Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-26
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to Dallas last December from Willows,
Cal, and went TO the nearby ranch
where his wife, fiom whom he had
been separated, was working rs Il
housekeeper. A quarrel ensued and
West is alleged to have shot and killed
his wife.
Between $1,000 and $4,000 was stolen
by masked bandits, who entered a
pool hall at Dietz, Wyo., held up
eighteen men who were playing pool
and ransacked their pockets, the cash
register and the safe.
An amendment to the postoffice ap-
preparation bill providing 81 100000
for airplane mail service between New
York and San Francisco via Chicago,
Omaha and Salt Lake has been adopt
ed by the senate.
Measures providing for submission
to the people of bonus legislation were
passed by the Oregon senate. The
bonus provided is $15 for each month
served in the world war by Oregon
soldiers. sailors and Marines with an
alternative of farm or home loans.
The Washington state senate has
passed bill providing for licensing
real estate brokers. The bill is in
tended to strike at the "fly by night
curbstone broker"
Charges filed at Denver against
Joshua Sykes, head of the Tabernacle
of David" that he had contributed to
the delinquency of children, have been
dismissed, and the self-styled "je-
hovah' is IA free man.
DOMESTIC.
Two men believed to have robbed
the mail car of the North Coast Linz
| tied on the Northern Pacific of $780,
! 600 were captured at Little Falls,
| Mimi, after running revolver fight
with deputies.
| Selection of Charles Evans Hughes
of New York to be secretary of state
was definitely announced Saturday at
| st. Augustine, Fla. by President-e elect
Harding. Mr.. Hughes has accepted.
| Charges of inhuman treatment of en-
| listed men have been lodged with con.
gress against officers of the U. S. S,
Michigan by the municipal department
of public welfare, il was announced
Friday at Philadelphia.
| Typhus may break out in any part
of the United States as the result of
vermin infested European immigrants
being admitted by feueral officials, ac-
cording to DIR. Royal S. Copeland, New
York City health commissioner.
Newton W. howell, formerly pres-
dent of the privy council of Canada
declared in the house of commons Fri
day that public opinion will eventually
force the United States to enter the
league.
| Henry Starr notorious Oklahoma
bandit, was probably fatally wounded
when with two other men, he backed
officials off the Peoples State bank of
Harrison, Ark, into the vault while
attempting to rob the institution. One
official, who had placed a rifle in the
vault, obtained the weapon and shot
Star down. The ,other two escaped.
1 II III VI N1SCOuSl1l are IttuiuS
their potatoes to livestock, while near
| ly two-thirds of Wisconsin's spud
crop remains unshipped and prices
| have dropped from $1.i5 hundred
| weight to 60 cents.
Enrlec 'Caruso is believed to have
won his fight against threatened death
and TO be on the road to recovery at
his home in New York City. The
world famous tenor has been near
death from pleurisy.
Arthur Pelky. former heavyweight
| pugilist, died at his home In Ford City.
Ont, Friday, death being attributed to
sleeping sickness. Pelky participated
In bout with Luther Mccarthy in Cal
gary, Canada, May "a. 1913, that re
suited in McGarthy's death.
Protesting his innocence to the very
last moment when the trap was sprung
and his body dropped to death, Ernest
Nakis was hanged at San Quentin, Cal,
for the murder of Edwin Taylor, in
Fresno county. An eleventh hour ap-
eal to the governor for reprieve was
unavailing.
Six Thousand bales of cotton were
lost at Ennis, Texas. in fire which
destroyed three warehouses. The loss
is estimated at 100000.
With three-fifths of the primeval
forests gone, the United States must
turn to the growing and harvesting of
timber crops, Colonel w. b. Greedy,
chief of the United States forest ser
Vice, told the Massachusetts house of
representatives in an address.
The governor of Texas, in a message
to ''the people of Texas asks thai
every preacher deliver a sermon, every
speaker an address and every writer
pen an editorial next Sunday that
will help create respect for an
obedience to the laws of Texas"
Miss Louise Wolf and Miss Mabel
Foot, school teachers at the Parma