Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-05-29
One person dead and more than tep

trySlde near keu wing, MILL
Seven lots of gold embroidered val
vet hangings from the throne room OF
the imperial palace-at Berlin were
knocked down under the auctioneer's
hammer at New York for only $3O5.
Three unmasked men entered the
bank at Howe, Neb, held up the
cashier and his assistants, locked them
in a vault and escaped in an automo-
bile with $4,000 and a number OF
Liberty bods.
DIR. w NJ. Condor, retired dentist
of Omaha, lost his life at Long Beach,
Calf, when he was caught in tide
rip while bathing. DR.. Condor, his
daughter, Miss Nora Condor, and his
brother-in-law, r. NJ. Cites of Spring
field, H., were surf bathing together.
WASHINGTON.
While President Wilson has agreed
to arbitrate the frontiers of Armenia,
this action does not in itself imply that
the president will recommend to con-
gress that the United States accept a
mandate over Armenia, it has been
learned officially.
The house rules committee has or
dered a favorable report on reso-
luton giving soldier relief legislation
the right Of way for house considera-
ton.
An abundance of fireworks is prom
ised when the senate privileges and
elections subcommittee begins the in
vestigation of primary campaign con-
tributions and expenditures.
The American Federation of Labor
has issued its expected call to the
electorate for "an Overturn in con-
gress."
The senate has authorized an in
vestigation of pre-cOnventiOn cam
paign expenses and pledges of presi-
Dental candidates in the Republican
and Democratic pSrties Not word
vas spoken or vote cast against the
proposal
The house ways and means COM
mittee has ordered favorable report
on the soldier relief bill, with a pro-
vision levying a 10 per cent stock
dividend tax retroactive to last March
Is included.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has issued three emergency or
ders, to stand until the traffic crisis
is passed, which will have the effects
of centralizing control of the rail-
roads with the government.
FOREIGN
The Russian soviet government has
sent note to the allied governments
protesting against the Polish often
sive, according TO wireless dispatch
from Moscow.
William Hohenzollerns schooner
yacht Hamburg, one of the fastest
schooners at the Cowes and other re-
gattas. has just been brought out of
internment and sold to a mercantile
firm, which will use her for trading
between India and the Straits.
Premier John divers suggestion
that sea lions be slaughtered and their
skins used for making shoes, has met
with approval of fishermen at Prince
Rupert, B. c., and plans are under
way for killing the animals on large
scale.
President Carranza of Mexico was
assassinated by his own men, accord
ing to a telegram from General AL
varo Obregon of Mexico City, received
by revolutionary agents at Eel Paso.
Messages received at Mexico City
by the provisional government show
that members of the party of Venus
tiano Carranza, murdered president of
Mexico, resisted the forces of Col.
Rodolfo Herrera until finally over
powered. Sixty members of the Car
rama party were taken prisoners.
General Carranza, president of
Mexico, who fled from Mexico City
on May 6, and who took refuge in the
mountains of Puebla following bat
tie near Rinconada was killed at l
o'clock Thursday morning at Tlax-
calaltongo, according to official an
nouncement.
PtOtlahh iONai OptlOA act, tudCltu
in 1913 after thirty years of agitatio-
becomes effective in June Prohib
tionists are planning to launch an
electoral campaign which in intensity,
cost and use of all varieties of pub
licity will be comparable only to the
later stages Of the anti-alcohol cru.
SADIE in the United States.
Gen. Alexis A. Bruslloff, former COM
mander in chief of Russian armies, is
understood to have assumed command
of the bolshevik offensive against Pc
land. In Polish military circles they
say the soviet attack Is designed to
overrun Lithuania and extend the boil
shevik front westward to east Prussia.
Col. Gabriel Barrios, an Indian
chieftain who is in control in the
mountain state of Puebla, into which
President Carranza and his compan.
ions are reported to be fleeing for
refuge, has offered adherence to the
revolutionary nlan Of eilo priata