The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

The larger part OF the business dis.
trict In shoshone, Wyo., was destroyed
by fire on March 16, which started in
q saloon. Damage about $4,000
Charles H, Meyer. president of the
Western Federation OF Miners. Is at
a sanitaridm in San Diego. Cal, suf-
fering from severe attack Of
asthma
The Republican state committee, In
session at Cheyenne, called a state
convention at Lander May TO elect
delegates to the national convention,
and Endorsed the candidacy of Sec.
rotary Taft for president.
Four men were badly burned as the
result OF an explosion of gas in the
Iron Mountain Tunnel mine near Mis-
soula, Mont, Among the injured is
Edward Neill, brother Of the pub.
Usher of the Helena Independent
A motion for new trial for Gut
seppe Ala, the condemned murderer
Of Father Leo, has been filed by his at.
torney. It is alleged that Ala was in.
sane when he killed the priest and
should have been so declared by the
jury.
William helms, who claims to be
the last survivor of the Noble Six
Hundred" at Balaklava, is dead at his
home in Manassas, Colo He came to
America in 1872 and later came west.
settling In San Luis valley nineteen
years ago.
Rev. DR.. Leonard w. Snyder of
Ohio. known as the boys minister of
America, who has just finished his lee
ture tour in Reno, Nevada. has an.
nounced his disapproval of the pro
hibition movement which is being agi
tated In Reno.
The first suicide in camp of Raw,
hide, Nevada, took place early on the
morning of March II. when John
Slater blew his head off with a charge
of dynamite. Slater had been gam
bling heavily for several days and was
very respondent.
j. A. Van Orsdel of Wyoming, asso-
ciate Justice of the court Of, appeals of
the District Of Columbia, has been
appointed professor of law in George
Washington university, and will have
charge of the law. course in water
rights and irrigation.
Contracts have been let for the
building Of the Rawhide Western rail-
road from Schurz to Rawhide, Nevada.
All records for rapid railway con-
structlon will be broken II the con-
tractors are able to execute their
plans as mapped out
The body of Billy Ford saloon
keeper, was found In his yard at Gull
bertson, Mont, disfgured more or
less, and as there are evidences of
foul play, the supposition is that he
was murdered, There is no clew,
however, to the perpetrator.
Three bandits, heavily armed, over
came Edward Hoffman and compan. +.
ion on road two miles from Raw,
hide, Nevada, threw them to the ground
and made of in their victims two
horse rig, taking gold and bank notes
to about $4,000 with them.
Upon statements made to the presi-
dent by special committee from the
Montana Mine Owners association
concerning the alleged fraudulent
by the commission in re.
lation to the mineral lands of the
Northern Pacific railroad, thorough
investigation of the charges will be
made.
The news comes from Bellnap,
Mont, that the body of Zana McNor
ton, 16-year-old girl, has been found
some distance from her home. She
was murdered. The girl left home in
the morning for a walk, and failing
to return, search was instituted, re-
sulting in the discovery Of the dead
body.
ITO use peaceful and lawful means
to keep the yellow and brown races
and all European coolies from landing
on the shores of the United States.
thereby protecting the position of
every labo-ing man." is given as one
Of the objects of the Iron Brotherhood,
\ new secret fraternal organization in
Colorado