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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
RUSSIAN ANARCHIST ATTEMPTS /
TO MURDER CHIEF OF POLICE|
lnvades Home Of Chief shppey Of
Chicago, and is Killed by the Man
He Had intended to Murder.

Chicago.-Chief OF Police George NJ.
Shippey, his son. Harry, and his
driver, James Foley were wounded by
an anarchist who attempted to assas-
slnate the police officer in the hall of
the latter's residence shortly after 8
o'clock Monday morning. A desper.
ate struggle. in which Mrs Shippey
and her daughter, Georgetta, Joined,
was terminated when the chief drew
bis own revolver and killed his assail
ant
The would-be assassin has been
identified as a man named Lazarus
Ayerbuch, who, for the past three
weeks, has lived at 218 Washburn
avenue, on the west side OF the city,
His Identification was established
through a sister Of the man, who was
taken by the police to the undertake
ing room.
Ayerbuch was % years old and occu-
PIED rooms at the above address with
his sister. Olga. He was a Russian
student He came to America three
months ago from Austria, to which
country he fed two years ago, follow
ing the massacre of Jews in Kishi-
neff, Russia, where his home had been
previously. His plan to kill Chief
Shippey is believed to have been
formed as a direct result of the lat
tiers interference with a parade OF un.
employed men through the city's
streets several weeks ago.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
GOULD ROAD GOES INTO
THE HANDS OF RECEIVER
Texas Railroad is lnsolvent and I'm
able to Meet Its Operating EH-
pensss and Costs of
Improvements.

Fort Worth, Tex-On petition OF
the Mercantile Trust company of New
York. trustee for a large number OF
bondholders, United States Circuit
Judge A. P. Mccormick OF the north
ern district of Texas has appointed
judge T. j. Freeman of New Orleans
receiver for the International & Great
Northern Railroad company and fixed
his bond at $4,000 The petitioners
allege that the railroad has defaulted
in the payment of interest to the ex-
tent of $494 G20 on bonds; that it is
insoIvent and unable to meet its oper-
sting expenses and obligations and to
defray the costs of improvements now
under way. The railroad company,
through its general solicitor, filed its
consent to the appointment of re-
ceIver.
The International & Great Northern
is a Gould line, and recently under
went reorganization, when Leroy 7.
Price was superseded by Horace
Clarke as general manager.
The reports of the Texas railroad
commission show the road to have
been in financial difficulties for over
a year.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
ROOSEVELT sUsTAlNs wlLFREl
Says Charges Against Justice of U. S.
Court for China Are Unfounded.

Observation-Disclosures Roosevelt 5
defense of Lebbeus r. Whitley, based
on an analytical review by Secretary
Root of the charges against him. was
made public on Monday. The charges
were preferred by Lorin Andrews, and
have been repeated by him before the
house committee on judiciary as the
basis of Impeachment proceedings.
They relate to Judge Wilhey's admin
istration of the United States court
for China at Shanghai.
After disposing of each of the seven
charges by showing that neither OF
them is the proper basis of criticism
against Judge Whitley, Secretary Root
reviews conditions in the foreign
quarters at Shanghai showing that
because of the heretofore lax Ameri.
can administration of justice there, af.
fairs had grown disgraceful. Judge
Wiley was sent there for the express
purposes of reversing these condi.
lions.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
OBJECT TO jim CROW CARS.
Negroes Make Complaint TO lntsrstats
Commerce Commission.

