The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
Shot by a guard. while attempt ag


school was so badly wounded that
he died a few hours later.
Mrs. Caroline p Ford, who shot and
killed her husband, A. P. Ford. presi-
dent of the Merchants Fire Dispatch.
at a breakfast table quarrel. in Los
Angeles last June, was declared not
guilty of murder by a jury.
The police are looking for an ex-
convict, whose name is not announced.
in connection with the murder of the
Snowman family at Ellsworth, Kans.
An attempt to dynamite an S00-foot
bridge, twenty-five miles north of
Santa Barbara, Cal, over which Presi-
dent Taft's special train passed early
Monday, was frustrated by the vigil
ance of Mexican bridge Waterman.
Ortie E. McManigal, alleged dyna-
inter and safe blower, whose con-
fession led to the arrest of the Nc
Namara brothers on the charge OF
having blown up the Times building
in Los Angeles, was sued for di-
vorce on Friday at Chicago by Emma
McManigal.
WASHINGTON
Hereafter settlers locating home
steads under the national forest
homestead law of 1906 will not be
put to the expense of an extra sur
vey, as they have been compelled to
do in unsurveyed lands of the west.
Frederick E. Healy of Washington,
well known mechanical engineer,
has instituted suit for $4,000 damages
against Captain George H. Knox, U, s.
A., charging that the officer at pres
ent stationed at Fort Brady, Mich i,
alienated the affections of Mrs. Healy.
The body of the late Associate Jus.
tice Harlan of the supreme court of
the United States was laid to rest on
Tuesday in Rock Creek cemetery.
Burial was preceded by a brief cere-
mony at the Harlan residence and by
public service in the New York Ave-
nue. Presbyterian church.
Minnie st. Clair, an actress who was
playing at a Washington vaudeville
theatre under the name of Sue Simp-
son, killed herself by drinking pois-
onous disinfectant in her dressing
room.
AS the Red Cross knows no ma
tionality in its ministrations, it is ex-
pected that the international associa-
ton will give aid to the Chinese revo-
lutionists in their efforts to organize
a Red Cross service.
President Taft has been appealed
to by the Chinese National associa-
ton, through it's secretary, Tong King
Chong, to use his influence to preserve
the neutrality of the powers in the
struggle for independence now blaz.
ing in China.
FOREIGN
Nose McCon and Fred Smith, In
dians, murdered Robert Forbes, ar
aged lighthouse keeper at Pie island
Man. The murderers were founC
dead in cabin. They had died from
wood alcohol poisoning. The alec
hol, it is believed, was taken from
the lighthouse. where it was kept
to clean the lamps.
is believed to be fully protected
against mob attack, for half of the 92C
men aboard the three American gun
boats, Helena, Ell Cano and Villalobos
OF hof nrt could hn landpd In
any emergency.
Information regarding the strike
new prevailing at Cananea, Mexico
indicates much uneasiness there
American Consul Dye, at Nogales, tel
egraphed that the situation was re
ported more serious and that al
banks and saloons have been closed
CONSERVATION was caused at Win
nipeg by an order issued on Monda.
| by the Canadian minister of railway!
at Ottawa stopping all construction
work on the National Transcontinen
tai railway This is a government
road running from Winnipeg to None
| ton, N. b., to be leased by the Crane
Trunk Pacific railway when com
pleted.
The application of the Chinese gov
eminent for a loan of $3,000,000 iron
the four foreign banking groups rep
| resenting the United States. Grea
| Britain, Germany and France, that re
/ Gently negotiated the $50,000,000 cur
rency reform loan, has been formal,
refused.
Advices from Cuernavaca say tina
the Zapatistas were cut to pieces il
battle at Tepextlan, but Zapata him
self escaped The Zapatistas were
caught between the forces of Genera
E'igueroa and Colonel Blanuet
The Chinese government ha.
| placed severe restrictions on the tel
| egraph lines, evidently for the pur
pose of preventing communication
between the rebels. Hankow is thus
cut off from communication with the
outside world by telegraph.
With s2,O00O0O in it's treasury ant
an equal amount subject to call, $4,000
troops in the field and 10000 re
serves in the United States and Can
ada, and with constitution adopted
and administrative officers chosen
the proposed Chung Hwa republic il
declared to be making determined
effort to overthrow the Manchu dy
| nasty and establish itself as sllnrems