The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-12-07

throughout the country. believed &c
be the last surviving scout who was
with Custer at the battle of the Little
Big Horn. fell dead in hotel at Wor-
cester, Mass, on Monday
Nine. Sarah Bernhard, who began.
her vaudeville tour at Chicago on
Monday, was escorted from the rail
road station to her hotel by squad
of mounted police on her arrival. A
procession of automobiles followed
the noted actress to her hotel.
Governor Glasscock of West Vir-
GINA has approved the sentence of
the military court in the cases of
Felix Salmon, Anglo -Bulette. Rock
Spinelle, and Newt" Gump, convict.
ed of disorder in the martial law dis.
trict. Each was given five years in
the penitentiary.
The SHOWS of Mount Shasta, 90
miles from San Francisco as the crow
flies, may become that city's water
supply, following the refusal of Secre.
tary of the Interior Walter Fisher
to turn over the Hetch Hetchy val.
ley as reservoir for the purpose.
WASHINGTON
The senate and house settled down
to work on Monday for the high pres.
sure session that is to end the Sixty.
second congress-
The great Hartman merger, Great
ed when the Union Pacific Railroad
company bought AS per cent of the
stock of the Southern Pacific system,
was ordered dissolved on Monday by
the supreme court of the United
States as violation of the Sherman
antitrust law.
President Taft has appointed Geo.
D. Rockhold postmaster at Dallas,
| Texas, to succeed Sloan Simpson, who
was said to have been a supporter OF
| Colonel Roosevelt and a friend of Ce-
Gil A. Lyon.
Thomas A Edison was held not to
have been the inventor of the moving
picture film by the court of appeals of
the District of Columbia, which re-
versed decision of a lower court
granting an injunction and damages
to Edison's assignees against a film
company of Chicago The court held
that Edison's work in the develop
ment of motion pictures lies solely in
the camera apparatus.
To President-elect Wilson will be
| left the task of determining whether
the tariff alone is to be considered
at the special session CT congress
next spring, or whether special legis-
laion shall be taken up, or whether
the tariff is to be revised as a whole
in single bill or by schedules one
section at time.
FOREIGN
Lieutenant General Uyehra, Jap
anese minister of war, formally ten
dered his resignation to the emperor
on Monday, owing to the refusal of
the other members of the cabinet to
accede to his demand for the increase
of the army by two divisions, and col
lapse of the cabinet is threatened.
An earthquake of considerable in
tensity was felt at Guadalajara, Mex.
leo, Monday morning. No fatalities
are reported, but walls of few badly
constructed houses were thrown
down.
Lightning struck down seventeen
mourners while they were standing at
a graveside in Germiston in Rho
desia. One of them was killed and
five others were so severely injured
that their lives are despaired Of
Woodrow Wilson on Monday heard
the first tariff discussion since his
election as president of the United
States. He visited the Bermuda par,
lament where he was loudly cheered
and sat among the members for three
hours, listening to the debate.
The British steamer River Mean
der New York for Naples, has been
abandoned at sea and probably has
foundered. Her captain and crew OF
thirty men were rescued by the
steamer Ikbal, which entered Halifax
harbor Sunday night
The military governor of Saloniki
effectuaily to preserve order, has dis
armed the whole population without
distinction of race or religion
Bulgaria has come to the end Of
> her resources in men and has called
out the drafts Of 1918 and 1914, who
are youths of II and 16 years, while
one army corps la front of Adrianople
consists of old men.
, A crisis has arisen over the refusa
: of the Japanese minister of war, Lieu
tenant General Uyehera, to accept q
cabinet decision rejecting the scheme
for increasing the military forces II
Korea.
According to semi-official state
ment from Salonica, 1870 Greeks who
, took refuge in a mosque in the village
of Mavrova were killed by Turkish
troops who had retreated through
Florina
{ Another French airman, Paul Aron
, DEL was killed Saturday at Juvisy
: SurOrge, twenty-five miles from
: Paris, He was flying around the aero
= drome in his monoplane when he tool
a turn too sharply.
Details of serious outbreak of s
I bubonic plague at Noumea, New Gale
; donia, have reached sydney on shil
, from the French island, which has