The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-12-14
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Teachout the two youths charged
with robbing the Globe Express com
pany's Office at Grand Junction. Colo
of $4,000, pleaded not guilty in the
district court Monday morning. They
have employed attorneys and will
stand trial.
William j. Westerfield, former state
senator and treasurer of Nevada, died
at San Leandro, Cal, where ne had
been living for some time.
Ernest Lister, Democrat, was elect.
ed governor OF Washington over Gov.
ernor Marion E. Hay, Republican. by
plurality of 622 votes, according 70
the figures announced by the secre-
tary of state.
Sir Thomas Upton told 600 mem
bers of the Denver Chamber of Com
merce and Real Estate exchange be-
fore his departure that tho James
Peak tunnel should be built or that
some other method should be devised
to shorten the distance and establish
direct communication with Salt Lake
and the coast
] Heavy SHOWS and extreme cold
have driven packs of gray wolves out
of the timber into the vicinity OF
Steamboat Springs. Colo, and many
cattle are falling victims to their at
lacks. Cattlemen have offered boun.
ties for wolf scalps
Sardio Summerfield, Progressive
candidate for United States senator in
Nevada, filed his expense account
with the secretary of state las. week,
showing an expenditure in the gen.
eral election of $50 and an aggregate
expenditure of $46S50 for the pri-
mary and general election.
DOMESTIC
A gun of fourteen-inch caliber, OF
| fifty tons weight, the largest and new
est type built by the United States
government, at q cost of 100000, ex
ploded at the Sandy Hook proving
grounds Monday. While the explosion
of smaller guns has taken scores OF
lives, the big fourteen-inch blew to
pieces without causing scratch to the
| men around
| An investigation is to be made OF
the alleged confession at San Fran
cisco last week of John Derr, an ap
prentice seaman in the United States
navy that he killed William Barkis
wealthy recluse, whose dead body
was found near Atchison, Kans., three
years ago.
A strike of all the car repairers on the
Chicago & Alton system is threatened
as the result of the discharge of two
men employed in the car department
at Springfield, Ill.
Nine men are believed to have been
killed when snowslide on Copper
mountain in Alaska, carried away sew
eral buildings of the Great Northern
Development company. Eleven men
were buried under the avalanche and
only two have been removed alive.
The Blue Funnel liner Bellorophon
sailed from Yokohama for Tacoma on
Monday. bringing what is said to be
the largest shipment of raw silk ever
to cross the Pacific. valued at $2.075,-
900.
Changed commercial relations be-
tween the southern states and Central
and South American countries that
will develop with the completion of
the Panama canal, are being dis
cussed at Atlanta. Ca, at conference
OF diplomats, railroad and leading
southern manufacturers.
The governments suit to recover
100000 alleged proceeds from the Sa-
vannah harbor frauds OF 1897 from
Col. John F. Gaynor and members Of
his family has just been compromised
by the payment Of $125.000.
Joseph Pattons, grocer, was shot
and killed as he lay in his bed in his
room adjoining his store in Wichita,
Kans. and his wife is under suspicion.
John Rutger Blanten, for twenty
nine years consul general from the
Netherlands, died Sunday at his home
in Brooklyn. OF heart trouble, aged n.
A. the governors convention at
Richmond. Va, resolution was
passed cenSuring Governor Cole >.
Blease of South Carolina for his ad-
vocacy of lynch law. and his declar-
alton that the constitution of South
Carolina could go to hell"
Charles A. Sherman, so years old.
delicatessen storekeeper. was shot
and probably fatally wounded by one
OF three automobile bandits in Chi
cago after determined resistance by
the aged man. In which he had dis
armed one Of the robbers.
Robert ]. p. Widney. q prominent
Los Angeles real estate dealer, II In
Z hospital In San Francisco suffering
from bullet wound that may prove
fatal. and Mrs. Frances " Lyons Il
. prisoner In the city jail as the 10
suit Of tho shooting.
The contract for the building Of. the
capitol at Salt Lake has been let, the
successful bidder agreeing to erect the
structure for &1.106.O00.
Eleven dead and fve seriously In
Srrod Ia the vurnrk aNorA An 4 r04ult