Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-06-12
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the Peruvian Consolidated mine at
Alta, Utah, when they We're discovered
after they had been buried since Mar
5 under hundreds of tons of snow and
rock which caught them in slide as
they were leaving the mine.
Fourteen students at the University
of Colorado at Boulder, members of
the Sigma Delta Chi, journalistic
| fraternity, alleged to have been re-
sponsible for the publication of ar
| ticles offensive to faculty members
and other students In Silver and Gold,
the college paper, have been sus-
pended.
The State bank at Arvada, Wyo has
been closed. This is the first incor-
porated bank in Wyoming to be closed
in seventeen years.
While installing gas meter at Port
land 0. o. Reinhart by mistake took
off his pipe cap without first shutting
off the gas. The occupants of the
house escaped before the explosion
and fire which did damage amounting
to $4,000.
Although the car they were driving
to Twin Falls, Idaho, carried them
over the rimrock of Dead Mans gulch
and threw them to the floor of the can
yon, 20 feet below, neither Donald
MacKay, rancher in the Filler district,
his wife nor 3-year-old child received
serious injuries.
The remuneration received by the
library workers Is far from adequate
and conditions are seriously affecting
the morale of the profession according
to Pres. Chalmers Hadley of the Am
erican Library association, in an adj
dress at Colorado Springs, opening
the annual convention of the Ameri-
can Library association.
DOMESTIC.
Efforts will be made to have the
American Federation of Labor, which
opened it's annual convention at Mon
treal on June 7, to lay the foundation
for the establishment of an American
labor party.
Four men were killed, one injured
and nine arrested as the result of a
police raid on a house in the negro.
section of Atlanta, Ca, where it is
alleged gambling was in progress.
Trustees of the general education
board of the Rockefeller Foundation
have announced appropriations total
ing $50 Psi 900 for various purposes
of general education and for the de-
velopment of medical schools.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll wealthy
draft evader, who escaped from the
custody of two noncommissioned of
ficers of the army at his home in
Philadelphia May 81, is reported try
ing to reach the Mexican border.
motoring with companion and chauf-
feur, according to a message received
at Phoenix, Ariz.
Catherine Dundon of Conshohoken,
Pa, has been arrested in connection
with the kidnapping. of 13-months-old
Blakeley Coughlin, who was taken from
his crib at his parents home near
Norristown, Pa.
Ruby Karen Mercedes, 5-year-old
Holstein COW, was sold for 5000 at the
opening of the sale at st. Paul under
the management of the Minnesota
Hostein Friesian association. Ten
head of cattle brought an average
price of $3102.50.
Property damage to Homer, Neb.,
and surrounding towns by flood water
from Omaha creek Tuesday is esti-
mated at more than $1,000,OO0. The
flood followed cloudburst near
Homer.
Judge John NJ. Cowan, 80, died at
his home in Springfield, Mo. He was
the first white child born in Indian
apolis. Ind, and was the Oldest living
| graduate of Wabash college.
Officials We're unable to cope with
| the situation at Ellinwood, Kansas,
which eliminated in the escorting from
! town of Walter T. Mills and members
of his party who came to. discuss the
principles of the Nonpartisan league,
according to statement of the mayor.
Despite the appeal of President VIII
son and other national Democratic and
Republican leaders for the ratification
of the woman's suffrage federal
amendment, the Delaware legislature
adjourned June without ratifying
Grasshoppers are seriously damag-
| ing crops in Hall and Childress coun-
ties, Texas, according to reports made
| public by the state agricultural de-
partment. They destroy cotton and
corn as fast as the plants come up,
the report said.
The $50 defendants charged in a
blanket indictment with the de-
! portation of strikers and others from
| Bisbee July l., 1917, have been grant,
ed continuance until November s.
At Il meeting at Chicago of general
chairmen of the Maintenance of Way
Brotherhood. Frank G.. Cradle of De
| troit. president of the organization,
| was authorized to present petition