The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-06-24
NewsStory
of a Week
A COMPLETE HISTORY or
WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
INrERMouNTAlN

INTERMoUNTAIN
Otto Schuster, aged 10 years. an
Amelia Younger, aged Is years. me
their death at Billings, Mont. b
drowning. While playing near tn
bank of an irrigating ditch the cart
gave way, causing the girl to fall ant
she caught hold of the boy, pullin,
him into the stream, where the.
were swallowed up in the big TUNE
| and drowned.
d. A. Evans. so years old, a well
known business man of Jackson. Ohio
was drowned in the heavy salt water
of Great Salt Lake while bathing
| Sunday
Herbert Gould and May Brown
charged with violating the white slave
law. were found guilty by jury in
the federal court at Salt Lake May
Brown is the first woman to be con-
victed of the offense with which she
was charged, under the act of June %,
1910.
Charles Sellers, stockman living
several miles south of Cody, Wyo.,
was taken from his home, because he
had abused his wife, by neighboring
ranchmen, and lynched.
Rock creek, one of the widest of
the mountain streams In the vicinity
of Billings, claimed its third victim
of the season on Monday Matt Her
manson, lumberjack, was drowned,
Governor Hawley of Idaho has Of
fered reward of $500 for the cap
ture, dead or alive, of the two ban
dts who shot Conductor William
Kidd and Depuy Sheriff Samuel Mil
ton near Spencer Idaho.
The business men of Eureka, Utah,
indignant over the increase in rates
by the Bell Telephone COM
pany, have decided to inaugurate an
independent telephone service unless
the Bell company restores the old
rates.
DOMESTIC
Fred Hall, prominent business
man of Maricopa, Cal, and chief of
the fire department, was instantly
killed by live wire while fighting the
ire that destroyed half of the bust
ness section of Maricopa
BY a large plurality employees and
officers OF the lnino,s Cenrm van,
road have voted to establish hos
oital department July l. The hos
pital system will be maintained by |
from the employees.
The supreme court has affirmed the
largest Judgment ever awarded in
California for personal injuries. In a
ruling on an appeal the court decreed
that the Southern Pacific Railway
must pay Willard r. Cibbell |
Of Fresno, who was run over by
train, $4,000
The three little children of Louis
of New York were
of the murder of their
mother, and their fathers suicidal
leap from the fourth story window.
While walking with John Bur-
roughs, the naturalist, along the bank
OF the Trenton Falls gorge of West
Carada creek, near Utica, N. Y, Eu-
gene A. Rowland, prominent law
yer OF Rome, plunged twenty feet
down the embankment into the turbu-
lent waters and was drowned.
The battleship Florida, now nearing
completion at the New York navy
yard, has been ordered placed in COM
mission on September 10 Her sister
ship. the Utah, is expected to be ready
on August l.
Mrs Helen M. Borden, wife of Gail
Borden, who with his brother is wide
~ known as condensed milk manu-
facturer, has filed suit at Los Angeles
for divorce.
August Clendeaux, AZ years old, an
expert glass worker of Ford City, Pa.
departed for New York Friday. en-
route to Belgium, his native land. ac-
companied by his wife and twenty.
four children. incidentally he also
takes with him comfortable fortune
made in the glass industry.
A civil suit was commenced at
Abilene, Kansas, on Saturday.
against the Standard Oil company
by the attorney general and county
attorny OF Dickinson county. This is
the first of several such actions
which will be commenced in the
counties of the state.
Another step toward regulating
express companies and curbing the
accumulation by them of enormous
profits was taken when a committee
representing the National Association
of State Railway Commissioners
met in Chicago and decided to make
thorough investigation of the cues.
ton.
Edgar Street Cooke of Chicago
has been acquitted of the theft Of
$24, 900 from the Big Four railroad.
The jury was unable to find any act
ual evidence of Cookies having en-
bezzled money and the destruction of