Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-07-31

4
Two infants, about two days old.
were found at the bottom of an aban-
| doned cistern at Omaha Saturday.
Doctors say both will live. The sec
ond baby was discovered by report
er an hour after neighbors hauled out
the first one.
General villa and his forces, said to
number a hundred men. are heading
| toward Coahuila, according TO state
ments of deserters, as reported by
General Joaquin Amaro, chief of oper-
ations at Chihuahua. The rebels are
described as poorly equipped.
! Preferring death to punishment by
her father, 11-year-old Angelina Scire
threw herself from the window of her
home at New York into the yard, four
stories below. She died in hospital.
WASHINGTON.
The Anti-Saloon League of America
will not indorse any presidential candi-
| date for election this year, but has
| ordered a compilation Of facts as to
the prohibition record and present
| stand of each candidate and will make
| this public.
More than 10000 employees of the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit company
voted not to demand payment of the
Increase In wages of approximately
7h cents an hour, granted July l,
until the company's revenue increases
sufficiently to pay the advance.
Warning has been issued by the de-
partment of agriculture to shippers
of fruit and vegetables that interstate
shipments in package form must bear
statement of the quantity of each
package.
| Clothing manufacturers who have
discontinued the giving of their retail
customers discount because Of misin-
depreciation of department Of justice
circulars on the subject will be con-
sidered as profiteers, fair price COM
missioners have been advised by
Howard Figg, in charge Of the depart
living.
Victory medals are being Issued by
the war department to world war
veterans on individual application only
and no arrangements have been made
with the American legion to distribute
the medals, Secretary Baker has an
nounced.
FOREIGN.
A decree will be promulgated revok-
ing the decree of April % last forbid
ding the Importation of certain COM
modities into France. There are still
a few commodities which are not per-
mitted entry into France.
Pilot Fratoni was killed at Carta-
gena. Colombia, in the second airplane
accident reported in Cartagena.
The legislative program of congress,
which has reassembled at Bogata, Co
lombia, includes bill providing for
extensive electoral reforms. The as
sembly is largely liberal In character
Members of the government extended
the congressman cordial greetings.
Gen. Gramwell Booth, head of the
Salvation Army, accompanied by his
son, Adjt. Bernard Booth and his Sec
rotary, Commander Theodore Kitch-
eng, sailed Saturday from New York
for his home in London after a five
months tour of Australia, New Zea-
land and Canada In the interest Of his
organization. He will return in Octo-
Der.
Viseount d'Eza, the minister of war,
on arriving at Malaga Sunday from
his Moroccan visit, took occasion to
deny certain press statements he is
reported to have made with reference
to alleged pressure by France and
Great Britain to make Spain break
her neutrality during the war. He as
sured newspaper correspondents that
he had never made the statements at
tributed to him.
Victor Kopp, Russian soviet diplo-
matte agent in Berlin, left for Moscow
Saturday to discuss with his govern
ment aceeleration of the return of
German prisoners from Siberia with
the approach of winter. 1t Is believed
here that his mission bears directly
on the Russo-Polish situation.
Poland has asked the state depart
ment to formally announce to the
world the "moral support Of the
United States to Poland in its battle
with the Russian bolsheviki.
Thirteen persons were killed in vio-
lent street fighting that ragged at Bel
fast during Friday night.
The Hungarian government has or
dered general mobilization against the
Russian bolsheviki. according to a
Basel dispatch to a Paris newspaper.
That the emperor of Japan has been
dead several weeks, but that the fact
lis not being published because of sup
preston by military authorities, is a.
current report at Kobe.
Three more persons were killed on
Thursday in a renewal of fighting be-
tween Sim Feiners and unionists at
Belfast Ireland