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

A forty-mile wind made many kinds
| 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 fled 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.
T. ]. Turbet of Newark, n. j., sea.
men on board the United States sub
marine FL, were drowned when
giant wave swept over the little craft,
which later went aground near Port
| jacksonville, Cal.
Entries for the Los Angeles-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
|
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
lions 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.
Morgan, testifying before the sena-
torial investigating committee, de.
clared that Theodore Roosevelt, when
a candidate to succeed himself as
I president in 1904, had the moral and
financial backing of every important
ina .I. II. 1t, 4
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;
dent Taft on Saturday in a letter to
the governors of all the states.
Official figures published by the
United States government confirm
the most optimistic crop reports that
have been published this year.
FOREIGN
Hundreds of rescuers are battling
against flames and smoke to save
, eighty-nine entombed miners at the
North Mount LyGll mine in Tasmania
: out of a motor fuse.
Y Posses are searching the hills neal
: Nicomen, B. c., for William A. Nc
/. Laughlin, a white rancher, suspecte
Of the murder of two Indians and {
white man.
a Turkey on Monday took up the
= gauntlet thrown down by the Balkan
states, and events in the near cas-
: crowded close upon one another tt
!. hasten what is believed to be the in
:, evitable general outbreak. The sui
+ tans government formally declined
?. the proffered interference in its pre-
7 posed Introduction of reforms in Mace
>. donia and, coincidently, assumed tn
offensive ITSELF invading Serva.
Cholera in Japan and smallpox /
q Spain were reported Monday to tn
!, public health service. Guards hav
= been thrown out to prevent the in
~ portation of either to this country.
Another powerful Independent Lor
. don banking combine, the Pekin col
:, respondent of the London Daily Telt
- graph asserts, has offered to undertak
-, reasonable Chinese conversio
:. schemes to any amount.
/, The mobilization of the Greek arm
a is proceeding rapidly Already 1850
y men are under arms, with Greeks a
=, irving daily from abroad. A lars
- contigent already has reached Greco
=. from America. With the recruits it
estimated that 10000 soldiers can b
placed in the field
Montenegro continues to assal tn
= Turkish forces, but the cracking alon
W that border are as mere firecrackel
compared with the general explosio
" confidently expected within a week
Montenegrin troops have crosse
~ the border into the Sanjak of Novip2f
III and are now attacking Sietitza, a
III cording to official information receive
10 by the porte Saturday. Sic .itza is
town plnSo RI tho Garviop froptior