The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1913-11-08
INLAND NORTHWEST

from Chico. Cal, short time ago.
IS Z result Of an enthusiastic meet
ing Of baseball fans, M.ssoula, Mont,
viii be in the 1914 lineup OF the
Union Association o. Baseball clubs.
Montana ranks seventh among the
states in the total value of its min
eral products and second in the pro-
duction of copper, Tor which Arizona
stands first
A moving picture caused F. B. Kid
ney 10 surrender himself 10 the police
at Seattle and confess that he is want
ed in California for a crime for which
he says another man was sent to San
Quentin penitentiary.
That Benjamin F. Bush, president Of
the Could lines, is so deeply interested
in the proposed Boise-Winnemucca
road that he viii risk the elements to
make an auto trip from Winnemucca
10 Boise during the week, is the lat.
est report.
W J. Leaton, city recorder of East
Side, Ore, has been arrested on two
money and the other for permitting
gambling in his office He is charged
with gambling and making away with
80 coo of East Side funds.
R. c. Adams, the fourth victim Of
strikers bullets from ambush near la
Veta. died in a hospital at Pueblo on
Sunday. The death OF Adams. who
was mine guard, brought the total
dead as a result of Saturdays violence
in the strike zone up TO five.
At a conference at Seattle between
seventy-five business men ana prepre-
sentatiyes of the city and federal
health boards, a committee OF zen bus
mess men having interests along the
water front was appointed to assist
the health officers in the war on rats.
The raid recently made by crowd
in Hayre, Mont. upon the local China
town, when four Cinnamon were run
out of that place and considerable
property of the Chinese residents de-
stroyed has been brought to the atten-
ton Of the state department. at Wash
ington
Mrs. Sarah Todd, 1913 years old, and
s.ster-in-law of the late President
Lincoln, walked to the polls at Eugene
last week. and cast her first vote in
| the referendum election. Mrs. Todd
was born in Kentucky when that state
was wilderness. She came to Ore.
gon twenty years ago.
The highest point in Nevada Is
Wheeler peak, which, according to a
chart published by the United States
/ geological survey, is 1868 feet above
sea level. The average elevation Of
the state of Nevada is $500 feet. Only
four states, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming
and New Mexico, are higher.
John Mitchell, for years v.ce-presi
| dent of the American Federation of
Labor, announced at Butte last week
that he would withdraw from the of
flee at the meeting il Seattle. He
said he wanted to give the place TO a
certain member of the United Mine
Workers of America, who, he thinks
should be made federation Official
Circuit Judge Cleeton, at Portland
last week, upheld the constitutionality
OF the minimum wage law. This is
the act passed by the last legislature
giving an industrial welfare commits
on, created by it, power to regulate
the hours OF work, wages and work
ing conditions of women and minors
employed in various capacities in Ore
gon.
Eleven Oregon towns ana six Port
land precincts wherein liquor is now
sold voted last week to prohibit its
sale hereafter. Two towns which al
ready were dry" voted to remain So
Two towns wherein prohibition was
in force voted to permit the sale Of
liquor hereafter, and IL GOWNS already
in the wet" column voted to remain
there.
Industrial unionists won a victory
IN the meeting of the Metal Trades de-
partment OF the American Federation
of Labor at Seattle when 4 resolution
proposed by the delegates OF the ma.
chinists union, that strikes may be
called on vote of 70 per cent of the
international unions. on two-thirds OF
She members involved, was carried by
1918 to 1896 votes.
Dave Rowan, who was shot at Pen.
dleton, Ore, by Charles Cock. who
then killed himself, died later at a
hospital, Jealousy is given as the
cause, Rowan being in the company
OF Cooks divorced wife and his lit
tie daughter at the time of the shoot,
I ing. which occurred on street.
The Parma, Idaho, Herald says:
John Ridenbaugh and Scott Ander-
son of Boise were In town Tuesday
after finishing up measuring the hay
they purchased in the vicinity of
Wilder. They bough 1900 tons from
residents of that locality. which they
will feed to their sheep during the
coming winter.
l.. l.. Heines, rancher of Eckley,
Curry county, Ore, was shot fatally
by his brother-in-law. Hugh Hampton,
and died that night Hampt0n'S ctorv