Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-17
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to west, Ogden turned out en- masse
ON May 10 celebrating the fiftieth an
nivcrsary of the driving of the golden
spike at Promontory Point on May 10.
1869.
Utah and Idaho have over-subscrib
ed their quotas for the Victory loan,
the last days receipts being the heavi-
est of the campaign.
Mine officials at Eureka. Utah, have
refused to give hearings to the COM
mittee named by workmen to present
the demand for an increase of 70 cents
a day in wages and an eight-hour work
ing day.
Mrs. Edna Tuck was shot through
the heart at her home In Portland, dy
Ing instantly. Eugene Tuck, her hus-
band, who is a shipyard foreman, and
Mrs. Marie Middleton, who lived up
stairs In the same house occupied by
the Tucks, were held by the police for
Investigation.
girl who confessed to the poisoning of
Mrs. Grace G. Storrs, her rival for the
love of ID. NJ. Storrs, on March Is last,
was found not guilty because of mental
responsibility at the time of the
crime.
At a mass meeting of miners held
at Eureka, Utah, committee was
named to meet with mine owners In an
attempt to obtain an eight-hour work.
ing day and an increase in wages from
the present $500 scale to $5.25 day,
the wage In effect before metal prices
dropped
Colorado will produce 15,459,0O0
bushels of winter wheat, the largest
crop In its history. according to fore
cast of the Colorado Cooperative Crop
Reporting service, made public May 9.
Fire of mysterious origin destroyed
a 4000-ton twin screw wood steamer
hull in an advanced stage of construc-
ton, with adjoining ways, shed and
dock, at the Grays Harbor Motor Ship
corporation yard at Aberdeen, Wash.
DOMESTIC.
Fifteen million Americans bought
Victory Loberty notes in the campaign
which closed May 10, according to es-
Inmates received by the treasury from
federal reserve banks. This compares
with about 20,000,000 purchasers in the
fourth loan. 17,0OO,000 in the third, o.
100000 in the second and 100000 in
the first.
Recognition by the federal admins
ration. of the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers, is the on
of the entire membership, July l, which
will affect about 10000 employees, ac-
cording to an announcement from
Springfield, ILL.,
Two sailors and four negroes are re-
ported to have been killed and num-
Der of persons wounded, eight severely,
in a race riot at Charleston, S. c.
Six persons were killed and one SER
iously injured at Mission, Texas, when
tornado blew down a train shed in
which the victims had taken shelter.
Victor Berger, Socialist representa-
tive-elect from Wisconsin, and under
Jail sentence for wartime violation of
the espionage law, has sent personal
appeal to every member of the house
that he be seated. while on bail pend
ing appeal to the supreme court.
George ii. Lawson, recently dis
charged from the Canadian army, in
xx-hi oh ha at Ion. in, th.N
Royal Engineers, announced at Boston
he was making plans for the forma-
ton of an "outlaw" baseball league,
to be known as the Allied league.
Senators Borah of Idaho and John
son of California have issued state
ments criticizng the plan of the war
department TO recruit 5000 men to
serve as replacement troops fer the
American forces now in Siberia.
Prompt withdrawal of the American
army of occupation from Germany has
been provided for in the Paris treaty,
in the opinion of army official; who
scanned the official summary he
document.
julius III. Barnes, national wheat
administrators, said in an address AT
Chicago on May 6, to members of the
Chicago board of trade, that the act
establishing the food administration
gave authority to control trading in
foodstuffs on exchanges to the extent
of prohibiting future trading alto
gether.
The governments deficit in operat-
ing the railroads for the first three
months this year, or the difference
between net earnings and one-fourth
of the guaranteed annual compensa-
ton, was about $192, 100000 for all
roads under federal management.