Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-02-14
of
asst Week
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
INTERMoUNTAIN.

hurt, and four persons were painfully
injured when two automobiles collided
at Salt Lake.
The Nevada legislature, in special
session, on February ratified the fed
eral suffrage amendment.
Parts of the body of a man horribly
mangled and cut, supposed with an axe
were found at Portland under the
Grand avenue viaduct crossing Sulli-
vans gulch.
Existence of conspiracy to shoot
down marchers in the Centralia Wash,
Armistice day parade last November
was alleged in County Attorney Her
man Aliens opening statement to the
jury which is trying eleven alleged
Industrial Workers of the World ac-
cused of the fatal shootings.
Jake Dakovitz, bandit. was shot and
seriously wounded, Albert Tyler, dep
uty sheriff and marshal at Forbes,
Colo, was shot in the leg when three
masked bandits attempted to hold up
Tyler and two other men in an auto
mobile carrying $4,000 in payroll to
the Forbes mine.
Edward Bell Field, vice president
and treasurer of the Mountain States
Telephone & Telegraph company, and
widely known Denver clubman, died
at Hot Springs, Ark.
About 60 per cent of the miners in
the Tonopah-Divide mining district
quit work Sunday night, when the 80
cents a day bonus was withdrawn by
the operators. Only one mine in the
Divide district was affected, the Di-
vide Extension, all others agreeing to
continue the bonus. About six hum
dred men quit work.
While several American Legion
posts have formulated resolutions con-
demning the war record of Jack Demp-
sey, Salt Lake boy and worlds heavy
weight puglistic champion, no such ac-
ton will be taken by any of the Utah
posts of the legion
George Palo, q years old, was
caught in a snOwslide and carried 1000
feet to his death to the bottom Of
a canyon near the Black Bear mines,
according to word from Telluride,
Colo.
DOMESTIC.
Occupants of the upper floor of a
fiye-story apartment hotel at San
Francisco were trapped by fire, which
broke out early Sunday, and 1t is be-
lieved that at least twenty lost their
lives.
Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood, speaking
at a Lincoln memorial service held at
the state arsenal at Springfield, ILL.,,
referred to the martyred presidents
stand for law and order and declared
that there Is no room I'm America for
the unpatriotic-
The British steamer Bradboyne,
from New York for Cherbourg, is be-
lieved to have foundered in mid-Atlan-
tic and some loss of life Is feared, ac-
cording to radio messages received at
Halifax.
Potato peelers employed in hotels
and restaurants of Chicago met Sun
day and formed a union with MEM
bership of $50 and adopted wage
scale of SO a day for eight hours work
with time and a half for overtime and
an allowance of three meals day.
Definite plans for the first nation
wide, aggressive political campaign by
organized labor to control congress
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officials have been made by conf
mittee of the American Federation of
Labor and will be announced soon.
The general chairmen of the Aiainte-
nance Of Way Employees and Shop La
borers' union. in conference Mt De-
troit, unanimously approved the pro
posal to call II nationwide strike, II
necessary, to enforce demands for
wage increases.
The Chicago police are seeking
George Frame. 20 years old. bank
messenger. who mysterlously disap-
peared with $4,000 Il. Liberty bonds,
the property of the Harris Trust and
Savings bank.
Huge waves, rolled up by fifty-mlle
gale, swept the north Atlantic coast
Thursday night, while cities and towns
along the shore were trying with indif-
ferent success to dig themselves out
of the deepest snowdrifts OF years.
The property loss amounted to thou
sands Of doAars.
One man was killed and seventeen
injured, eight of them probably fatally
when heavy truck from the army
balloon school at Arcadia, near Los
Angeles. got out of control and over
turned on sidehill road.
Alfred Nye, member Of the federal
signal corps In the civil war days and
the man who Is credited with having
sent General Sherman's message,
"Hold the fort, for ! am coming" to
General Corse at Altoona Pass, Ca,
In 1864, died at Lexington, Neb., Feb
ruary 4.
Threats. said to have been made