Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-04-05
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERMCJNTAIN.

INTERMCJNTAIN.
Former Governor Lister of Washing
ton having resigned on account of Ill
ness, Lieut., Gov. Louis f. Hart auto
maticaHy becomes chief executive OF
that state.
Members of the Portland Boiler
makers union have adopted resolu
ton, in which they expressed their de
termination to ego to work at the reg
ular time" disregarding the turning
forward of clocks on March 80
William Cults, recently discharged
from army service, with rank of cap
tain, defeated William f. Dunn, who
was recently convicted of seditiOn, by
a majority of 10S votes for the Demo.
crat nomination for mayor of Butte
The state supreme court has denied
application of John Coe and the Cit
liens Justice League of Denver for an
order compelling the American Rail
way Express company to deliver to
consignees more than 1900 packages
of liquor which remained undelivered
when the statewide bone-dry prohi-
bition law went into effect.
Democrats of the state senate OF
Colorado defeated efforts of Repub-
licans to invite United States Senator
Charles S. Thomas, Democrat, to adj
dress the legislature on the subject
of the league of nations.
Morris Cashier, Denver boy who
was found dead under culvert near
Lincoln, Neb., took his own life, ac-
cOrding to the verdict returned by a
coroner's jury.
The food administration will re-
sumo the purchasing of flour on Pu-
get sound soon, having been advised
by the shipping board that there will
be sufficient tonnage for this purpose
shortly.
DOMESTIC.
Forty-six per cent of the commits
stoned officers who were on the army
lists November II, 1918, had been dis
charged on March 20 last. A statis-
teal report prepared by the general
staff showed that Of the 1SS, 434
officers on duty when the armistice
was signed, 1O2, 473 were in service on
March 20.
Plans of the New York police de-
partment for a cloud cop" section
materialized when twenty-six Ameri-
can, British and French aviatOrs were
sworn in in the office of Deputy 70
lice Commissioner Rodman Wanamak-
er as members of the police reserves.
Unless the regular army can speedily
be increased many thousands Of SOL
diers who are entitled to discharge
must be held in Europe or in American
army camps.
The National American Woman Suf-
frage association adopted resolutions
indorsing the league of nations and
urging the United States government
to bring about the prompt redress OF
all legitimate grievances as safeguard
against revolution by violence.
Two women who were drowned In
the harbor at Oakland when an auto
mobile driven by j. p. Arthur of Wau'
kegan, Ill.,, plunged off a wharf have
been identified as Mrs. James r. Stock
ton and Mrs. Charles V. Smith, both OF
Hayward, an Oakland suburb.
The international president of the
Commercial Telegraphers Union, an
nounces that rapid and effective pre-
parations are going ahead for strike
vote Of all telegraph and telephone
workers for a nationwide walkout,
effective April %.
Shot through the heads. the bodies OF
Miss May Nelson, stenographer and
Yoshio Hesada, a Japanese, were found
in the apartment of the young woman
in San Francisco. The japanese
clutched a revolver with two chambers
discharged.
American soldiers, already regard
ed as the best fed fighting men in the
world. are to be furnished with al
even more diversified menu.
Chief Gangonrdausn, leader of TIT
Chippewa Indian tribesmen on thu
White Earth reservation, appeared II
full regalia on the senate floor ant
from the presiding officers chail
through an interpreter asked the aid O
the legislature in the movement for
federal appropriation for education OF
Indian reservations.
Following the organization at st
Louis of a non-partisan, non-militan
and non-sectarian woman voters
league, the National American
Woman Suffrage association adjourned
Wednesday without deciding on a nam
for the league.
Fighting men who have just returned
to Chicago from Europe and have
their discharges from the army, have
taken final action to gain the charter
which will admit them to the Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
Angered by election of a coloret
soldier from surface car at New
York, a mob of 800 negroes waylaiC
the car on its return trip and in 1
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