The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-05-04
NORTHWEST NOTES

was worked by touch or ear, and the
inside vault was opened with a chisel.
There is no clue to the robbers.
The Union Pacific railroad company
has begun laying six-inch water
main along Second street Of Laramie
Wyo., to the rolling mill. supplying
that institution from the city water
system.
The wool season opened at Lewis
ton, Mont, last week, when Boston
house contracted for over 5000
pounds Of high grade wool at an al.
vance Of cents per pound over the
price paid the same growers last sea,
son.
An athletic meet, open to amateurs
from the state at large. is being ar
ranged to occur at the county fair
grounds in Laramie, Wyo. on June
8. under the direction of the Athletic
association Of the University of wyom.
ing.
Dora Jennings has been acquitted at
Grants Pass. Ore, Of the murder of
her father, Newton M. Jennings. who
last September was shot and killed in
the house while his children slept
Her brother Jasper is under convic
ton for the crime.
E. c. Kinney, locating engineer OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pam
railway, says the contract for build,
ing 100 miles in Montana from For
sythe to Harlowtown. the junction
point with the Montana railroad, has
been awarded to Reynolds Bros, the
work to be completed in about a
year.
An earthquake shock, accompanied
by a rumbling noise, was felt at
Grants Pass, Ore, at IL minutes past
l o'clock on the 93rd. Nearly every
one in town was awakened. Furni
ture moved in houses and several win
dows cracked, but there was no seri
Gus damage. The shock lasted Is OF
20 seconds.
N. T. Palmer of Bath, Me-, appeared
before the state land board at Salem,
Ore, last week to protest against the
action of the board in refusing to issue
deeds to 10000 acres of public lands
to which he holds fraudulent certifi-
Gates, known as the 'Kelliher" claims
He was advised to lay his case before
the courts or legislature.
BY the decision of a jury in the
United States court at Butte, damages
to the amount of S72,541,55 were
awarded to the Butte & Boston Con.
solidated Mining company against
the Geyman Mining company, Charles,
John and Josie Geyman. The suit was
brought to recover damages for al
legged surface and underground tres.
pass.
At a meeting of the single manu-.
facturers of Washington, at which 60
per cent of the output of the state
was directly represented, it was decid
ed to raise and maintain by assess.
ment permanent defense fund, tc
be used in aid of the Ballard manu-.
facturers and any others whose plants
might in future be tied up by labor
troubles.
r. S. Van Tassel of Laramie county,
Wyoming, one of the largest land
owners and most prominent stockmen
Of that county, has purchased the
Joshua w. Latta ranch of 1880 acres
at Sherman, Wyoming, paying $500
for the land. Mr.. Latta at the
same time sold 1884 head of cattle and
twenty-seven head of horses for So.
726, making $19,026 for the place
George Ball, sheriff, and Percy M.
Einy, treasurer of Washington coun-
~, Colorado, have been placed under
arrest charged with frauds committed
while the two men were officials of the
United States land office at Akron.
They gave bond in the sum of $1,000.
A telegram from San Francisco an.
nounces that Clarence Wilson, %
years old, former resident of Helena
son of e. T. Wilson, United States
bank examiner for the state of Wash.
ngton, succumbed to heart failure as
! result of the earthquake excitement.
At Lewiston, Mont, verdict of in
manslaughter was returned
n the case of the state against Harry
Aock. Kock is prominent stockman
and he was alleged to have murdered
Zoe Vanders, a well-known gambler
Vanders was killed while Kock was
shooting promiscuously in a saloon.
While in the act of stealing ore
nan, who refuses to give his name.
vas shot and probably MORALLY |
by the owners of the Joker
lain at Manhattan, Nevada. This is
he elimination of efforts that have
leen In progress for a week to capture |
some of the high grade ore thieves.
Policeman Hanlon was shot and |
killed at Oregon City, Ore, by bur
slar whom he had just arrested. A
lat which the thug dropped leads the
detectives to believe he is Frank |
Smith, who escaped from the Port |
and Jail by climbing hand-over-hand |
'ome distance along telephone wire.
While playing house" in a straw |
stack on the ranch of Robert REM,
lear Poplar, Mont, Louise and Ches-
er Kicker, young children of Ezra I
Kicker, were burned to death. A child |