Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-02-07
Of
Past Week
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
INTERN MOUNTAIN.

Twenty-four hours after he had hap
PLY received the congratulations of
his family upon his arrival at the age
of 81, William c. A. Smoot, the last
of resident pioneers of 1S47, died at
his home in Salt Lake
A tentative contract between the
United States and the canal companies
and irrigation districts interested in
the storage and utilization of the flood
and normal flow of the Snake river
dn Idaho has been approved by Secre-
tary Lane
About $4,000 acres of public land
on the Shoshone (Wyo.) irrigation
project will be opened to entry March
13, Secretary Lane announces.
Government regulation of the meat
packing industry was endorsed in a
resolution passed at the closing ses-
sion at Spokane of the annual conven-
ton of the American National Live
Stock association.
William Randall, convicted at Taco
ma of conspiracy to circulate and pub
lish seditious literature, was sentenced
to a three-year term in federal prison.
A city ordinance barring the shimmy
dance was passed at Sheridan, Wyo.
The regulation provides for fine of
500. Mayor Camplin introduced the
ordinance, which he said was request
ed by dancing masters.
DOMESTIC.
Caught in trap of flames that
spread SO rapidly that they were I'M
able to reach the windows of their
third floor apartments seven persons
were burned to death Sunday in an
apartment house fire in Newark, N. J.
Colonel Jack Chinn, u, one of the
most noted turfmen of twenty years
ago in America died in hospital at
Lexington, KY, after long illness
from heart trouble and complications.
Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio has Of
ficially announced his candidacy for
the Democrat presidential nominal
ton.
Workers in the Latin-American re-
publics are urged in a manifesto is
sued by Samuel Gompers, chairman,
and other officials of the Pan-Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, to organize
national labor associations for affilia-
ton with the Pan-American organiza-
ton.
One bandit, armed with an empty
automatic gun, robbed the mail car on
Union Pacific passenger train Of all
registered mail Friday between here
and Fremont, forty miles west of
Omaha. After he had left the train
he dropped his gun and when found
1t was unloaded.
Women stowaways have become so
numerous since the war ended that i'm
migration officials have cautioned all
steamship companies in New York to
have their vessels carefully searched
before departure from Europe
The aims and objects Of organized
labor and of the American Legion are
Identical General Pershing declared
In an address at Phoenix, Ariz. These
two organizations should go hand in
hand toward progress and common
understanding among the different
classes In America
Declaring that he will not transfer
the government of Mexico to the presi-
Dental candidate chosen at the cleo
ton to be held next July, President
Carranza has proclaimed himself die
tator of Mexico, according to dis
patch from Mexico City received by
Mexican newspaper published at San
Antonio.
Walker ID. Hines, director general
of railroads, In an address before the
Transportation club ut Louisville
urged the necessity of division of
excess earnings of railroad corpora
tons above reasonable return, In
order to protect the public against ex-
cess earnings of very prosperous rail
roads and to insure fair return to
all roads.
Harry s. New. convicted at Los An
geles of murder In the second degree
for shooting Miss Freda Lesser. was
denied new trial and sentenced to
serve not less than ten years, with
maximum OF life Imprisonment at San
Quentin prison.
Cartridge cloth, new material Gre
ated by the war. Is being transformed
by war department experts into attrac-
tive goods for women's wear. Samples
of the material, made up In woman's
blouses Of fetching design, are being
offered for sale In New York stores.
Gordon Fawcett Handy, murderer,
bank robber and train bandit, whose
crime record reached from coast to
coast and eliminated In the murdef Of
two Brooklyn bank employees In De
cember, 1918, went to death In the
electric chair Thursday night in Sing
Sing prison.
Direct charges that certain rail-
roads" were planning to reduce wages
MS soon ms the roads were returned to
r,rivota ownership were made by Tim