Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-10
History OF |
| asst Week
The News Happenings Of
Seven Days Photographed
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INFERNO JNTslN.
The Oregon public service commits
sion has issued an order refus-
ing to allow the application of the
Pacific Telephone x Telegraph com
pany for an increase of p per cent in
| telephone exchange rates on the com
pany's lines in Oregon.
Safecrackers travelling in "A stolen
automobile dynamited- two Portland
safes Saturday and escaped with cash
and bonds estimated at $1,000
Tom and Earl Combs, cousins, were
found guilty by jury in district court
of Colorado Springs of the muir
der of Jacob Mellinger. merchant
at Rush. Colo, on April u.
Two bombs were received at the
Salt Lake postoffice from New York
on May l. One was addressed to Sen
ator King and the other to Frank X.
Nebeker, who served as chief govern
| ment prosecutor against more than
one hundred l. W. w. members last
year.
| In II burning appeal to the mayors of
cities of the United States, Mayor Ole
Hanson of Seattle has requested them
to close all |. w. w. halls, throw the
teachers of force and violence in JAIL
demand of the national authorities the
deportation and punishment of all
anarchists, and suppression of the red
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found"
Bruce Cochrane, rancher, is dead
at Climax, Mont, and William Hedrick
Is in Jail at Ekalaka, Carter county, as
the result of a shooting in front of the
Climax postoffice. The men were
neighbors and had quarreled over
ranch property.
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. Irene Castle, widow of Capt
Vernon Castle, was married Saturday
man of Ithaca, n. Y.
The greatest moral lesson of the
war would be to sink the entire Ger
man fleet with proper ceremonies, Jo-
sephus Daniels, American secretary of
| the navy, who recently visited the cap
tured German vessels at Scapa Flow,
declared in statement issued Satur
day at London
Edward n. Hurley, chairman of the
shipping board, declares that the at
titude of the emergency fleet corpora
ton with respect to the cancellation
of ship contracts has been misunder-
stood He said the policy of the board
was not one of ruthless cancellation.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Seward, widow of
Frederick W. Seward, who narrowly
escaped being killed when his father,
William II. Seward, secretary of state
under Abraham Lincoln, was attacked
at the time President Lincoln was as
sassinated, died at her home in New
York, May ., at the age of so.
Mayor f. T. Woodnan, on trial at
Los Angeles for several weeks on
charges of having accepted bride to
protect vice conditions, has been ac-
quilted by jury in the superior court.
| Bonds for the release of William ID.
| Haywood. |. w. w. leader now. in
prison at Leavenworth, Kan, We're re-
| fused in the United States circuit court
! of appeals at Chicago. The proffered
sureties were regarded as insufficient
The following of wheat in part of
Illinois. with loss of vigor in the
plant. are reported due to an afflic-
| ton hitherto unknown in this country.
! William Shortridge, negro, was
hanged Friday at the Folsom, Cal.
state penitentiary for the murder of
James Mock, policeman of Marysville
Cal, n year ago.
Nearly six thousand workmen of the
| federated railroad shop crafts of
Denver declared a one-day strike May
day as Il protest against the failure
| of the government to keep its faithful
promises that ample employment
would be furnished" and as demon
stration in behalf of Eugene V. Debs
! and other radicals now serving prison
sentences.
At Woodbury., y. V, a lioness on ex-
| hibition in circus sideshow killed her
| keeper before q small crowd of spec
tators, escaped from her cage and
| bounded into Il small clump of woods
which adions the town. The lioness
was finally killed by posse of men
and boys.
With the discovery in the New York
| postoffice ON April 30 of sixteen in
fernal machines in addition to a half
dozen which have been delivered to
| prominent men in various cities, fed
eral detectives are endeavoring to run
| down the organizers of what is be-
lieved TO be nationwide plot to
assassinate cabinet officials and other
men prominent in official and private
! life