Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-02-07


ing been afloat in small boats for five
days.
An increase of 10 per cent in the
wages of day laborers employed by
the United States Steel corporation is
announced by Ebert H. Gary, chair
man of the board of directors of the
corporation. The increase, which is
effective Saturday, will affect 275,O00
men.
WASHING TON.
The last year for the United States
has been one "of fiudling and delay"
and was characterized as 1.-The tragedy
of tragedies" by Secretary of the Navy
Daniels, who addressed the opening
meeting at New York of the campaign
for the near east relief fund.
Drastic reduction in the number of
national banks designated as govern
ment repositories is being made by the
treasury department, with the result
that less than 400 of the 1881 institu-
lions holding federal funds on June 80,
1919, are expected to escape the prun-
ing knife.
The Japanese embassy at Washing
ton has been informed officially that
the japanese government had invited
China to enter upon negotiations for
the return of Germans tights in Shan
tung.
Operation of the railroads, Pullman
lines, express companies and water
ways, unified under federal control has
cost the nation about $700,000,000 since
they were taken over two years ago.
according to officials.
The deadlock on the oil land leas-
ing bill, which has been in conference
for three months, was broken Satur-
day when compromise agreement on
the so-called remedial provisions of
the oil section was reached by the con-
ferees.
In voting Saturday to recommend
new government loans of $50,O00,OO0
to European countries for food relief,
the house ways and means committee
including its Republican members,
went counter to the majority view of
the Republican legislative steering
committee.
FOREIGN
One hundred carloads of American
war materials purchased from the
American army have arrived in Po-
land. The goods are being used to
outfit the Polish army.
Speaking of the Soviet army ii. Rus
STA, the correspondent of a Paris news
agency says the world, too confident
in the weakness of the Bolsheviki,
has made the same mistake that
caused suffering for the British in the
Boer war and finds itself face to face
with the menace of an army of more
than 100000 well-fed, perfectly
equipped and disciplined men.
The Academy of Sciences of Paris
evidently considers communication be-
tween the earth and the planets among
the possibilities, for it has undertaken
to act as judge for prize of $4,000
to be given for the best means of max
ing a sign to heavenly body and the
receipt of reply.
Bolshevist agents entrusted with
messages regarding sensational wide
spread red plans have been travelling
for a considerable time between Ber-
lin and soviet Russia on false creden-
tails, representing themselves as dele
gates of the American Red Cross Mis-
sion In Berlin.
Admiral Kolchak and Premier Pep
oliayev of the all-Russian government
are imprisoned in Irkutsk and what
their fate will be is not known, says a
dispatch from Vladivostok.
Capt. Karl Deter, whose court mar
tial on charges of cruelty to prisoners
at lie Mans, France, where he was in
command of military police COM
pany, was completed Friday mt New
York. was released by order of Major
William r. Kelly. judge advocate at
Governors island.
william Marconi, the inventor, has
Informed the Daily Mail that the per-
iod for investigating the sounds caught
ON various wireless apparatus will in
.lude April u, when Mars is nearest
he earth.
A warning that ''hard tines are ap-
preaching IL lavish spending Is not
curbed Immediately, was sounded mt
Toronto by Sir Edmond Osler. presi-
dent of the Dominion bank and brother
of the late Sir William Osler.
The fashionable nobility of France
Is forming league with the object
of banning all extravagant functions
and costly styles and to reduce French
society life to the simplest and most
inexpensive form.
NJ. Pietri Sienkletei, n friend Of Con-
stantine. former king of Greece, Is
visiting London jewel merchants, offer
Ing for sale the crown of the king, 1t
is reported. The jewels are reported
worth x1h0OO