Washington.-Fiy bishops Of the
African Methodist Episcopal church
have joined in a complaint to the in
terstate commerce commission Of IN
Just. discriminatory and unlawful
treatment at the hands of several IN
terstate railroads of the south.
The petitioners say they are mem
bers of the African race, and are
bishops Of the A. NJ E. church; that
the passenger coaches furnished them
when they purchase first-class trans
portation are dirty and filthy and a,e
not of first quality in consideration OF
the first-class fare paid; that the
coaches furnished white passengers
are better in quality and condition.
that the coaches for negro passengers
are compartment cars partitioned by
swinging door, and are altogether
unfit and unsuitable for the use OF
passengers who pay first-class fare;
that in addition to being dirty and
filthy, such cars are usually crowded
with passengers of every description
OF character, who smoke, drink and
curse in the presence of women and
all others who possess decent breed
ing; and that the defendants refuse
TO sell negroes sleeping car tickets or
supply them with transportation on
sleeping cars or permit them to eat
in the dining cars The commission
is requested to issue an order putting
an end to the alleged discrimination
and to compel the defendants to pro
vide first-class accommodations for
negro passengers.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
THEIR TIME HAD COME.
Saved From Drowning only to Be
Run Down by Train.

Pittsburg. from drowning
after a terrible struggle in the icy
waters of the Monongahela river at
Elizabeth, Pa, only to be run down
and killed by train on reaching
shore, was the fate of j. w Draper
and F, b. Garrett, two government
employees at lock No 3. c. E.
Stoner, companion, who saved the
men from the water, was also hit by
the train and probably fatally in
jured. Draper slipped from the lock
into the river. Garrett plunged in
after him, knowing Draper was un-
able to swim. Eventually Stoner res
cued both men by the aid of boat
hook. Then all three started to walk
along the Pittsburg, Virginia K
Charleston railroad tracks to Eliza
beth to get dry clothes. The APP
proach of fast train was not no.
ticed, and the men were struck.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
Brand as Base SIander Stories Of
Peonage and Misuse of Laborers.

Washington.-An investigation by
the immigration committee on labor
conditions in the turpentine camps,
plantations and other industries of
the south, especially the existence of
peonage, is provided for in a resolu-
ton taken up by the house on Mon
day under suspension of the rules.
Mr. Williams of Mississippi said the
circulation abroad of tories regarding
peonage had done harm to the south,
and he desired an investigation. He
said he believed the stories had been
put out by labor agents in New York
in order to divert immigrants to other
sections of the country.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
AFTER JERoME's SCALP.
Metropolitan Street Railway Wants
District Attorney Removed.

New York twenty-five specific
charges are made in a petition pray
ing for the removal of William T, Je-
rome as district attorney of the coun.
ty of New York, which was sent to
Governor Hughes at Albany Thursday
by committee of stockholders of the
Metropolitan Street Railway company
through their chairman, William Il.
King. The petition alleged that Je-
rome failed to properly prosecute
charges of alleged Jury fixing" and
the giving of false testimony in street
railway eases; that the prosecution
OF violations of the criminal law by
the life insurance companies of New
York, as disclosed by the Armstrong
committee, had been delayed; that an
alleged criminal conspiracy to divert
the property of the Metropolitan
Street Railway company of New York
into the hands of a few men was al
lowed by Mr. Jerome to go on and
hundreds OF stockholders robbed of
their money and that no attempt was
made to punish men alleged to have
committed other frauds in connection
with New York City Traction deals.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
Victory for Woman suffraois,s

London.-The woman's enfranchise.
ment bill passed it's first reading in
the house of commons Friday fore
noon by a vote of 271 to 92, and as
soon as the news reached Westlnin.
s'er palace the waiting crowds of ex-
cited women suffragists who had as.
semhled there broke into round after
round OF cheers. The measure. which
was Introduced by Henry Yorke
Stanger, liberal member for North
kensington, is identical with the bin
OF w. H. Dickinson, which was de-
ieated March s. 1907
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INDIAN SENATORS CLASH.
Have Wordy Battle Which Proves
Entertaining to Senators.

