The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1913-01-18
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lNTERMOUNTAIN

INTERMouNTAIN
Howard Taylor, Republican, was
elected speaker of the Washington
house OF representatives when the
thirteen biennial session opened Mon
day. Senator Pliny L. Allen, Republi-
can was elected president pro TEN OF
the senate.
AS the result of a fire at Alta
Utah. the boarding house Of the Co.
lumbus Consolidated and Columbus
Extension Mining companies was
burned to the ground The building
and contents were a total loss, esti-
mated at $4,000.
r. S. Sheridan and c. o. Broxon,
publisher and editor of the Capital
News, and A. R. Cruzon were given
an ovation when they walked from
Jail at Boise, Idaho, Saturday after
having served a ten-day sentence for
contempt of court.
A domestic quarrel resulted in an
"btSAhptCu anu SulClut at oS-
den, when Henry Sanborn, aged "a,
shot his wife, Mrs. Blanche Sanborn,
aged % and would have turned the
weapon upon himself but for the in
reference of his brother-in-law.
The annual budget of the Mountain
States Telephone & Telegraph COM
pany just made public at Denver
contemplates the expenditure of 3d.
$4,000 in entirely new line extern
sions and equipment in 1918.
Salt Lake has been selected as the
1913 meeting place of the Nation ii
Woolgrowers association.
Two little girls, daughters of A. p.
Jones, while en- route from Meeker,
Colo, to Grand Valley in covered
wagon, were frozen to death The
family is extremely poor and Insult
ficient clothing and lack of proper
nourishment is given as contributing
to death.
DOMESTIC
Sixty thousand garment workers on
strike in New York for increased pay
and better working conditions at an
open air meeting on Monday raised
their hands and ,ook an cath never to
app~a! 10 the manu- a2tu es .og work
and 70 con.Eus to sd. IN their
L.aCn IS recC snie> d.
Electors in fogty-eight states met
Monday and formally elected Wood
row Wilson to the presidency and
Thomas r. Marshall to the vice-presi-
deney of the United States
Henry ID. Mckinney owner and
breeder of harness racing horses, died
Monday at GAINESVILLE, Wis Mr.. Nc
Kinney was 81 years old. His death
followed a stroke of paralysis.
Definite proposals for peace in Mex
leo were made to Pedro L.ascurain,
minister of foreign relations, during
his recent visit to El Paso, it is said.
1t was said the proposals came from
insurrecto leaders, including Inez
Salazar, Marcelo Carrevo and Antonio
Rojas.
In sharp battle with revenue of
ficers near Ashville, N. c., who had
been on the trail of a desperate gang
of moonshiners for several days,
Mack Moss. alleged leader of the
gang, was shot and instantly killed,
Hailed as martyrs by a host of
friends and admirers, the nineteen
young women who We're sentenced to
three days Imprisonment by Magis-
trate Dodd for creating a disturbance
in connection with the strike of the
garment workers We're released from
Jail in New York City on Sunday.
Charles Swanson, an old-time miner
and prospector IN the Black Hills,
was burned to death in his cabin at
Rapid City, S. D.. when, after the
house had caught fire from a lamp eX-
plosion, he lodged back through the
flames to rescue a bag of nuggets he
had been collecting for years,
Bonds for the release of Charles
n Beum from the Leavenworth
prison, to which he was sent in the
recent dynamite conspiracy trial,
were presented in the United States
district court at Minneapolis. signed
by Minneapolis property owners,
1t is announced that the American
Mormon settlers of northern Mex.
leo temporarily have abandoned a
plan to colonize Pecos valley in
Texas. with 1000 inhabitants of the
chihuahua and Sonora colonies. which
remain practically deserted as a re,
suit of rebel depredations
Big business, its right to growth
and its duties to the country were
discussed by President elect Wood
row Wilson in a speech before the
Commercial cub of Chicago Satur.
day night.
Harry Bournemann of Savannah,
Ga, and Ernest Bournemann of New
orleans were instantly killed when
their automobile turned over on the
savannah automobile course
Ebert Hubbard CT East Aurora. n
Y, indicted on six counts by the fed
eral grand jury for sending immoral
matter through the mails, pleaded
guilty and was fined 500
Several hundred families have
been driven from their homes al
Portsmouth, o., BY the flood Th-
poorer class found refuge in the pub
lie school buildings.