Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-08-28
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ing at his home in Ogden. 1t is said
that the boys mother, who is believed
to be insane, urged the murder and
steadied the boys hand as he fired the
fatal shots.
Denver is to have "shock squad"
1t will be composed only of veterans
of the world war who are in trim fight
ing shape. The "shock squad" will be
for such emergencies as the recent
street car riots.
Teams representing seventeen states,
Canada and Mexico, have been entered
in the mine rescue contest to be held
at Denver in September.
Striking trainmen of the Denver
Tramway company meeting on August
20, voted to destroy 800 signed appli-
cations for unemployment and remain
or strike.
Gustav Schmaechtel, who said he
was II draft evader from Utah, sur
! rendered to the police at Marysvale,
| Calf, declaring he has not had mo-
rnent's peace since he failed to report
ltI ulllItdIy ScINiCt.
A plot by the three Springville bank
robbers TO escape fro the Utah state
penitentiary has been revealed by a
discharged convict, who tipped off the
plot to the officers, and the three con-
victs have been placed in solitary con-
| finement.
Forest fires raging in the Thunder
| Mountain section of Idaho are being
| fought with large forces of men. Wire
less telephones are being used in the
work of communication between the
different forces fighting the flames.
DOMESTIC.
Twenty eight men and one woman
| persisted when the steamer hyperion
/ City, was rammed near Sault Ste.
| Marie by the steamer Willis l.. King.
All were members of the crew. Four
other members We're saved.
Charles Ponzi, turned over to federal
receivers at Boston, on Saturday, part
of what remains from the millions he
received from investors in his discred
tied financial operations.
| Nashville, Tenn, is without street
car service on account of a strike of
motormen and conductors, who are
demanding increased pay.
| An effort is to be made to bring
about about the establishment in Pan
anna of an international institute for
research in the study of tropical dis
| iaI tn fhp latn Ma inr
General William c. Gorgas, former
surgeon general of the United States
army.
Clarence COombs, alternate pilot Of
the Texas "Wildcat," one of three
American entries in the international
airplane race, sailed from New York,
| Saturday en- route for Paris to assist
Roland Rohlfe, former holder of the
worlds altitude record, in his attempt
to lift the Gordon Beubett aviation
cup.
Andrew Malsolm Morrison, who gave
his age as 100, obtained license to
marry Mary Augusta Barney, who said
! she was u. at Los Angeles.
Robbers seized mail sacks contain
ing 100000 from station platform
at Chicago and escaped. The mail
sack, containing 100000 in currency
for bank in West Pullman, ILL.,, was
dropped from an Illinois Central train
| into a chute at the other end of which
bank messenger waited. AS the sack
reached the end of the chute, two men
! jumped from an automobile, grabbed
the sack and drove away.
Clyde G. Johnson, police court clerk,
who reported that the safe in the
courtroom hadbeen broken open and
$24,O00 in bail money taken, has been
arrested on charge of embezZlement
and lodged in the Los Angeles county
| Jail.
Charles Marshall was hanged in the
! jailyard at Tupelo, Miss, for the MUIR
der of four members of the Robert
| Miller family at Armory, Miss, last
| January. 1t was estimated 5000 per-
sons witnessed the execution.
A 20 per cent increase in nearly all
| east-bound freight rates, effective Sep
! TENDER l, was announced at San Fran
cisco August 20, by the intercostal con-
| ference, representing seven of the prin-
cipal steamship lines operating be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
More than 5000 immigrants are ar
irving daily at Ellis Island. Despite
| unfavorable conditions, approximately
800 600 immigrants arrived during the
twelve months ended June 30, as com
pared with Ill, 132 during the CORE
spending period the year before
| Captain Irving c. Stenson, instruct
| or and commander at Kelly field, and
a passenger were killed when their
plane crashed to the ground and
| caught fire near San Antonio, Texas.
Several score shots were fired by po-
| licemen who vainly chased two robbers
through downtown streets for several
miles at Los Angeles. The men had
held up restaurant.
Senator Hiram w. Johnson will
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