Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-09-25
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That a band of radicals would in
wade Centralia. Wash. about October
j. TO get revenge for the raid on the
l. w. W. hail. Armistice day. was the
warning given in circular which was
received by Il Centralia newspaper on
Saturday.
All advanced case of leprosy has
been found in Denver, health depart
ment officials declare. The victim is
Miss yelma King, %. who has been
segregated in a house outside the city
limits.
The Colorado supreme court has
granted a writ of supersedeas in the
case of the seven heads of the strik-
ing street railway employees union at
Denver, who were sentenced to nine
ty days in Jail for contempt of court,
and they have bee released under bond
of $1,000 each.
| Pickpockets took $1,000 In cash and
valuable papers from Manuel I. Silva
and Fachian Lucian, two Portuguese
from California, as they waited in the
crowd at the depot at Ogden, Utah, to
see the Democratic presidential NOM
inee
Frank II. Jeffrey, first commander
of the American Legion and official
! representative of the present national
commander, speaking at the second
days session of the northwest irriga-
ton congress at Seattle, said that If
| the waste land of the country were
reclaimed one-fifth of the ex-service
| men and women could own a farm.
Lloyd ii. Wilson, arrested at Bill
ings, Mont, in connection with the
| theft of bonds In New York. was in
dicted by the grand jury on three
counts charging the receiving of stolen
property. Fifty-four $1,000 Liberty
bonds, part of the $4,000 worth of
bonds stolen in August, 1919, had been
traced to him, officials declared
First steps in the retrial at Denver
of Rienzi Dickens, charged with the
murder of his father, w. Ii. Dickens.
were taken Friday, when affidavits
"tit lbtN III tohil btiC tIdt
public sentiment was not against the
youth.
DOMESTIC.
John Arthur (Jack) Johnson, for
mer worlds champion heavyweight
pugilist, failed to appeal from his SEN
ence of one year and a day in Leav-
enworth and fine of $1,000 for yio-
lation of the Mann act and has been
| taken to the Kansas penitentiary to
begin serving his term.
Attempts at forcibe feeding of DIR.
| Otis Sedgewick, held in the county
Jail at Muskegow, Mich, charged with
| the murder of his wife and daughter
at White Hall, have been of no avail,
the alleged murderer fighting of all at
tempts. 1t is believed DIR. Sedgewick
is insane.
Convinced that the explosion which
snuffed out the lives of thirty-five
persons and injured nearly three hun
dred others in Wall street was de-
liberately planned by radicals, Of
| ficials of the department of justice,
headed by Attorney General Palmer
himself, have spread dragnet over
the country in efforts to trap its orig
| inators.
The five Socialist assemblymen who
were expelled from the New York
state legislature last spring on charges
of disloyalty, were reelected at special
elections held September 10.
Holding that the Great Northern
Railroad company was responsible for
the origin of the forest fire that swept
the Cloquet district October 10, 1918,
the district court at Duluth, MIMI,
awarded to 27S plaintiffs damages ap-
proximating $3,000000 against w. ID.
Hines as wartime director of railroads.
THE red agitation has not yet
reached Its peak in America, and fur
Their outrages may be expected said
Attorney Frank Comerford, who sue
cessfully prosecuted the twenty COM
munist leaders at Chicago. Mr.. Com
erford made first hand study of Boil
shevism In Russia and Is unusually
1 I'll ttblOiiuSN as W tht pans anu w
erations of the Reds.
A terrific explosion which occurred
just before noon Thursday, September
16, in front of the offices of J. p. Nor
gan & Co., New York City, caused the
death of thirty people and the injury
of at least 200. 1t has not been de-
termined whether the explosion was
fused by bomb or the collision of
40 automobiles, one of which was
oaded with INT. One version is that
the explosion was the result of activi-
ties of anarchists, while another is that
1t was the result of an accident.
With one delegate denied seat on
the charge that he had by words and
actions expressed sympathy with l. w.
w. and 'one big union agitators," the
annual convention of the Brotherhood
of Boilermakers, Iron Shlpbullders
| and Helpers of America opened at