Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-04-10
History of
asst Week.
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
INTERMOUNTAIN.

tOrS nave VOIeu unanimously 10 DTlHS
a suit against three building trades
unions which struck April l for in
creased wages The contractors al
legged that the strike is in violation of
the recent arbitration award.
ndrs. Thomas Downer of Lincoln,
Neb., shot and dangerously wounded
Miss Myrtle Lewis, waitress, at
Cheyenne, accused by Mrs. Downer of
being friendly with Thomas Downer,
her husband.
Water from well on the ranch of
William Tabor, near Harlowton, Mon
tana, began to taste oily at a depth
of 135 feet. Tabor had the water
analysed and, it is reported, he found
he had run into high-grade oil.
Salt Lakers passed the coolest April
1 in the past forty-five years, with
the exception of 1874, according to
records of the local weather bureau.
Temperature slightly lower than %
degrees was the lowest recorded in
the downtown district.
Ernest Boyd, 20, was arrested in
Spokane, Wash, on charge of rob-
bing the postOffice safe at Crestone,
Colo, in February, of $640.
James Axtell has been convicted at
Trinidad, Colo, of the murder of Louis
Trujillo, postmaster at Troy, Colo,
June 3, 1917. The state charged that
Axtell had planned the robbery of the
postoffice. Axtell pleaded self-de-
Tense.
DOMESTIC.
When Jack Dempsey, the pugilist,
goes to trial in San Francisco on a
charge of having evaded the draft law,
he will not have to face Maxine Demp-
sey, his former wife. If, however, he
should waive the right of excluding her
she may be called to the stand to tes-
tify, but otherwise she will not figure
in the governments case against the
champion.
Kit Dalton, the last survivor of the
Jesse James gang, died April 3, at
Memphis, Tenn. He was rs years old.
Dalton was with Quantrell's guerillas
during the civil war and when the
federal government granted amnesty
to civil war raiders Dalton came to
Memphis and opened gambling
house. He reformed some years later.
Two men were killed, another lies
in a critical condition, several others
were injured and the lives of scores
of citizens endangered by the explo-
sion of an Oil tank that demolished
the rear of garage at Porterville,
Cal
The Colorado river power and irri-
cation project, which is expected to
take definite form as the result of the
annual convention at Los Angeles of
the League of the Southwest, can be
developed, United States senator Rob
ert l.. Owen of Oklahoma told the con-
vention, without the imposition by
congress of further tax on the
American people,
Whether the five ousted socialist as
semblymen will be called upon to face
criminal court proceedings and whether
the socialist party will be prosecuted
On charges of conspiracy hinges upon
conference to take place in Albany
next week.
Calixton Rui. arrested in connection
with the murder of Lewis Connolly and
WaterhOuse, American aviators, whose
bodies were found on the beach at Los
Angeles bay In Lower California, has
confessed to killing the officers, ac-
cording to a report from CalexicO.
The five Socialist members of the
New York state assembly were ex-
PEELED from the lower house of the
legislature on April 1, by an over
whelmlng majority.
The name of President Wilson,
which had been entered by petition in
the Georgia presidential preferential
primary, has been withdrawn by &C
ton of a number of signers of the
petition.
Automatically proved to have been
overwhelmed in prehistoric volcanic
eruption, the skeletons of a boy and
girl were brought to Santa Fe, N.
NJ. and are being exhibited In that
city preparatory to shipment to Wash
ington.
Counsel for the two sons and
daughter OF Richard Croker, ST., for
mer Tammany leader ut New York,
announce that the Palm Beach county,
Florida, court issued temporary in
junction preventing the transfer or
disposal of all Cookers property In
that state pending institution of pro-
ceedings by his family to have n con-
servator appointed to manage his
estate.
Districts of the middle west and
south swept by tornadoes with loss
of 1914 lives are recovering rapidly and
rebuilt homes and buildings have be-
gun to rise from the wreckage.
The 500 members of the st. Louis
fire department have voted unani-
mously to strike May 1 unless their
waras are increased