Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-05-08
NEWS or A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from AN
Quarters Of the Globe ane
Given In q Few I:nss.
INTERMoUNTAIN.

fOliOWlng the granting or an increase
In wages to its employees, the street
railway company at Salt Lake is ask
ing the public utilities commission for
permission to charge Scent fares.
Girard Douglass, negro youth
charged with criminal assault upon a
Colorado Spring girl, was found guilty
and sentenced to life Imprisonment at
! hard labor at Colorado Springs.
A. L. Goodrich, 81, supposedly from
Seattle, yielded nearly $1,000 worth
of counterfeit money in the form of
greenbacks and $3.50 in negotiable
cash when he was searched following
his arrest at Portland.
Idaho woolgrowers are decidedly
against the overall craze which is now
sweeping the country. S. w. Mcclure,
president of a prominent sheep COM
pany, said that he Is certain the move
| Is fostered by the cotton producers in
an effort to hurt the wool industry of
| the west.
Premature explosion of dynamite
! cap with which he was attempting to
| blow squirrel out of 1t hole caused
| injuries that may prove fatal to Frank
Pritzlaff, 38 years old, farmer living
near Forest Grove, Ore.
United State Senator William E..
| Borah, favoring United State Senator
Hiram w. Johnson for the presidential
| domination, will head the four dele
gates at large from Idaho to the Re-
| publican national convention.
DOMESTIC.
e. e. Wootton, charged with kid
naping in connection with the Bisbee
deportations of July IL, 1917, was
found not guilty by jury at Tomb
stone, Ariz.
| Activity of alien agitators in the vi
| cinity of Hydar, Alaska, resulted in the
| dispatch of the coast guard cutter
| Algonquin from Port Townsend, Wash,
to that place.
Charles Newton Harvey, murderer
of four wives, according to his confess
sion, will plead guilty to first degree
charge of murder, it has been official
| ly announced at Los Angeles.
The chamber of commerce at Omaha
Is back of a scheme to furnish funds
| to build more homes in that city. 1t
Is estimated that $500 houses are
needed.
| Perry Steele, arrested at Woodland,
Cal, on a charge of beating his young
wife, has confessed that ON Christmas
| eve at Williamsburg, KY, he killed
Alonzo Bledsoe.
William J. Bryan, in statement is
sued at Pittsburg, declared that the re-
cent primaries were a warning that
| Democratic senator's should lose no
time in voting for ratification of the
peace treaty.
Twenty-Five seconds-one of the
shortest sentences en- record in federal
courts-was imposed on Jesse Nash,
| charged with tampering with the
mails, by Judge X. NJ. Lands at Chi
cago. Nash admitted having posses
sion Of letters written by his wife to
another man.
Five members of a Danish commits
sion to investigate the possibilities of
establishing direct wireless communica-
ton between Denmark and the United
States have arrived at New York.
Joseph II. Defrees of Chicago has
been elected president of the Cham
Der of Commerce OF the United States.
He was named by the chambers board
of directors at the conclusion of the
eighth annual meeting at Atlantic City.
port News Va.
A "school for moonshiners' is being
conducted ON San Nicolas island,
seventy-five miles off the coast of Los
Angeles county, California, according
to statement declared to have been
made by IA man charged with operat-
Ing an Illicit still.
fire originating In livery stable
frcm an undetermined cause destroyed
more than n dozen buildings at Cor
man, Texas, and for time threatened
the entire business district. The loss
Is estimated at 100000.
What was said by it's originators to
be the first land settlement in the
United States to be actually turned
over to former service men was par
celed out by the state land settlement
board ut Berkeley, Cal, on April 20,
when thirty-seven applicants who
served in the late war We're given title
to as many farms in the Delhi land
project in MERGED county.
The lower house of the Massachu-
sets legislature has passed bill to
make 2.75 per cent beer available for
sale in the state subject to federal
legislation. The senate had previously
passed the measure, which now goes
to the governor.
American troops in Ell Paso, Texas,
on Wednesday were ordered to be pre-
pared for action In event threatened
uprising in Juarez endangers the city.