The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-09-05
INLAND NORTHWEST

the most widely known financiers in
the Pacific northwest, died suddenly
Of heart disease, aged 81 years.
Fire wiped out block III the center
of Sumner, suburb of Tacoma. caus.
ing a loss of $4,000 Three stores.
hotel and apartments were wiped out
The blaze originated from an explo-
sion.
The farmers of Colorado, Idaho and
Utah viii suffer heavy losses as a
result of the potato disease, it being
estimated that the loss to potato grow
ers of the three states will reach
S3,O00,00O.
Abandonment Of the state plan for
an exhibit at the San Francisco and
the San Diego worlds fairs in 1915.
vas practically proposed by the Ne.
vada board Of directors at a meeting
at Carson City.
f. Bennington. alias z. Desands. a..
/ legged to be the man who had fifty
cashiers checks on the Chemical Ma.
tional bank Of New York printed in
Salt Lake City, was arrested last
week in Boise, Idaho.
Despite the determined efforts OF
the combined forces of the police de,
| partment and sheriif's office, the
murderer of John Krutzeler, who was
slain by highwayman on the Vir.
! ginia-Carsun road, in Nevada, remains
at liberty.
Mines of the Anaconda Copper Min,
ing company and of other large com
! Danies operating in at Butte are un
| der guard as a result of dynamiting
Of the employment office at the Par.
rot mine, operated by the Anaconda
! company.
Thomas P. Mack, one of the early
residents and pioneers of Dayton, Ne.
vada, passed away at his home there,
August 2S, after long illness. Mr..
Mack was about Y years OF age, and
lad lived at Dayton and Silver City
| Tor IS years.
All brass bands in towns within a
l0Omile radius of OE en-, Utah, are 10
be given an opportunity to participate
N band contest for liberal cash
prizes during the third annual Fashion
show, according to plan that is an
bounced by the music committee.
Members of the Butte Mine Work
9rs' union deported Edward OBrien. a
young miner, whom they seized at the
st. Lawrence mine at Butte. OBrien.
4 member Of the Western Federation
/ Of Miners, refused to Join the insur-
gent organization or to quit work.
Nevada sheep raisers are now en-.
loylng the best export market and
me best prices, especially for lambs.
ever known in the history of the
state, Thousands of sheep are being
shipped to outside points, principal
y to Chicago, at an average of $3.50
per head
Otto Becker, an actor. drank five
ounces of poison and then waded in
TO four feet OF water in Lake Avoca
at Butte, and dropped out of sight.
Ten minutes later some women who
had seen the actor wave good-by. re-
ported the suicide and the body was
recovered.
Two worn out shoes and a fat iron
were all that Arayone Giovonni OF
Spokane found in tin deposit box
when he opened it at Portland after
withdrawing it from a bank where
he deposited it last week under the
impression that it contained $4,000 Of
his own money and $4,000 belonging
to an unknown Italian who had won
his confidence.
Governor Oddie's Labor day pro-
clamation for the observance of the
holiday in Nevada on September I
makes timely though neutral refer.
ence to the European war. The pro-
clamation takes the position that a
pound vi lead removed from the
ground is better chan ton injected
into a large group OF fellow Chris
tians through the medium of machine
guns.
Members of the Butte Mine Work
ers' union, the organization fcrmer BY
seceders from the Western Federation
OF Miners are forcing the Federation
members to join the new union and
renounce allegiance to the old under
penalty OF deportation from the camp.
several men have been deported.
Crowds at the 1914 Montana state
TAR at Helena will be accorded with
sleeping service by the banking Of ten
Pullman sleepers at the Great North
ern depot platform, where complete
accommodations will be provided This
is a move of the Helena Commercial
club to house the great crowds that
are anticipated for fair week.
The four missing passengers OF
the steamship Admiral Sampson. sunk
twenty miles north of Seattle by col
iSlon with the Princess Victoria. are
sad by the Pacific Alaska Navigation
company owners Of the lost boat, to
De quite unknown to them, and the
list OF eleven dead authorized by the
company is declared to be compete.
John Verge, an Italian working in