Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-04-12
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letic coach of East High school at Salt
Lake, and one of the best known ath-
letes in Utah, and his wife, Mrs. Jane
Vinegar Briggs, 81 years old. We're
killed and their 3-year-old son James,
was critically injured when an auto
mobile in which they rode stalled on
the track and was struck by BAN
berger electric line train at Bountiful
Utah.
Harry NJ. Wicks, who, the police de
clare, is an organizer of a soviet
patterned after those Of Russia. was
arrested at Spokane ON a charge of
violating city ordinance that pro-
hibits the advocacy of dislOyalty to
the laws of the United States.
Expenditure of 81 100000 on roads
in the national forests of the Rocky
mountain district will be made this
year by the national government, ac-
cording to an announcement by the
Denver office of the United States
forest service.
Fifty-Seven arrests We're made by
police at Tacoma on Saturday in the
rioting that took place when half a
hundred former soldiers of the Sol
diers and Sailors Mutual Aid associ-
alton attempted TO hold tag sale on
the streets of the city in the face of
police edict forbidding the sale.
A triple tragedy took place at Ho-
quiam. Wash, when A. A. Sedgwick
shot and killed Sidney NJ. Heath an
attorney; Louise Sedgwick. his wife,
and then ended his own life.
Preliminary plans have been COM
pleted for peace jubilee, to be held
at Tacoma, from June 80 to July 4, to
raise fund for the erection of a
memorial to soldiers and sailors of the
war;
With the opening of spring work and
tie advent of the Landing season,
shortage of labor is being experienced
in Oregon and the local branch of the
federal employment service is unable
to supply the demand of local ranch
ers for farm help.
The fat stock show opened at Salt
Lake on April 8 for three-day session
with a record attendance.
DOMESTIC.
Weighing of more than 2.OOO,OOO
babies, establishment of many new
health centers to advise mothers on
the care of their children, and slim
ulatiOn of the movement to keep child
rem in school and provide them ade-
quate recreation were reported April
8 by the children's bureau as some of
the results of its children's year cam
paign.
Bringing 21S2 troops of the Fortieth
division-former National Guard of
California, Nevada. Utah. Colorado,
Arizona and New Mexico-the steam
ship Edgar A. Luckenbach arrived at
New York on Saturday from Bordeaux.
Pledging 1.-The support of the Re-
publican party" to the constitutional
amendment, which would grant nation
wide suffrage to women, Senator Will
lam NJ. Calder of New York, speaking
at a dinner of the New York City wO-
mans suffrage party, declared that an
extra session of congress would surely
be called by June or July,
announcement has been made of the
payment by the Southern Pacific COM
pany at San Francisco, as private
corporation, of its first quarterly divi-
dend for 1919, amounting to $4,16O,-
VI a ri fAh
among 37,OSS stockholders of the COM
pany.
Besides the destrOyers which will
patrol the course to be mapped for
flight across the Atlantic ocean in
May, fuel ship, probably the Mel
vile. will be stationed along the route,
so that if necessary the planes can
take on fuel at sea.
Urging that Americans awake to the
problems confronting the country
Senator Johnson OF California, in Il
statement issued April 4, declared,
We've been afflicted with mental far
sightedness" since the signing of the
'for the ills and problems of our own. y
A strike which has involved practi-
cally 10000 machinists in the San Fran
cisco bay shipyards since early in Feb
ruary ended when the machinists
agreed TO accept an offer submitted
by their employers.
Approximately 5000 independent
fishermen went on strike at San
Francisco against the fixing of fish
prices by the state market director.
Fourteen hundred men are on strike
at Monterey and as many at San Pedro
for the same reason.
The estate of the late James Still
man, for many years head of the Ma
tional City bank. New York, was APP
praised at S4O,3SS,121 in a report filed
with the surrogate.
Negotiations for the early return to
their owners of the eighty-seven Dutch
ships which were requisitioned by the