The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
NORTHWEST NOTES

to Goldfield, Nevada.
The coal shortage in Oregon and
Washington has become so serious
that the railroads are annulling trains
and refusing freight at many points
In order to haul coal
Five fremen, including Chief John
puImage. were injured at fire which
ragged for hours in Denver Robert
Geddes and William Martin, who fell
from the roof, are seriously injured.
An express train on the Southern
Pacific was ditched near Deeth, Ne
yada. the spill being caused by
broken rail, eight cars being thrown
from the track. One man was killed
and FIVE slightly injured
Five Indians were burned to death
In a fire which destroyed the Jail
at the Umatilla reservation in Oregon
The origin OF the fire is unknown,
but 1t is thought that they were try
ing to burn their way out.
The first case OF the rare Oriental
disease Of beri-beri known in the west
is now being treated at the Union Pa
cifc hospital at Cheyenne. M. Ma
tuoki, Japanese section hand on the
Union Pacific, is the victim.
Charles Filpot, who was charged
with the murder OF Ness Cole, lone
ly rancher. on March %. 1906, was
found guilty at Spokane of murder in
the first degree. The jury was out
two hours and - minutes.
The senate and house of the Oregon
legislature elected two United States
senators, Jonathan Bourne, Jr., OF
Portland for the long term and Fred
w. Mulkey of Portland for the shor;
term. Both are Republicans.
What bids fair to be one of the long.
est drawn out and bitterly contested
criminal cases in the history of the
United States court in Montana was
begun in Helena last week, when Ed
ward P. Mason was placed on trial
for the alleged murder of Riley Hun
of Chicago, at Fort Assiniboine, last
August.
James Pingree and Aman Moore, OF
the Union Portland Cement company
at Ogden, announced in Butte, last
week, the purchase Of 5000 acres OF
cement field at Logan, Mont. They
say they will put in a million-dollar
plant to produce 1000 barrels daily in
eighteen months. They will also build
the town of Cementon.
The preliminary skirmish in the
fight for railroad regulation in Ne,
vada came off last week. Folsom OF
Washoe county introduced a resolu
ton providing for steering com
mittee to be composed of one mem,
Der of each county in the state to
formulate methods of procedure on
all railroad legislation.
AnACO bOyo pay Ahb " al Al NhC OaoC- 4
ment of the new infantry barracks at
Fort Russell, near Cheyenne, Wyo.,
set fire to quantity of powder and
an explosion occurred which damaged |
the barracks to the extent Of $4,000 |
and seriously injured the boys. One /,
Of the boys, a son of the fort plum. |
Der, named Mcdonald, is expected to
die.
Persons who have made homestead
entry on land in the states of North |
Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Mime. |
sofa, Montana, Washington and Wyom,
ing, where the period in which they |
we're required by law to establish resi-. |
dence expired after December l, 1906. |
are granted, under joint resolution !
passed by the house last week until .
May is, 1907, in which to make such
settlement.
Arthur c. Brown of Sprague, Wash, |
a student in the veterinary course at /
the Washington state college in Pull.
man, was arrested at Moscow, Idaho,
On a charge of threatening the life |
Of Edith MCGEE of Oakesdale, also
student at the college Brown was |
insanely jealous of the girl and tried |
to shoot her.
A windstorm at Centennial, thirty |
miles west of Cheyenne, did much |
damage The wind came from the
southwest and ragged several hours,
The tracklaying gangs on the Lara.
ME Plains line we're forced to leave
work
The town of Rhyolite, the capital
sity Of the Bullfrog district, is now
the proud possessor of a genuine
stock and mining exchange. The
membership of the exchange is lin.
TIED to 1JU. and there are seventy-five
charter members.
After a spirited debate, a resolution
was adopted by the Tenth Annual
convention of the American National
Livestock association, in session at !
Denver, supporting the policy of the |
Federal administration in reference |
to the public lands.
The execution of Patsy Dryer, con,
gicted of the murder of A. c. Will
iams, conductor of the Nevada Cen
trail railway at Austin, Nevada, was
prevented at Carson last week by an
order of the supreme court of Nevada,
granting him new trial.
A party Of Burlington contractors
and constructors have begun building
a line Of railroad through the famous
Big Horn canyon, In Wyoming, in or