Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-06-05

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in jail in connection with the killing
OF his aged father and mother Mr.
and Mrs. Claus Loos, whose heads
were chopped open with an axe ut the
LooS farm ten miles northwest of
Parker, S. ID.
Activity in the fruit packing in.
| dustry in California, which in normal
seasons gives employment TO $4,000
| persons, will be materially below nor
NAL" this year, because of the price of
sugar and interruptions of tin plate
| shipments.
A regular air mail service between
Los Angeles and San Francisco start.
ed May 81 with the departure of
large passenger plane that recently be
gan three round trip weekly
schedule.
Carl Otto, convict at the state
prison ut Folsom, Cal, escaped by
running n switch engine through the
outer gates. Free of the prison walls,
he left the locomotive, plunged into
the American river and disappeared.
WASHINGTON.
Postmaster General Burleson asks
congress for an additional appropria-
ton of $1,000,000 for payment of
claims resulting from loss of domestic
parcels. Recent freight and express
embargoes, he said, had added ire
mendously to the volume of insured
packages.
President Wilson's conception of the
campaign issues of 1920 was eluci-
dated in letter made public at the
White House on May %, expressing
the presidents full Accord with the
sentiments contained in the platform
recently adopted by the Virginia
Democratic convention.
Favorable report was ordered by the
senate territories committee on the
house bill creating a Hawaiian homes
commission for the development of
lands in the insular possessions.
The senate investigation of the
navys conduct of the war was COM
pleted on May 2S, and Chairman Hale
said he hoped to have ready within
week report embodying the commit
tees findings.
President Wilson vetoed the peace
resolution ons May 81, and informed
congress he could not become a party
to the peace program framed by Re
publican leaders of the senate and
house, because he considered it would
put an "ineffacable stain" on the ma
tons honor.
Declination of an American man.
date over Armenia is regarded by
leaders of both parties in congress as
a certain result of the adverse action
taken by the senate foreign relations
committee.
FOREIGN
The morning newspapers of Japan
view the financial depression with un-
easiness, forecaSting that the situation
will be aggravated before it has re-
covered completely, which, however,
they consider certain.
Germany has submitted statement
to the allied control commission de-
claring that $4,000 pieces of German
artillery remain to be destroyed and
that 800 have already been broken up,
according to the Echo de Paris.
Gen. p. Elias Gales, minister OF war
and marine, under the de facto govern
ment, has arrived at Mexico City on
his 16OO-mile trip from Aqua Prieta,
Sonora. He was greeted with typical
Mexican embraces by Gen. Aware
Obregon, Gen. Benjamin H.ll and other
nOtableS.
William of Hohenzollern, folmer
emperor of Germany, is trying his
hand as a tailor, according to Cen
trail News dispatch from Amsterdam.
He is cutting out patterns for many
new suits with which he is going to
stock his wardrobe.
Hostilities between the Russians
and japanese in Siberia ceased on
May 25, according TO Reuter- dispatch
from Vladivostok.
More troops are being dispatched
from England to Ireland to combat the
property destruction and similar move
ments which are continuing there.
Unexpected orders were received
Thursday at Aldershot for the Cam
eron highlanders 10 leave for service
In Ireland.
Thirty Salvation Army officials have
disappeared in soviet Russia and have
been given up by their superiors as
lost. according to a telegram received
by the Chicago headquarters from New
York.
A positive cure for tuberculosis and
preventative antitoxin have been an
nounced in the sessions of the congress
of medicine at Brussels.
Messages from Durazzo picture Al
bania as in the throes of civil war, the
ultimate consequences of which it is
impossible to forecast.
Bolshevik forces continue to pour