Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-06-05
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from Az
Quarters Of the Globe ane
Given In q Few Lines.
iNTERMOUNJAlN,

iol, WdSli., HAS DeeI Hotilleu lilul
President Wilson has appointed him
governor of Guam.
The circuit court decided the will of
the late Henry l.. Pittock, publisher of
the Portland Oregonian, was valid.
The will, disposing of an estate of
$8,000,000, was contested by Mrs. Caro-
line Leadbetter, daughter, who
charged undue influence on the part
OF the executors.
ID. q. johnson, commissioner of
public safety of Colorado Springs, has
been ousted from office by his fellow
commissioners on charges of miscon-
duct in office.
Ray Jensen was instantly killed at
the Highland station of the Utah
Power & Light company at Salt Lake,
when he came in contact with 1000
volts of electricity while cleaning the
oil switches.
Frank A. Hadsell of Rawlins has
been elected warden of the Wyoming
state penitentiary by the state board
of charities. Mr.. Hadsell, who is a
former sheriff and United States mar
shall, has accepted the position.
M. Kanakogi and wife, both Jap
anese, were found not guilty by jury
In. criminal court at Cheyenne of the
murder of NJ. Ogiwara and wife, also
japanese. Mrs. Ogiwara was found
dead in her home last winter and her
husband, who was with her, was so
badly wounded that he died few
hours later
Arthur James Thompson was acquit-
ted of a charge of numbering Ode
Bates at Riddle, Ore, in April, when
the two men had fight over a trade
involving a COW and horse. Bates
was much the younger of the two men.
DOMESTIC.
Two thousand tons of white sugar
arrived at San Francisco from Java,
the first shipment of it's kind in a
number of years, according to shipping
men. Gamers are said to be con-
tracing for the Java sugar because of
the scarcity of other varieties.
Two alleged moonshiners caught at
Sioux City, Iowa, were netting nearly
$4,000 day profit, according to gov
eminent agents.
Ignite, or "brown" coal of Texas,
North Dakota and other western
states. probably will be used extern
sively as fuel if experiments soon to
ho rnodo hy tho huraou of rninac In
an effort to drive off the moisture
which makes it unserviceable prove
successful.
Virgil G. Hinshaw, chairman of the
prohibition national committee, has
issued statement indorsing Senator
Arthur Capper of Kansas for the Re-
publican presidential nomination and
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, au
thor of the eighteenth amendment, for
the Democratic honors.
Fire losses in the United States dur
ing 1919 Appropriated 1926 100000 as
against $350,000,0O0 in 1918.
With proper equipment the rail-
roads of the country can be operated
as successfully in the future under
private management as they were be-
fore federal control, Charles II.
Markham, president of the Illinois
Central railroad, declared In opening
the case of the southern railroads for
higher freight rates before the inter
state commerce commission.
Suit has been filed In the superior
court at Los Angeles by Orange Grove
lodge No. o., Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Flremen and Enginemen. to COM
pei the grand lodge of that organiza-
tion to annul an order revolving the
charter of the local body on account
of the recent unauthorized strike of
switchmen and trainmen.
A resolution favoring acceptance of
mandate over Armenia by the United
States was passed by the Methodist
Episcopal general conference Mt Des
Moines, Iowa.
The honor system is a failure and
cannot be carried out effectively.
Everett J. Murphy, warden of the
Joliet penltentiary, has announced.
Twenty convicts have escaped from
the farm since u week ago last Satur-
day.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky's contri-
button to the wonders of the world,
may soon be purchased and trans
formed into an extensive national
park.
Judge A. B. Anderson. in federal
court at Indianapolis, overruled the
demurrer filed by Charles Evans
Hughes to the finding of the court
which sustained five of the counts in
the indictments charging 125 coal
miners and operators. with conspiracy
to violate the Lever act.
In small room at the Atlanta fed
eral penitentiary and under the watch
full eyes of a guard, Eugene v. Debs
serving ten-year term for violation
cf the espionage act, was formally