The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-12-28
Brief REVIEW Of
A WEEKS EVENTS
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lNTERMOUNTAIN

With letter from his mother-in
law announcing her coming for the
Christmas holidays gripped in his
railroad clerk, aged 40, fired a bulle,
through his brain late Sunday after
noon.
Glen II. Mack, wealthy resident OF
Ogden, Utah, shot and seriously in
jured his wife and then attempted
suicide, being probably fatally wound
ed. Mack was intoxicated.
Police of Spokane are searching for
Mrs. Minnie Elgie and May Benna,
sisters, who disappeared after reciv-
ing a threatening letter from a for
mer convict. 1t is feared they have
been murdered.
Fifteen hundred sacks of potatoes,
weighing 100 pounds each, were dis
posed of at the potato exposition con
Quoted by one of the public markets
at Seattle, as an experiment in reduc-
ing the cost of living. The prices
ranged from 40 cents to so cents a
sack, the average being As cents. The
market quotation on potatoes was
$3.50,
Charged with having poisoned the
last food remaining in the house for
the sustenance of his wife and five
children, and with having caused the
death by that means of his 3-year-old
daughter, Edwin Stoddard, a home
steader living on Toroda creek fifteen
miles from Curlew, Wash, is being
sought by the authorities.
Prices for the necessities of life in
Salt Lake are higher than for thirty
years, and prices on practically every
staple food are "a to 100 per cent
higher than they were December 20,
1907.
DOMESTIC
The Los Angeles Produce Exchange
has decided to discontinue the activi-
ties of its butter and egg committee
In quoting and fixing prices. This act
lon was the result of the government
suit against the Elgin butter interests.
Dashing the Christmas hopes of
Mormon refugees who thought they
would be able to return to their Mexi-
ran homes in short time the Mexican
rebels have again gathered their en-
tire strength south of JualeZ in the
vicinity of the colonies
An unidentified negro was shot and
Instantly killed while attempting to rob
the crew and passengers of train
near Chandler, Okla He was shot by
ali operative of a detectice agency who
was passenger.
For the first time since she was a
child years old, Miss Lillian Patrick
and her father, Albert T. Patrick, re-
Gently pardoned by Governor Dix of
New York, met Sunday at st, Louis.
The young woman is now l6 years old.
Governor Osborne of Michigan has
announced that so anxious is he to
get back to nature" he has given his
two automobiles and his horses to
friends and will hereafter seek recre
alton as pedestrians.
The torpedoboat destroyer Balch
was launched Saturday from the
Cramp shipyard at Philadelphia. Miss
Grace Balch of Washington, d. c., a
descendent of Commodore Balch
christened the vessel
An unidentified man on the steamer
Sima, coalng at San Francisco, dis
located the vertebrae of his neck by
trying to hang himself, and then the
jolting of an ambulance put them back
again.
Jack Johnson, the negro world S
champion heavyweight pugillst who Is
at liberty on a 100000 bond on a
charge of violating the Mann act, has
purchased Christmas present for his
white wife, formerly Lucille Cameron
home in the heart of the exclusive
Lake Geneva simmer resort, near Chi
cago.
Four auto bandits" attacked two
paymasters of the Silk Finishing com
pany of America, in Chicago, bea
them into unconsciousness and robbed
them of $1,000 for the weekly pay rolls
Eggs at "a cents dozen were or
sale at twenty stations in Boston or
Saturday Various stores, polling
booths and wagons were used for the
purpose by women conducting the
campaign.
President Taft, in speech at st
Augustine, Fla, congratulated the
south upon the election of Demo
cratic president predicted nationwide
prosperity under the new administra
ton and spoke of the way this nat.oT
takes the quadrennial verdict of the
people at the polls.
Daniel j. Sully, the dethroned cot
ton king, is making plans to return to
New York and again enter the game
of speculation. Sully, owing to a cour'
order in suit that he lost. has beer
an exile from New York state for sey
eral years, but he has given orders to
file suit for the reopening of the case
Cornell has perfect woman, &C
cording to an announcement by DR.
Esther Parker, the physical examiner
at Sage college. Miss Elsie Scheel Of
Brooklyn is the most perfect plNsi
cally of any student she has ever ex
amined.