Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-08-02
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
hECoHD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsr
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of tho Globe and
Given In a Few llnss.
lNTE MOUNTAIN.

INTERMOUNTAiN.
James O'Neill, back from France
with four service stripes and one
wound stripe and only Is years old, is
at Camp Lewis for discharge from the
army. His papers show he enlisted
with his fathers consent when copy
boy in the art department on a Chi
cago newspaper
The town of Ballantine. on the Hunt
ley irrigation project near Worden,
Montana is threatened with destruc-
ton by fire. Seven business buildings
had been razed
Telephone adyices from Gold Hill
to officers at Wendover Utah, tell of
murder near Trout creek, Juab coun-
ty, forty miles south of Gold Hill,
Tuesday morning. George Harris, a
homesteader and former soldier, is al
legged to have shot and killed Jesse
Cone of Trout Greek and to have SER
iOusly wounded james Sabey, dep
uty sheriff of Callao
Definite relief for ockgrowers in
the drought-stricken regions of the
northwest was Tuesday ordered blythe
railroad administration, both in the
into these areas and on the shipment
of livestock out.
DOMESTIC.
Upon complaint of the Western asso-
citation of Rolled Steel Consumers that
the United States Steel corporation
and other steel producers act in yio-
latiOn of the federal trade commission
act and the Clayton antitrust act in
selling rolled steel on Pattsburg
basis, the federal trade commission
Saturday announced that il had under
taken thorough Investigation of the
subject, with view to determining
whether formal complaint should be
issued. In it's complaint the Western
| association urges that Chicago should
be made another basing point in fixa-
tion of steel prices.
Sweeping investigation of food
Quested i'm "A communication sent by
Gov. James NJ. Cox, Saturday, to State
,, Attorney General John q. Price.
The police of Los Angeles were re-
strained Saturday by an order of the
superior court here, from interfering
with the sale of beer containing 2.75
per cent alcohol by arrestng the
vendors.
Two whites and a colored man are
reported 10 be dead and approximately
fifty are said to have been injured, ii
number probably fatally, when race
riOting broke out Sunday in Chicago
among white and negro bathers along
South Side beaches, from Twenty-ninth
street south to Thirtyfifth street
Thomas Fitzgerald, 80 years old, and
married, confessed Sunday to the po-
lice at Chicago that he killed little
Janet Wilkinson, six years old, neigh
boris child last Tuesday by strangling
his home and showed them where he
had concealed the body beneath some
coal under the basement steps, and it
was recovered.
Prince Aage of Denmark, who has
been visiting in the United States since
June IS, sailed for home from New
York Saturday on the Aquitania. Be
fore leaving the prince expressed his
appreciation of America and its hos
pitality.
To obtain new air for the Yale
anthem, bright College Years which
now Is sung to the tune OF 1.-THE Watch
on the Rhine" the class of 1899 has
| offered $1,000 as prize. Selection
of a tune is to rest with the alumni
advisory board.
The navy rifle range near Caldwell
N. J., where the national rifle matches
were TO be held in August under the
auspices of the navy department was
flooded last night when the Passiac
river overlooked its banks.
The first bale of 1919 cotton was
ginned at Seelcy, Calf, Wednesday
and was sold Immediately for 30 cents
n pound. with n bonus of $50 and all
ginning costs. Ii brought n sum In
excess of 500.
Workers on the surface, elevated
and subway car lines In Berlin ana
also electricians and gas workers, went
on strike Monday In sympathy win
the internal demonstration.
Frank l.. Polk, under-secretary OF
state. sailed Monday from New York
on the steamship lmperator for
France to take the place of Secretary
Lansing ut the peace conference,