Washington.-A highly dramatic
scene, in which two senators with In
dian blood in their veins, and men,
bers of former Indian tribes, carried
on an animated and acrimonious de-
bate, marked the proceedings of the
senate on Thursday Senator Owen
OF Oklahoma, a member of the Cher
okee nation, fought by means of
wordy battle, to have the word late"
placed before the designation Of the
Five Civilized Tribes" declaring that
he wanted to record the death of the
old tribal relations. Senator Curtis
of Kansas, who is part Kaw Indian,
tainted his fellow senator with the
statement that he was under the con-
tol of the secretary of the interior,
and there ensued a wordy battle that
entertained both senators and visit
ors in the galleries. When the senate
voted on the proposition It was
against the contention of Mr.. Owen.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
Con Too Free WIN Gum

San Jose, Cal-Truant Oficer Frank
Shafter of Santa Clara shot and killed
John Ivancovich, of the San Fran
cisco firm of lvancoyich & Co., in
front of the latters home in this city
Monday morning. Shafter had gone
to the house to see why Ivancovich's
son did not attend school, and put him
under arrest. In the quarrel which
followed Shafter drew his gun and
killed the man. Feeling runs high
against him in Santa Clara, and
Shafter had narrow escape from
lyLching
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
THROW BOMBS AT SHAH.
Unsuccessful Attempt Made to Kill
Ruler of Persia.

Teheran, Persia.-An attempt was
made in this city Friday afternoon to
assassinate the Shah of Persia by
bomb His majesty was not hurt.
Three of the outriders who were ac
companying him at the time were
killed
The shah owes his escape to the
precautions taken to protect him
from just such an attempt as was
made. He was on his way to a near
by town, where he intended to pass
few days. The procession had left
the palace and was traversing a mar
row street when two bombs were
hurled down at it from the roof of
house. One exploded in the air, but
the other struck the ground near the
shah's automobile. The shah, how
ever was not in his automobile, He
had taken the precaution to send the
motor car on ahead and ride himself
ia a carriage further in the rear of
the procession.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
BRADLEY WINS
COVETED TOCA
Deadlock Broken in Contest in Old
Kentucky for Seat in United
States Senate.
After BaIIoting for Six Weeks With
out Result, -Four Democrats Go
Over to the Republican candi-
date, Who Has Many
Times Been Honored
by His Party.

Frankfort, Ky.-Former Governor
William o. Bradley was on Friday de-
clared elected TO the United States
senate after an exciting joint sitting
of the general assembly, receiving
tour Democratic votes, in addition to
the votes of all Republicans present.
1t had been held from the beginning
Ct the contest. over six weeks ago,
that a majority of quorum was suf-
ficient for an election, and, with l2G
members present Friday, it required
sixty-four votes to elect. The votes
of four Democrats who have steadily
refused to vote for former Governor
Beckham, were transferred from the
various Democrats on whom they had
sought to induce their party asso-
ciates to unite, to the Republican
caucus nominee, and his election
promptly followed, he receiving sixty
four votes, to sixty for Beckham, one
for Allen and one for Blackburn.
Senator-elect Bradley has been
many times honored by the Repub-
llcans of Kentucky, being the one
man Of his party to serve a term as
governor during the history of the
state; has been indorsed as the Ken
lucky candidate for the presidential
nomination, 1869; being many times
a delegate to the national conyen-
tons, long the Kentucky member of
the Republican national committee,
and having been offered, but declined,
the appointment by President Harri-
son as minister to Korea.
He is a native Kentuckian, 81 years
old, a lawyer who was admitted to
the bar in 1865 by special act of the
Legislature, being under 81 years of
age at the time His home is in
Louisville.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
Declares Extra Dividend.

New York.-The extra dividend OF
SIS per share on its preferred stock,
calling for disbursement of $3.50.
GOO, has been declared by the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation company, il is
learned. OF the company's S11,0OO..
COO preferred stock. the Union Pa,
oitic Railroad company and its auxil.
laries own $l0,993,99O. The Union
Pacific and its auxiliaries also own
practically all of the Oregon Railroad
< Navigation companys $4,000, 900
OF common stock. The road is oper.
ated as part of the Union Pacific sys-
TEN,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
coloradoans Charged With Appro-
priatnq Coal and Timber Lands.

