Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-04-21

children because his wife had refused
to return with him to their former
home In Japan, he told police.
Petitions requesting that the name
of Henry Ford. Dearborn, Mich, au-
tomoblle manufacturer, be placed on
the primary ballot OF the Progressive
party In Nebraska In 1924, for presi-
dent, were filed at Llncon, Neb., with
the secretary of state. The petit
titions contained more than 1000
names.
Request for the appointment of a
receiver for the south branch of the
ldaso Wheat Growers association
was made in district court at Poca-
tello, Idaho, by the Northwest Wheat
Growers. Associated of Portland and
Minneapolis, 1t is reported.
Sending 5000 Mexican laborers to
the sugar beet fields of Colorado will
start from Texas at once according to
announcement by Municipal Labor
Agent w. L. George
Dayeline Murphy, 9 years old, is
dead; her bother Robert, 6, and a
sister, ., are not expected to live,
and three other children of the fam
lily are seriously burned, as a result
OF an explosion of keg of blasting
powder on the Murphy farm, twenty
nve miles east of Walsenburg, Colo.
One OF the youngsters threw a light
ed match into the powder.
Seven persons, were being held by
the Washington ID. c. police for In
vestigation following q roundup of al
legged radicals In two raids in which
department of Justice agents parti-
cipated. A quantity of radical liter
ature seized was being examined by
the government agents.
Coney G. Slaughter, alleged looter
OF the Mercantile National Bank of
Pueblo, Colo, and for whom the au-
thorities had been searching eight
years, was arrested at Phoenixville,
Pa, and held for arraignment before
federal commissioner Department
OF justice agents who found Slaughter
working in a sanitarium said he had
agreed to waive extradition and re-
turn to Colorado at once.
GENERAL
Four desperate and insane Grim.
mails made a spectacular escape from
the Matteawan New York state hos.
pital. In their break for freedom
they made threatening use of snug
gled revolver, bound two guards and
locked them up after taking their
keys from them, and kidnapped two
other guards and the Institution
chauffeur.
Officials of the Chicago West Side
National bank called for police pro-
lection when crowd of depositors
gathered and threatened a run on the
bank. The institution has deposits of
nearly s2,O00,000.
President Harding has called the
shipping board to confer with him
on plan for the merchant marine
AT this conference decision may be
reached as to whether the govern
ment will continue ship operation.
now entailing loss Of more than
sS,000,000 month, or turn over the
merchant fleet to private control.
The minimum wage law by which
congress sought to regulate the minis
mum wages to be paid women and
minor girls in the District of Column
bia was declared unconstitutional by
the supreme court. While the valid
ity of none of the state minimum
laws was directly under attack in
the case, the decision was regarded
as a vital importance.
An investigation into the proprlety
and the reasonableness OF the present
surcharge placed against passengers
who use Pullman equipment and into
the general schedule of rates charged
for Pullman car service, was ihstitut-
ed by the interstate commerce COM
mission. n
Michoel Durso, state representa-
tive returned to Springfield to present
to the general assembly amendments
to Illinois marriage and divorce laws
that would substitute interlocutory
DEGREES for immediate absolute di-
vorce, legitirlatize' children born of
Illegal unions and require 10 days
days notice to county clerks before
Issuance of marriage certificates.
George Virgin, 43. held In the
vanderberg county Jail charged with
the most brutal staying on record in
southern Indiana. He Is charged
with killing his father. John Virgin.
II, a paralytic for seven years with
q Ratchet.
Thousands of gray clad veterans
who answered the call to arms in 81
assembled Wednesday for the first
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