Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-08-07

| inSubordinatiOn, dlScOntent ana mu-
tiny in tn; military and naval forces
in the United States.
Hailstones seven inches In circum-
ference, according to c. f. Peterson,
United States weather forecaster, fell
in the hailstorm which swept Wichita,
Kan, and vicinity, doing adamage es-
timated at between 100000 and
100000
An explosion of gasoline is believed
to have caused fire which swept
through the large structure of the Dia-
mond Auto works at 1121 West Pico
street, late Saturday at Los Angeles.
Announcement is made that the
world congress of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union will be held
at Montevideo In December, 1922.
Thirteen skulls, believed to be those
of Indians, were unearthed on the
farm of Lars o. Pjelle, near Barrett.
Pjelle discovered them when he pulled
up the stump of what had been huge
oak tree, believed to be more than
100 years old All had been scalped
"Gene" Geary, notorious gangster,
gunman and slugger of Chicago, was
Thursday sentenced to hang for the
cold-blooded murder of Harry j.
Rockas. whom he slew few weeks
ago without the slightest provocstion.
WASHINGTON.
| President Wilson is to retire from the
sheep business. The White House
flock of forty-eight prize sheep, which
has kept the lawns cut for three sum-
mers, is to be sold.
Authority for the railroads to in
crease revenues of 81, 40000O,000 was
| granted by the interstate commerce
commission. Freight rates will be adj
vanced about one-third, passenger
rates one-fifth and Pullman charges
| one-half. Coastwise and inland
steamship lines and electric railway
companies also were granted in pro-
portion to the Increases granted rail-
roads serving the same territory.
Abandonment of Camp Zachary
Taylor, Louisville, KY, has been an
| nounced by the war department with
! the notice that the first division, now
stationed here, Is to be transferred to
Camp Dix, N. j.
Judge c. b. Ames, assistant to the
attorney general since June, 1919, and
in charge of the governments case In
the coal strike injunction proceedings.
has rendered his resignation to Pres
ident Wilson.
low her deportation to Russia, is ask
ed in petition sent by her counsel,
Harry Weinberger, to the White
House. 1t became known Monday. She
is serving fifteen years in a Missouri
federal prison for mailing anarchistic
literature.
FOREIGN.
Frank Brooke, one of the most prom
friend of Viscount French, the lord
lieutenant, was assassinated by three
men at noon Friday in the directors
room of the Dublin 4 Southeastern
railway in Westland row.
The six-day newspaper bill, which
has long been discussed, was intro
duced In the chamber of deputies Sat
urday, at Paris. The measure would
prohibit the printing or delivery Of
newspapers from 9 o'clock Sunday
morning until 6 o'clock Monday morn
ing.
The Pacific coast again Is becoming
highly wrought up over the silent,
steady penetration of that section OF
the country by the Japanese and in
tends to press remedial measures at
the next session of congress.
Posses Monday captured Albert
Lindgren one OF five men who escap-
ed from the Umatilla county. Oregon
Jail Sunday when Sheriff T. d. Tay-
lor was shot and killed.
Woman suffrage in Belgium made
an advance step Thursday when the
chamber of deputies. avoiding crisis
over the question by its action, voted
by an overwhelming majority for the
passage of bill to revise article Al
of the constitution dealing with suf-
frage.
Eight men formerly holding high
rank in the army of the late President
yenustiano Carranza Thursday held a
secret conference with Governor Is
taban Cantu of Lower California, fol-
lowing the offer of their services to
lead the Cantu forces against invading
armies, 1t was announced by Governor
Cantu.
Twenty-one workmen were killed
, and seventy-six severely and slightly
| injured in an explosion at munitions
factory Thursday at Nursohen, sixty
miles southwest of Prague.
Three members of Road Amund-
sens Arctic expedition who left the
explorers ship. the Maud, with mail
last fall while the vessel was off the