Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-02-14


chosen as delegate to represent the
Eleventh Missouri congressional dis
trict at the Republican national con-
vention in Chicago next June. She Is
the first Missouri woman to gain this
honor.
Shooting from the top of his burn
ing home, In. which he was holding a
mob at bay, negro at Pine Bluff,
Ark. wounded four men and a boy in
the crowd before he was killed. The
negro earlier in the evening had
killed city detective, who had gon-
to arrest him for shooting another
negro.
WASHINGTON.
Secretary Lane has asked congress
| to increase appropriations for work on
irrigation projects next year from ST.
| $4,000 to $12,S73000. The secretary
said President Wilson had approved
the estimated expenditures.
| Members of the United States train
ing corps for women are endeayorng
to have congress pass bill providing
|
equipment by camps of that organiza-
ton.
Prospects of treaty Publications in
the senate received IA setback in the
form of letter from President Will
son to his followers, advising them to
oppose the Lodge reservation ON ar
ticle Y and all proposed reservations
which deny an obligation on the part
of the United States to assist foreign
nations in their controversies.
President Wilson has accepted, eff
fective March l, the resignation Of
Franklin X Lame, for nearly seven
years secretary OF the interior.
Rear Admiral Robert e. Peary,
famous Arctic explorer and discoverer
of the north pole, is ii patient at the
naval hospital at Washington, suffer-
ing from pernicious anemla
Completion of the record of casual
ties of the American eXpeditionary
force in world war shows: Killed in
action, including $50 at sea, 1854 !;
died of wounds, 1880; died of disease,
2373S; died frem accident and other
causes, 5102; wounded in action,
(more than IS per cent returning to
duty, 215,423 missing in action (not
including prisoners released and re-
turned). 3. Total 293070.
FOREIGN
The allies have abandoned the idea
of forcing Holland, by economic pres
sure or blockade, to give up the for
mer kaiser, according to information
coming from London.
France Is taking no chances in the
organization of Germany's enemies,
and French generals are organizing the
armies of Gzecho- Slovukia and of Po-
land on Germanys borders. Five
French generals have found posts in
the Czecho-Slovakian army.
Bolshevist uprisings against the jap
anese on the Island of Sakhalin are re-
ported. Important Japanese mining
and petroleum plants have been at
tackled.
English royal and ducal families are
being urged by section of the press
to give up their family gold plate and
other treasures as an example to the
ration and thus help to pay off the
$4,OO0,000,0OO debt which Britain owes
the United States.
The Montenegrin foreign affairs
committee, the headquarters of which
ia Neuilly, has issued communica-
toA IN which it was asserted that
fighting between Montenegro insur-
gents and the Serbians is incessant.
Outbreaks of the plague are report
ed in the Teschen plebiscite area,
which, upon ratification of the treaty
of Narsailles by the United States is
to be occupied by American troops,
according to the general understand
ing.
The first move by the sugar plant
ers to break the strike of Filipino and
Japanese plantation laborers was
made Friday In the shipment OF 200
strike breakers. l25 of them Koreans
and the rest Chinese and Hawaiians,
to the Honolulu plantation.
Chapultepec Military academy.
known rs the Mexican West Point"
was reopened on February g as the
leading feature OF the celebration of
the national holiday. The school has
been closed for the last five years
The constitution committee of the
Polish diet has voted for the creation
of Il senate to be composed of seventy
members chosen by the diet from out
side its membership.
King Nicholas, who has remained
at the head of the royal Montenegrin
government, although he was ouste
| by the national assembly of that coun-
try, is understood to be in Albania
| preparing for coup. which may re-
store him to his throne and country.
Conditions in Mexico We're described
us "intolerable" by Gen. Robert Lee
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