The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-03-30
NORTHWEST NOTES
NEVADA


Andrew Heath. single and aged 20.
pressman in the employ OF the
Butte Miner. committed suicide by
poison. No cause is known for the
act.
C. NJ. McIver was shot and killed
at Silver Peak. Nevada, by Al Cook OF
Goldheld. Cook was slightly wounded
in the neck by bullet fired by Nc.
liver.
The University Girls Glee and Man
dolin club OF the University OF Wy
oming will make a concert tour of the
state. special car having been char
tered for the trip.
Chief Forester Pinchot announces
that about 100000 acres Of lands lying
in Uintah county. Utah, and in south
ern Wyoming will be exempted from
the order extending the Uintan forest
reserve.
One Of the largest sales OF railroad
lands in Wyoming in recent year: was
made last week when the Union Pa.
cifc sold TO the Gibson Live Stock
company of Nebraska 1928 acres for
$9.614.42.
Representative Dixon of Montana.
has introduced bills authorizing the
Chicago, Milwaukee a St Paul railway
to cross Fort Keogh reservation and ,
bridge the Yellowstone river in Custer
county, Montana.
The city of Provo will appeal from
Judge Booths decision in the action
brought by j. w. N. Whltecotton to
restrain Mayor Frisby and Recorder
Harding from Issuing waterworks and
artificial light bonds
John Cook OF Elk Mountain, who
was summoned as a juror al the term
of court at Rawlings, Wyo, brought
his wife and babe with him While
coming through the storm the babe
died in it's mothers arms.
The board of trade has signed
contract with ]. Ross Clark and c. o.
Whittemore for right of way through
the heart of Rhyolite. the road to be
finished by June to Beatty. New, by
August to RhyOlite. New
The team taken by George NJ. Scott
when he absconded from Lander. WY.
oming. several weeks ago, has return.
ed, and many there believe the man
froze to death In blizzard, as no
trace OF him has been found.
Acting upon the petition of the OF.
acers of the Seventh infantry, sta
toned at Fort Missoula. the board OF
county commissioners has passed
resolution revoking the licenses OF the
saloons now doing business near the
fort
DR.. j. j. Fisher who conducts a
drug store in Portland. was shot and
seriously injured by a highwayman
who secured admittance to the store
just after 1t had been closed for the
night on the pretense that he had a
severe toothache
The Saratoga Valley, Wyoming,
Stock association has voted unani,
mously to disband and the money in
the treasury was added to the credit
OF the wolf bounty fund in the Sara.
toga State bank. The members of the
association had lost interest
Fifty-seven cases Of smallpox are
reported in the farming districts OF
Liman, Bridge and Uintah counties,
Wyoming. The source of the epidemic
was an abandoned pesthouse In a
mining camp at Cumberland which a
ranchman appropriated.
G. s. Jarvis, the only non-union bar
Der in Bellingham. Wash. on entering
his shop one morning last week. found
that the front door had been broken
down, five mirrors smashed, the
plumbing torn out, and chairs car
ried from the place and dropped into
the bay.
Frederick Rodney, 30 years old.
who came from Boise to Hay Creek.
Ore, shot himself at a lodging house
In Hay Creek, The suicide was evil
IDENTITY planned as he had Iaudanum.
chloroform, carbolic acid and NOR
phine in his room, but preferred TO
use the gun.
J. B. Hassett, general manager of
the Charter Oak mine near Sarato
ga, Wyo.. reports the finding OF vein
OF high-grade copper sulphide In a
drift from the 200-foot level in the
mine. the vein being two and a half
feet wide and the ore running 40 to 50
per cent In copper.
The report of the state coal mine in.
spector OF Wyoming shows that the
gross output of thirteen mines for
the year ending January /. 1906. was
6.006.SS3 tons. with tax value pei
ton ranging from II to az cents. The
total tax value of the output for the
year was $l,710,6l2.
Tho ranchmen living along the Pi.
oneer canal near Laramie, Wyo.. EN-.
bracing nearly four-score ranches. are
organizing a telephone company to
build line from the head of the canal
to connect with the telephone ex
change of the Rocky Mountain com
pany at Laramie.
x r. w. Besskoye. hunter and
scout who Is known in Montana al
Coyote Bill.r has been granted a new
trial. Besskovs has been confined IN
the MissOula county Jail since last