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


ficials admitted.
Appeals were made to the senate
commerce commission for an appropri-
alton which would permit removal Of
the shoals of Siulaw river, Oregon,
which, the committee was told, had
resulted in handicapping river traffic
with the consequent holding up Of
milling operations in the district.
Eight cavalry officers have been Sc
lected by the war department to begin
training at Mitchell field, Long Island.
next month, preparatory to entering
as an army team in the Junior cilam-
pionshlp polo meet at Narragansett
Pier, July 31-Augst II.
At the instance of Senator w H
King, the federal power commission
has agreed to send one of its hydro
electric engineers into Uintah county,
Utah, to make surveys and inyesiiga-
tons to determine the feasibility and
probable cost of building a dam IN
Green river for the dual purpose of
developing water power and impound-
ing water for irrigation for use In Utah
and Colorado.
Large crops. due principally to splen-
did growing conditions thus far this
season., promise more abundant pro-
duction this year than harvested In
1921, despite smaller acreages, espec-
ially In wheat and oats, according to
government reports.
immigration officials expressed re
lief on reading dispatches from Toron-
to saying that Gregorie Semeoff, the
anti-bolshevik leader, had concluded
his stormy and univited stay OH Ameri-
can soil and now was en- route to
Vancouver, B. g., to sail for the Far
East.
FOREIGN
Resumption of international money
order service with Hungary June Is
is announced in the current number
of the Postal Bulletin.
Only about three hundred and fifty
thousand aliens can be allowed entry
to the United States during the next
year.
The National Christian conference
composed of missionaries and Chris
tfan workers of all damonina-
tions. which recently closed Its
sessions at Toxic, unanimously voted
to organize the Japan national Chris.
tain council, placing the leadership
in church work in Japan in The hands
Of Japanese.
Steers which grazed in Iowa pas
lures June l were served as steaks
in Paris grills this week. When the
Cunard liner Mauretania docied at
Sherbourg after Il record voyage of
five days five hours and ten minutes,
she unloaded beef which left Chicago
June 4.
The negotiations between the Per-
sian government and the Standard OF.
company of New Jersey for con-
cession to the oil fields in the north
ern provinces have fallen through.
The bill, which offered the concession,
has been amended to empower parlia-
ment to extend an invitation TO other
American firms, one of which already
has entered into negotiations with the
government.
King Victor Emmanuel has received
Thomas Il Marshall, former vice-pres-
ident of the United States, and large
group of Scottish Rite Masons who
had been attending the congress of
the supreme Masonic lodges at Lau-
same. With Mr. Marshall were Grand
Commanders John Cowles and Leon
Abbott, former Commander Barton
Smith and Congressman Treadway and
King.
Police authorities of Sydney N. S.
w. have in custody girl who says
she Is Rosa Miguel of Norfolk, Va.
and who declares she has been a cap.
tive of a band of gypsies near here.
The young woman asserts that at the
age of II she was kidnapped from her
home in Norfolk and later forced to
marry the son of the chief OF the
gypsy band.
The government of Cuba is virtually
In the control of the United States
Intervention, while still unofficial and
indirect, is potent and effective as
If internal Cuban affairs were being
personally directed from Washington
The entire cabinet of President Zayas