The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-07
NewsStory-
of a Week
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF
WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
lN1ERMollNIAIN


reputed to be more than 100 years old, |
died Tuesday at his home on the Fort |
Madison reservation. Jacob Kitsap |
was a middle-aged man when Seattle |
was founded sixty years ago and in
1854 at Mukilteo he signed peace
treaty with the whites.
Frank B. Pettey, 81 years of age, of
Castle Dale, Utah, was instantly cleo
trocuted while doing linework on the
local telephone system.
John B. Pierce of Seattle, formerly
quartermaster general Of the United
Spanish War Veterans of America,
while grouse hunting on Vashon isl
and, was shot by an unknown hun
ter. His injuries are not esrious.
BY vote of 440 to 35, the public
lands convention at Denver adopted
resolutions declaring, in the main,
against the present method of fed
eral control of natural resources.
The thirty-thrd exhibition at salt
Lake City of the Utah State Fair as
sociation opened its gates on SEIZED
uled time Monday. The directors
promised the public that the fair
would be ready at the appointed time
and also that it WOULD exceed in point
of excellence any previous effort. In
both instances the officials kept faith.
Cromwell Dixon. the 19-year-old av-
iator, fell from a height of about 100
feet in his initial performance at the
T..4r tnk~ F,fr 1f, OF
Spokane, on Monday, and was fatally
injured.
Contract prison labor is a thing of
the past in Oregon, Governor West
having annulled the contract which
for many years has been in effect,
granting to a stove works the right
to use prison labor in the construc-
ton of stoves.
David Eccles, president of the
Amalgamated Sugar company, is on
general tour of Oregon, laying plans
to exploit the beet-raising industry
He says vigorous campaign is to be
pushed to encourage farmers to plant
sugar beets.
A special from Wallace, Idaho says
three men were killed and eight in
road twelve miles from Herrick when
The brake on the locomotive failed.
DOMESTIC
Mrs. Mary Eckenrod OF Bakersfield
was killed, her daughter Alice was
injured and Harry Briscow, chauf-
feur. was probably fatally hurt when
their automobile ran off mountain
road near Bakersfield, Cal
Young Sayler of indianapolis gave
Battling Nelson, former lightweight
champion, one of the worst defeats of
his life il, twelve rounds of boxing at
Boston.
William j. Bryan told 5000 persons
In an address at the Missouri valley
fair at Kansas City that he was not 8
candidate for president of the United
States
James j. Jeffries and his brother
Jack arrived at Los Angeles from
Alaska in time to attend the funera
of their mother. who died last weei
while they were racing home.
BY the marriage of Mrs. David J
Dunlop, Sr, and Archibald Montgom
cry McCrea of Pittsburg, son of tn
president of the Pennsylvania rail
road, which took place in New Yorl
Tuesday, Mrs. McCrea forfeited 81
$4,000 left by her former husband.
The burden of carrying around SO
pounds of his own flesh and bon
caused the death at Jersey City, ~
j., of George S. Schober at the ag
of so. Schoter, as far as is known
was the heaviest man in the Unite
States.
The fourteen men who were Ell
tombed in the Shakespeare place
gold mine on Dome creek. Alaska
were rescued early Monday, non
the worse for the confinement of .
hours.
Three-quarters of a million dollar
damage was done by the rainstorr
which swept over northern Ohio an
western Pennsylvania on Monday.
The threatened strike of the shol
men on the Hartman lines to enforc
recognition of their newly organize
federation became reality on Sa
urday The number of men who qu
in the fifteen states affected was est
mated at between 10000 and $1,000
Former Governor George Curry {
Tularosa and Elfego Baca of Alb
querque were nominated for congre.
at the concluding session of the fir
Republican state convention held ;
Las Vegas, n M
William E. Dawson, his wife an
one daughter, were found dead
their beds at Monmouth, Ills, tt
skulls of each crushed in. 1t is b
lieved they were killed by robbers.
Two dead, two fatally shot and fol
less seriously wounded is the net r
suit of a free-for-all fight at Oakdal
La. The tragedy occurred at a neg
boarding house.
Eight children of Mr. and MI
William Dias of Heshbon, Pa, ran
ing in age from thirteen years
hree months, were burned to dea
When FIRE destroyed the home