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Newspaper
The Pioche Weekly Record
Location
Pioche, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1908
Page
2
A damaged OCR item shows a weekly record published by RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY with names like Wa E Orrands Bagens Gondrich. The notice indicates entries and a port of title in Picks Nevada and classed as second class matter.
The Nevade Douglas Copper building faces upheaval as occupants escape unharmed after a fire. Reports detail bond issues, mine operations near Fort Penit, and ownership changes across multiple Utah ventures including Mohawk Silver Mining and the Ural-Virgin Oil company. The Salt Lake mining exchange board orders stocks alphabetically, ending the old mine versus prospect distinction.
Lumber and building materials are available including dimension boards rustic bevel siding flooring and more. The L A Shelton Company announces its yard will be closed to business on Sundays. Kauuber and its Kindreg.
Warden Frank Conley was fatally wounded and deputy Warden John Robinson killed as convicts George Hork W H Hayes and an unnamed inmate stormed the Deer Lodge prison in an attempted escape. Conley drew his pistol and shot two assailants after severe throat and gut wounds. Robinson died from throat injuries. Hayes and Hork were wounded. the escape bid, long planned, involved sharpened pea knives.
New York area business notes show signs of relief from the financial crisis with improvements in some sectors. Copper production resumes in Montana camps, freight car surpluses shrink, while rail and wage costs remain pressures. In Nevada Judge Farrington grants an injunction for Merger e owners against the Miners union, blocking actions seen as harming mine interests.
The supreme court denied the prosecution’s rehearing in the Ruef case after the Gleichen court of appeals found the indictment defective. Schmitz, former mayor, was convicted of extortion in the French restaurant scandal and the court held the indictment failed to allege his mayoral status and Ruef’s control of city power.
Parle General l Amade commanded the French forces in Mer rote and followed up earlier gains by defeating the Mad rakas the Manabe and Mu sa Hafid adherents. The battle lasted from six in the evening to seven the next morning with heavy enemy losses and a chaotic retreat.
City leaders clash as Mayor Guthrie urges authority to issue bonds for 750000 to repave streets. Village council refuses, proposing work shared among the unemployed, amid urgent relief and welfare concerns for residents.
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