The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1913-01-11
The plan proposed By Union Pacific

CHIC STOCKHOLDERS 10 nave tne eAciu
sive privilege of buying the Southern
Pacific stock owned by the Union Pa
cifc railroad corporation was curtly
and positively rejected Monday by the
supreme court of the United States.
When the mercury dropped to 10
just before midnight Monday night,
the owners OF 1900 acres OF orange
groves In Pomona, CAL, gave up hope
of saving their crops. They said
their loss would amount to hundeds
of thousands Of dollars
George AIDE. humorist, author and
playwright. sustained injury at Lafa,
yette. Ind, as the result of FALL on
q slippery sidewalk.
President-elect Wilson has made 1t
plain that nobody In the United States
knew as yet who was going to be in
his cabinet, or what would be the
program he would suggest for the next
congress-.
California will try the experiment
OF legislature which meets not more
than a month. adjourns for not less
than month and recovenes uutil It's
business is finished.
WASHINGTON
The power OF states over railroads
and express companies suffered
hard blow Monday. when the supreme
court held that since the passage OF
the Carmack amendment to the in.
terstate commerce law in 1906, the
states had ceased to have the right to
annul contracts between railroads and
shippers limiting the liability for the
loss OF interstate shipments.
Senator Warren has offered an
amendment to the agricultural appro-
piatdon bill providing for applying 20
per cent of the proceeds of for
est reserves for the present and en-.
suing fiscal years road construction
and maintenance within the reserves,
this amount to be additional to the
Is per cent being paid under the pres
ent law.
President Taft is willing to submit
to arbitration the question at issue
between Great Britain and the United
States over Panama canal tolls, but
he does not favor arbitration by The
Hague tribunal.
Representatives at Washington OF
two Mexican mining companies have
telegraphed the mine managers to
send out at once all American women
and children. The cause of the appre-
hension In not explained.
The brilliant and picturesque suf.
fragette parade planned for March 8,
at Washington, will be shorn of great
deal Of its glory by the declination
Of the police department to allow the
ladies to march on Pennsylvania ave-
nue.
FOREIGN
A rumor Is current in Portugal that
Manuel De Arriaga. president OF the
republic, intends to resign from office.
1t has not been confirmed, however,
and the president continues his ef.
forts to organize new cabinet.
The Greek artillery on Monday put
out of action the Turkish batteries on
the heights above Bizani, eight miles
south and the key to Janina. The
Turks We're routed and a large num-
Der captured.
A passenger train was attacked by
q body of fifty followers of zapata
near Taluca. Mexico. The rebels
robbed the passengers and seized Pc
dro Vela. a Spaniard. whom they took
into the hills with the intention of
killing him to avenge a grudge borne
him by the rebel leaders
Butchered by natives In New Guinea
was the fate Of two planters named
James and Hermann Weber, brothers,
who had plantation In the heart OF
the niger country" They were set
upon by tribe of cannibals, who
came from the unexplored regions.
The political situation in Portugal
daily becomes more threatening. Rum
ors are current that one side or the
other intends to overturn the govern
ment and force either the proclama
ton Of a dictatorship or the appoint
ment Of provisional cabinet.
A semi-official note published in the
Vienne Neues Wiener Tagblatt says
that In the event of failure of the
peace conference, the European pow
ers will take direct action in the
peace question and that Austria will
play leading part in this.
DR.. Francisco VasQuez Gomez
former minister Of education, has beer
arrested at Mexico City on a cour
order and is now held incommunicadt
at police headquarters. The govern
ment claims to have found document.
in the handwriting of Gomez shown.
that he was conspiring with and fur
nishing money to rebels.
| A big gang of ghouls desecratet
the cemetery Of Clichy-Levollos. jus
outside the gates of Paris. The.
sacked over a hundred of the tomb
and stole large number OF sacrei
objects.
According to Nice dispatch to tai
Paris Journal the Russian crow
prince, Alexis. arrived secretly at Men