Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-01-08
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enne 10 the erect that liquor acquired
legally before July 1, 1919, for use In
private homes is not contraband.
Final plans for a meeting in Boise,
January 10, of carriers and shippers
from Idaho, Oregon, Washington. Utah,
Nevada and Montana, when demands
for reduced rate ON eastbound wool,
apples, prunes, potatoes, lumber and
sheep will be made, were formulated at
meeting at Boise.
Lying in a clump of brush in a
gully about two miles south of Silver
City, Utah, and with bullet wound
through his temple, the body of an I'M
identified man about 35 years old was.
found by boys.
Joshua Sykes, self-styled king of
heaven and earth and leader of the
sect of the House of David, was ar
rested at Denver on a charge Of op-
Grating confidence game.
A tentative contract calling for a
statewide wheat pool for five years
was presented to eleven representa-
tives of state farmers organizations
meeting at Portland. They plan to re-
wise 1t and present it next month TO
the state farm bureau federation con-
vention at Portland, and to the state
farmers union and the grange.
DOMESTIC.
An attempt to wreck the Union Pa
cific passenger train running between
Manhattan, Kan, and Lincoln, Neb.,
was partially successful, when an OBJ
struction on the track a mile and
half south of Beatrice, Neb., derailed
the engine. No one was injured.
Miss Esther Gamble, aged 20, of On
tario, Cal, was fatally injured when
an airplane in which she was a pas
senger, fell into an orange grove. She
died while being carried to hospital.
Nearly every bone in her body was
broken.
The United States make up only one
seventeenth of the world, but spends
as much on education as the rest of
the world combined, according to
United States Commissioner of Educa-
tion p. p. ClaXton, addressing meet
ing of educators at Chicago.
Fines totaling $3S4,625 were paid
by traffic violators in New York dur
ing 1920, the annual report of the
traffic court disclosed
The next ninety days is expected to
cording to statement at st. Paul by
Howard Elliott, chairman of the board
of directors of the Northern Pacific
railroad
Mrs. J. A. Mungo, the wife of
wealthy ship owner, while taking din
ner at hotel in New York on New
Years eve, lost a Tearl necklace val
ued at 100000. The lights in the
dining room We're turned out at mid
night Signalling the end of the old
1t is believed the necklace was stolen
during this brief period.
The Rev. Charles B. Schrantz,
president emeritus of st. Charles col
lege, Catholic institution near Bal
timore, has refused to join in cele-
bration and banquet in his honor, pre-
pared by the Sulpician priests on the
occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of
his ordination, because, he said, 81
will not join in any celebration as long
ms there are starving people in Eu-
rope"
w. c. Sly, president, and George
Tanner, vice president, of the w, W.
Sly Manufacturing company, were
shot and killed by five automobile
bandits on the street at Cleveland. The
| bandits escaped with the company
| payroll of $4,000.
Miss Victoria Fournier, deputy
county clerk, issued her own marriage
| license on Thursday. The party of the
second part is Warran alilligan, To-
cal newspaper reporter. When the
| blank was filled she directed Milligan
to raise his right hand and swear to
the truth of the statement, He
obeyed
Iowa's 2-cent railroad passenger fare
law on Thursday was held to be I'M
constitutional by Judge Martin j..
Wade Of the United States district
court. Officials were enjoined from
enforcing the law on traffic entirely
within the state.
After lone hand daylight robbery
Of the Peoples bank at Springfield,
Tenn, which netted $4,000 in Liberty
bonds, a man, identified by police as
Hobart Austin, 81, was killed by Sher-
IF A. L. Jet in gun duel. The
bonds were recovered.
Two bombs placed in taxicabs in
widely separated parts Of Philadel-
phia, but timed to explode simultane-
ously, demolished the cabs. One, in
the heart of the theatre district near
the Bellevue Stratford hotel, caused
Il near panic.
A frenzy of jealousy, inspired by
taunts that he was fool to expect her
full affections and boast that she
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