The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-10-19

A forty-mile wind made many kind;
of trouble in Chicago on Saturday
| Sign boards and awnings went whir
ling through all the streets and there
were plate glass windows shattered in
all parts of the city.
Torrential rains caused flood condi
tons at Gypsum, Kans.. so grave Sat
urday that the inhabitants fed to high
ground The east half of the town is
under water six feet deep in some
places.
Declaring that capital punishment
had no more place in the present day
order than the burning of witches,
Governor Hunt of Arizona granted re.
prieves on Saturday to four men con.
demned to death.
G. A. Schroeder of Milwaukee and
T. j. Turbet of Newark, n. j., sea.
men on board the United States sub
marine FL, were drowned when a
giant wave swept over the little craft,
which later went aground near Port
Watsonvile, Cal.
Entries for the Los Angeles-P Phoenix
annual road race closed Saturday
night with eleven cars listed for the
desert grind. The racers will leave
Los Angeles on the night of Octo.
Der 26.
WASHINGTON
Upwards of 100000 was expended
the efforts of Governor Wilson, Gov
ernor Judson Harmon and Represent
alive Oscar W. Underwood to secure
the Democratic presidential nomina
ton this year, according to testimony
Monday before the senate contribu
tons committee.
Commerce between the eastern and
western coasts of the United States by
way of the isthmuses of Panama and
Tehuantepec shows remarkable
growth in recent years. Figures Just
made public by the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce of the depart
ment of commerce and labor show that
this traffic has trebled in value in the
last four years.
e. T. Stotesberry, Philadelphia
banker and financial associate of ]. P.
testifying before the sena.
Lorial investigating committee, de.
clared that Theodore Roosevelt. when
a candidate to succeed himself as
president in 1904, had the moral and
financial backing of every important
in Philadelphia and
eastern Pennsylvania
Radical legislation in favor of the
American farmer and consumer as a
means of solving the question of the
high cost of living was urged by Pres;
lent Taft on Saturday in a letter to
he governors of all the states.
Official figures published by the
United States government confirm
the most optimistic crop reports that
nave been published this year
FOREIGN
Hundreds of rescuers are battling
against flames and smoke to save
sighty-nine entombed miners at the
North Mount LyGll mine in Tasmania
The fire started through the blowing
tut of a motor fuse.
Posses are searching the hills near
Nicomen, B. c., for William A. Nc.
white rancher, suspectei
If the murder of two Indians and
white man.
Turkey on Monday took up the
gauntlet thrown down by the Balkan
states, and events in the near east
crowded close upon one another to
hasten what is believed to be the in.
svitable general outbreak. The sui.
ans government formally declined
he proffered interference in it's pro.
POSED introduction of reforms in Mace
lonia and, coincidently, assumed the
offensive itself, invading Servia.
Cholera in Japan and smallpox in
Spain We're reported Monday to the
public health service. Guards have
been thrown out to prevent the i'm.
of either to this country.
Another powerful Independent Lon
lon banking combine, the Pekin cor
respondent of the London Daily Tele-
graph asserts, has offered to undertake
Chinese conversion
schemes to any amount.
The mobilization of the Greek army
s proceeding rapidly. Already 1875, 900
men are under arms, with Greeks ar.
irving daily from abroad. A large
,ontigent already has reached Greece
rom America. With the recruits 1t is
estimated that 10000 soldiers can be
placed in the field
Montenegro continues to assail the
Turkish forces, but the cracking along
hat border are as mere firecrackers
compared with the general explosion
expected within week.
Montenegrin troops have crossed
he border into the Sanjak of Novipzar
md are now attacking Sietitza. ac-
'ording to official information received
BY the porte Saturday. Sie.itza is a
own close to the Servian frontier