The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-09-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

been appointed a special creamery In.
spectof for the district of Montana.
and vii. establish headquarters at the
Agricultural college OF Montana al
BoZeman.
Nine stores ard all their merchan
disc, forming the entire business dis
trict of Moclips, Wash, an ocean-side
resort, were destroyed by fire. A shift
in the wind saved the Moclips hotel
Loss, $4,000, with little insurance.
Sprague Brooks, the Harvard or
nithologist, who passed last winter on
the power schooner Polar Bear in the
Arctic ice swest of the Mackenzie
river, has arrived at Seattle from
Nome with a precious collection of
bird skins.
According to a recent Portland dis
patch. the superintendent of schools
of Portland has issued an order that
all teachers must observe strict neu
trality in all their school work. and in
expressing opinions outside of the
school room.
E. K. Calvin, vice-president and ger.
eral manager of the Oregon Short
Line, denies the rumor that he would
shortly leave the Oregon Short Line
to assume the presidency of the Ore
son-Washingtoa Railroad & Naviga
ton company.
Mrs. Olena Beverly and two of he1
children are dead at Ballard, Ore.
from burns received through the explo
SIGN OF can OF gasoline with which
The mother was starting a fire. The
father and two other children are sui
ferlng from severe burns.
Peter Johns, Syrian, has con.
fessed that he gagged and bound Rob-
ert Marcello, fruit dealer, in Mar
cello's store in Butte, and procured
s62 before being discovered and cap
tured by policeman. Johns claims
he was starving and that this was his
first crime
J. H. Abbott, retired assistant
surgeon OF the United States nayy
who is alleged to have muicted aev.
eral Salt Lake banks of more than
$1,000 by an ingenious method Of Is.
suing fictitious checks, has been re.
turned to Salt Lake from Seattle.
Wash, for trial.
gladys Philpot, an Indian girl from
the Stewart Indian school near Car.
son City, who recently secured a sit.
uation in a Reno home, which she
deserted to run away with an Indian
named Ike Smith has been broreht
back to Nevada from Milford Ca.
and lodged in Jail.
The auditors have practically com.
pleted the work on the valuation OF
the Ogden shops of the Oregon Short
Line and 1t is expected that they will
be turned over to the Southern Pa.
cific about October l. The Oregon
Short Line will make all repairs at
Pocatello on that date.
w. F. Minard of Portland, principal
OF the land locators convicted of mis-.
using the mails to defraud settlers on
the Oregon and California railroad
land grant, was sentenced in the Unit.
ed States district court at Portland
to serve thirteen months in the Nc.
Neil island penitentiary.
Scientific journals all over the
country are showing great interest in
the state mine rescue and first aid
field meet that was held at Mackay
field on Labor day, and large num-
Der OF them have applied to the Uni
versity OF Nevada for illustrated ar.
tlcles containing details Of the work.
The first definite proposition to
complete the Lost River irrigation
project in Idaho comes from the Utah
Construction company of Salt Lake
The company offers to spend $4,000 900
IN completing the project, to rebuild
and replace the Mackay dam to i'm.
pound water to irrigate 10000 acres
of land.
The office of the Bonanza, an after
noon newspaper at Tonopah, New.
was damaged by the explosion of
three sticks of dynamite under the
corner OF the room occupied by the
job printing plant. A corner of the
building was torn off, garage ad-
Joining was wrecked, and windows y
olock away We're broken by the con-
cussion.
An oral order has been entered by
the state supreme court of Montana
dismissing the application Of Presi.
dent Mcdonald of the Mine Workers
Union OF Butte; Owen smith, Joseph
Bradley, d. w. Malone, Ed Ross and
James Chapman for writs OF habeas
corpus to gain their release from iail
IN Butte. where they are held by the
state militia.
Governor West of Oregon essayed
the role of vaquero one day last week
when ne rode on horseback through
the corridors of the state house. A
young woman who is making a horse.
pack Journey from Spokane to San
francisco had called on the governor
VINO greeted her at the top of the long
night OF steps leading to the capitol.
UP which she had ridden. After the
Young woman had dismounted. the
governor leaped into the saddle and
with cowboy whoop, rode thronrh
Inc capitol halls.