Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-05-29
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| caught unawares by a severe storm
off the Washington coast.
The Gunnison river has risen out
of its banks and caused heavy DAM
| age to ranch property between Grand
Junction, Colo. and Paonia. Rail COM
| munication is threatened.
Mrs. J. G, Healy, wife of locomo-
tive engineer of Ely, New, shot and
killed her husband when he threw
acid in her face. The couple were
seeking separation. Mrs. Healy was
awakened by man she supposed to
be burglar and fired the fatal shot,
not knowing it was her husband who
had attacked her.
Lillian Markus, 6-year-old daughter
of Henry Markus, died at Greeley,
Colo. as a result of burns received
when she tripped and fell into tub
of boiling water which her mother
had just taken from the stove.
Recommendations that minimum
wage scale of $1S a week be eStab
lished for factory workers in Wash
ington were voted by a conference of
representatives of employers, en-
ployes and the public at Tacoma.
Belief that the city of Seattle paid
too much when it purchased street
railway system there last year for
S15,000,000 was expressed on May 20
by Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell, when he
started an investigation to determine
tbr< nit ha trar octf at,
or recover damages for alleged mis-
representation.
DOMESTIC.
Internal revenue collectors have
to force the payment of admissions
taxes collected by theaters and moving
picture houses, Reports to the treas
ury department were declared to re-
veal that probably 5000 such amuse-
ment places had failed to turn in the
taxes collected from patrons.
The edge apparently has been
broken off the nationwide freight jam
through joint efforts of the railroads,
the interstate commerce commission
and the shippers.
An analysis of profiteering in flour,
Incorporated in a report filed with the
United States railroad labor board by
Jet Lauck for the railroad brother
hoods shows that one-third of the
price paid by consumers represents
profits He charged two-thirds of the
profits to profiteering.
Hearings looking toward a revision
of the freight rate structure of the en-
tire country to meet the government
the railway properties of the nation,
have been started by the interstate
commerce commission.
Grover C. Bergdoll, notorious draft
evader, escaped from custody on May
81. He had been confined in a mill
tary prison near New York serving
five year sentence and was brought to
Philadelphia to sign papers.
Homer Raft, policeman of Omaha,
was convicted of holding up and rob-
bling eight persons at South Side
residence.
The skeleton of what may prove to
have been missionary connected with
the Joliet or La Sale expeditions of
floods in the Mississippi river at
Meyer, H., a village twenty miles
north of Quincy, Ill.
The superdreadnaught Tennessee,
one of the largest warships in the
world, will be commissioned at the New
York navy yards June 3.
Daylight saving will remain in eff
feet in New York state. Governor
Smith vetoed the Fowler bill designed
to repeal the daylight saving law.
A revolver battle at Matewan, W.
Va which, authorities declare, grew
out of dispute between a detective
and a miner over warrant for the
arrest of the miner, resulted in the
killing of seven detectives, miner and
an unidentified boy, and the serious
wounding of the mayor of Matewan
and another citizen.
Resolutions indorsing all sensible
efforts" to reduce prices of commodi-
ties, and urging the association men,
bers to cooperate in all reasonable eff
forts to bring about that result, were
adopted at New York at the silver
jubilee convention of the National AS
ISOLATION of Manufacturers.
The majority of the committee on
state of the church of the Methodist
Episcopal general conference at Des
Moines, prepared and published re-
port recommending that no change be
made in the present apostles creed
of the church.
A verdict of guilty was rendered
against Mrs. Emma c. Bergdoll at
Philadelphia, who was charged with
resisting raiding party that cap
tured her son, Grover Bergdoll, now
serving five years for desertion from
the army. Mrs. Bergdoll was fined
500
Huddled in a heap in the kitchen of
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