Washington.-In the supreme court
OF the United States ON Monday. So
licitor General Hoyt moved the ad-
vancement on the docket of the Grim
inal proceedings against number of
prominent people of Colorado on the
charge of conspiracy in appropriating
coal and timber lands in that state.
IN these cases the district court failed
to return verdicts of guilty. on the
ground that no offense had been com.
mitted under section $40 of the re-
vised statutes, which was relied upon
for their conviction.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
Workinamen Enaaae in eattle.

Florence. Colo.-A pitched battle
between twenty-five structural iron
workers employed on the United
States Portland cement works. and as
many men who attempted to take
their places, occurred Thursday. fol
lowing walk-out of the union men.
Bricks, clubs and fists filled the air.
and the fight waged flelcely for sew
eral minutes, until the strike-breakers
finally took flight over the hills. The
union men walked out because the
contractors. Ruth & Flynn, refused to
discharge A. B. Miller, a non-union
man, who was employed as foreman
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
HoOsler Eavors Cock Elnhts.

Washington.-'Let the cocks fight"
is the sentiment of member OF the
Indiana Humane society who has
written to President Roosevelt in pro,
test against executive interference
with cock-fighting as a feature of the
Manila carnival which took place
Thursday, "A chance with the spur
Is surely preferable to the axe of the
chief, said the presidents CORE
srondent. He had read news dis
patch from the Philippines saying an
appeal had been sent to the White
House to have the pit abolished.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
Cannon Routs COMMITTEES.

Washington-The all,powerful com
mlttee on ways and means of the
house was on Thursday put to rout
and, by an Overwhelming vote, or
dered out of the capitol to the new
house office building. a block away.
Various members of the committee,
led by Messrs. Payne and DalzelI,
strenuously objected to the removal,
but they had only weak following,
and their protests awaited them moth
ing. The committees present rooms
are desired in order that the speaker
may have more commodious quarters.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
len Thousand Employees Laid Of by
Missouri Railroads,

ST. Louis, According to a re-
capitulation of statements Of Missouri
railroad officials, published here on
Monday, about 10000 employees in the
operating, mechanical and clerical de.
partments have been dismissed re-
Gently to Offset heavy revenue losses
suffered by the roads 1t is estimated
by the state railroad commission that
probably 5000 of the unemployed
force have been laid off during the
past fifteen DAYS.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
Judge Arraigned on Criminal Charge

Charleston, Ills.-Judge Peter s.
Grosscup, presiding judge of the Unit
ed States circuit court at Chicago,
with seven other directors, officers
and employees of the Central Illinois
Traction company, was arraigned on
Monday before Judge NJ. w Thomp-
son in the Coles county circuit court,
on charges of criminal negligence
and manslaughter, The eight men
were indicted as a result of the inter
urban collision one mile west Of
Charleston on the Charleston & Mat
toon interurban line on August so,
1907. heavily-loaded passenger car
bound for Charleston with visitors to
the county fair crashed into a heavy
express car on steep grade
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
Boys to be Barred From Service.

Observation-Disclosures General
Meyer is of the opinion that it is
prejudicial to the welfare of young
America" to employ him as special
delivery messenger in the postal ser
vice, and has issued an order to the
effect that whenever a vacancy oc-
ours in the force of special delivery
messengers the position shall not be
filled, and that sub-letter carriers and
clerks shall be employed to effect
special delivery He states that these
messenger boys are called upon fire.
quently TO visit low resorts.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
Japanese Deny That They Are in Ser.
ious Financial Difficulties.

Toxic Special cablegTams from
New York and London published in
the Toxic newspapers have created
astonishment in financial circles be-
cause 1t Is evident that certain influ,
ences have determined to misrepre-
sent and exaggerate existing cond-i
lions in Japan, These special cable
grams say that the decline of Japan.
ese securities is due to a financial
panic The use of the word panic"
as representing the present situation
is entirely unwarranted No panic"
exists in any direction. There have
recently been number of failures,
but the depression has reached its
limit.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
Killed h Prize Elnht

New York. Emmett Brown, a ne.
gro, died at the Presbyterian hospital
Thursday from injuries alleged to
nave been received in a prize fight
wednesday night. The base of his
skull was fractured and he died with.
out regaining consciousness. A DO
llceman found Brown lying uncon.
scious on the sidewalk on Seventy.
second street Frank Holmes, colored.
who was standing over Brown, was
arrested, but refused TO give informa-
ton. Browns wife, however, told
the police that her husband had
taken part in prize fight.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
Tax Upon Stock Transfers.

