Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-10-22

| out regalnlng CONSCIOUSNESS.
'.he bill authorizing an appropria-
tlon of 100000 to enlarge the federal
huildinE in Salt Lake introduced by
Senator King was amended Wednes-
day to provide for an appropriation Of
10000 instead of the original amount.
The amendment was made after the
senator from Utaha had consulted with
the supervising architect.
Decisions of New York courts hold
ing the federal employers liability act
applicable to employees of interstate
railroads while engaged in switching
cars will stand, the supreme court Mon
day refusing to review a case award
ing Ida Colt, verdict of $4,000
against the Lehigh Valley railroad for
the death of her husband, Martin Colt.
Without dissenting vote the senate
Wedn esday Struck from the tax rivision
bill the section imposing tax of l
cent for each 25 cents or fraction for
the transportation of parcel post pack
ages the change to be effective next
January /. This completed adoption
Of the compromise plan for repeating
all transportation taxes.
The emergency fleet corporation
took specific action Thursday to pre-
vent eviction of tenants of corporation
property at Lorain, Ohio. Manager
william Towers of the transportation
and housing division telegraphed 7. B.
keck, the corporations representative
at Lorain, to suspend all action under
notices to vacate until an investigation
had been made and further orders from
Washington were received. Keck was
taken unless specifically authorized by
Washington.
A deadlock on the federal good roads
bill was reached Wednesday by sen,
ate and house conferees on the TownsJ
end-Dowell bill. 1t threatened, senate
conferees said, to bring to head the
long-standing dispute between the two
bodies over house rules governing con-
ferences which, senators declare, de-
priye the senate of power in shaping
legislation. The senate conferees in
sisted on an appropriation of $75,O00,-
N to continue state aid in road CON-
struction, while the house conferees
resisted a direct appropriation and de-
manded merely an authorization.
FOREIGN.
Councillors of Poplar, imprisoned for
refusal to levy taxes ON the poor Of
their district at London, were releas-
ed from Jail Wednesday.
Every fighting ship In the Brit
ish navy is now being rapidly con-
verified by the admiralty into sort of
naval museum, not of obsolete ships,
but containing for a very practical
purpose, hundreds of small wooden
models, accurately made, of every ex-
| All department secretaries of the
| hiiiBpiiic uflNt SuDlillleu
their ie:,enations. Their purpose. they
stated, was to give Major General
Wood free hand In selecting his cab
met when he becomes governor gen.
eral of the islands.
Many persons have been killed or In
jured in the wreck of mail train near
Merida, Spain. The train was derailed
by washout caused by heavy rains,
and mail car and passenger coach
ere telescoped. A relief train has
been dispatched to the scene of the
disaster.
Construction of four fast cruisers,
six destroyers, twenty-elght submarines
nd twenty gunboats wars ordered by
the Spanish cabinet Thursday. says a
'adrld dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph company. The program approx
I'd by the cabinet would, it Is said, be
completed in six years.
Marshal Foch would be compelled to
travel more than 10000 miles and visit
nearly every state in the American
union If he should accept all invitations
he has received from the United States
since it was announced that he woul)
cross the Atlantic this fall. Friends
who call upon the marshal are shown
q stack Of invitations more than foot
III ok, which he has received.
General Dousmanis, who resumed
he office of chief of staff of the Greel;
army Tuesday, following his return
from the war zone in Asia Minor, was
per emptorily dismissed Wednesday and
was placed on the retired list. The
reason for his dismissal is said to have
been displeasure by the government
with an order of the day that he Is