The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-06-20
INLAND NORTHWEST

Dewey George Stall. age 10 years,
arrested under the name of Jack Stall
for the burglarizing of a residence in
Reno. calmly admits the crime.
Fire destroyed the factory of the
Portland. Five laborers who were |.
cut of from escape shoreward leaped
into the river and two were drowned.
The Quong On Lung store in
Chinatown at Winnemucca, New. was
raided by two government inspectors,
and the proprietor. Yee Sing. was ar
rested for having opium in his posses
! sion
Haystack is persistently producing |
~the rich gold ore associated with |
milling quantities which foreshadow |
healthy, yiIile development move |
ment for this unique gold discovery |
and section ot Nevada.
The contract for what is believed
to be the first link of the Boise, Butte
& San Francisco railroad has been let
to the Macarthur Brothers of London.
who are TO start work ON July 1. says
the Boise (IdS) Capital News.
The school census of Elko. New.
has Just been completed, the count
showing 1893 children between the
ages of and IS years, and 1877 under
&, making total of 500 children now
in the town of Elko who are under Is
years of age
The last of the machinery of the
| at,,& ts, hot,
shipped to the coast for the junk pile
Boilers, engines and the smoke stack
have beeen torn down. The Carson
mint was at one time the bushes!
place in the state.
francisco Martinez. an honor pris
oner at the Nevada state prison farm
escaped last week Martinez was
serving his second term and was con
victed at Fallon of assault with intent
to KILL His sentence was for one
year and nine months.
Charged with the emhezzlement OF
state funds amounting to $3.50. Pat
rick H. Hart, secretary of the board
: Of labor statistics of Illinois, was ar
rested at Helena. Hart declared his
willingness to return to Illinois with.
out extradition proceedings.
X. Taku. Japanese mill hand, who
las, has been isolated in ward OF
was admitted to a private sanitarium
at Tacoma for treatment for esysipe.
a the institution as the esult of an ex
animation by physicals, on the belief
chat the man is suffering from lep
rosy.
y Representatives of the Brotherhood
= Of Locomotive Engineers and Fire
I men in the northwest district inyolv
"a ing practically all lines in Washing
e ten, Montana, Idaho and Oregon ar,
al planning the taking of "a strike vots
a. following the breaking off Of negotia
" tions for higher wages
If Wells Fargo express rates within
II the state of Nevada will be lowere,
an average of % per cent as resul
~ of conference between the official
~ Of the company headed by Genera
~ Traffic Manager Lockwood Of Sal
~ Francisco. and the railroad commits
NJ sion of Nevada at Carson City.
y.
90 that there is a deal in course of con
~ pletion to consolidate practically a
~ the placer holdings in Copper Bash
\ Nevada, with the object not alGne
~ doing away with all the petty diffe
ences existing among interested pa
- ties in the camp, but to bring waite
'al onto the ground and sluice the Who'll
Lob I1r non.
isn Several months ago Jim May, 70
ei' mer king of Nevada gamblers, die
down in South America, and at til
re time it was announced that he ha
been killed by the accidental di
ris charge Of a. rifle in the hands of cor
panion while they were huntin
However, letters from the state d
partment received in Reno would
dictate that May was killed by bandit
Grazing Examiner A. f. Aldous h
returned from the Ruby national fo
est says the Elko Free Press, whe
I he had been Tor ten days investig;
:, ing poison plant conditions and in
iating an experiment to deterrpi
how the losses resulting froE grail
- poisonous plants can be prevent.
ais with the ultimate aim of Formulate
q pan Of grazing management
~ these losses can be reduced to M
I'M imum, If not eliminated.
my Awakening to find the room
- flames, Madame Becks, who conduc
Seh / dressmaking' establishment in tier
aii jumped from the window of her
lne adjustment, and after striking te
me- phone wires, fell upon shed abe
seven feet below. The woman
ceived injuries that are consider
serious.
~. Earl Carl and his wife Harrie
.s. the taxi forgers,' who duped PC
land merchants out of $500 in NOR
90 and merchandise before they w
arrested week later in Los Angel
IN pleaded guilty. Carl was sentent
ny to one to five years in the penit
Aui | tinry sentence m Mrg Earl he