Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-12-04
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A mass meeting of members of the
Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumber
men at Marshfield, Ore, adopted a
recommendation that the present wage
scale of $3.50 day and upward for
mill employees be reduced to $3.50 and
upward. Merchants of the community
told the meeting that the cost of liv-
ing had come down at least Is per cent
and offered their full cooperation In
lowering prices to meet the proposed
cut In wages.
Mary Pickford, the motion picture
star, through her lawyers at Minden,
New, on November q, made an effort
to quash the suit brought by the state
of Nevada to annul her divorce from
Owen Moore.
Pleading guilty to twenty-three
charges of misrepresentation of funds,
b. A. Book, former mayor of Salt Lake
City has been sentenced to an indie
terminate term in the state prison.
Book admitted the appropriation of
$4,000 during his term as auditor,
and has made restitution of the
amount taken. 1t is understood his
prison term will begin Immediately.
His attorneys are making strenuous
effort to secure clemency for their
client.
John Kobler, a well to do farmer
living near Sterling, Colo, shot and
killed his wife, using a shotgun with
which he shattered her head, and then
suiclded. Unhappiness in family af-
fairs is believed to have been the
cause.
DOMESTIC.
"A message of greeting from King
George and an address by General
Robert George Neville, French war
hero, featured commemorative services
held in Carnegie hall, New York, Fri
day night, by the American Mayflower
tenary.
With bullet hole through his heart,
the body of ]. E. Lamb, prominent oil
operator was found by the Santa Fe
railroad tracks near Ardmore, Okla.
Fifteen hundred boy scouts, under
the leadership of National Scout Com
missioner Daniel Carter Beard,
marched to the grave of Theodore
Roosevelt at Oyster Bay on November
81, on a memorial pilgrimage, The
TOO We from lew York City and its
enrons.
1ston Chevrolet, and Eddie O'Don-
nebracing drivers, and Lyall Jolls,
melanician, were killed during the
alb races at Los Angeles Thanksgiv-
| ii day, the accident occurring near
| Oh finish, when Chevrolet had won
| n race.
lying at a speed of virtually three
mrs a minute, Lieutenant &C. Nose
ley plotting an American made Yer
vik-ackard army plane, won the first
Putzer trophy aeronautical race
Thanksgiving day. against field of
thfy-four starters. He covered the
corse of slightly more than 132 miles
in minutes, 29.57 seconds, an aver
agespeed of approximately IT'S miles
an our.
TIE Citizens State bank Of Coalgate,
Okl, was closed following discovery
Of n alleged shortage of more than
$4,000 in the banks funds.
Its announced that John ID. Rock
efellr has provided 1858, 763,357 to-
ware the Laura Spellman Rockefeller
memrial, established in memory of his
wifewho died in 1915. The announce
mentalso revealed that Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's total benefaetions have reached
the eormous total of close to half Il
billie dollars.
Although officially the beer stein
and he mug of ale are n thing of
the hst, not so with pretzels, by
produt of the brewer. One hundred
and one million pretzels were turned
out By 81. Louis baking companies
during the past year.
One ton of grain, vegetables and
fruits for each of the 10T 100000 In
habitmts of the United States is the
response of farmers to the popular
appeal of the country for more and
cheapg food, reports to the agrlcul-
tural department indicate.
The ,olshevist government will dom
mate very inch of Russia and then
it will collapse. according to DR.. Il.
A. Luck, Russian physician and
formerly a Near East relief worker,
who h,s just arrived at New York.
Douglas Cruikshank flirted with n
middleaged woman on an |, train at
Chicago. Later he discovere she was
The wife he deserted fourteen years
ago. Now he is paying SO week
back aiimony to her and their dauph-