Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-05
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Past Week
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
INTERN OUNTAIN.

Damage estimated at $23O,OO0 was
caused by fire which almost COM
pletely destroyed the Babcock-Selvide
office and store building in the bust
ness district at Billings, Mont. 1t is
estimated that 80 per cent of the loss
is covered by insurance.
Indictment of j. J. Brown, a tele-
graph operator employed jointly by
the Western Union Company and the
Oregon Railroad and Navigation COM
pany at Arlington, Ore, for the al
legged violation of congressional act
and presidential proclamation in OBJ
structing telegraph traffic, was re-
ported by the federal grand jury.
Fires started In Parley's canyon,
east of Salt Lake City, it is believed
by an incendiary bent upon Gripping
the city's water supply, caused consid-
cradle damage
More than one hundred homes and
millions of dollars worth of crops mar
rOwly escaped destruction when an
attempt was made to dynamite three
big reservoirs in the Burch creek dis
trict near Ogden.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen, in triennial con-
vention at Denver, voted to increase
the insurance policy limit of the order
from $4,000 to $500.
Eliza Spalding Warren, one of the
few who survived the Whitman mas
sacre of 1S47, died last week at the
home of daughter in Occur dAlene,
yda.
Riding a horse in spectacular dash
up the capitol steps, a cowgirl deliver
ed protest to the governor of the
state against the employment of beau
ties from the east as models for pos
ter of frontier days to be used in the
roundup" celebration at Cheyenne.
DOMESTIC.
DR.. Walter Keene wilkins, just con-
icted of wife murder and awaiting
the death sentence, committed suicide
in the Jail at Mineola, L. l., Sunday.
The league of nations was denounced
as "a gigantic war trust" by United
States Senator Hiram johnson of Call
fornia, in an address before a mass
meeting at New York, called by the
League for the Preservation of Ameri-
can Independence.
The superior blockade council has
been instructed to be prepared to raise
the economic blockade of Germany inn
mediately upon ratification by the Ger
man national assembly of the peace
treaty.
Sixteen striking telegraph operators
of the Western Union Telegraph COM
nany were arrested at Oklahoma City
~ federal agents on charges of con-
spiracy to obstruct federal business.
From a height of 800 feet above an
immense crowd at the Methodist Cen
tenary celebration at Columbus, o., DR..
Edward Soper delivered a sermon
through a megaphone from the decks
of big army dirigible.
Congress has been advised that the
Alaska government railroad project
will be completed in 921 at total
cost of $5O,436,971 or about $4,000 a
mile.
The Kansas winter wheat crop, now
being harvested, is estimated at 229,-
$1,000 bushels.
William A. English and John H.
O'Brien, members of the wool firm of
English & O'Brien. were fined $4,000
each and sentenced to serve eighteen
months in prison in federal court at
Boston for conspiring to defraud the
government in connection with income
tax returns.
A yellow substance, believed by
chemists to be sulphur, probably car
ried from some distant volcano, fell
with the rain at Dawson and streaked
sidewalks and roofs.
kilograms have been sent by Gov
ernor Pleasant of Louisiana to the gov
ernors of all southern states, asking
that they oppose ratification of the
federal woman suffrage amendment by
the legislatures of their states.
American casualties during the
forty seven-day Meuse-Argonne often
sive aggregated 10000 men, or 10 per-
cent of the total of 100000 engaged,
according to Statistical summary of
the war with Germany" prepared by
Colonel Leonard p Ayers, chief of the
statistical branch of the general staff
and published by the war department.
A verdict of guilty of murder in the
second degree was found by jury at
Redwood City, Cal, in the case of DR..
Ephriam Northcott, San Francisco
physician, accused of the murder of
Miss Inez +. Reed, army nurse.
-Four persons, enc a woman of 20,
were burned to death in cabin fire
In the Kelso valley, fifty miles north
east of Bakersfield, Cal
An international aerial race, which
will start simultaneously from Tor