Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1922-06-24


grains, and the products thereof, be-
tween points in the western group.
Fire originating from an explosion in
the engine room of the Mineral Lake
Lumber company plant at Mineral,
WASH, destroyed the mill and lumber
stored In the yards at an estimated
loss of 100000. Fire apparatus was
sent from Tacoma on freight cars to
save the town from being wiped out.
Salt Lake City has opened milk sta
tons at which milk will be sold for
needy children at cost.
Distinguished scientists from all
parts Of the United States are In Salt
Lake for the annual convention of
the American Association for the Adj
vancement of Science, which will meet
Jointly with the Utah branch known
as the Utah Academy of Science.
Because his mother had spanked
him for teasing his baby sister, Her
bert Johnson, 14-year-old school boy,
hanged himself In barn at Emporia,
Kansas.
The Utah land commissioner, John
I. Oldroyd. has decided to offer for
sale at public auction at the county
courthouse in Provo totalof 6,49722
acres of lands In Utah county, July
IT. The land Is scattered all over
Utah county, inparcels ranging In size
from forty acres or less to whole
sections. Some of 1t has long been
under lease for grazing purposes. In
few cases the lands designated are
now under canal, and therefore cap
able of irrigation.
While temporarily deranged, accord
Ing to belief of physicians, Mrs. Pat
rick McDermott, p, of Victor Colo,
shot her 3-year-old son and then kill
cd herself.
The chapter at the Utah Agricultural
college OF. the Disabled American Vet
Grams of the World War will send three
delegates to the annual national con.
vention Of the organization TO be hold
In San Francisco June &c to 30, inclu-
sive.
GENERAL
A recommendation that Ku Klux
Khan parades and public demonstra-
lions be prohibited within Chicago If
the participants appear masked was
made by unanimous vote of the coun-
Gil judiciary committee.
The Rafferty,, farm, seven miles
southeast of Wier, Kansas, Cherokee
county town, has been the scene of
inQuisitive hundreds, attracted there
by phenomenon of nature-a cavern
seventy feet deep and ninety feet
across, which was said to have sud
denly appeared few days ago. The
cracked condition of the earth nearby
portends another cayein.
Organized labor indicated a deter
mination at the American Federation
OF Labor convention to start drive
for constitutional amendment ror a
congressional veto of supreme court
decisions and for the denial or the
power of lower federal courts to set
aside a federal law as unconstitution-
al. This, the delegates were Informed,
would overcome decisions which Ia
Dor has regarded us Inmcal TO its
interests.
Ogden. Utah is to erect a $4,000
gymnasium beginning in short time.
Dry land grains, some fall grain,
sugar beets and lower pastures suf-
fered for lack of rain the past week,
according to the weather, crop and
range bulletin for Utah, issued by the
Salt Lake weather bureau. The noun
tain pastures are excellent, though
stock are in only fair condition m
several districts. A good first cutting
Vi uilhiiu Is polIlS HldUe generally.
Fruit is developing satisfactorily and
cherries are ripening
Approximately 5000 quarts of liquor,
valued at more than $4,000, were
said to have been seized by marine
guards n. the navy yard Sunday in a
raid on the naval transport Sirius un,
der orders Of Rear Admiral Ralph
Andrews. commandant of the Norfolk
navy yard.
Mo Eues and undertaking establish.
ments V New York metropolitan area
hold tine bodies of more than three
score MN, women and children-vic
Tins of brief cyclonic thunderstorm
That enough money has been invest
ed in worthless stocks by cache coun
ty, Utah residents In the asst twenty
five years to build cement hignwa,