Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-05-15
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Profiteering in sugar is charged in Il
complaint against the Utah-Idaho SUI
gar company filed at Salt Lake City,
May s, by Floyd Il. Jackson, special
agent, acting in charge of the bureau
of investigation of the Salt Lake Of
flee of the United States department
of justice.
Dan Stewart, Joe McCaskill and o.
Kowaltchuk, three l. w. VS. in Jail
at Walla Walla since November 16
last, have been found guilty of GRIM
inal syndicalism. The jury recon-
mended leniency
Mrs. Y. ]. Mulligan was killed, her
daughter Ann seriously injured, and
her husband and two sons slightly in
jured Sunday near Burnley, Idaho, when
the machine in which they were riding
wax struck by another car and over
turned.
Eight persons were killed Sunday
and thirty-elght injured eight miles
south of Portland when two electric
trains ON the west side line of the
Southern Pacific company collided
head-on. Railroad officials said disre
gard of orders by the crew of the Port
land-bound train led to the disaster.
Climaxing the rumors of vicious
profiteering on the part of Pocatello,
Idaho, merchants, the city council sus-
pended its rules and passed an ordi-
nance requiring the licensing of every
marohant opd ,,rovidinu that barao fl or
the invoice cost of every article of
fered for sale shall be plainly indi-
Gated upon the article or upon the
price tag affixed.
Two men were instantly killed when
locomotive of the Little Cottonwood
Transportation company overturned at
Tanners flat between Alta and Brigh-
ton, Utah. pinning them beneath the
heavy engine.
A cyclone which struck the vicinity
of Severance. Colorado, RACED farm
houses, killed live stock and wrecked
telephone and telegraph lines. No loss
of life has been reported
DOMESTIC.
Seven men were instantly killed as Il
result of an explosion, which occurred
in the gelatine mix house of the Aetna
Explosives company at Emporium,
Tenn. The exact cause of the accident
is not known.
"Bluebeard" Harvey, under arrest a.
Los Angeles, has confessed to murder
ing nine of his wives, according TO
latest reports.
Forty miles of steel Will be laid on
the government railroad between An
chorage and Nenana, Alaska, this
season and plans are being made to
have the road in operation over its
entire length of nearly 500 miles by
January, 1922.
A jury trying Thomas Marksberry
for the murder of Jesse Glenn, at
Brooksville, KY, last fall, reported a
verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree. Marksberry, IA farmer
and former pastor, was sentenced to
life Imprisonment in the state peni-
Tertiary.
j. w. Lyftogt died at Sioux City,
Iowa, twentyfour hours after he put
stone the size of a golf ball in his
mouth. The stone became lodged in
his throat and could not be removed.
Motions to quash the Indictment
against 125 bituminous coal miners and
operators of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and
pennsylvania were filed in the federal
court at Indianapolis by Charles Evans
| uuUhaS .hiaf an,tp col for Tho ipliptaI
miners.
DIR. Chayim Wezman, president of
the world Zionist commission and head
of the Zionist delegation to the peace
conference, says the government of
Palestine will be placed In the hands
of n high commissioner and n council
until such time as popular representa-
ton can be introduced In the country.
The fifth anniversary of the sinking
of the steamship Lusitania by Ger
nan submarine was observed at New
York ON Mny Z. Special memorial
services for those whose lives were
lost In the disaster were held In sew
eral churches.
Despite the efforts of anti-suffra-
gists to force vote In the lower house
OF the Delaware legislature on May
Q on the resolution to ratify the fed
eral suffrage amendment. adjournment
was taken until May II without any
action on the measure.
The proposed amalgamation of the
African Methodist Episcopal, African
Methodist Episcopal Zion and Colored
Methodist Episcopal denominations
was sanctioned by the general confer
ence of the African Methodist Episco-
pal church at st. Louis.
Cash wheat sold above $500 in st.
Louis on May for the first time since
the government took over control of
wheat In the summer of 1917. Red
winter wheat No. 2 sold on the mer-
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