Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-10-11

authorities with the sanction of Gov
ernor Charles Brough
Three men were shot, none fatally,
and two more injured Saturday as the
result of attempts to prevent the op-
Grafton of Il street car on the lines of
the San Oakland terminal
railways.
Approximately 1000 more Americans
immigrated into Canada in the first
eight months of 1919 than in the cor
responding period last year. according
to official figures made public at OF
tawa. OF the 1922 persons who this
year crossed the border, more than
half We're farmers.
WASHINGTON.
With disposition of the peace treaty
expected November 1, congressional
leaders are discussing the prospects
of closing the extraordinary session,
which began May 10, so as to have a
months rest before the regular De-
cember session begins.
Enormous war expenditures have
forced the attention of congress to
the question of adopting budget,
former President Taft told the house
committee investigating proposed
changes in governmental fiscal affairs.
William u. Foster, secretary of the
general committee conducting the steel
strike, when confronted before the
senate labor committee with his writ
ings advocating various forms of revo-
lutionary Socialism, declared under
grilling fire of questions that his views
had changed.
Prayer for the restoration of health
to President Wilson was offered in
the house on October by it's blind
chaplin, the Rev. Henry D. Couden.
Consideration of all bills dealing
with revision of internal revenue or
tariff laws will be deferred until after
the senate disposes of the peace treaty,
under a decision of the senate finance
committee.
FOREIGN.
The strike of railroad men, which
has been in progress upon the British
railroads since midnight, September
26, has been halted temporarily as
result of compromise. The men
will return to work while a settlement
is being effected.
Thousands of British subjects will
immigrate into Mexico about the mid
die of October, according to Excelsior,
newspaper of Mexico City. The
colonists will settle in Durango and
Chihuahua.
The resignation of the Turkish cab
met headed by Damad Ferrid Pasha,
grand yizier and minister of foreign
affairs, has been accepted by the sui
tan.
The allies, it is reported at Athens,
have agreed to loan Greece $50, 000, 900.
Premier Clemenceau has written
Col. Z. M. House, a member of the
American peace delegation, urging
that meeting of the league of ma
lions be held in Washington under the
craftsmanship of President Wilson
early in November.
President Augusta Leguia will be
proclaimed constitutional president of
Peru October II for a period of five
years, instead of four, as fixed Under
the old constitution.
The task of dismantling the twelve
ancient forts which surrounded May
ence and protected the crossing of the
Rhine has been begun by the Germans
under the supervision of the French
army of occupation.
Col. Z. NJ. House left Paris for the
United States Sunday night. Colonel
House has been in Europe for more
than IA year.
President Pessoa of Brazil has an
nounced his desire to have congress
ratify the peace treaty immediately,
without reservation Of any kind.
The American soldier guards in
Germany throughout the area occu-
pied by the American army has been
doubled owing to repeated reports
reaching headquarters that general
strike and uprising under the auspices
of the Spartacan wing of the German
socialists is due within few days.
The railroad strike situation in Eng
land has become the gravest in the
history of any labor crisis of the Brit
ish empire in the present generation.
All efforts of the transport workers
declarations to find bridge to enable
a renewal of negotiations between the
government and the national union of
railway men failed.
The Socialist deputies in the Italian
parliament just dissolved have ad-
dressed a manifesto to the country,
strongly condemning the war, which
has left behind it threatening pre-
ponderance of professional militarism.
Stoyan Protitch, premier of Jugo-
Slavia, has failed in his effort to form
new cabinet to take the place of
the one which resigned short time
ago.