Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-11-27

had been chosen and that Kentucky
would cast split vote in the electoral
college.
Sixteen men We're drowned in Ches-
uneook lake. in the heart of the lum-
bering district of Maine, when motor
boat took fire. Many leaped over
board when efforts to subdue the fire
failed, and were drowned.
Dennis Chester accused of killing
Florence Barton Kansas City So
ciety girl, was captured four miles
south of Oconto, Neb., after he had
escaped from officers. Chester was
alone and unarmed and offered no re-
siStance.
WASHINGTON.
Recent suggestions that payment of
the December 10 installmem of income
and excess profits taxes should be
postponed We're strongly discouraged
by the treasury in statement which
declared that no change should be
entertained which would render I'M
certain the bulk of the governments
tax receipts"
r. w. Boiling, brother-in-law of
President Wilson and treasurer of the
shipping board, was named in eonnec
ton with a $4,000 bribe alleged to
have been paid by Staten Island
shpbuilding company to procure I'M
usual favors from the board, in testi-
mony before the congressional COM
mittee investigating shipping board af-
fairs.
Bankers and business men through
out the country are urged in pros
pectus made public by the American
Bankers association to consider in
auguration by the first of the year of
the foreign trade financing corpora
lion under the Edge act for the pro-
lection of home industries and proper
financing of American foreign trade.
Removal from France of the body of
me of the unidentified American SOL
Tiers killed in the war for burial in
n memorial crypt in Victory hall, New
York, will be asked of Secretary of
War Baker and Secretary of the Navy
Daniels by committee representing
the Victory Hall association.
FOREIGN.
An international military force, with
nj International staff, was proposed
to the assembly of the league of ma
ti,,ns Saturda. by Senator Henri La
Fontaine of the Belgian delegation.
Senator La Fontaine had somewhat
startled the assembly by declaring
that the world was not yet ready for
disarmament.
Newspapers at Stockholm declared
Sunday that President Wilson probably
VIII be awarded the Nobel peace
piize.
aid France do not amount to a quar-
rel, and the views of these two nations
have in no way prejudiced the alli-
ance which held them together during
the war, said Premier Lloyd George
Of Great Britain, in an interview at
London.
premiers Georges Leagues and
David Lloyd George of France and
Great Britain probably will meet in
London soon for conference which
| is considered necessary because of the
serious situation in the Near East
A staff of experts will, it is under
stood, take part in the meeting.
Two hundred and fifty emigrants
bound for the United States are
stranded at Cherbourg, France, penni-.
less because the ocean steamship
tickets provided them by the supposed
agent of a navigation company in
Paris proved to be forgeries.
A commission of silk manufacturers
fl )m China will attend the interna-
tional silk exposition in New York
next February to demonstrate Chinese
processes.
Admiral Coundouriotis resigned as
Greek regent November 10, and was
succeeded by Gueen-Mother Olga. I'm
mediately message to the Hellenic
people was issued by the new regent
announcing she has assumed office in
COZ formity with the constitution ION
account of the absence of my beloved
son, Constantine"
In honor of II O62 employees who
fought in France, 100 of whom were
killed in battle or died of wounds,
the Canadian Pacific railway will erect
a statue of bronze in its stations at
Montreal and Winnipeg.
The town of Balbriggan, Ireland, WIS
virtually destroyed by British "black
and tans" because two of their num-
her were shot in a bar room bra AL.
John Derham, an official of the town.
testified before the unofficial Amer,-
can commission on Ireland.
a mob of about 1000, said to be
mostly laborers, attacked the city Jail
in Nogales, Sonora. hurled stones,
cursed Mayor A. c. Villasenor, who
was a. prisoner in the Jail, and threat
enod to hang him. The crowd did not
break into II q iail however