The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-12-14
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INTERMouNIAIN

benjamin GllDert ana Albert L.
| 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 ]. Westerfield, former state
senator and treasurer of Nevada, died
at San Leandro, Cal, where he 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 to
the figures announced by the secre-
tary of state.
Sir Thomas Upton told 900 mem
bers of the Denver Chamber of Com
merce and Real Estate exchange be-
| fore his departure that the 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. CattIemen have offered boun-
ties for wolf scalps.
Sardio Summerfeld Progressive
candidate for United States senator in
Nevada, filed his expense account
with the secretary of state last 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 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
a wealthy recluse, whose dead body
was found near Atchison, Kans., three
years ago,
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, III,
Nine men are believed to have beer
killed when a snowslide on Copper
mountain in Alaska, carried away sew
eral buildings of the Great Northern
Development company. Eleven mer
were buried under the avalanche ane
only two have been removed alive.
The Blue Funnel liner Bellorophor
sailed from Yokohama for Tacoma OF
Monday, bringing what is said to bt
the largest shipment of raw silk eve
to cross the Pacific. valued at S2,075,
000
Changed commercial relations be
tween the southern states and Contra
and South American countries tina
will develop with the completion o
the Panama canal. are being dis
cussed at Atlanta, Ca, at conference,
of diplomats, railroad and LEADING
southern manufacturers.
The governments suit to recove
$4,000 alleged proceeds from the Sa
vannah harbor frauds of 1897 from
Col. John f. Gaynor and members O
his family has just been compromise
by the payment of $125,000.
Joseph Pattons, grocer, was sho
and killed as he lay in his bed in hi
room adjoining his store in Wichita
Kans, and his wife is under suspicion
John Rutger Blanten, for twenty
nine years consul general from tn
Netherlands, died Sunday at his HON
in Brookly,,, of heart trouble, aged Il
AZ the governors convention a
| hlCumOUu, va, ItSoiutloH wa
passed censuring Governor Cole
Bease OF South Carolina for his az
vocacy of lynch law. and his decla
alton that the constitution of Sout
Carolina could go to hell
Charles A. Sherman, 60 years OLE
delicatessen storekeeper. was she
, and probably fatally wounded by on
of three automobile bandits in Oh
cago after determined resistance b
the aged man, in which he had di
armed one of the robbers.
Robert J. p Widney, prominel
Los Angeles real estate dealer, is
hospital in San Francisco sufferir
from bullet wound that may pro-
fatal, and Mrs. Frances v. Lyons
prisoner in the city jail as the I
suit OF the shooting.
The contract for the building Of u
capitol at Salt Lake has been let, Il
, successful bidder agreeing to erect Il
structure for $1,106,000.
Eleven dead and FIVE seriously
jured is the wreck score as res,
of a rear-end collision on . railro,
near GAINESVILLE, o.