The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-12-21
NEWS SUMMARY

robbed last week of $4,000 in gold
and bills.
The Japanese Buddhists Of Southern
California have decided to raise
$4,000 for the building Of a temple in
Los Angeles.
The French Senate has ratified
the Algeciras convention. which on
Dec. 6 was approved by the cham
Der of deputies
American Vice Consul-General Fair
child shot and killed himself at Muk-
den. It is believed that the shoot
ing was accidental
The shipment of coffee from the
port Of Rio de Janeiro is at a stand
still, owing to the fact that the steve
dores have gone on strike.
A merger of the leading wooden
mills Of the south, involving 9 cap.
italization of one and a quarter mil
lion dollars, has been Effected.
Representative H~dwick. OF
Georgia, has introduced q bill reQuir-
ing all railways to install the block
system and providing that every tele-
grapher shah be licensed.
According to a bulletin issued by
the Census bureau there had been
ginned up to December 13. of this
years cotton crop 11,0S9, o01 bales,
against 9.297 ,S19 at this time last year.
Secretary Root and Sir Mortimer
Durand have signed a supplementary
article to the existing extradition
treaty between the United States and
Great Britain, including bribery in
the list of extraditable crimes.
A dispatch from Tien Tsin de-
scribes the situation as critical, ow-
ing to the agitation of the South
China opium dealers and owners OF
gambling houses who are disconnected
as a result of various recent reforms
and the suppression OF the opium
traffic.
A bill empowering an Anglo-French
company to construct a tunnel under
the British channel has been deposit
ed with parliament 1t is estimated
that this scheme will involve the ex-
pendituSe of 9S0,000.O00 1t is pro-
posed to build two parallel tunnels "a
miles long.
John Wilkis, a capitalist Of Abba,
Iowa, is dead as the result OF drink
ing from a bottle OF carbolic acid
which he had mistaken for a bottle
Of whisky. He had a bottle Of whis-
ky hidden in the barn, where he also
kept carbolic acid. Willde emptied
the acid bottle.
Joseph Skerns, the former Chicago
dry goods clerk and newspaper man,
captured at Great Bend, Kans., re-
Gently, after holding up local bank
In broad daylight, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced TO the state peniten-
tiary for term of from ten to
twenty-one years
John Elliott Walker, sheriff OF
Maricopa county, Arizona, committed
suicide at Phoenix by shooting him
self through the head, while temper
Rrily deranged. He had been brood
Ing over financial reverses and over
his defeat for denomination at the
last democratic convention.
Habeas corpus proceedings have
been brought in the federal court at
Kansas City in behalf of Mrs. Agnes
Myers, now confined in Jail at Liber.
ty, Mo-, under sentence to be hanged
on January 10 for the murder of her
husband. The United States supreme
court refused to reopen her case
The San Diego chamber of coma
merCe is making efforts to secure an
appropriation of $2,5O0,OOO for the
purpose of controlling he waters OF
the Colorado river and preventing
them from overlooking Imperial
valley.
Eight votes are lacking to place
the Prohibition party upon the regu.
lar ballot at the next New Hamp.
shire state election, as a result Of
the conclusion of the inspection OF
ballots in the recent gubernatorial
contest.
About 1000 Chinese soldiers from
Marking, armed with modern weap-
ons, trained by European officers and
accompanied by batteries of field ar
tillery, have proceeded to the front to
meet the rebels in the Ping Giang
district.
An Imperial ukase issued by the
Gar fixes February 10 as the date for
the parliamentary elections This
does not apply to the Caucasus, Trans.
caucasus, Central Asia and Siberia,
the dates for which have not been
announced.
John w. Connor, one of the earli
est citizens in Laramie, Wyo., and
veteran of the Civil and Indian wars,
died at his home in Laramie last
week from paralytic stroke, fol.
lowing a nervous shock during the
San Francisco earthquake.
During a heavy fog on the British
channel. the British steamer Airing.
ton, 1886 tons, collided with and
sank the Belgian steamer Cap JUDY,