Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-07-24
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN eRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from Al
Quarters Of tho Globe ane
Given In q Few Lines.
,NTERMoUNTAIN.


Colo. In a note which he left he
declared that his act was due to
financial troubles, which, in turn were
due to having been good fellow"
Two battalions and headquarters of
the Thirty-second infantry now at
Camp Kearny, Calf, have been Or
dered to Fort Douglas. Utah, for per-
manent station, thus practically doub-
ling the garrison at Fort Douglas.
Il. II. Ormsbee, NOn-partisan league
speaker, left Walla Walla, Wash, after
he had been waited upon by COM
mittee of eX-service men, who told
him never to return.
G. n. DeitZ, wealthy Omaha lumber
dealer, intends to fly from Omaha to
Alaska in an all-metal monoplane,
leaving Omaha July % and stopping
en- route at Dome Lake, Wyo., ON a
fishing expedition.
Bids are advertised for August "a
by the federal reclamation service for
the building of sixteen miles of main
canal in the Boise project. The canal,
when finished, will irrigate 5000 acres
of land and requires the excavation
of $4,000 cubic yards.
Declaring that the new party was
an organization bordering ON anarch-
ism, bolshevism and l. w. W.ism, and
that Utah should take no pride in the
fact that Utahn was named its
le..o nd vi
Brough of Arkansas addressed former
neighbors at banquet at Ogden, Civ
en- in his honor.
Mayor John r. Axton, of Utah, has
been made chief chaplain of the Unit
ed States army, the highest honor
which can be bestowed on an army
chaplain. The position carries the
rank of colonel.
DOMESTIC.
Four severe earthquakes at Los
Angeles on July 16 threw the city and
its suburbs into excitement, indirectly
caused a number of injuries to men,
women and children and slightly DAM
aged several buildings, chiefly old
ones, but none to a great extent.
William Jennings Bryan or w. A.
(Billy) Sunday are the two most
talked-of candidates for president on
the Prohibition ticket, according to w.
G. Calderwood of Minneapolis, vice
chairman of the Prohibition national
committee.
J. A. H. Hopkins, chairman of the
committee of forty eight, has issued a
statement attacking the newly formed
Farmer-LabOr party, and announcing
that there was still a demand for a
"real new party"
The five German surface warships
allOcated to the United States, sailed
from Brest July 13 and are due to
arrive at New York August 3.
Fritz Zeigler of Saltwater national
treasurer of the Sons of Hermann,
pleaded not guilty when arraigned in
municipal court at Saltwater, Mimi,
on charge of embezzling lodge funds
in excess Of $4,000.
A life jacket, silent remembrance of
the tragic sinking of the Lusitania
five years ago and bearing strand
of faded blonde hair, was picked up
July Is in the Delaware river.
Perfect confidence that the third
party movement will make no serious
inroads on Republican strength was
expressed by Senator Harding, Re-
publican candidate for president.
Members of the Committee of
Forty eight, who bolted the fusion
movement of the FarmerLabor par
ty, after day of futile wrangling, adj
journed with no arrangements made
to put a separate presidential ticket
In the field.
Initiative petitions to have placed
on the November ballot proposition
| to make gasoline public utility were
| put in circulation at Los Angeles.
Axel Hedberg, 81 years old, EN-
ployed as a teller in the Union Bank
| of Chicago for number of years
| was arrested after he was said tC
have confessed taking $4,000 from the
| bank within the last three or foul
| years.
Two persons were burned to dealt
and two others badly injured in a fire
which destroyed a two-story tenement
building at Los Angeles. The fire was
| believed to have resulted from the eX
ploson of fifty-gaIlon tank of gaso
line.
The board of city commissioners
city attorney and police department
| of the city of Galveston were suspend
ed from office or July 10 by Cover
nor w. p. Hobby for alleged neglect
of duty in connection with a pro
longed strike Of coastwise dOcl
| workers.
Dependent entirely upon the water
from rains of the wet season gathered
In the great storage reservoir of Ga
tun lake for its operation, the Pan
anna canal was brought down to {
narrow margin Of supply by the un
Dreccdented dry season just ended.