Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-07-24
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were uprooted, buildings unroofed and
telephone poles blown down.
Five hundred aliens of the $50 or
dered deported during the first six
months of this year by the department
of labor still remain in this country
| through inability of the department to
obtain transportation for aliens des-
tined for Russia.
Wireless telephone communication
between Chicago and Catalina Island,
thirty miles off the coast of California,
was established last week.
| Farley p. Christensen of Salt Lake,
| Utah, was declared the presidential
| nominee of the Farmer-Labor party at
the Chicago convention. Max Hayes
| of Cleveland, o., was chosen as the
candidate for yice-president.
WASHINGTON.
Appointment by the president of
| seven major generals and twenty-five
| brigadiers under the new army re-
organization bill has been announced
by the war department.
Official Washington paid honor to
France on July IA in cOmmemOratiOn
of Bastie day. Government buildings
/ displayed the French tri-color along
with the American flag; President
Wilson sent a message of congratula-
| ton to the president of France and
Secretary Baker placed wreaths on
The graves of French soldiers in the
Arlington National cemetery.
The interstate commerce commission
has extended for thirty days the serv-
| ice order providing preferential dis
tribution of coal cars to mines east
of the Mississippi. The order would
have expired July 81.
Asking for continuation of their
consolidation in the exact form it was
| administered by the railroad admins
tration during the war, the four great
| express companies of the country have
applied to the interstate commerce
commission for an order making per-
manent their operation as one con-
Germ.
A delegation Of Socialists soon will
call on President Wilson and demand
that he Immediately pardon Eugene
V. Debs, Socialist presidential nom.
inee, low serving term in Atlanta
federal prison on charge of violat-
ing the espionage law.
FOREIGN
The German representatives signed
the coal protocol drawn up by the
allied representatives ON July 16, there
by settling one Of the most difficult
questions which has come up In the
present discussions.
The exchange of ratifcations of the
treaty of st. German, which estab-
lished peace between the allies and
Austria, took place July 16 in the
clock room at the foreign office in
Paris. Jules CambOn presided over
the ceremony.
Joe Beckett, heavyweight champion
of England, defeated Tommy Burns,
the French-Canadian pugilist, in the
seventh round of a twenty-round bout
in London.
Bella Kun, former dictator of Hun.
gary and all the Communists, whose
eXtradition has been demanded by the
Hungarian government, left Vienna on
July 16 for Russia by way of Germany
in prisoners convoy.
According to reliable reports from the
| eX-kaiser's immediate encourage, the
eX-kaiserin again is seriously ill, hay
ing had several bad heart attacks in
the last few days. Her doctors are
alarmed and fear the end any hour.
The Russian empress and her chill
dren were burned alive after the exc
| cutiOn of Emperor Nichols at Ekaterin-
burg, it is alleged in statements at
| tributed to Alexis Dolrovitz, formerly
courier to the empress, Published at
Paris.
Women soldiers have taken up po-
sitions for the defense of Wilma. They
have been assigned to an eight-mile
front. All the women are equipped
with American boots and are being
fed partly by the American Y. w. G. A.
The Poles have occupied Dubno, in
Volhynia, after hard fighting and the
retreating bolsheviki are being bomb
ed by Polish airplanes, says an Of
fetal communication issued at War
saw.
The American government will be
asked by the supreme council to join
in the occupation of Ruhr unless the
| Germans accede to the demands for
/ 100000 tons of coal monthly. All
details have been arranged for the
movement of troops.
| A silencer for airplane engines, more
| highly developed than an automobile
mutfler, is announced by a Swiss air.
plane firm as the invention of it's chief
engineer. The first public demonstra-
ton of the device is to be made on
| the Geneya-Paris air service.
Unbridled vandalism reigned in
Trieste, Wednesday, during anti-Slav
demonstrations. Three persons were
killed and scores were wounded, while