The new era., 1911-03-09
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STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN

Premature explosion of dynamite
blast on the bank of the Columbia
rived at the Dalles. Ore, killed four
workmen.
Lieutenant s. B. West, U. S. A, of
Port Davis, Alaska was frozen to
death while stalking trail five miles
from Tishou.
Muskogee, Okla.-Con Comisky of
Chicago knocked out Jack Burns OF
Cripple Creek in the third round be-
fore the Empire Athletic Club.
The first considerable furry of
snow in San Francisco in fifteen years
gave the youngsters of the city
chance to play for few minutes at
snowballing. The heights around San
Francisco remained white for half an
hour.
With worlds records broken for rap
i'd and low cost of construction, the Dor.
ing of the great five-mile Elizabeth
tunnel, the most important feature of
the new $26,0OO.0OO municipal water
project of Los Angeles has been COM
pleted.
Information has been received in Ell
Paso of the wreck of El Paso & South
western-Rock Island Chicago express,
near Pasturea, N. NJ. The engine and
four cars left the track and were over
turned. A number of passengers were
injured.
Blowing out one side of the build
nd yiru hn
stole between $4,000 and $1,000 frolu
the First State bank OF Barry. Texas
The robbers escaped with stolen rig
which was found abandoned at Cor
sicana.
A battle lasting three hours was
fought at Reno, New, between a posse
of state police and band of Indians
wealthy ranchmen in January. -Four
Indian bucks, two squaws and two chill
dren were killed and one squaw and
three children captured.
Four more bodies in addition to the
eleven removed, making fifteen in all,
were taken from the Belmont mine at
Tonopah, New, through the new shaft.
The remains of the last Sour are
frightfully mutilated and it is believed
they came from the bottom of the
shaft, which is 1196 feet deep.
AS the result of revolver battle
two holdups. Patrolman ]. T. Davis
was killed, John Ford, a young high
wayman, was probably fatally wound
ed, and Alexander Nest, another high
wayman, was wounded and captured
Two masked and heavily armed rob-
bers held up the express car on an
Iron Mountain train within the city
limits of st. Louis. escaping with sew
eral packages and the money box,
which they removed from the safe
after binding and gagging the mes.
| senger.
What appears to be the last hope
of Abraham Ruef. political boss OF
San Francisco during the regime OF
Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, of escap'
| ing his sentence of fourteen years in
San Quentin, was dissipated when the
| State Supreme Court vacated its re-
| CcAl VI IuSL 6lahlih6 1tuCl a iSiOoA III {,
Ruef was convicted on one of the
seventy-odd indictments charging brib
| cry of supervisors returned during the
bribery graft investigation in 1907.
Suicide by poison as method of of
ficial execution is provided in bill
submitted to the Nevada State Legis
lature by the code commission. The
suicide clause, which is part Of the
proposed criminal practice act drawn
up by the commission, provides that g
criminal condemned to death may
take his choice between hanging and
suicide. If he elects the latter meth
cd, the state will furnish him a bottle
of hydrocyanic acid, one drop of which
will produce instant death, and permit
him to take the poison. If he fails tc
do so, hanging will be resorted to.