The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-11-30
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INTERMouNTAiN

logging train on the Seeley & Ander
son railway crashed through 70-foot
tpestle over Ferry creek, six miles
from Bandon Ore.
Convicts in the state prison at
Salem, Ore, were employed Monday
TO extinguish fire which damaged
the penitentiary auditorium to the
amount of $1,000 The fire Is believed
to have been caused by defective wir-
Ing. The convicts maintained perfect
order.
Shooting Mrs. Estelle w. Baggot of
Los Angeles and New York through
the wrist and abdomen and inflicting
probably fatal wounds, H. S. Weems,
son of a wealthy Baltimore ramily,
turned his gun to his temple at Moana
Springs, just outside of Reno, New,
and instantly killed himself
The 'insurgent" faction In the Ma
tional Grange lost their fight, at the
Spokane meeting, against the financial
report of the executive committee
without even having a chance to test
their strength by vote. National
Master Oliver Wilson held that the re-
port could be attacked only through
the auditing committee.
A terrific windstorm that swept
along the main range of the Rocky
mountains in Montana, Friday, put
pearly every electric power wire in
section 225 miles long out of commits
sion and caused nearly every mine in
Butte to suspend work.
Woodrow Wilson carried Idaho in
the recent election by 100 votes.
With one small county incomplete
and all others official, the vote on
president stands: Wilson, S4.010;
Taft. 32.910; Roosevelt, $3.50.
DOMESTIC
That q concerted effort upon the
part Of railroads to make a general
advance in freight rates is under way
Is asserted by State Railroad Com
missioner Thorne of Iowa.
A movement has been launched at
Los Angeles to form a syndicate to
finance the building of yacht to re-
present Los Angeles in cup defender
race against Sir Thomas Lipton's
Shamrock In San Francisco In 1915.
An explosion which wrecked the
dry starch house of the Corn Products
company's plant at Whukegan ILL.,,
killed eight workmen, injuring twenty
four others, several of whom will die,
and caused about 100000 property
damage.
Leaders in the fight for the passage
Of the suffrage amendment to the con-
stitution of Michigan have. admitted
that the complete official returns may
show the defeat of the measure by a
few hundred votes.
Miss Cecilia Farley, the pretty young
stenographer who for two weeks had
been on trial for first degree murder
for the shooting of Alvin e. Zollinger.
IN advertising solicitor. was acquitted
after the jury had been out for three
and half hours.
Enough dynamite to blow up an
entire city was found at the exact
spot whore Carl Riedelbach. the man
who terrorized the Los Angeles po-
Nee, said 1t could be found.
The entire town of White Owl, about
sixty-five miles from Sturgis, s D.,
was destroyed by fire during a high
wind. The blaze started from a prairie
dre. Many homes In that vicinity
were also destroyed.
At least one man was burned to
death. Q score are missing, when
flames destroyed Brunswick home for
idiots. epileptics and feeble minded
children at Amityville. N. Y, on Sun
day.
A tablet In memory of Mrs. Isador
6traus. who stayed by her husbands
side when the Tintic sank, was un-
weiled at the homo Of the Daughters
Of Jacob in New York ON Sunday.
Eloquent tributes to James School
craft Sherman were paid by President
Taft In letter and by United States
Senator Root. former Senator Depew
and others in speeches at the memoir
lal exercises held at the Republican
club In New York In honor Of the
! late vice-president.
An arrest for passing counterfeit
money was added Monday to the Grim
anal record Of Carl Bohm. the would
be dynamiter who was arrested at
Los ANGELES after holding possession
Of the central police station with an
internal machine for an hour and a
half.
Holding the new rates of the Mod
ern Woodmen to be burdensome to
tho members and excessive and un-
necessary, Judge Shirley, at Spring
field, ILL.,. granted a perpetual injunc.
ton restraining the head camp from
putting the rates into effect.
The body Of Frank Bentley, . cheese
maker of North Wethersfeld. N. Y,
who had been missing since he started
ON hunting expedition Saturday, was
found Thursday buried in shallow