The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-12-21
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
lied FORM.
Home and Foreign News Gathered
From All Quarters of the World,
and Prsps,ed for Busy Men.
lNrERMounTA,N

iNTERMouNTAiN
Utah's total assessed valuation fol
as12 is s200.262,S73. showing a gair
- s6.S3S.7ss over the valuation OF
lsll. and gain of $S2.215.657 in the
last ten years, according to the report
Of the state board of equalization.
The Denver & Salt Lake Railroad
company, with $10,OOO.0OO capital
stock, was incorporated Monday at
Denver with power To acquire the
property of the Denver, Northwestern
& Pacific railroad, commonly known
as the 'Moffat road"
Crazed and Distracted by the death
et TGooma Of her son, l.. G. Fliggle,
dis mother, Mrs Georgia Fliggle- Hart
hall an hour later retired to a rear
room and shot herself through the
head. death being instantaneous.
Fruitgrowers of the northwest in
conference at Spokane, took steps to
form cooperative fruit selling asso
citation to market the fruit of Montana.
Idaho, Washington and Oregon. A
committee of nine growers was ap-
pointed to organize the selling agency.
Two earthquake shocks were felt at
z O'Clock Monday night at the Mays
willie, Bald Butte, Bald Mountain and
Jay Gould mining camps. twenty-five
miles from Helena.
Railways of Oregon attacked in the
federal court, on Monday, the recently
enacted initiative bill In which the
people undertook to declare the rela-
fionship Of freight classes and the
percentage Relationship carloads
should bear to the rate on less than
carload lots.
Paul Pattison, aged 20, prosecuting
attorney OF Whitman county, Wash
sAgton, and son Of John Pattfson Of
SPOKANE. Democratic national com
mitteeman for Washington. has been
convicted OF charge Of grand lar
csny and given an indstsrminate SEN
tsnce in the state reformatory.
William Davidson, Utah pioneer,
who freighted between Corinne, Utah,
and Helena In the early days, but for
the last twsnty-eisht years engaged
IN horse raising and ranching near
Bait and Arlington. Mont, is dead.
DoMEsvic
The first government wireless sta.
Won to be opened for the regular re-
cedpt Of commercial messages is that
Ut Key West. Fla. which by order Of
the navy department began Monday
70 handle such business.
Packey McFarland of Chicago
earned decisive victory over Eddie
Murphy of Boston in their ten-round
light at Kenosha. Wis.
Horace Kearny. the young Kansas
City aviator who tried to master land
and sea in a hydroaeroplane flight
from Los Angeles to San Francisco,
lost his fight with the elements, and
with his passenger, Chester Lawrence,
a Los Angeles newspaperman. was
drowned in the ocean.
Two men and boy who were in
che basket Of captive balloon that
was parted from its cable at Venice,
Ca. = seashore resort, by a thirty
mile gale, were rescued four miles at
sea.
Mrs. Austin Baker, while dressing a
chicken at her home at Albert Lea,
Mimi, for the family Sunday dinner
found half-karat diamond in the
giszard. Mrs. Baker showed 1t to a
3eweler. who pronounced 1t genuine.
Loss estimated at 100000 was
caused 1T Patterson, ~. j., by fire in
the business district. The flames
ragged for three hours and reduced to
ruins several important stores and Of
Ace buildings.
The egg crusade" has reached New
York. The Housewives league, which
claims to have the backing OF $4,000
women. has fixed CSC dozen as
"fair and reasonable" price for cold
storage eggs.
One man IL believed to be dying
and seven others are in a critical con.
dation as a result of being beaten up
by highwaymen in South Lima. Ohio.
CSsv SUNDAY.
Patrolman Bert Barrett shot and
killed Deputy Policeman John Baird
1t police headquarters at Riverside.
Cal. and after being taken to the
county jail tried to commit suicide.
The two officers had Quarreled over
Baird's advancement In the service.
With the arrival OF twenty-six pris.
oners from Washington. on Saturday,
the number OF prisoners In the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth was in.
creased to 1.206, the mos ever con-
fned In the institution at one time.
s. R. Esterday, farmer living near
Marengo. Ia, was beaten and robbed
OF $4490 at the union station in Bur-
lington. He will recover.
Following the lead set by the
women Of Philadelphia. the Womens |
Clean Food league Of Chicago is pre-
pairing a war for lower prices for eggs.
Marvin w. Handy, the 22-year-old
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