Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-05
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car near curve between Knight and
Altamont. Wyo.
The negro population of Denver in
1920 was announced last week by the
census bureau as 60S5, an increase of
$50, or l2l per cent. :
John Schmitt, alleged bandit, was
found guilty of murder in the first
degree with recommendation for
hanging by the jury which heard his
trial in the superior court at Seattle
on the charge of killing Police De
tective James O'Brien In pistol fight.
20 determine what caused the explo-
sion that demolished the Cashier home
at Tacoma, killing Mrs. Cora Cashier,
55, and seriously injuring her son, Mel
win, aged 20.
The Van de Steeg anti-alien land
bill was passed in the lower house
of the Idaho legislature after consid
cradle debate. The vote was 35 to
10. This measure, the fourth intro
duced In the house, disapproves ex-
tension of citizenship to japanese and
calls upon congress to prohibit Jap
'anese immigration except to students,
teachers and merchants.
Mrs. Frances McEwen Bedford, called
the best loved woman in Colorado"
and who first suggested the idea of
the Lincoln highway, died at Denver
January 81, aged 81 years.
DOMESTIC.
automobile body building firms re-
sumed production at Detroit Monday
with a total working force of 10000
men.
sued statement criticising the re-
ported agreement between japanese
Ambassador Shidehara and American
Ambassador Morris dealing with the
status of Japanese in America.
Donald J. yO'Callaghan, lord mayor
of Cork, has been ordered by Secretary
Wilson of the labor department to
leave the United States by February
IL. He is now in the country as q
seaman awaiting an opportunity to
reship.
Charged with having participated in
the robbery of an Indian camp elgh-
teen years ago, and with having stolen
a horse, Clarence Simmons, known alys
as Jackson ]. Smyth, alleged to have
been a member of a gang of bandits
notorious in the days before Oklahoma
became state, is being tried in Okla
hOma city.
Vickers, 40, shoe worker of Cincin-
natl, and his divorced wife, Mildred
Nickers, 3S, were tragically ended
when Vickers shot and killed the wo-
man and then sent bullet into his
own heart.
Treasurer Harry G. Forty of Marion
County, Ohio, who reported he had
been robbed of $14,303 by two bandits,
who knocked him unconscious in his
office in the courthouse, has been
placed under arrest, it being reported
he has confessed the theft
A bedridden man was burned to
DEATH five persons were injured, in
'cluding two babies who were dropped
from IA third-story window, and a
dozen others were rescued, when fire
attacked boarding house In Chicago.
The amount of money allotted to
each school district will be doubled
n nH ,.,in ha t., ,.ntc
amounts twice as great as their pres
ent appointments, by bill intro
duced in the California senate.
Value of California's crops in 1920
fell about sixty million doliars below
1919. Lower prices for farm products
and n lack of rainfall, along with
damage to fruits, caused Inc decrease,
asserts Il. e. Kaufman. agricultural
statistician OF the department of agri-
culture.
Tax exemption for all new dwellings
for a period of at least fifteen years
as means Of stimulating building is
advocated by Lawson Purdy, former
president Of the New York City board
Of taxes and exemptions.
Har y Dunsman, grocer, of Cleve-
land. saved $3.50 from q gunman with
flour fog" He hurled a scoopful
of flour at the thug and escaped with
the money under cover of the haze.
Mrs. Lillian Bingham attempted to
shoot William Wilson, a negro, in
courtroom at Pittsburg, as the negro
was being tried for assaulting her, but
the pistol failed fire. Spectators
shouted their approval of her attempt
to avenge herself
Sons and daughters of financial re-
sponsibil.tv would be made responsible
for the welfare of their parents under
bill introduced in the Indiana legis-
isture. Offsprings who seek to avoid
the responsibility may be fined not to
exceed $500 or imprisoned for not more
than six months.
Francis Patrick Sullivan, veteran
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