The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-05-23
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" NSSbS-h .NCNdud, 10 DuyluS ant
shipping $4,000 head of Mexican cat
tie under the protection of Carranza
William Jones shot and killed San
Sawaya in a scuffie at Kemmerer
Nyo. Jones and Sawaya are bott
0. S. L. car repairers. and have hao
several minor quarrels.
Vast quantities of Nevada lane
have been sold within the last yeal
and there has just been thrown on the
market many thousands OF acres more
which is being grabbed up.
In the municipal election at KEN
merer, Wyo., Mayor c. Watt Brandon
editor Of the Kemmerer Camera. was
reelected and c. II. Hibbs and w. c
Cunnington were elected to the coun
Gil. The election was warmly con
tested.
Federal aid in bringing about a set
tlement of the Colorado coal miners
strike Is desired by Governor Ammons
even II President Wilson carries out
his intimation that federal troops ma,
soon be Withdrawn from the strike
districts.
Following brief Illness Theodore
j. Etaikos, aged 30 years, for three
years Greek consul for Idaho, Utah
Montana and Wyoming, died at Butte
Consul Staikos was one of the best
known men of his race in the inter
mountain country.
OF the 275,000 acres of land put on
the market In the last year in Elkc
coupnty, Nevada, 100 900 acres have
already been sold and the land Il
going very fast, 1t has sold frcm S2.5t
- sl5 an acre, and the average price
has been $3.50 an acre.
Dave Haddenham has struck rich
vein OF copper ore foot wide on his
claim, about five miles north of Mug
get, Wyo. The ore tests 10 per cent
copper. &c per cent silver and also
shows trace of godl Mr. Hadden
nam states that the ledge is very
large one.
BY vote of to the state con
terence called at olympia. Wash, to
recommend minimum wage for wo
men workers in laundries and dye
works, adopted motion to recon
mend minimum of $3.50 a week fol
IS hours for women employed in sucf
establishments.
In response to an appeal from the
reclamation service for reductio.
IN the price of lands in order to pro
mote an influx OF settlers, The price o
lands III the Teton and Mabton rec
! ianS.tion projects in Washington
have been cut in half and 10 years al
lowed for payment
Frank c. Bright, alias Frank Berger
Who has been in the city hospital a
Seattle since the night of April 81
When he was shot while trying to es
cape arrest for attempting to pass
counterfeit Canadian five dollar bill
was indicted by the federal gran,
jury last week on charge of counter
letting.
Robert T. Hodge, Progressive candi
date for governor in 1912 and former
~ coal miner, was admitted to tn
bar by the state supreme court a
Olympia, Wash, after being rejecte,
three times. Hodge, who has beef
working as department store labor
er and studying at night, plans to re
enter politics.
County authorities are seeking tn
Two men last seen with Patrick ]
Toomey, whose body was found unde
railroad trestie in East Butte. Tn
skull was fractured and there wa
nothing of value in the pockets Fo,,
play is suspected, as the fall woul,
not have fractured Toomey's skull
say the police.
One Of the greatest feats in the his
tory of the forestry service is to b.
attempted by rangers in the Missoul
national forest, where an effort vii
De made to repair the immense dan
age done by the forest fires of 1915
when several scores of lives wer
~nuffed out and pillows of flame
sweeping over sea of timber, di
mere damage in single season tina
in any other three seasons combined
Frank Richet president of the Ore
gon Inland Development company, wa
released from the county Jail at Por
and where he had been serving i
Default OF $4,000 fine levied agains
hfm upon conviction, with j. Il. Cor
way, OF having fraudulently misreprt
,ented lands when the company solo
dithet obtained his freedom by takin
he pauper's oath
Fire destroyed the four-story built
| .ng and stock of the Gottstein Furn
| -ure company at Seattle and did niue
| damage To neighboring stores, caus
ing total loss of $4,000.
Marked progress in church exten
! sion work OF the denomination was re
reported at the opening sessions 0
he Pacific coast conference of tn
| Unitarian church at Portland
eBtween 1000 and 5000 Norwegian
| Of Utah and Idaho gathered in Sal
| Lake May l6 for the beginning of
hree days celebration of the No
| yegian independence centennial