The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
NORTHWEST NOTES

received on the It'll by the GoldfeId
brokerage firm of W. F. Bond & Co,
and by them distributed free among
those most in need.
Wages Of coal miners in Southern
Colorado districts were advanced 10
per cent on the LIST. over 5000
men are benefited The increase
amounts to 100000 a year,
It is probable that a through sleeper
service between Ryholite and Los
Angeles viii be inaugurated about
February by the Salt Lake route and
the Las Vegas & Tonopah road.
The Sunset Telephone company of
San Francisco has announced its In
tention to install a six-wire long-dis-
lance service between San Francisco
and Goldfeld, Tonopah and Manhat-
tan.
Hon. Thomas NJ. Bowen, formerly
United States senator from Colorado,
died at Pueblo, Colo, on the Both,
aged II. He was prominent in state
politics for many years as a repub-
lican.
The dead body of Peter Bloom, an
eccentric citizen of Carbon, Wyo.,
was found in his cabin by neighbors,
he having been dead several days
before the fact was discovered by
neighbors
A free-for-allfght among several
loggers of the Hoods canal steamship
Perdita, which occurred off Hage
Point, fifty miles from Seattle, result
ed in the death of Jack Phillips, a log
ger, As years of age.
Contrary to the usual practice, no
inaugural ball was held at the usual
time in Wyoming this year, but dur.
ing the session of the legislature a
grand ball will be given for the legis-
lators and their wives.
The high school building at North
Yakima, Wash, including its fine
library of 1900 volumes, was de.
stroyed by fire, which is presumed to
have originated from the furnace.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
James Crusoe, engineer, and John
Storrs, conductor, were instantly
killed at Muir, Mont, in a collision
between a Northern Pacific freight
and light engine. Both men were
in the caboose of the freight, which
was run into by the light engine on
the steep mountain grade at that
point.
The coal mines at Bear Creek,
Mont, have closed, owing to failure
of the owners and coal miners to
agree upon a scale. The men de-
mand 81 per ton, mine run, and the
owners offered IS cents The shut
down will affect more than 100 men.
The output of the camp was about 500
tons daily.
Judge Shortall, in the San Francis
co police court, imposed fine of $40
on Mrs. Olivette Parrie of San Jose,
who sought the life of George Wing
field, the Nevada millionaire, at the
st. Francis hotel, claiming to be his
common law wife. The fine was paid.
Mrs Barrie was charged with disturb
ing the peace.
An old man has been arrested at
| Clancy, Mont, on suspicion of having
shot Arpin and Deliver, two Helena tel
egraphers, year ago and Of dyna-
hitting the Harris quarry at Montana
! City, and Chestnut's store at Clancy,
and recently of having shot another
Helena man. He will be examined as
to his sanity.
The Silver Bow county (Montana)
bar association at a meeting unani-
mousiy decided on a general increase
in legal fees all along the line, from
$25 to SIS being added to the prices
for services formerly asked The at
torneys state that the increased cost
of living has made the raise of their
scale imperative.
Three prominent mining engineers
in the employ of the Wingfeld-Nixor
Consolidated Mines merger, were ar
rested at Goldfeld on the charge o
forcibly entering a miners cabin and
after searching the premises, robbins
him of $26.25. The supposition amons
/ T. &I,t fk1rr ,1,f
for stolen high grade ore.
Ben Selig, acting for Joe Cans, ant
NJ. M. Riley, on behalf of the Casino
Athletic club, of Tonopah, New, have
signed articles for a finish fight be
tween Cans and Jimmy Britt. TIL,
purse is to be $4,000, 60 per cent t
the winner and 40 per cent to tn,
loser. The weight is to be 1873 pounds
two hours before the fight.
While climbing the ladder in an in
cline of the shaft of the Montezum;
mine at Rimini, Mont, George Gun
vile, a well-known miner, lost hi
footing and was precipitated into
feet of water in the sump and wa
drowned.
Bert Holman, the 13-year-old adopte
son of Mrs. Sarah Ayers has eonfesse
to the murder of his foster mother
near Warren, Oregon. The boy sta
ed he killed her because she pun
ished him for not faithfully performin
some duties assigned to him.
Freddie Weeks of Butte, Mont, o
New Years night knocked out Will