The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-03-23

The population of Lusk. Wyo.. is In.
creasing so rapidly that new school
building is being demanded by the cit
liens.
Mrs Mary Powell, accused of the
theft OF several head of cattle from a
rancher. will be tried at Laramie, Wyo.,
In May.
Fred Ruprecht, who came to Lara
mic, wyo.. in 1872. and had lived there
ever since being amongst the Oldest
business men in the town. is dead.
A Japanese track walker slid from
an embankment near Apex, Nevada,
and was crushed TO death between a
train and the bank by the southbound
passenger train.
Charles F. Miller, formerly probate
Judge OF Laramie, Wyoming, and for
many years prominent in the live stock
business of Wyoming, died last week
at the home OF his sister in Culpepper.
Va, aged ~.
Two fires at Missoula, Mont. which
for time threatened TO destroy a
large portion of the residence district
Of Missoula, resulted in loss OF $4,000
and the burning Of several horses and
hogs. The wind was blowing 30 miles
an hour at the time of the fires.
The Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad.
the line now under construction by
Senator William A. Clark and his
brother. j. Ross Clark, is now in op,
Grafton as far as Indian Springs, forty
four miles from Las Vegas. and "A large
amount of freight and passenger bust
ness for the Nevada gold fields is be-
ing handled
The sugar war between Claus
Spreckles Western Sugar refinery
and the Sugar Factory company OF
Honolulu, has caused the former COM
pany to bring raw sugar to the coast
from Cuba. Mr. Spreckles has put in
line of sailing vessels for the pur
pose. He also gets cargoes from
Java and the Philippines.
The officers of the Seventh infan.
try. stationed at Fort Missoula, have
presented petition to the county
commissioners of Missoula county,
asking that the saloons near the mil
itary post be abolished, 1t Is repre-.
sented that the saloons exert de
moralizing influence on the soldiers
and that their presence tends to de
stroy discipline.
Logan Blissard, a fugitive convict,
was shot and killed by Sheriff John
Owens of Newcastle, Wyo., one mile
south of Kimball, Neb. when resisting
capture. Blissard, who was 10 years
old, was wounded several weeks ago
while endeavorlng to escape with
stolen horses. He escaped from tho
deputies while being taken to the pen
ltentiary.
The report comes from Kallspell, |
Mont, Of the loss of $4,000 by tho
0'Brien Lumber company at the hands
Of highwaymen. John Peterson,
trusted employee, was carrying tho
money from Kalispell to the works at
Toners, about nine miles distant Near
the mill he was stopped by three men,
One held the team, another held a gun
at Peterson's head and the other Sc
cured the currency.
An agitation has been started for a
bill in the next legislature for re-
districting of the state judicial dis
tricts of Wyoming 1t is proposed to
place Laramie and Albany counties in
the first district, Carbon, Sweetwater
and Uintah counties in the second dis.
trict. Converse, Natrona, Fremont and
Weston counties in the third, and the
remaining portion of the state in the |
fourth district.
The board of education OF the Doug
las school district has sold to the state
of Wyoming fer a premium of $14650 |
an issue of SIC, 300 of per cent bonds,
for the purpose of building an addition
to the public school during the present
summer
Fire in the Rochester hotel, at Taco.
ma caused the loss OF $4,000. Many
prominent citizens and their families |
make their home in the hotel, and for |
a time there was considerable anxiety
as TO their safety, but no one was in.
jured and the flames were confined to
the attic
Buildings were shaken and Windows
shattered for radius of several blocks |
In the business district of Bellingham
Wash, by the explosion of gas tanR
In the rear of Mrs. NJ. E. Allice's hair
dressing establishment on West Hollis
street. Mrs Alice and two other wo
men had marvellous escapes from in
jury.
The Bates hole. Wyoming, ranch.
men and stock owners have formed an
association to assist in the extermina
tion of wolves and coyotes, which have
killed considerable stock in that sec.
ton this winter.
John ] McEachern of Cripple Creek,
Colo, convicted of conspiring to de.
fraud the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance company, has confessed, i'm
plicating George r, Hall. an under
taker; Luke Kellogg and John Marley
in an alleged plot to swindle the above
company and several fraternal so
cieties.
Thomas L. Foster, a carpenter, OF
Spokane. threw himself In front of q