Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-01-22

of the Jackson street postoffiee at
Dallas. Texas. in which two postal
clerks were shot and federal re-
serve bank shipment stolen, additional
arrests are expected. Six men par
ticpated in the robbery.
Eight-year-old Adeline Fisher is
dead as a result of injuries received
when 3O0-pound bellclapper fell upon
her as the bell was ringing for recess
at the school she attended at Weston,
Neb.
| The farmers of America stand ready
| to give enough corn to appease the
hunger all over the world, if the peo-
pie of cities and towns will transport
| it to the mouths of the starving,
President ]. r. Howard of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau federation declared
at Chicago.
WASHINGTON.
The president and even senators
and representatives might have to
take to the streets to enjoy a cigar,
cigarette or a pipe as an aid to states
manlike reflections, If bill Offered
by Senator Smoot becomes law. 1t
forblds smoking in government de-
partments or ..any Independent estab-
lishment of tine government as fire
protection measure.
Death penalty for persons convicted
of committing crimes by the use OF
weapons was proposed Saturday by
Representative Summers of Texas, as
means of checking crime. He said
such action was necessary to make
human life more secure.
Nearly 40 per cent of the discharged
disabled veterans of the world war are
suffering from some form of mental
arrangement, according to estimates
made on the basis of public health
service reports by Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury LaPorte.
Over the protest of the majority of
its military affairs committee, the
senate on January IA passed the reso-
luton directing the secretary of war
to cease army recruiting until the
size of the regular army is cut down
to 10000 men.
Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor, member
of the Washington rent commission
through appointment by President
Wilson, has suggested that congress
levy a tax on bachelors.
FOREIGN.
What the police allege to be another
big Sim Fein plot to destroy property
in London was uncovered in court at
London, when Patrick Kenney, an
Irishman, was charged with participant
ing in an attempt to murder two
policemen and trying to ignite barrels
of oil on the premises of the Vacuum
Oil company, where 10000 barrels,
containing 100000 gallons of oil, are
stored.
There are $4,000 tubercular child
rem in Vienna, according to statistical
study of the child health situation
there. made by the American Red Cross.
OF this number, it was said that 10000
were in urgent need of surgical treat
ment.
President Obregon contemplates an
net which will affect at least seven
portfolio, it is said by newspapers at
Mexico City. Newspapers declare
the changes are merely readjust-
ment such as was predicted when the
personnel of the cabinet was first an
nounced.
Japan has agreed to an indemnity
as a result of the killing of Lieutenant
Warren S. Langdon of the U. S. S.
Albany in Vladivostok by Japanese
sentry, it is understood at Manila.
The matter is before the foreign of
flee at Toxic.
The Philippine senate has passed
bill providing for flotation of ten mil
lion dollars of bonds in the United
States. Funds thus raised will be
spent in construction of irrigation sys-
tens and other permanent public
works.
Severe fighting between Bedouins
and Druses in Syria is reported in a
Cairo dispatch to the Central News.
The Druses are said to have lost 1900
killed, but it is asserted that the
remnants of their forces are prepar-
ing for a counter offensive.
The Greeks have made another i'm
portance advance in their offensive
against the Turkish nationalists on
the Brussa front in Asia Minor, ac-
cording to the Greek legation at Lon
don.
The authorities in Egypt are said to
have discovered another conspiracy
similar to that of the Avengers So
ciety," an alleged anti-British society,
uncovered last fall, says an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Cairo.
The Russian soviet government has
decreed a warning to all strikers
that unless they return to work i'm
mediately they will be imprisoned for
terms of from one to five years and
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