The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-12-28
BRIEF REVIEW Of
A Weeks EVENTS
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HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
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INTERMouNTAIN

Christmas Mondays gripped in his
hand, Kenneth X. Kane. of Denver, a
railroad clerk, aged 40, fired bullet
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 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, 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 governments
suit against the Elgin butter interests
Dashing the Christmas hopes of
Mormon refugees who thought they
would be able to return to their Mexi-
tan homes in q short time, the Mexican
rebels have again gathered their en-
tire strength south of Juarez in the
vicinity OF the colonies.
An unidentified negro was shot and
Instantly killed while attempting to rob
the crew and passengers of train
ncar Chandler, Okla. He was shot by
an operative Of detectice agency who
was a 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 16 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 a 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, coaling 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 pugilist who II
at liberty on 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 summer resort, near Chi
cago.
Four auto bandits" attacked two
paymasters of the Silk Finishing COM
pany OF America, In Chicago, beat
them into Inconsistencies and robbed
them OF $1,000 for the weekly pay rolls.
Eggs at "a cents dozen were on
sale at twenty stations in Boston on
Saturday. Various stores. polling
booths and wagons were used for the
purpose by women conducting the
campaign
President Taft. in a speech at St.
Augustine, Fla. congratulated the
south upon the election OF q Demo
cratic president, predicted nationwide
prosperity under the new administra-
ton and spoke OF the way this nation
takes the Quadrennial verdict of the
people at the polls.
Daniel J. Sully, the dethroned cot
ton king. IL making plans to return to
New York and again enter the game
Of speculation. Sully. owing to a court
order IN q suit that he lost, has been
an exile from New York state for sew
eral years. but he has given orders to
nle suit Tor the reopening Of the case.
Cornell has perfect woman, &C
cording to an announcement by DR..
psthsr Parker, the physical examiner
III 6aee College Miss Elsie Scheel Of
Drooklyu Il The most perfect physi-
cally d any student she has ever *