Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-01-31
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RRcoRD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
-inforn,atien Gathered from Az
Quarters OF the Globe ano
Given In q Few llnes.
iNrERMoUNTAIN.

was indicted by federal grand jury,
which has been investigating alleged
frauds in the various construction OF
ships for the United States shipping
board.
The trial of thirty-nine alleged l.
w. w. members, arrested after the
Centralia armistice day shooting and
charged with violating the state syn
dicalism law, has begun at Tacoma.
Steps to organize northwest grow
ers for cooperative marketing of this
years grain crop, making Portland
the coast terminal of the inland en-
pire, are to be taken Immediately, as
the result of meetings at Moscow,
Idaho.
Margins of profits ranging from "a
per cent on groceries to rs per cent
on table linen are taken by retail mer-
chants of Montana, it is declared in the
annual report of Cne railroad commits
sion, as "ex-officio trade commission"
submitted to Governor Stewart
Ninety-five head of pure-bred Here
ford and shorthorn breeding cattle
sold at auction at the National West
ern Live Stock show at Denver brought
total of $92,770.
The National Woolgrowers associa-
ton, with its 10000 membership in the
east and the west, or wherever the
peaceful sheep grazes, went on record
~ +ha Nol% T oIo convention no a U100
per cent American organization, I'M
eQuivocally opposed to all isms, ifs,
cults or any other of the destroying
influences to the constitution"
Five thousand quarts of whisky, con-
fiscated by sheriffs officers at Greeley,
Colo, in the last two weeks, was es-
corted to the Poudre river by forty
women w. G. Z. U. workers and emp
tied into the stream. The liquor Is
valued at 100000 current bootleg
prices.
DOMESTIC.
Deserted by the father of her little
Quadruplet daughters, born at Beulah
Rest home of the Salvation Army in
East Oakland, is the plight of 20
year-old girl mother. Three of the
four children are alive.
After being trailed around the world,
William II. Moffitt, wanted in con-
nection with alleged gigantic real
estate swindles in New York City,
which netted him over million dol
lars, is under arrest at San Jose, Cal,
Governors of twenty-one states Is
SIZED proclamations setting aside Sun
das. January rs, as Nurses day." in
honor of the women who gave their
services to the American soldiers in
Europe and at home.
Charges that iron torture chambers
have been introduced by Col. r. D.
Johnson, executive officer at Alcatraz
island, San Francisco, in which con-
scientious DIRECTORS of the "absolutist"
type imprisoned on the island are
placed, are being investigated.
Opponents Of anti-sedltion measures,
led by Samuel Gompers, president Of
the American Federation of Labor,
urged the house rules committee to
block the passage of the measures be-
cause of their drastic provisions and
because sufficient laws now exist to
prosecute dangerous radicals and COM
munists.
William Jennings Bryan, speaking
AT Norfolk, Va, under auspices of the
Antisaloon League Of America, declar-
ed that he would oppose any movement
to bring about the selection of Gov.
Edward l. Edwards of New Jersey as
the Democratic nominee for president
in 1920.
An average salary increase Of $50 a
month will be given to Chicago school
teachers after February 1.
Rangers have been sent into the oil
territory in dispute between Texas
and Oklahoma as a police measure
and to preserve law and order, Gov.
W. p. Hobby of Texas announces.
Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink
is seriously I'll with pneumonia at her
home in Grossmont, Cal, according
to members of her family. Although
stating the condition of the singer to
be serious, 1t was said that no imme-
date fear of the outcome Is felt.
Charged with selling sugar at 25
cents pound, seven retail grocery
dealers were arrested at Sioux Falls,
s. D., on warrants served by United
States District Attorney e. w. Fiske
and ordered to appear for prelimin-
airy hearing.
Whipping of women at the city
stockade has been ordered discontin-
ued entirely by the prison committee
Of the Atlanta, Ga, city council after
a public hearing of charges brought by
the Atlanta Humane society that wo-
men had been strapped to contriv-
ance resembling a chair and flogged.
Bituminous coal operators have
been asked by the presidents strike
settlement commission to submit n
statement showing what percentage