Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-19
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State aid to settlers on logged off
| land to assist in clearing their holdings
| is provided in bill passed by the
Oregon house of representatives. The
bill already has passed the senate
Whether the parents of child are
responsible for injuries inflicted by 1t
to another child is to be decided at
| Pueblo, Colo. Helen Liktor, aged 3,
| died August Is, 1917, from burns re-
| ceived while playing at the home of
j. Omlensky The burns were caused
by burning matches in the hands of
| Paul Omlensky, years old.
On the eve of his departure from
Pocatello, Idaho, for Illinois, where he
| f. G. Bale of the faculty of the Idaho
Technical institute declared that at
| is carrying service too far to expect
educators to teach young people on
| less salaries than are received by the
| ordinary street sweeper"
A house joint memorial, memorable
ing congress to pass a law compelling
the placing of tags on woolens, stat
ing the exact percentage of virgin
wool and other materials, has been
adopted by the Oregon state senate.
Mrs. Minnie Cox. who shot and killed
her husband, Albert Cox, member of
the Denver police department, on Oc-
tober 30 last, was acquitted by jury
In the criminal court at Denver. She
pleaded self-defense.
7. j. Flanagan, aged 45, formerly
of Kansas City, Mo-, was found dead
In a snowdrift back of a cafe in Cas-
per, Wyo. There were no marks on
mis- body to indicate violence.
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. Charles Bynum, % years old,
who shot and killed her husband at
New Rockford. N. D., and then took
poison, died Saturday. Her baby, 10
months old, has also been poisoned
and is not expected to live. Domestic
troubles, according to neighbors, is be-
lieved the cause.
Army planes from every station in
Texas New Mexico and Arizona left
FIT. Bliss at dawn Saturday, February
II, to search for Lieutenant Alexander
Pearson Jr., who had been missing
since he left Ell Paso Thursday at 1C
a. m.
Relatives of Henry Gagenton, former
soldier, have, it is said, received a ci-
tation from the war department, signed
by the adjutant general and President
Wilson, for bravery Sin giving his life
on the battlefields of France. Magen-
ton is working in w; 'cott, n. D.
After crticising bank directors who
allowed Francis J. Carey aged 20, re-
ceiving teller for the National City
bank of Ottawa, ILL.,, a salary of 800
month, Federal Judge Lands re-
leased Carey on his recognizance
after the latter pleaded guilty to
charge of embezzling $96500 Lands
said he would have to think the mat.
ter over before sentencing Carey.
D. c. Jackling, who is heavily in
terested in Alaskan mining properties,
announced at San Francisco that plans
were being considered for transforma-
ton of some of the Alaskan gold mills
in which he has interests into paper
pulp mills.
Mrs. Marion Peters, wife of j. r.
Peters, vice president of the Fair
banks company, scale manufacturers,
was killed when she jumped, or fell,
from an eighth story window in an
apartment house in New York. She
had been suffering from nervous
disease.
The American good roads congress,
In session at Chicago, adopted reso-
luton urging that the road building
program of the nation be started with
out further delay.
Roy Frldley, prohibition enforcement
| agent, has been arrested at Phoenix,
Arz by federal officials, who charge
that last October Fridley' drove an
automobile to Yuma, Ariz., on the
California border, secured twelve cases
of whisky transported it to Phoenix
and sold ten cases.
That more than one billion dollars
are available for the building of good
roads, was announced by L. II. Nc
Donald, chief of the federal bureau of
public ronds, in the opening address
of the American good roads congress
| at Chicago.
A total of 1888 passengers flew
1885, $50 miles in commercial airplanes
during the last twelve months without
the loss of a single life, the Manu-
facturers' Aircraft association an
nounced at New York.
A fifteen minute conversation be-
ween Avalon, Santa Catalina island,
thirty miles off Los Angeles harbor,
and the steamer Gloucester, off the
| Cape Cod fishing banks, by wireless
| md wire telephone was held Wednes-
day. The distance was given as 1900
| lilies.
NJ. j. Caneff, an inmate of the state
/ hospital for insane ut Patton, Cal,