Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-05-17
INFERNO JNTAIN.

on Nav 10 celebrating the fiftieth an
niversary of the driving of the golden
spike at Promontory Point on May 10,
1869
Utah and Idaho have over-subscrib-
ed their quotas for the Victory loan,
the last days receipts being the heavi-
est of the campaign.
Mine officials at Eureka Utah, have
refused to give hearings to the COM
mttee named by workmen to present
the demand for an increase of IS cents
day in wages and an eight-hour work
ing day.
Mrs. Edna Tuck was shot through
the heart at her home in Portland, dy-
ing instantly. Eugene Tuck, her hus-
band, who is shipyard foreman, and
Mrs. Marie Middleton, who lived up
stairs in the same house occupied by
the Tucks, were held by the police for
investigation.
Ruth Garrison, 1S-year-old Seattle
girl who confessed to the poisoning of
Mrs. Grace G. StOrrs, her rival for the
love of d. Nj. Storrs, on March Is last,
was found not guilty because of mental
responsibility at the time of the
crime.
At mass meeting of miners held
at Eureka, Utah. committee was
named to meet with mine owners in an
attempt to obtain an eight-hour work
ing day and an increase in wages from
., 10, 70 Iay
the wage in effect before metal prices
dropped.
Colorado will produce 15,459OO0
bushels of winter wheat, the largest
crop in its history, according TO fore
cast of the Colorado Cooperative Crop
Reporting service, made public MAY 8.
Fire of mysterious origin destroyed
4000-ton twin screw wood steamer
hull in an advanced stage of construc-
ton, with adjoining ways, shed and
corporation yard at Aberdeen, Wash.
DOMESTIC.
Fifteen million Americans bought
Victory Loberty notes in the campaign
which closed May 10, according to es-
Inmates received by the treasury from
federal reserve banks. This compares
with about 20,0O0,OO0 purchasers in the
fourth loan,4 IL 100000 in the third, o.
100000 in The SECOND and 100000 in
the first
tration of the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers, is the on
ly hope of averting nationwide strike
of the entire membership, July l, which
.will affect about 100000 employees, ac-
cording TO an announcement from
Springfield, Ill.
Two sailors and four negroes are re-
ported to have been killed and "A num-
Der of persons, wounded, eight severely,
in race riot at Charleston, S. {.
Six persons were killed and one SER
iOusly injured at Mission, Texas, when
tornado blew down train shed in
which the victims had taken shelter.
\ Victor Berger, Socialist representa-
tive-elect from Wisconsin, and under
Jail sentence for wartime violation of
the espionage law, has sent personal
appeal to every member of the house
that .he be seated, while on bail pend
ing appeal to the supreme court.
George II. Lawson, recently dis
charged from :the Canadian army, in
which he was sergeant major in the
Royal Engineers, announced at Boston
he was making plans for the forma
ton of an ''outlaw" baseball league,
to be known as the Allied league
Senators Borah of Idaho and John
son OF California have issued state
ments criticizing the plan of the war
department to recruit 5000 men to
serve as replacement troops for the
American forces now in Siberia.
Prompt withdrawal of the American
army of cct upation from Germany has
been provided for in the Paris treaty,
in the opinion of army officials who
scanned tie official summary Of the
document.
julius ii. Barnes, national wheat
administrator, said in an address AT
Chicago on May 6, to members of the
Chicago board of trade, that the act
establishing the food administration
gave authority to control trading In
foodstuffs on exchanges to the extent
of prohibiting future trading alto
gether.
The governments deficit in operat
ing the railroads for the first three
months this year, or the difference
between net earnings and one-fourti
of the guaranteed annual compensa
ton, was about $192, 100000 for al
roads under federal management.
Tom Embreys negro after standlns
off armed citizens and officers fol
four hours at Plano, Texas, was sho
and killed. Nine persons were
wounded by the negro, one probapi!
fatally. The trouble started whel
Embrey attempted to kill his wife.
Paul Frederick Voiland, wealth.
head of the art publishing compan.