The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-07-22
NewsStory
of a Week
A COMPLETE HISTORY or
WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
lNTERMouNTAIN

iNTERMoUNTAIN
Jim Antoine. a state prisoner serv.
ing four-year sentence, escaped from
the prison camp four miles north OF
Carson City, New. He was one of
gang OF thirty employed in building
state roads,
The biggest irrigation project ever
undertaken in the state is about to be
launched in Uintah county. Utah. and
when completed, will have cost $6,000,-
900. 1t will bring 100000 acres of as
good land as there is in the state un-
der cultivation.
The young man who stole SIS 1000
worth of diamonds from a jewelry
store In Seattle, and who, when he
was captured and the diamonds re-
covered, gave the name of Barnes, has
been identified as A. E. Smith, saw
mill employee of Gold Bar, Snohomish
county
Gladys Thompson, aged II; Lillian
Osborne, IA; Lee Baker, Is, and Vir
gil Wilson. II, by verdict of the
coroner's jury, are held for the al
legged felonious drowning of Clark L.
Wolfkill. a rich bachelor ranchman
who was found in the creek near
Clifton, Colo.
Guy Baldwin, aged 81, and Elmer
Sleeman, aged %, well known young
men of Steyensville, were drowned in
the Bitter Root river. about three
miles south of Stevensville, Mont.
The boys were caught by the rapid
current while trout fishing.
President Charles H. Meyer of the
Western Federation of Miners on July
IL called the nineteenth annual con-
vention of that organization to order
at the Auditorium in Butte and incl
dentally reference was made to the
fact that the federation was organized
In this city in 1893.
DOMESTIC
Judge Walter Bordwell has dismiss
ed contempt proceedings brought
against Mrs. Ortie McManigal for her
refusal to testify before the grand
jury in the Los Angeles Times explos.
ion case, in connection with her hus-
band and John J. and James B. Nc.
Namara, who are under indictment.
Charles Hickman. who was to have
been hanged at Beaver, Pa. on Tues.
day for the murder of his wife, Mol
lie. in February, 1910, collapsed in
his cell in the county Jail Monday
night and died Tuesday morning.
The story comes from Santa Bar.
bara, CAL. that the Guyana ranch will
be purchased by a colony of Mormons,
consisting OF about 1000 families from
SAT- Lake. The ranch contains more
than $4,000 acres.
Giuseppe Serimarco, who muir.
dered Antony Sidoe a year ago follow.
ing quarrel at dance, was electro
cuted at Sing Sing prison on Monday.
Carl Won MetzMeyer, former army
officer in Norway, where his father is
rated wealthy man, will not have to
serve time for his robberies in Brook
Ign. The Norwegian confessed score
of burglaries.
The center of population of the
United States is four and a half miles
south Of Unionville, Monroe county,
Indiana, according to the census bu-
reau announcement.
While watching baseball game be-
tween two amateur teams at Chicago.
Edward Gabeyszek was struck in the
stomach by batted ball and killed.
The wreck of the Federal Express
at Bridgeport, Conn, last week and
the escape of the St. Louis baseball
club has drawn attention to the fact
that never in the history of profes
sional baseball has a player been
killed in travelling accident The
major league clubs travel about $4,000
miles each year.
An explosion in the shaft of the Cas-
cade Coal and Coke company at Sykes.
vile. Pa, caused the death of twenty
one miners, most of them being killed
almost instantly. Among the dead are
nine Italians, eight Slavs, one Lithuan
Ian and three Americans.
Rains continuing throughout north
eastern Michigan have effectually dis
sipated all fire danger in the forest
districts for the present.
After kissing 2S6 babies ranging in
age from six months to four years and
consecrating them to the cause of
Zion," Overseer Wilbur Glen Voliya.
successor to John Alexander Dowie.
stood by barrel in Shiloh tabernacle
at Zion City on Sunday and watched
his disciples toss $27,50O into it as
sacrifice Offering"
Two men were drowned and two
more narrowly escaped like fate at
the Lake of the Woods near South
Bend, Ind, when sailboat in which
they were riding capsized.
Mrs. Sarah e. Cabot, known through
out the south as the designer of the
Cross of Honor of the Confederacy
an emblem given confederate soldiers
OF valor, died at her home in AT.
lanta. Ca, July 16 She was seventy.
eight years old.
An epidemic of an unknown disease
prevails in Mitchell county, North
Carolina. and is battling skilled ply
sicians. The malady manife5ts itself