Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-03-27
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/ NICK 1DlIZdID, Nliu Win pitNe Hi"'
Heb was accused of the murder of
Marco Laus at Salt Lake on August
| 3, 1919, confessed TO the murder to
"a deputy sheriff. IT is reported.
That Henry w. Clay and John How
ey, two miners working In the Peru
Wan mine In the Alta district, near
Salt Lake, were killed when they were
caught in one of a number of snow
slides, Is the belief of their friends.
| Their bodies have not been recovered.
| Karl W. Oster. Claude Hust and
Fred w. Fry. members of the com
munist labor party of America. We're
found guilty of violating the state
criminal syndicalism act by jury at
Portland.
Headquarters for the presidential
campaign of United States Senator
Miles G. Poindexter in Oregon have
been opened at Portland.
Three persons were killed and prop
erty damage, amounting to many thou
sands of dollars, was wrought by
windstorm which attained a velocity
of forty-seven miles an hour In north
ern Colorado
Ted --Kuykendall. aged II, was
beaten to death by five schoolmates
at Pueblo, Colo, the lads being jeal-
Gus because young kuykendall exeelled
In his classes.
A 20 per cent wage increase for 300
employees of the Denver Tramway
company was agreed upon by board
of arbitration which has been consid-
ering wages of tramway employees.
DOMESTIC.
Truman II. Newberry. junior United
States senator from Michigan. has
been convicted by jury of having
conspired criminally in 1918 to violate
the election laws. He was sentenced
to two years Imprisonment and fined
$4,000 Sixteen other defendants
were convicted. An appeal will be
taken.
Two gangs of "gunmen" FLASHED in
a restaurant at Newark, N. j., and
when the smoke cleared away the
leader of each faction was found dead
and another man, said to have been
a participant, was taken to hospital
in serious condition.
Warning that radicals are trying to
obtain membership in the American
Legion was given In statement is
sued by Arthur Woods, chairman of
the national Americanlsm commission,
from national headquarters in Indian
apolis.
An italian immigrant womans Gag
erness to remove from her trunk q
large china doll led TO the discovery
by customs officials at Boston of 800
quarts of brandy hidden In various
parts of the White Line steamer Crete
from Mediterranean ports.
The labor situation and the league
of nations were the chief problems
discussed by Maj Gen. Leonard Wood
and Senator Miles Poindexter of
Washington, Republican candidate for
President, In the opening speeches of
their Joint debate at Pierre, S. ID.
Mrs. Elsa Lemp Wright. one of the
heirs to the $10,000.O00 estate of her
father, William A. Lemp, st. Louis
brewer, and whose remarriage thir-
teen days ago In New York to the hus-
band she had divorced, created a stir
In social circles, ended her life at st.
Louis by shooting herself through the
heart as Sc lay In bed.
William Jennings Bryan celebrated
his Goth birthday in New York on
March 10. He arrived in the morn
Ing from Washington to speak at a
banquet given In his honor by friends
at the Aldine club at night.
Five German surrendered warships
allocated to the United States under
the armistice terms, a battleship,
cruiser and three destroyers, will be
brought to this country next month.
The average annual salary of ST.
1880 of each of the University of
Nebraska's teaching staff of 2l1 pro-
fessors Is to be increased to S2,S43.5O,
or approximately 20 per cent, as a re-
suit of passage by the board of re-
gents of a salary budget to raise the
pay of all university employees.
David and John Goretzen, cousins,
of Henderson, Neb., are held at Fort
Omaha rs deserters. 1t is alleged they
obtained permission to visit Canada in
1918, before being called In the draft,
and did not return until two weeks
ago. They are members of Mem
MONTE colony.
Partial lifting of the embargo on
express shipments, imposed as the re-
suit of strike of Chicago express
workers, is announced.