The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1907-01-11
NEWS SUMMARY

The Torreon branch OF the Bank
Of Coahuils at Torreon. Mexico, was
robbed last week Of $4,000 In geld
and bills.
The japanese Buddhists Of Southern
California have decided to raise :
$25, 900 for the building of a temple in
Los Angeles
The French Senate has ratified
the Algeciras convention, which on
Dec. was approved by the cham
Der of deputies,
American Vice ConsulGeneral Fair
child shot and killed himself at Muk-
den. 1t is believed that the shoot
ing was accidental
The shipment of coffee from the
port Of Rio de Janeiro is at 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 a cap
italization of one and 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 shall be licensed.
According to a bulletin issued by
the Census bureau there had been
ginned up to December Ii, of this
years cotton crop 11,o99,oo1 bales,
against 9,2s7 ,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 az critical, oW-
ing to the agitation of the South
China opium dealers and owners OF
gambling houses, who are discontented
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 100000, 900. 1t is pro-
posed to build two parallel tunnels "a
miles long
John Wilkis, capitalist Of Abba,
Iowa, is dead as the result Of drink
ing from a bottle Of carbolic ACID
which he had mistaken for bottle
of whisky. He had bottle OF Whis'
ky hidden in the barn, where he also
kept carbolic acid. Wilkie 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 banl
In broad daylight, pleaded guilty ant
was sentenced to the state peniten
tiary for a term Of from ten II
I twenty-one years.
John Elliott Walker, sheriff 0
Maricopa county, Arizona, committed
suicide at Phoenix by shooting him
!, self through the head, while temper
. arily deranged He had been brood
: Ing over financial reverses and owe
r his defeat for denomination at tn
t last democratic convention.
Habeas corpus proceedings hav
a been brought in the federal court
. Kansas City in behalf of Mrs. Agne
r Myers, now confined in jail at Libel
ty, Mo-, under sentence to be hange
s on January 10 for the murder of be
0 husband. The United States suprem
court refused to reopen her case.
: The San Diego chamber Of con
It MERGE is making efforts to secure a
l. appropriation of $2,500,000 for tn
e purpose of controlling the waters I
$ the Colorado river and preventir
them from overlooking Imperi
= valley.
Eight votes are lacking to plat
It the Prohibition party upon the reg
ID lar ballot at the next New Ham
'e shire state election, as result
g the conclusion of the inspection
= ballots in the recent gubernatori
d contest.
About 1000 Chinese soldiers fro
Is Marking, armed with modern wea
I ons, trained by European officers a.
II accompanied by batteries of field |
:, tillery, have proceeded to the front
- meet the rebels in the Ping Gia
"a district.
ID An Imperial ukase Issued by t
Of Gar fixes February 10 as the date
m the parliamentary elections. IT
10 does not apply to the Caucasus, Tral
~ caucasus, Central Asia and Siber
: the dates for which have not be
announced
John w. Conner, one of the ca
BY est citizens in Laramie, Wyo., and
us veteran of the Civil and Indian wa
al died at his home in Laramie L
W week from a paralytic stroke,
% lowing a nervous shock during
re San Francisco earthquake.
aS During a heavy fog on the Brit
channel, the British steamer Arli
49, 1ooe tome col1idod with ,