The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-07-01
NewsStory
of a Week
A COMPLETE HISTORY or
WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
,NTERMouNTAiN

Ou ucbudy. htluTnS iTOlH the ClIlco
and towns of the state show that 81
cities and towns will be without sa-
looms! while twenty-three will have
licensed saloons. The number of wet"
towns in the state has been reduced
BY vote of over Ave to one, the
taxpayers of Helena, Mont, have au-
thorized the Issuance of $500 900 five
per cent water bonds, the money to
be used in the purchase OF the plant of
the Helena Waterworks company be
tween which and the city there has
been unrelenting warfare waged for
the past fifteen years.
The merger of the Union Pacific
with the Southern Pacific is legal, and
the governments petition to enjoin
the Union Pacific from continuing in
Its control of the Southern Pacific was
dismissed In the federal court at Salt
Lake City on Saturday. The govern
ment will appeal to the United States
supreme court
Patrick Ryan and Patrick Brown,
miners, were burned to death when
the Free Coinage house. a boarding
house in Leadville, Colo, occupied
largely by miners, was burned. Two
men named Petis and Ellis are also
believed to have died in the fire.
The Stanley hotel, at Estes Park,
Colo, built at cost of 100000, was
partially wrecked Sunday by an ex-
plosion of gas. Eight persons were
injured one seriously.
His partner, Alb Murdoch, dead at
the hands of Deputy Sheriff Scroggs
OF Evanston, Wyoming, who shot him
at ranch near Theodore, Utah,
when he refused to surrender, Bob
Meeks, an alleged notorious sheep
and horse thief who has boasteo that
he will never be taken alive. is fleeing
before an armed posse in the noun
tains. and battle to the death is
momentarily expected.
DOMESTIC
| Miss Harriet Quimby and Miss
Blanche Scott made flights in mono
plane at Garden City, l.. l., on Tues
day. They are the first women avia-
tors In this country to fly a mono
plane.
Mrs. Laura p. Alsop's contest of
the will of e. J. t"Lucky') Baldwin,
alleging that he was her father and
asking daughters share of his SILL
100000 estate. has been dismissed by
Judge Rives OF the superior court at
Los Angeles.
DR.. Weston H. Rice of Oakland. Cal,
local surgeon for the Southern Pa
cifc, was killed and f. J. Wells, re-
ceiving teller of the Central National
bank, was probably fatally injured
when the automobile in which Rice
and Wells were riding collided with
Key route train.
Charged with hanging her thirteen
year-old daughter from the rafters of
the garnet at the family home in one
of the Gridley colonies, Mrs. Emma
Rumball, aged 80, is lodged in the
county Jail at Oroville, Cal with Ar
thur Lewis, aged rs, step-uncle of the
dead girl. The couple is accused of
hanging the child to gain possession
of an estate left by her father.
An explosion on the oil barge Gum.
BILE, in the harbor at Port Arthur,
Texas caused the death of one man
and the destruction by fire of prop
erty valued at about 100000
Overseer Wilbur Glen Voliva and
1S9 other officers and members of the
Christian Catholic church were in
dicted at Zion City Monday, charged
with prepetrating election frauds at
Zion City elections April 5 and rs,
involving in part control of the church
founded by the late Alexander Dowie.
Joseph Naco was put to death in the
electric chair in Auburn. n, Y. prison
on Monday for the murder on January
16. 1909 of Anna Candiana, with whom
he had been living for some time.
Collector OF Customs Loeb has be.
gun an investigation through which
he hopes to learn what completely, If
any. certain custom men had in the
smuggling of the jewels of Mrs. Helen
d. Jenkins through the port of New
, York in the spring Of 1909.
t, In the light of official reports that
the crops of China are now being har
vetsed and the people are no longer
} starving, the Red Cross has announced
that no further contributions are need
ed for the Chinese famine relief fund
1.-THE secret OF the destruction oil
the battleship Maine will never be
' known" said General w. H. Bixby
chief OF engineers in charge of the
work of raising the Maine on his ar
rival at Tampa from Havana
, Maximum speed of 2l.637 knots
| .SS7 greater than the contract require
ment, was attained by the new United
States battleship Utah. the latest ad
dition to the nations dreadnaughts
{ during her Standardization trials ovel
, the official course at Rockland, Me.
The United States exports almos
three times as many boots and shoes
to Argentina alone as we import from
] | the entire world.
Emperor William of Germany anC
President Taft on Monday exchanged
messages growing out of the visit o
! the American squadron to Kiel.