Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-08
While serving a six-year sentence at

passing a bogus $4,000 check in Los
Angeles, w. J. Reed, alias Morris, alias
Croft, who has just been released in
vented a check that cannot be forged
and the National Bankers Association
of America has offered him $4,000 for
his patent.
Gordon Read Patterson, serving
five-year term in the disciplinary bar
racks at Fort LeavenwOrth, kans., has
been notified that he had fallen heir
to S5,OOO,OOO through the death of an
uncle at st. Paul.
WASHINGTON.
The most sweeping removal OF
restrictions upon the exploration OF
foodstutfs made since the signing OF
the armistice has been announced by
the war trade board. COMMODITIES
removed from the export conservation
list were barley, corn and rye, 1nclud-
ing flour and meal made from these
grains oats and oat products, brewers
gains. bran and middlings, beans,
dried and split peas, sugar and hydro
genated cottOnseed oil.
The annual pension bill, carrying
!, $215 ,O3O,O 900, has been passed by the
house and sent to the senate.
The war revenue bill, revised to
raise about six billion dollars by taxa
ton this year and four billion dollars
annually thereafter, assumed final
form last week when the senate and
house conferees reached complete
agreement on the measure.
Washington police are engaged in
an attempt to solve the mystery of the
killing of DIR. T. II. Wong, chief of the
Chinese educational mission to the
United States, and c. III. Hsie and Ben
Sen WI. students at George Washing
ton university, whose bodies were
found in their homes in the fashionable
Mount Pleasant section.
An army of 100000 men was unan-
imously decided on by the house mill
tary committee as the basis for de-
termining the appropriation for army
pay for the year beginning next July.
Committee members said the number
was expected to be the average force
during the year.
FOREIGN.
1t was announced in the French
chamber of deputies that the govern
ment will build huge cemeteries along
the battle front wherever the fighting
forbid the peasants to cultivate what
hencefOrth will be sacred soil.
Twenty natives have died of Span
sh influenza at Susitna in the Cook
inlet district, according to word re-
ceived from Henry Emard, in charge
of the relief party sent from Anchor
age to aid the natives there.
The question as to whether the re-
Gently ratified national prohibition
amendment in the United States af
fects the Philippine islands has been
raised at Manila, and Acting Gov.
Charles E. Yeater has sent an Inquiry
to Washington asking a ruling in the
matter.
With mOnarchist victories confirmed,
a national government has been con-
stituted in Portugal, with Senior Con-
ceiro as premier and minister of war,
according to dispatch received from
Oporto.
The situation in the Archangel dis
trict is regarded by military officers in
northern Russia as extremely critical.
Serious conflicts between the police
and strikers developed at Glasgow,
Scotland in which at least forty per-
sons were more or less badly injured.
The number of American, French
and British troops to be maintained In
the occupied regions along the Rhine
will be limited to 100000 men, ac-
cording to the Echo de Paris.
Two British soldiers were killed and
several injured at Mons, Belgium, by
the explosion of bombs hidden under
coal abandoned by the Germans. The
soldiers were engaged in removing the
coal when the explosion occurred.
Unofficial returns from elections to
the Prussian assembly, without TAX
ing Posen's twenty-one delegates into
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142 Socialists, twenty-fOur independ-
ent Socialists, eight-seven Christian
Peoples party, forty-one German Ma
tionalists, eighteen German Peoples
party, siXty-one Democrats, six
Guelphs and one Democrat-Peasant.
DR.. Franz Mehring, Independent
Socialist member of the Prusslan diet,
is dead. Advices say that death was
due to pneumonia.
President Wilson has won half of his
battle for his policy of international,
ization of the former German colonies.
Contests are still on over demands that
the president show his plans can be
worked out on practical basis.
Major General Sir Sam Steele, of
the permanent staff of the Canadian
army, died at Putney, England, Jan
uary 80 He had been i'll for about
two months, but the end came rather
suddenly.
Twenty-Five were killed and thirty
injured when freight and a passeIl-
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