The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-05-20
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A Weeks EVENTS
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HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
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INTERMouNTAIN

Jones, who killed William Kraft with
stone in a youthful fight at st
Louis, June 20, 1899, was arrested
Monday in Salt Lake.
The secretary of the interior has
awarded the contracts for furnishing
electric apparatus for use in building
the Arrow Lock dam, the highest
structure OF the kind in the world on
the Boise irrigation project in Idaho
Thomas H. Harrison, thirty-four
years of age, journeyman painter of
Birmingham, England, ate hearty
meal at Reno, New, plunged into the
tank of hot baths there, tainted and
drowned in four feet or water.
The victim in the mysterious box
car murder at Umatilla, Ore, was not
as reported, John Casey, Spanish
war veteran of Brockton, Mass. A de
scription of Casey does not fit the
murdered man.
Allen w. Taylor, one of the colored
porters of the Overland Limited train
which was held up at Reese, twelve
miles west of Ogden, Utah, early in
January and in which William Davis,
colored, was killed outright, died Fri
day, in Chicago, from the bullet
wound.
The supreme court of Idaho has
held valid the right to select lieu
lands in place of school indemnity
sections 16 and SO unsurveyed and
held in reserve by the government,
and to sell the lieu lands for the ben.
eft of the common schools. The de-
cision means millions of dollars to
Idaho.
DOMESTIC
BY unanimous decision the supreme
court of the United States on Monday
ordered the dissolution of the Stand
ard Oil trust. For the first time since
the passage of the Sherman antitrust
law, reasonable restraint OF trade is
recognized and legalized under the
decree of the court. 1t is unreasonable
restraint of trade that comes under
the BAN On the facts submitted the
Standard Oil company is adjudged to
have engaged in unreasonable" re-
straint of trade. Therefore the deci-
sion of the lower court Is affirmed and
the world-embracing oil trust is or
dered to be dissolved.
The fifth biennial convention of the
Switchmens Union of North America
began Monday at st. Paul.
At least a score of policemen were
Injured and many members of mob
of 1000 striking furniture workers
and sympathizers were hurt in a riot
at the plant of the Widdecomb Furni-
ture company at Grand Rapids, Mich
Monday night. Several of the injured
may die.
A sentence of not less than four nor
more than six years in state prison
at Windsor, VT, was imposed on Mrs
Florence l.. Dodge, who was convicted
of manslaughter in shooting William
Heath at her home in Luenburg or
September II, 1910.
Patrick H. Sherman, a plainsmar
and Indian fighter who served with
Sheridan, Sully, Custer and Miles
died Monday at Topeka, Kans. He
served as a government brigade wa
gon master and conducted govern
ment wagon trains across the plains
from 1861 to 1865 and had many en-
counters with Indians.
The Yale university corporation Al
meeting Monday retired Professor
Henry Lord Wheeler. whose actres,
wife secured divorce last week OF
the ground of intolerable cruelty ant
secured 100000 alimony.
John F. Dietz will spend the res
of his natural life at hard labor a
the state pentitentiary at Waupun
Wis, by the verdict of the jury, fol
the murder of Deputy Oscar Harp il
the battle of Cameron Dam on Octo
Der last as a result of Dietz's figh
with the lumbermen.
Charles King, prosperous farmer
aged thirty-eight, and his son, Roscoe
aged eight, were pinned beneath al
overturned automobile near SAINT;
Ava, Cal. and drowned in less thar
three feet of water while returnin,
home Sunday from trip to Newpor
| beach
President Taft came out publicl,
Saturday night against the recall o
the judiciary. In his speech befor,
the conference on reform Of the Grim
inal law and procedure in New York
the president made his attitude plain
That the police and low politician
collect s2,500.o0O year in graft an,
blackmail from unfortunate women o
New York Is the direct charge mad,
by Howard s. Cans, former assistan
district attorney of New York unde
William J. Travers Jerome
Two negroes are dead and one NOR
tally wounded and four deputy sher
Ifs are wounded, one fatally, as tn,
result of a murder committed by on,
Of the negroes near Montgomery, Ala
and Of o spectacular fight that fol
lowed an effort to capture the mLl
derer.