Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-11-06

N' N'Httuueu through the morn
ing Before noon there WAS n large
column of black smoke reaching high
IN the air over the crater.
Miss Alice NJ. Hogue, principal of a
ohlcago school, may be called upon TO
defend her recent action of refereeing
fist fight between two of her pupils.
Miss Hogge said the fist fight was
good V'ay of deciding quarrels among
the bows of the twenty-five nationali-
ties attending her school.
Industrial homes and gardens are
to be one of the major elements of the
many factors that make for success in
future manufacturing in the opinion
of the special committee which sub
mitted report to the Associated In
dustries of Massachusetts ut its an
nual meeting at Boston.
WASHINGTON.
Opportunity to obtain college edu-
cations soon will be open TO men of
the United States army, the war de.
partment announced, III making pub.
lie a plan whereby it will be possible
within the next year for more than
100 qualified soldiers to lay aside their
uniforms and enroll as students in as
many colleges.
Resolutions urging that all crops be
marketed as the demand requires, and
that congress conduct an investigation
of interest rates charged by banks
were adopted by the farmers confer
| ence in session at Washington.
Secretary of State Colby has init
mated that recognition of the Mexican
government Is near.
More than 100000 acres of land,
nearly all in Arizona, were reported
by Secretary Payne to have been clas-
| sified during September under the law
| which provides for stockraising home
steads of $40 acres or less.
The downward trend of exports and
the inward trend Of imports was
halted during September. Figures
made public by the department of COM
merce showed that exports for the
month exceeded those of August by
$2S,O00000 and that imports were
$15OO00,000 below those of the month
before.
! FOREIGN.
| Helsingfors dispatches describe the
situation in Moscow as serious, and
declare that martial law has been pro-
claimed. The peasants revolted in IL
provinces because of the requisision
of wheat by the government, the dis
patches add.
| A wireless dispatch from Moscow re-
ports that General Semenoff, the Cos
sack anti-Bolsheviki leader in Siberia,
has been captured by irregular troops.
He was fleeing by airplane from Chita,
his headquarters, the dispatch says
and was captured when he landed at
Makeevo station.
A general strike, called at the in
stigation of dock workers, paralyzed
| business at Vera Cruz, Mexico, Sat
/ urday. Leaders of the demonstration
raced through the streets in automo-
biles, waving red flags and urging re-
cruits IN their cause.
Mrs. Diana Apecar, American bust
ness woman residing in Toxic, has be-
come the first woman consul in diplo-
matte history. She has been appoint
ed Armenian consul in Toxic
At conference of South Wales coal
miners from the Cardiff, Lancashire
and Cheshire districts, meeting at Hol-
ton, the miners overwhelmingly voted
to recommend the rejection of the pro-
posed terms of the settlement of the
strike.
Plans for the opening of trade be-
tween soviet Russia and the United
States with the international clearing
house in Copenhagen as the means of
insuring payment to American export
els, are under consideration by the
department of commerce.
A campaign has been started in
Chile to collect by popular subscrip-
ton funds with which to purchase air.
planes and aviation material for the
army and navy.
! When the body of the late Lord
Mayor MacSw,ney arrived at Queens
town, the local civil and church au-
thorities declined to accept the coffin,
and the railroad men refused to trans
port the body to Cork, with military
escort. The admiralty requisiticned a
tug upon which the body was taken
to Cork.
Henri Landru, known as the modern
"Bluebeard," who has been sentenced
at Paris to four years Imprisonment
for swindling, may face trial on the
charge of having murdered eleven
women to whom he is said to have
promised marriage.
1t has been learned that sister OF
The Avanti, the radical Italian organ
says he horrors inflicted by the Ser
bians on the Iontenegrins "surpass
the most ferocious baroarism.' The
newspaper urges Italians to start
ca; ,naipn To nreVCnt the ltai an gov