Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-10-16
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throat was cut and conditions led to
the belief that he had taken his own
life.
Mrs. George G.. White, Cambridge,
Ida, who was injured in the fire which
destroyed the hotel at Robinette, Ore,
died at Weiser, Ida. Her death brings
the total dead from the fire to five.
Pursued by officers who were gain
ing steadily, an alleged bootlegger
stopped and set fire to the county
bridge crossing the Milk river at Slmp-
ton, Mont, destroying 1t. The fire
will Inconvenience farmers greatly in
that section.
A jury ut Pendleton, Oregon, found
Jack Ratbie and Elbie Kirby guilty of
murder In the first degree, in having
participated in the Staying of Sheriff
Il. Taylor last July during a jail
break.
William Travers, division engineer
of the Oregon Short Line, and Roy
Cornelius motor car machinist of the
same road, both of Pocatello, Ida,
were burned to death in fire that de-
stroyed the hotel at Robinette, Ore.
After fifteen months freedom, Jo-
seph Martin, serving life sentence In
the Utah state prison for robbery, the
blowing up of the home of Leroy Ec-
cles at Ogden, and sending blackmail-
ing letters, has returned to the state
prison for the purpose of completing
his sentence. Martin walked away
while doing some work around the
prison, being trustie.
DOMESTIC.
Nathan Matthias was rescued from
'lynching by an Infatuated crowd of
Brooklyn residents after Rose Weiss,
II, accused the man of attempting to
assault her. When police arrived a
moose had been adjusted about his
neck and the other end of the rope at
tached to a telegraph pole.
At meeting at Eagle, Nebraska, of
members of the farmers union, it was
price than 1925 Dushel.
Again thrusting at the foreign pol
icy of the Wilson administration, Sen
ator Harding told voters of Democrat
lc Oklahoma Saturday night that
while the American government was
beguiling them with idealistlc notions
of a new social era the other nation
had reached out to dominate CON-
merce and industry through control of
the petroleum supply.
America must join the league of ma
tons or be prepared to "arm to the
teeth" FRANKLIN d. Roosevelt de-
cared in two addresses at Kansas
City. Any other alternative is impos-
sible he added, because thirty-one
nations already in the league will not
consent to abandon 1t and experiment
with some untried plan.
A high wind that passed through
Santa Clara, Calf, tossed J. Bingwall,
Il 15-year-old boy into a tree; knocked
over George Campra and horse he
was hitching; uprooted fruit trees, de-
molished several private garages and
caused considerable minor damage.
Police were unable to unearth any
motive other than robbery for the muir
der of Miss Florence Barton and the
wounding of her fiancee, H. II. Win
ter, while the couple were riding in
an automobile near Kansas City.
Harry S. Mccartney, Chicago attor-
ney has carried to the supreme court
his efforts to compel Secretary Colby
to promulgate the joint peace resolu-
ton passed by congress last May and
vetoed by the president.
The California Walnut Growers as
ISOLATION has announced that prices
for walnuts will be 80 per cent lower
for the coming season than last year.
Another body blow for the II. c. L.
The United States destroyer Semmes
crept into port through Ambrose chan
mel bllndfolded, says a New York dis
patch. With the windows Of the pilot
house shrouded, its navigator steered
his course by .ear-listenlng to the
high pitched hum of submerged cleo
trically charged, channel cable. The
Semmes made the blind passage safely,
in a test by the navy department of a
new Sound guide for vessels, planned
to aid ships In thick weather.
a direct issue of ratifying or re-
jecting the league of nations was
accepted by Senator Harding in n
speech at Des Moines, Iowa, on 0cto-
Der 6, brushing aside the problem of
clarifying reservations and declaring
he would flavor staying out" of the
covenant written at Versailles.
An explosion on the steamship Grow
at Brooklyn dock Thursday killed
five and injured score or more.
OHIO women voters, when they go
to the polls, must tell their ages in
years and months, instead of merely
saying they "are over 81" the SUI
preme court has decided in a recent
ruling.
Four bandits entered the bank al