The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-01-31
INLAND NORTHWEST

been organized at Reno, Nevada.
ii. C. Mcconnell, aged so, has been
arrested at Salt Lake, charged with
setting fire to his general merchan-
disc store. in Georgetown, Mont, in
order to collect $4,000 insurance.
]. E. Mccormick, pioneer business
man of Butte, Mont, and for many
years prominent in Industrial work in
that city, died in Salt Lake last week
having moved to Salt Lake about a
year ago
The city council OF Tacoma has
passed an ordinance authorizing the
issuance OF $4,000 worth of utility
bends for construction and equip.
ment of municipa lity-owned street
car line to the tide fats
Coal production in Colorado for
1918, compared wi h 1912, dropped
l,s9i,924 tons. according to the an
nual report of the state ccal in.
spector. The decrease. of 10 per cent
Is attributed principally to the strike
called last October in the southern
coal fields.
John II. Day, who died in neglected
circumstances December 20 and was
buried two weeks later at the ex-
pense of dodgers who lived in hotel
he conducted at Anaeontes. Wash.
has been identified as a brother of
Chancellor James r. Day of Syracuse
university.
Michael Zelinski, Ravensdale
miner, who was arrested at Seattle
when he was alleged to have cen.
fessed to a deputy sheriff that he
was wanted at Scranton, Pa, for a
murder he committed sixteen years
ago under the name OF Frank Per
leski, has repudiated his ccnfecsil n
Injuries sustained by IL. j. McNee.
ley, who claims the welterwelght
wrestling championship of Kansas
and Missouri, in a bout at Sheridan,
Wyo., are expected TO prove fatal, ac-
cording to his physician. He was
caught in such Way as to break sew
eral ribs and to cause internal in.
iuries.
Ralph Modjeska. engineer and
builder of some OF the largest rail!
read bridges in the northwest and q
son of the late Madame Modieska,
the actress, has fl ed a suit for d.
vorce at Portland against Feleci3
Modjeska, whom he married in New
York, December 2S. 1885, charging
desertion
The beginning Of an attack on the
constitutionality OF the new Nevada
divorce law probably will be seen
with the filing Of an action for d.
vorce in the district court at Reno
based on six months residence OF the
plaintiff in a case where the DEFEND
state
Maps shown for the first time last
week in one Of the Tacoma railroad
offices revealed that surveys for
three railroads, ST rting at Grays
HarbQr and extending north into the
hitherto almost uotapped Olympic
peninsula, have been completed, the
roads varying from about ITO to 10
miles in length.
The bodies Of Mrs Ada Mead. rs
years old, and her son, Il. w. ;eiger,
10, were found in the kitchen OF theiI
home at Everett, Wash, each havin:
been shot through the head, appar-
emily by Geiger. Failure in business
and his inability to obtain work are
believed to have prompted Geiger tc
end his own and his mothers life to
save them from want.
After trying the Brown merit sys
tenn OF discipline for six years TIL,
Union Pacific railroad and the Ore
gon Short Line az aounce that they
vii adopt permanently the Brown
system until a better one makes it,
appearance. Instead of laying off en-
gineers, fremen, conductors, train
men and employees generally, fol
failure to observe the rules, the Orc
son Short Line has been. using /
bookkeeping system of merits and dc ,
merits.
Boise and Payette bankers who dc
sire to present their views to the or
ganization committee of the new fed
eral reserve system will have an op
portunity of appearing before this CON
nittee, headed by Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo, when it holds its
hearing at Seattle on January 20.
/, w. l.. Cummings, % years old, plead
ed guilty in federal court at Salt Laks
City and was sentenced to three years
Imprisonment for attempting to black
mail Miss Dorothy Bamberger, {,
wealthy society girl Cummings threat
ened to kill Miss Ramberger with al
internal machine OF his own invention
which could be exploded at distance
by wireless.
A new fraternal organization, ives
ern in it's origin, ideas and activ.
ties, and known as the Independents
Order of Cowboys. will socn BIZ
launched A permanent organization
will be effected at q meeting of the
delegates from several OF the west
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