Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1922-02-11

Alabama to private interests, either
by sale or lease, we're held between
Secretary Weeks and President Hard
ing.
The Washington negotiations fol
Limitation of armament reached then
contamination when a plenary session
Of the arms conference gave definite
and public approval to the two trea
ties limiting navies and restricting
use of the new agencies of warfare.
Railroads were in better physical
condition at the end of the period OF
when taken over during the war, VIII
liam G. McAdoo, former secretary OF
the treasury and wartime director
general of RAILROADS, told the senate
interstate commerce committee in Civ
ing an accounting of his guardianship
of the properties during 1918.
Light wines and beers would be
legalized and taxed to pay the sol
diers' bonus under measures advo.
Gated by Representative Brennan of
Detroit and Representative Hill Of
Baltimore before the house ways and
means committee. Mr.. Hill estimated
that the proposed tax would yield be-
tween $500,000,000 and 81 O0,000,000
year, and he Is confident the tax
would produce sufficient revenue
in four years to pay off the entire
cost of the bonus.
"Cheap and faulty construction, and
not the heavy snowfall was responsible
for the collapse of the Knickerbocker
theater," Senator Frank II. Gooding
of Idaho, says II am now convinced
that congress is in part to blame.
Congress makes the appropriations fol
the District of Columbia; 1t provides
meager salaries for building inspec-
| tors, with the result that incompe
| tent men are hired to inspect just
| such buildings as the Knickerbocker
! And to that extent responsibility fol-
incompetent and inefficient inspection
can be had at the doors of congress"
FOREIGN.
1t is announced that more than H..
900 troops have evacuated Ireland
the evacuation of 5000 black and tans
will begin soon.
| Durham, Eng, can claim the unen-
vlable distinction of having the world S
greatest housing problem. An investi.
cation revealed seven persons living
in one room, eight living in two rooms
and 20 living in five rooms
Revelation at recent medical meet.
ing that there are more than 40 lepers
in England caused public sensation
The government has received many
letters demanding the removal of all
victims.
| France stands ready to restore t.
China the leased territory of Kwang-
Chow Wan, irrespective of what other
countries may do with reference to
leased areas, M. Sarraut, senior French
arms delegate, stated recently.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Heisingfors, Finland, says: Boil.
shevik troops today recrossed the
frontier at Soutjaevri and advanced
eight kilometers into Finnish territory.
Fighting is proceeding between about
one hundred bolsheviki and the Finn.
| ish frontier guards.
Four natives were killed and six
wounded by the police, who fired on
crowd which had declined to dis.
perse, near Pabda, Bengal. The
trouble had its origin in the arrest
of two noncooperationist pickets. A
| mob estimated at 1000 attacked the
local magistrate and the police super
| intendents.
| What appears to be back to-Japan
movement of the Japanese in southern
| California is noted in the last six
| months. There has been no explain
| alton from any Japanese official of
the fact that virtually every liner
leaving Los Angeles for the Orient in
recent months has been crowded with
Japanese, chiefly women and children.
The latest strike in Germany is the
most unique of all. 1t is the strike
of the headsman and executioner in
Baden. This official informs the min.
istry of justice of Baden that he can
no longer chop off the heads of Grim
inals at the present rate per head, in
view of the increased cost of living,
OF skirt. Hang 1t out to dry. then
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