Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-07-10
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A Weeks EVENTS
0kcoHD OF THE IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
lZED FORM
Nome and Foreign Nsws Gathered
From All Quarters Of the World,
and Prepared for Busy Men
sNTERMoUNTAiN.

FRANK II. Miner, veteran organ
builder who reconstructed the famous
Tabernacle organ at Salt Lake in 1900,
died suddenly in Evansville, Ind, July
8, at the age of 70.
Utah stuck with McAdoo throughout
every ballot on the last day of ballot
ing at San Francisco, eight votes be-
ing cast time after time for the for
mer secretary of the treasury.
While splitting his fuse for the
second hole Of his round in the DAILY
West mine at Park City, Utah, John
Hekela, 26, was killed by premature
explosion.
Fred Buchanan was killed when an
engine which he was attempting to
run into the roundhouse at Bowdoin,
Mont, collided with another engine.
He was pinned beneath the wreckage
and before help arrived was fatally
burned by escaping steam.
A female mountain lion, believed
to have been partly responsible for
the killing of eighty head of sheep
In one flock, was been killed In Nor
gan county, Utah.
Rev. Joseph N. Barrett is fighter
as well as pastor of st. Matthew's
Episcopal church, at Grand. Junction,
Colo. At a recent athletic meet,
foreigner approached the clergyman
and called him Stacker. Rev. Bar
nett knocked the man off his feet. A
general fight resulted.
DOMESTIC.
Witnessing fight between her son
and three other boys resulted In death
for Mrs. Grace Johnson. at Hannibal,
Mo. While the battle was in progress,
Mrs. johnson fell to the ground and
died of apoplexy' before physician
could be summoned.
Eight persons were killed. twelve
seriously injured some PAINFULLY, and
ten others suffered m nor injuries
when a Missouri, KanEas & Texas
freight smashed into the rear end of
carnival .company's special near
-Atoka, Oklahoma.
Americanism was made the keynote
of an address by Frank L. Rain, grand
exalted ruler of the Elks at the open
ing meeting at Chicago, on July 5, of
the six-day convention of the order.
During the dinner hour, when the
lower floors of the Fairmont hotel at
San Francisco we're thronged with
guests. Mrs. G. e. Moller, a wealthy
New York widow, travelling with Mrs.
john #. Hylan, wife of Mayor Hylan
of New York, was robbed and left
bound and gaggedrin her room on the
third floor. ~ Gn@
United States Senator Robert M.
LaFollette, Wisconsin, who was oper-
ated on at Rochester, Mimi, recently,
left Monday for Madison, having re-
covered sufficiently to travel
A committee representing the eight
leading grain exchanges of the coun-
try will meet in Chicago to formulate
plans for the reopening of trading in
wheat futures.
The longshoremen's strike at Phila-
delphia has been settled by decisive
vote of the men who have been out
more than month. Nearly 1000 men
voted on the question. They agreed to
return to work at the old scale.
James Spencer, negro postal clerk,
who was charged with having stabbed
Otto Parker, white clerk, was taken
from the officers, who were taking
him to Quitman, Miss, for trial, and
lynched.
Hearings will be held at New York
this month to be followed by others
throughout the country by the United
States senate special committee on re-
construction and production investi-
eating the nations housing shortage.
Three deputy sheriffs were shot at
Roderfield, W. Va, during a clash be-
tween the officers and miners.
Chicago railroads on Friday received
notice from the commerce commission
that 27,750 empty grain cars had been
ordered delivered to the western roads
by the eastern lines.
Alexander Howat, president of the
Kansas miners, announced his candi-
dacy for International vice president
of the United Mine Workers of
America.
Prison sentences totalling fifty-nine
months and fines aggregating $4,000
were given three officers of the Ora
matan Hair Tonic company and the
Herba Product company by Federal
Judge Grub mt New York for VIOLA
tion of the volstead and internal
revenue acts,