Washington,-A bill to tax the sale
and transfer of stocks has been intro
duced by Representative Hepburn of
Iowa. The tax provided for is fixed
at fifty cents per 100 shares. The bill
does not undertake to impose tax
upon any agreement evidencing the
deposit of stock certificates as collat-
eral security, which certificates are
not actually sold, nor upon any such
stock certificates so deposited. The
bill provides that a further tax shall
be imposed upon the delivery of the
certificates of stock.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
seventy.slx Meet Death in Mine.

Musquiz, Mexico.-An explosion oc-
Cured in the La Rosita mine, near
San Juan de Sabinas, on Thursday.
Seventy.six men were killed by the
explosion The accident occurred a
few minutes before 6 o'clock in tine
morning, just as preparations wet
being made to change shifts. The
disaster took place in what was
known as shaft No. 8, in which most
of the laborers were japanese. 1t Is
not definitely known at this writing
what caused the explosion. but fire
damp is believed to have been respon
sible
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
Operators and Miners peadlOcked.

Indianapolis. Ind,-At the Joint
meeting of coal miners and operators
Of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Illinois, on Friday. motion offered
by H. L. Chapman of the Ohio oper-
stors providing for an extension Of
the present wage scale from April l
to April 80, was defeated. as was also
a motion to adjourn until March 10
National Secretary Wilson of the
miners said he would not consent to
this unless settlement was pend.
ing. There were practically no pros.
poets Of an agreement,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
APPROVES CARS POLICY.
British Bishop Mortified at Actions Of
Revolutonists In Russia.

w lhSSids
London.-Right Rev Thomas Ed.
ward Wilkinson, bishop for north and
central Europe, writes to the Daily
Mail from Riga, describing the devas.
tation wrought in Russia generally,
and particularly in the Baltic prov.
inces, by the revolutionists. He de,
clares that its extent is quite un.
known in England, and fully justities
the measure of repression adopted by
the Russian government
1T is necessary" says the bishop,
ito travel through the great provinces
of Courland, Esthonia and Livonia
and see with ones own eyes in order
to measure the full extent of reck-
less havoc and savage cruelty prac-
ticed throughout the unhappy land.
The governments fault has not been
over-severity, but too great leniency
and forbearance. Unfortunately the
work of death and destruction is not
yet at an end
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Operators Expected to Work Nine
Hours Without Eating.

st. Paul, Minn.-There will be no
reduction in the salaries of the teleg-
raphers on the Northern Pacific on
account of the federal hours of ser
vice law" becoming effective March
4. The Northern Pacific will comply
with the law, and the men will work
under much the same schedule of
rules as at present, except that some
of them may have split tricks" and
that those who work but nine hours
will not be allowed a meal hour.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
Will Not be Permitted to Inspect
Minutes of Grand jury.

New York-Charles w. Morse will
not be permitted to inspect the min
utes of the grand jury which recently
returned indictments against him in
the banking cases. A motion for such
permission was denied by Justice
Bowling. Mr. Morse. in his motion,
declared that he had been assured
by every person who had testified
before the grand jury in the investi-
cation in which he was involved that
they had given no testimony on which
indictments could be based.
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Chief of Police Sheets Found Not
Guilty.

Salt Lake City.-The jury in the
case of former Chief of Police Sheets,
who has been on trial in the district
court on the charge of having accept
ed bride of $3.50 for protecting the
ounko men who robbed the McWhir-
ter brothers of $4,000 in Salt Lake
on September 10. 1906, declared the
former police chief not guilty of the
crime after taking three ballots 1t
Is asserted that the result of the trial
Will settle the entire matter, and that
Sheets viii not be prosecuted further