The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-02-07
INLAND NORTHWEST

SAeu iour mites DelOW tDat city.
Steps to test the constitutionaIit,
OF the new Nevada divorce Law reauir
ing years residence to confer iuris
dicticn, were taken ct Reno last week
Complete through traffic was re
suned ever the Western Pacific Feb
ruary |. when trains Nos. and were
run for the first time since the slides
OF the early Fart of last month.
Orson Adams. former president CT
the failed Mesa County National bank
was arrested at Grand Junction, Colo.
charged with the misappropriaticn oil
funds. His bond was furnished BY
citizens.
Unless a regional bank can be es
| tablished at Portland bankers ol
southern Oregon will urge a general
coast region, with the bank at San
Francisco, in preference to a north
western region.
Farmers in the vicinity of Utah lake
are again confronted by the danger oil
having their lands inundated by the
lake overfowing it's shores. Heavy
rains combined with snow have caused
the lake to rise rapidly.
William p +. Meserve, who rebuilt
and operated the Palmer House, Chi
cago, after the great fire, and who hal
also conducted hotels in Detroit ard
Colorado Springs. Colo, is dead at his
home in Seattle, aged ST.
Owing to mild winter in the Pacific
northwest, in the intermountain coun
try and on the Pacific coast, coal ton.
mage on the Oregon Short Limo and
the Denver & Rio Grande railroads
has fallen below the mark of last
year.
Unanimous Endorsement of statewide
prohibition, for which a proposed n
itiative measure is now en- file at the
state capital, was the last important
act of the executive beard Of the state
federation of wOmen's clubs in the
mid winter conference at Tacoma.
Thomas Horne, "a years OF age, Il
pioneer of Utah. died In Butte OF a
broken heart caused by the death of
his wife a week previous Mr.. Horne
! and his wife, who was So years Of age
at the time Of her death, came to
Butte last August to visit their daueh
ter.
DR.. Carry e. Logan, an educator Of
Washington, D. c., daughter of the
late Captain H. G. Logan, U. 5. a.,
nd nfn re lor hp
Logan. died at Bremerton, Wash, of
heart disease. She was 81 years old
and came west In August 1912, be.
cause of i'll health.
AS the result of a quarrel over a
drink In saloon at Kemmerer, Wyo,
| Billy McGinnis, the bartender, shot
and killed j. Clay, a switchman. Clay
was shot twice through the abdomen
dying about half an hour after be.
ing shot. McGinnis was exoneratea
| by coroners jury.
The attorney general Of Montana
in an opinion on the question as 70
whether bridges should be taken int1
| account in the division of county prop.
ated county, says that "a public bridge
is in no sense an asset. 1t is rather
a liability, for it is continuing ex-
pense.'
L. +. Hulen has been transferred
from Wyoming to Golden, Colo, to
answer to a charge of bigamy pre-.
| ferred by Mrs. Bertha Fennell Hulen,
who says that she was married" to
him last October, when he had but a
few months before been married to
Mrs. Charlotte Richards Hulen Of
| Thermopolis
| The county assessors of Bear Lake,
Fremont, Oneida, Power, Bannock,
Bingham, jefferson, Bonneville, Cas-
STA and Franklin counties, Idaho, who
met in convention recently to talk
over matters OF assessment, have
agreed to assess ali sheep in their
respective counties for the present
year at $3.50 per head.
Reports from Wyoming are that the
sheepmen Of that state are compelled
to feed their sheep on account of the
deep snow. Corn is being purchased
for feed by the sheepmen at $1.50 4
hundredweight, and it is estimated
that it is costing the Wyoming sheep
men three cents head per day for
feed The snow is very deep In all
parts Of Wyoming.
Armed with two guns, one carried
by his wife. and with fierce lcckii.g
blacksnake around his neck. Te.i-
nessee mountaineer, who has been in
Boise, Idaho, but two weeks, kidnapped
his three children from the Children s
Home at Boise, after they had been
placed In that institution The noun
taineer was finally arrested and the
children returned to the institution.
Idaho owns some livestock, three
million nine hundred and thirty-sevcn
thousand head, counting horses, mules,
mich COWS, othar cattle, sheep and
hogs. with total value of sixty nil
lion, four hundred and ninety-five
thousand dollars, according to the es-
innate on the number Of head and the
valuation as fixed by the bureau OF