Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-06-26


veteran president, when it reelected
him on June 10 for the thirty-ninth
time.
William G. McAdoo, who has been
considered by party leaders as one of
the principal candidates for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination, an
nounced on June 10 he could not per-
NIT his name to go before the. San
Francisco convention.
The death of 17-year-old youth at
Galveston, Texas, after brief illness
probably was due to bubonic plague"
according to diagnosis made public
by DR.. M. f. Boyd, professor of bac-
teriology at the state medical college
WASHINGTON.
Ludwig G. A. X. Martens, who for
more than fifteen months has been in
the United States as the self-styled
Russian soviet ambassador, has been
recalled by the soviet authorities.
Senator Harding, the Republican
presidential nominee, has answered
President Wilson's challenge to make
the peace treaty the dominant issue in
the coming campaign with statement
that the Republican party would
gladly welcome referendum on the
question of the foreign relationship Of
this republic"
Details for the government of Pales-
tin have been worked out into def
mite program by the British govern
ment and the Zionists, according to
London dispatch.
Maj Gen. George Barnett was on
June Is removed from his post as
major general commandant Of the
marine corps by Secretary Daniels
Secretary Daniels Is understood to
have made this change with the ap-
prevail of the president.
A two-hour conference with Sem
ator Lodge, Republican leader in the
senate. and Senator Brandegee OF
Connecticut, and also conference Of
less length with Senators Moses Of
New Hampshire. Fall Of New Mexico
and France Of Maryland, all Republic
cans. was held by Senator Harding at
Washington on Thursday. All the con-
ferences pertained, it was understood
to campaign plans.
An intensive drive against prof.
teering In bituminous coal at the mines
has been ordered by Attorney Gen.
eral Palmer.
FOREIGN
Three hundred and thirty italian
pioneers have been killed by Infatuated
Albanians at Tirana, according to a
telegram from Belgrade quoting re-
ports reaching that city. 1t is said the
Albanians attributed the assassination
of Essad Pasha, former provisional
president Of Albania, in Paris, early
this week. to italian intrigues.
Three hundred women camp fol-
lowers attached to the government
forces have been killed by the orders
of Francisco Villa, the bandit, accord
ing to Ell Democratic, quoting Jacinto
Trueba, wealthy merchant of JIM
enez, state Of Chihuahua. One Of the
women shot at Villa, who then ordered
the wholesale execution.
The peace negotiations begun late
in May at Gongota station, midway
between the Japanese, Seminole and
Russian fronts, between representa-
tives Of the far east republic and the
Japanese military mission, were
broken off on June 2, without any
agreement having been reached, it has
just been learned.
The house of commons occupied q
large part of Thursdays session in
the league Of nations. The
burden of A. J. Balfour's speech was
that to overload the league would be
to shatter 1t.
With the opening of headquarters
in San Francisco. the National Wo-
mans party campaign to secure suf-
frage action from the Democratic ma
tional convention begins.
Workmen are building substantial
board fence around the exposition
auditorium to prevent any
forced attempt to enter the building.
which will house the Democratic ma
tional convention. beginning June 28,
at San Francisco.
A London packet containing the
last of the murdered czarina's jewels,
valued at more than 100000, dis
patched personally by the late Gar
Nicholas on the outbreak of the first
Russian revolution in April. 1917, to
King George for safe keeping. arrived
at Buckingham palace June II, hav-
ing been held up in transit for more
than three years.
There are persistent rumors in the
village of Doom, Holland, that the for
mer German emperor has been as
saulted by Belgian, who, showing a
forged pass. gained admittance to
Doom castle. 1t is asserted that the
former emperor was wounded in the
law and that the Relpian was arrested