have received assurances
that the Dutch government in the last
resort will not refuse to surrender the
former German emperor for trial.
1t is expected that all German pris-
oners of war will be on their way
home within a few days. The Ger
mans held prisoner by France will be
turned over to the German authorities
at Cologne, Mayence and Coblenz.
Order has been restored in San Jose,
capital of Costa Rica, and President
Tinoco's troops are reported to have
driven the revolutionary forces across
the Nicaraguan border.
Demonstrations by the pOpulace Of
Rio Janeiro defeated an effort by the
proprietors of coffee houses to double
the price Of the national drink, coffee,
about 5 cents.
During the last six months the num-
Der of deaths in England and Wales
exceeded the number of births by 49,
600.
The allied governments have repre-
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