The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-07-08
|NewsStory
of a Week
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF
WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
iNrERMouNTAiN

walls OF the big ditch caved in, bury
ing the victim under tons of sand and
timbers
Patrolman II. l.. Harris, attempting
10 arrest pickpocket in downtown
street at Seattle, was shot through
the head and killed by supposed &C
complete OF the thief. Both men es
capped
Sergeant ]. Henry Johnston Of the
Salt Lake police force was shot
through the stomach by e. l.. Dewey
Of the Pinkerton Detective agency
Wednesday morning, and will probab.
b die. Johnston had gone to Dew.
ey's room to stop quarrel between
Dewey and his wife.
Former Chief of Police Charles w.
Wappenstein of Seattle. has been
found guilty of accepting bride OF
$1,000 last August for permitting Gid.
con Tuper and Clarence j. Gerald to
operate disorderly houses in the old
King street vice district
Engineer Smiley and Fireman Smith
we're killed when their Salt Lake
Route engine blew up near Garfield,
Utah. In sufficient water in the boi-
Ter is given as the reason for the
explosion.
The mystery of the robbery OF the
Commercial bank at Tooele, Utah, on
June Z, when the cashier was bound
and gagged and robbed of 1895.
seems to be clearing up. s. l. Shafer.
the cashier, who claims to have been
bound. gagged and robbed, and Geo.
c. Higgs and A. B. Walton have been
arrested. tits said that all have con-
fessed that the robbery was planned
and executed by the three men,
Eugene F. Ware, United States
pension commissioner under Presi-
dent Roosevelt and one of the best
known lawyers in the west, died sud
denly from heart disease Sunday at
Colorado Springs.
Yeggmen broke open safe in the
Greeley, Colo. postoffice, extracted
$4,000 in stamps, $500 in cash and
several registered letters, carefully
closed the strong box, loaded their
loot into an automobile and escaped.
DOMESTIC
Kingsley Odds, the prospector ac-
cused OF numbering Lulu and Myrtle
Goswick, the two young daughters OF
his mining partner, who were found
drowned In the Salt river. thirty miles
from Globe, Ariz.. on June %, was
instantly killed before daylight Mon
day as he lay in his cell In the
county Jail at Globe, by some unknown
person. who fred the faual shot from
q window in the court house.
Thirteen deaths from the oldfash.
ioned celebration OF the Fourth of
July was the total reported In the
United States. according to figures
compiled by the Chicago Tribune. The
number Of injured reported is 294.
Last year on the 4th there were 1875
injured and 131 killed.
Three business blocks at Princeton,
Mo-, including the entire north side
of the public square, were destroyed
by fire of unknown origin which
started in an upper floor of hard
ware store. The loss Is estimated at
t25O,000.
Henry Kelly. contractor. com.
mitted suicide at Los Angeles by eat
Ing food prepared for Fourth of July
in which he had mixed
According to the police
Kelly tried to persuade his wife to
Join him, but she only tasted a cherry,
which she found too bitter to be palat.
able.
With the temperature In his pri.
vate car above the 100 mark for hours
at time. President Taft hurried
through Ohio and Indiana on Mon.
day. He began speaking from the
rear platform at Cleveland after
breakfast and did not get through un-
til O'Clock.
Joe Rivers, Los Angeles feather
weight Mexican, attained national pu-
gilistic prominence by giving Joe Cos |
Ter of Brooklyn terrific beating |
through twelve rounds of their sched- |
uied twenty-round fight at Vernon on
he 4th.
President Taft put the parting touch
N his part of the celebration of the |
safe and sane Fourth celebration at
in a speech on Canadian
at the Marion club ban
Iuet- He showed that reciprocity as
PRESENTED to congress by him differed,
I at all, only slightly from reciprocity
rs advocated by James G. Blaine. and
ormer President Mckinley.
A cyclone which struck Mitchell,
J. D., Sunday afternoon unroofed the
op Of the Mitchell Furniture depart
nent, flooded the store, caused $685.
100 damage and wrecked farm build
ngs near the city. That it struck in
mt one place in the city Is consid.
red a miracle.
Five persons were killed and two
INJURED In grade crossing accident
iear Ozone Park, in the suburbs OF
New York City. on Sunday. The vic.
inns were In a horse-drawn vehicle,
ihich was struck by Long Island
rain.