The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-09-28
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Ira L. Prudential of the quarter
masters department Manila. charged,
according to dispatches. with misap-
propriating funds. was appointed from
Wyoming. He had seen previous ser
vice.
D. H. johnson. a laborer at the round
house at Laramie. Wyo., had his left
arm taken on. under the wheels of an
engine. Re was in the ash pit under
the engine and laid his hand across
the rail
Governor Jesse F. Mcdonald of Col
orado, has called dry farming con-
gress, to be held in Denver November
%. 20 and "a this year Representa-
ton is invited from all states west Of
the Missouri river.
Ritzville, forty-seven miles west of
Spokane, is said to be the largest In
itial wheat shipping point in the world.
Last year the receipts there amount
ed to 10000 bushels and the year
before to 100000.
The Prohibition State convention Of
| Wyoming has nominated the following
state ticket: Governor, George W.
Blaine of Douglas; treasurer, DR.. G. j.
Sawyer of Laramie; congressman, G.
H. Nicodemus of Wheatland.
While attempting to prevent a gun
fight between two men at Twin Falls,
Major Fred R, Reed was shot, but
only slightly injured He was wrest-
ing the revolver from the mans hand,
when the weapon exploded.
Thomas c. Johnson charged with
killing Thomas B. futile during fight
in the Ranier-Grand hotel in Portland,
was found guilty of manslaughteV.
| futile was the aggressor of the hight
and was fatally slashed with knife.
Mrs. L. w. Cooper and Miss Nellie
Manning of Charlotte, NJ c., were Sc
verely injured in Denver in collision
between a street car and an automo-
bile in which they were riding. Mrs.
Coopers spine was injured and her
right arm dislocated and 1t Is feared
also she has sustained internal in
iuries.
Demands for more cars, consequent
Iy additional motive power, caused by
the enormously increased traffic and
the opening of new lines, has necessi
tated the purchase on the part of the
Hartman system of $1,422,O 900 worth
of equipment for the Oregon Railroad
& Navigation and Southern Pacific
lines in Oregon.
1t is given out from what is con
sidered a reliable source that thu
Sierra Pacific railway will connect at
, point not far from Springville will
: Senator Clark's Nevada railroad line
thus giving him an outlet to the PaC
! ific coast and giving the Sierra Pacif
. an opening into Nevada and the Colo
field district.
Over one-half the Gunnison tunne
in Colorado, was completed by the frs
i. of September, according to the repoI
of the engineer, The total length fror
the east portal, in Gunnison canyon,
q heading No. /. August 81. was 4,41
b feet. The total length from the wes
;. portal, in Uncompahgre valley, wa
! 1886 feet.
|. Mining men in the Medicine Bo
n forest reserve, near Laramie, Wyo al
d uniting in protest to the forest Sc
" vice of the Interior department againi
9 an advertised sale Of all the Twin
. and dead lodge pole spruce and pir
. timber in the reserve, about 165,OOC
. 600 board feet asserting that 1t d
= prives them of timbers for mining pu
n poses.
The Secretary OF the Interior HI
3 awarded a contract to Jesse w. Gre
- by, Jr., Of Wyoming for completion
the construction OF portion OF Il
h work in connection with the Corbe
se tunnel, Shoshone irrigation proje'
he Wyoming
y S. Moriyama and Fl. Miya, Japane'
: who have been room-mates in Pc
land, became involved in dispu
the cause of which is unknown. Duri
the quarrel Miya shot Moriyama
death but before doing SO was stabb
fatally by Moriyama.
nd Nicholas Ok, a resident of Malhe
county, Oregon, since 1876, died in {
tario on the 18th of dropsy, aged
ler years. For many years he was
a. a. gagged in farming and stock raisi
No. and recently retired. He was higl
respected in that section.
Miss Elizabeth Hunt, daughter
I'VE Judge w. H. Hunt Of the United Sta
to court Of Montana and former govern
he Of Porto Rico, was married at Hele
an on the 18th. to George Thompson
'uS New York stock broker. The an
was large and fashionable.
n,d The Oregon Bar association
for instituted disbarment proceed
ms against former Judge A. II. Tam
&c law partner of the late United Sts
- Senator Mitchell, on the ground
leu he perjured himself before the fed
Oe court in giving testimony IN MI
ose ellis behalf.
No Robert Pittock, a resident OF
Diego, Cal. for the past fifteen We