Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-09-04

Robert s. ("Cupiu) Sparhs, ehiol Va
the marriage license bureau at Los
Angeles, for nineteen years. has been
transferred to clerk in the superior
court. 1t Is considered demotion.
Sharks was censured when he kept
the Fairbanks-Plckford marriage IL
cense secret several days.
Women of South st. Paul. Mimi,
claim the distinction of being the first
of their sex to vote under the provi-
sons of the federal suffrage amend
ment. They voted Friday In a bond
election.
Announcement of a reward of $500
for the arrest of the man who has
fallen into the habit of holding up the
stage between Cedarbrook and Miami,
In the mountains near Yosemite ma.
tional park, mas been posted by Gov
ernor Stevens of California. The hold
ups have occurred every year for the
last twenty-five years.
WASHINGTON.
The right of women TO the ballot
was formally made part Of the con-
stitution of the United States on Au-
gust 20. when Secretary of State Colby
proclaimed ratification of the nine
teenth amendment.
Gordon Woodbury., formerly MEM
Der of the New Hampshire legislature,
has been appointed assistant secre-
tary of the navy to succeed Franklin
d. Roosevelt.
Operating incomes of seventy tele-
phone companies in the United States
for March amounted to $7,309,97O, an
increase of SS53,233 over March, 1919,
according to reports issued by the
interstate commerce. commission.
Attorney General Palmer has in
structed United States attorneys to
investigate alleged conspiracies and
combinations among dealers to In
crease coal prices.
Nearly twenty nations will be repre-
sented by speakers at the fifteenth in
ternational congress against alcohol
ism, which convenes in Washington.
September 81, according to the tenta
tive program made public by the Amer
lean executive committee.
FOREIGN.
British labor is demanding that the
government take immediate steps to
bring about peace between Russia and
Poland. The laborites take the atti-
tude that Great Britain, chiefly instru-
mental in forcing the bolsheviki to
modify their armistice terms, should
now exert possible pressure upon the
Poles TO compel acceptance of the pro-
posals which were previously approved
by Premier Lloyd George.
The United States has been request
ed by the Serbian government to APP
point representatives to an allied COM
mission to investigate the conflict be-
tween Albania and Jugo-Slavia.
One hundred and fifty Christians
have been killed at Ajlun, a village
about fifty miles northeast of Jeru-
salem, by band of Bedouins, accord
ing to dispatch received from Haifa,
Palestine.
LhC Oiioh iN6diiOh at l>OuoOh mas
issued a statement of the Polish prem
Ter, Witos, that Poland still desires
an armistice and peace with Russia
and does not desire to appropriate for
egn territories.
Due to war influences, ten Euro
pean nations engaged In the World
war show a potential loss in popula-
ton of 35,320,000 persons since 1914,
according to a statistical research.
Unofficial reports would Indicate
that. the bolsheviki lost nearly half of
their effective fighting units in Po-
land. The number of reds engaged
was estimated by General Halter at
about 100000. The number of pris-
oners taken by the Poles was said to
be nearly $4,000, while about 10000
have crossed into east Prussia and
been interned.
The entire business section Of Dun
dalk, Ireland has been destroyed by
fire, alleged to have been set by Sim
Fen sympathizers in reprisal for the
burning of property in Belfast and
Lisburn by Unionists. Three persons
were burned to death.
When rioting was resumed in Bel
fast on Thursday. military forces sum-
moned to the scene of the disorder
fired on crowd. killing one man and
dangerously wounding two girls.
The northern Polish army Is con-
tinuing to move up in the region be-
tween Sierpe and Soldau, near the
East Prussian border, and. are march
ing on Cherzellen, to the east of Mia
wa. to cut off the retreat of the re-
naming soviet forces
II is announced that Great Britain
and Italy will refuse recognition TO
the Russian soviet government If IL
does not withdraw its demand, present
ed as part of the peace terms at
Minsk. for a proletarian army in Po-
land.
A conference OF Irish moderates.
called to >nable every shade of h,,tne