The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-11-04


about two miles east of Evergreen.
The town of Thelma, eighteen miles
south of San Antonio, Texas. was
practically destroyed, two persons
were hurt and damage, the amount of
which has not been estimated, was
done to crops by a tornado.
The Austin, Pa, dam was only TWEEN
ty feet thick at it's base, instead of
thirty, as provided in the original
plans, and no traces of a cutoff wall
or key was found in his investiga
tion at the scene OF the recent disas
ter by Alexander R. McKim, New
York inspector of dams, according to
a statement issued Monday by the
state conservation commission.
President Taft is to be asked to
transmit to the czar of Russia a pro
test formulated at a meeting Monday
by New York clergymen of all de.
nominations against the systematic
oppression of the Jews in Russia"
WASHINGTON
The Australasia & China Telegraph
company, limited, won the first ster
in subsidiary fight against the Unit
ed States on Monday, when the court
of claims gave it the right to De
heard before that tribunal. The com
pany seeks to recover $109,462 and
interest from the United States as
payment of a subsidiary guaranteed
by the Spanish government in 1897
for cable lines connecting four of the
Philippine islands.
The variscite deposits near Lucien,
Utah, are made the subject of an in.
teresting chapter in the geological
surveys advance bulletin on the min
eral resources of the United States
To accommodate banks in the
smaller cities Postmaster General
Hitchcock has decided the minimum
amount of bonds to be accepted from
banks qualifying to receive deposits
OF postal savings funds at third-class
postoffices shall be reduced from S.,
900 to $1,000
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, re-
plying to criticism made by Clarence
Ousley at the New Orleans cotton
conference of the governments meth
cd of issuing cotton statistics, said
his department was doing all it could
to help the southern planter, Just as
by its Investigations it is seeking to
help other farmers to raise better
wheat, corn and cattle.
Miss Fola LaFollette daughter of
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, was
married Sunday at the home of her
parents to George Middleton of New
York, playwright.
FOREIGN
The Austrian cabinet, formed in
June last with Baron Gautel Won
Frankenthurn as premier, resigned
Tuesday owing to a failure to unite
the factions in parliament in sup
port of its program.
The demand of the national assem-
bly, for a complete constitutional gov
eminent for China has been acceded
to by the throne. An imperial edict
was issued Monday apologizing for
the past neglect of the throne and
granting an immediate constitution
with a cabinet from which mobiles
shall be excluded.
With two exceptions, President
Adolpho Diaz of Nicaragua has &C.
copied the resignation of the mem
bers of his cabinet and has made ap-
pointments filing the vacancies.
Thomas Chapman, stockman of
Medicine Hat, Alberta, was killed, and
seven others were seriously injured
when Canadian Pacific stock train
was telescoped by freight train near
Winnipeg, Man.
The alarming decrease in the sheep
and wool industry is made the subject
of an interesting report to this gov
eminent by Consul General Snodgrass
of Moscow, which will be of interest
to western woolgrowers. The Russian
government is doing its utmost to put
new life into the industry.
The Tripoli correspondent of the
London Times, describing Italian ret
ribution upon the Arabs, says that al.
though the ruthless measures EN-.
ployed were not to be commended
yet the necessity for drastic action to
quell the insurrection could not be de,
MED.
The imperialists have been victor.
ious at Hankow in the greatest bat.
tie of the revolution The rebels have
fed in utter disorder to Hanyang and
WI Chang, leaving more than 5000
dead.
Much excitement prevails as a re.
suit of the discovery in Honolulu on
Sunday of yellow fever. The victim is a
Hawaiian and is believed to have been
infected from a Japanese steamer.
The Italian losses and other details
in the way of an early conquest OF
Tripoli is strengthening the position
of that section of the public which
holds that Turkey should receive
compensation for the loss of her
province.
Uncensored information from Trip
oil is to the effect that something in
the nature of a panic has seized the
city since it became known that a
Mussulman force of $4,000 Turks and
Arabs is threatening Tripoli. The
force is well armed and provisioned
There is supreme confidence now