The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-10-24
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western Newspaper Union News Service
WESTERN.


a member of bodyguard for Colonel
Roosevelt.
Clerks in the Chicago postoffice dis
covered what is believed to be dyna'
mite bomb addressed 10 a man whose
identity was not disclosed.
The new "slashed skirt" has made
Its appearance in Chicago. If the
wearer has a pretty ankle and wishes
to show it she can be quickly accom-
modated.
The situation at the Utah Copper
Company's mines in Bingham is near
ly normal. Over one thousand men
are at work and the number is to be
increased.
Wilson and Marshall day, through
out the nation, will be observed No
vember 9 The national executive
committee has changed the date from
October 81.
Mrs. Heleu Hughes Laramie. one of
the be st known women in the younger
social set of Minneapolis. was robbed
of Jewels valued at $4,000 in Chicago,
her apartment being rifled.
Barring all women and minors from
saloons was advocated in the state
convention of Illinois Bartenders' AS
sociation at Danville. The authorities
were called upon, in resolution, to
enforce the law.
Il guess I'm some good, after all.
Billy Rugh, the forty-one-year-old Grip
pie whose withered leg was amputat-
Of uir hI, "a gkln
grating operation at hospital IN
Gary, Ind, spoke these words and then
died.
Atlantic City, supported by New
York. Philadelphia and New Jersey,
captured the 1913 convention of the
National Association of Life Under
writer's over Denver by the close mar
gin of two votes at the Memphis
meeting.
The bail required for the release OF
John Schrank, who shot Colonel
Roosevelt, was raised from $1,000 to
$4,000 because it was learned that
moving picture firm was prepared to
procure his release temporarily that
it might photograph him.
The first bloodshed in the strike OF
the copper miners and smeltermen oc
Cured at McGill. New, when two
Creek strikers were shot and killed by
company guards after an attack had
ben made on smeltermen who were
on their way to work.
Twenty-Five policemen escorted Gov
ernor Hiram w. Johnson in Chicago
from the Grand Central railway sta
ton to his hotel. The large guard
was ordered by Chief of Police Nc
Weeny, as result of the attempt tc
assassinate Colonel Roosevelt.
The Benecia arsenal, the govern
ments principal storehouse for army
supplies on the Pacific coast, was
burned at Benecia. The loss is esti
mated between $3,000.000 and $4,000,
900. Spontaneous combustion OF
crossed electric wires is assigned as
the cause.
The confession made to Chief of Po
lice Jansen by John Schrank, the
would be ASSASSIN of Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, is an incoherent, rambling
product of an insane mind. 1t is in
DeCauSe IL wv "'ie
hallucinations which prompted the
dastardly attempt on the Colonel's
life.
Six physicians, Thursday, making
the most extended survey of Colone
Roosevelt's condition attempted since
his arrival at Mercy hospital in Chi
cago, after being shot in Milwaukee
by John Schrank. on the 14th, founc
his condition as near normal as
wounded mans could be and renewed
the assurance that there was nt
longer cause for worry.
|, Jack Johnson's troubles, growing
out of his relations with Lucille Cam
eron, a nineteen-year-old white girl
rapidly multiplied in Chicago. a few
hours after his arrest on a warran
sworn to by Mrs. F. Cameron Falcone
of Minneapolis. the mother of the girl
charging abduction, Assistant United
States Attorney Wilkerson ordered
thorough investigation. with the view
of government prosecutions under the
Mann act prohibiting the illegal trans
portatiou of women from one state t'
another.