Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-12-24
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A4oShI eoA list picpuIeu ny SOuuty
Treasurer, shows that 5000 ,77s.40, or
about IA per cent of the total amount
due, has not been paid. 1t Is the larg-
est deliquent tax list in the history of
the county and is $77,Ss.91 more than
last year.
Martin Adelin Plennevaux fled an
application with the clerk of the dis
trict court at Butte, Mont, to have his
name changed to Adelin Martin. The
petitioner alleges that his present
name Is great inconvenience because
of the difficulty for ordinary English
speaking persons to correctly spell or
pronounce it. He Is q native of Lon
CRIME, Belgium.
Despondent because he had been
placed on the retired pension list, Bat
TALON Fire Chief William Carr COM
mitted suicide by slashing his throat.
Losses from forest fires throughout
the United States decreased over 81
100000 during the calendar year of
1920, according to the annual report
of the forestry service bureau of the
department of agriculture.
That financial conditions In Flat
head country Mont, are not SO bad as
reported is shown by the fact that as
large percentage of taxes as usual
were paid by Nov. 80.
Total deliveries by Hood River apple
growers to the Apple Growers asso-
citation the last week reached 1856
boxes, bringing the seasons total to
], PA 1897 boxes. The weeks shipments
reached 30,328, bringing the total to
1874, 1857 Total carloads of apples ship
ped from here reach 1927 having
been shipped since December /,
Flax growers of the Salem, Oregon
district, who apparently are dissatified
with the present arrangement made by
the state board of control with relation
to payments for their products, let it
be known that they are considering
the ACCESSIBILITY of seeking special leg
islation at the legislative assembly
which convenes this month.
Owing to the unusual increase in the
membership of the Boy Scout organic
atoms, the, Miles City Mont, Scout
masters association has been formally
organized with the election of A. e..
Beck as chairman and Jack Gordon as
secrtary. There are more than score
of scOutmasters who are taking an ac-
tive part in the Boy Scout movement
In this section, the Scout membership
running in the neighborhood Of a
couple of hundred.
GENERAL
Retirement papers were issued at
Vallejo, Cal, recently to Campbell
Whitthorne, who, it is said, has served
the United States government under
every administration from President
Grant to President Harding.
Grain growers were asked to insist
on an early investigation of the export
trade by the federal trade commission
in order that the real reasons for
present ruinous prices may be deter
mined" In an appeal sent out by c..
H. Gustafson, president of the United
States Grain Growers.
Freely and frankly discussing the
present plight of the American farm
err, Secretary Wallace tells the presi-
dent in his first annual report that
tire "seem to be good reasons
for believing chat the worst is over
and that we may reasonably hope for
gradual improvement from now on"
The "wild and woody" east was de-
cried by Gilbert B. Traveller of Cimar-
ron, N. NJ, circuit rider for the
Methodists Episcopal church for many
years. "There was time" he said,
"when our grandmothers used to tell
us tales of the terrors of the west,
but now you have to come east for ex-
element
Twenty-Five years ago Richard Ber-
mlngham, Forham graduate, cut short
postgraduate course In surgery to
become policeman, because. he said,
he'd "rather walk beat than be the
worlds greatest surgeon" He Ia on
the retired list with one of the best
records In New York police history.
After January !, 1922, American le-
gion posts throughout the country will
not be required to pay amusement tax
to the department of internal revenue
on benefit amusements which they
stage.
Emma Goldman, who was deported
I'm RussIa from the United States in