The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-09-30


fee safe $500 worth of stamps and
SIPS in money was taken.
Sonora Julia Munoz Creel, sister
in-law of Enrique Creel, former for
eign minister of Mexico, dropped dead
while at breakfast at her home al
Santa Barbara, Cal.
Mrs. Jean Thurner, young woman
who recently underwent an operation
in an Oakland, Cal, hospital in or
der to be cured of kleptomania. was
arrested at Los Angeles, Tuesday,
charged with stealing two purses.
James Rolph, Jr., was elected may
or OF San Francisco Tuesday at the
3rst direct primary election to deter
mine the personnel of municipal Off
GERS or the city and county of San
Francisco.
j. j. Mcnamara has been re-elect.
ed by reclamation secretary of the
International Structural Bridge and
Iron Workers union, in convention
at Milwaukee. A SIS gold badge was
voted to Mcnamara.
WASHINGTON
The forest service has just issued a
bulletin on grazing and floods with
view to establishing it's contention
that over-grazing is responsible fol-
great damage during high water.
Although the quadrilateral treaty
| for the protection of seal life in Arc.
| tic waters was planned to go into eff
feet within less than three months
from this date, apparently no steps
have yet been taken by either Great
Britain, Russia or Japan to change
the notifications which are necessary
to bring the convention into play.
Five billion feet of burned timber,
| ranging in price from $1.25 to $500
per 1000 feet, is offered for sale by
the forestry bureau. The above fig
ures represent a part of the inven-
tory taken in national forests after
| the disastrous fires in the various
states of the west and northwest.
Considerable progress has been
made by the army toward the com.
pletion of the fertilization of the
Hawaiian islands, a comprehensive
plan for which has been worked out
by the war department. 1t soon will
be necessary to send large number
OF additional artillery troops to man
the coast defenses.
The initiative and referendum prob
ably will be the subject of decision
with far reaching consequences-by
the supreme court of the United
States during the approaching term.
FOREIGN
The latest official estimate places
the number of victims of the Liberte
disaster at Toulon, France, at 235
dead and 100 wounded, forty danger
ously.
Reports from Urga. in north 4oa-
golia, state that the Russian guard
there has been increased to 200 men
because of the possibility of conflicts
between the Chinese and native Mon
golians.
Germany is proposing textual
changes in the economic agreement
with France concerning Morocco. The
clarifying OF the phraseology is likely
to be continued for some time, but
The substance of the agreement is ac-
ceptable to both governments in all
important points.
The railway strike in Ireland ap-
pears to be collapsing. All the SER
vices are normal except on the Great
Southern, but there conditions are i'm
proving.
The British government has decid-
ed to appoint board of trade com
mission empowered to arbitrate labor
disputes. The commission will con-
sist of twelve commissioners repre-
senting equally the employers and
the employees.
Two persons were wounded fatally
and fifteen others injured in riots
at Mexico City following the return
Of Francisco l. Madero from his
sn"ak'ug trip in the south.
More than $50 officers and men of
the French battleship Liberte lost
their lives Monday when the ship
was torn apart and totally destroyed
in the harbor at Toulon France, b.
an explosion of her magazines The
battleship Republique was badly
damaged, and the battleships Demo-
cratic and Verite suffered heavily
from the masses of twisted iron and
armor plate hurled upon their decks.
Mexicos presidential election will
be held October 1. the date fixed by
official decree. Petitions for post
ponement were rejected by the SEN
ate and by the chamber of deputies.
Dmitrey Bogroff, the assassin Of
Premier Stolypin, who was condemn
ed to death by court-martial, was
hanged at Kiev on Monday.
Despite the temporarily soothing re.
ports that are being sent out over
censored wires, there is every evil
dence that the revolutionaries have
strong hopes of overthrowing the mon
archy in Spain.
A public meeting was held in Jua-
rez, Saturday, to protest against the
sentence of hanging imposed on Leon
Martinez, the young Mexican convict.
ed of the murder OF Miss Emma
Woods at Pecos, Tex, last month
News gathered from all parts of the
old world tells of Socialist uprisings,
food riots, general strikes, wars or
preparations for war in every impor-
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