Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1922-12-16

A' Ii'o present crime wave,
Salt Lake City is to have greater no.
lice protection. The present force Of
10 men Is to be materially increased.
Beats In the bus ness districts are IN
be shortened, residential districts ore
to he patrolled and motorcycle patrol
men are to be placed on duty at the
various outlying fire stations which
VIII be used as sub-police stations.
Scare 'em stiff then groh tho
lquor' That is the new slogan of San
francisco federal prohibition agen.s,
1t was announced here.
Inc slayer of Rulon c. James. 10
years old. who was shot to death in
drug store, at Salt Lake CITY. sill,
Is at large, although detectives in Salt
Lake and adjoining cities have made
an exhaustive search for him.
Mrs. Cara Philips, under sentence to
serve from ten years to life in tho
STATE penitentiary for the murder of
Mrs. Alberta Meadows. escaped from
the Los Angeles county iail The
escape was so well planned and ouiet.
" executed that it remained unknown
Tor more than six hours.
Eiection OF Samuel J. Lindsay, Dem
ocrat, as county commissioner for a
touf-year-term, is contested by joseph
"l'thlin, defeated Republican candi-
GATE IN statement filed in the Third
district court at Salt Lake City. "Mis.
conduct, fraud and corruption" are al.
'eged In asking for notification of
the vote In district 1877
ihree local men lost their lives and
property damage estimated at S75 ono
was caused by fire with swept the
Ben Hur hotel of Portland, three
story frame structure.
James II. Mahoney was hanged
at the state penitentiary at Wnlla
Walla for the murder of is aged wife,
Kate Mooers Mahoney, at Seattle in
April. 1921.
GENERAL
Members Of the Ku Klux Khan were
barred at Chicago from serving ON a
Cook county jury.
Simeon Shulin, of New York. will
recover from the effects of broken
neck, surgeons announced. He passed
the crisis after having been kept
alive several days by artificial respira-
ton administered by sixty volunteers.
Heavier fines, jail sentences and
trips through mOrgues and hospitals 10
view the dead and injured victims of
reckless automobilists are becoming
efrective in many parts of the middle
and far West to curb the steadily
mounting toll of automobile victims
q digest from the report of several
state shows.
Major Guy L. Gearhart of Leaven.
worth, Kas., CaDtain Benton A. DOYLE
% st Louis NO., and four enlisted
men we're killed Mt Newport News when
Martin bombing plane CARRYING five
OF them. and Fokker scouting ma.
chine piloted by Major Gearhart COZ
hded about $50 feet in the air. Both
machines crashed In flames.
-Four children were burned to death
and several other children and four
grown persons were severely burned
ct Eugene, Ore, when can of gaso-
ane used to start fire Mt the home
OF lvor Johnson exploded. -FOUR of the
injured are expected to die.
William Fl Klepper, president of the
Portland club of the Pacific Coast
league, was forever barred from fur
Their participation in the affairs of the
National Association of Profess 'onal
Baseball leagues, In resolution adopt.
cd by the board of arbitration of the
organization. The action OF the board
Of arbitration in barring Klepper from
all participation in baseball affairs Is
the most drastic ever taken by organ
lied baseball against any Individual.
slepper's explosion Is result Of alleged
false statments concerning the paid.
In capital stock of the Tacoma wash
mgton) club which he organized.
MADAME Galli-Curcl. the grand opera
singer. escaped with only slight lnjur.
les when her automobile struck a pile
OF building rocks, on the roadway. near
passaic. narrowly missed an open
crawbrIdge over the Passaic river and
rolled on Its side against the bridge
sppr0ach. She was returning to New
Hork from concert st Orange.