The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-12-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

SoHupany ieIldin uHsO-u, al ShOIt 10
being put forth to resume operations
next season.
Arthur Chappell and A. w. Long,
workmen employed in removing tim.
bers from an abandoned well near
Winona, Wash, preparatory to filling
it in, were buried alive beneath hun.
dreds of tons of soil when the walls
caved in on them.
Samuel P. Weston, business man,
ager Of the Seattle Evening Sun, has
been appointed receiver for the Sun
Publishing company, on the suit OF
creditor. The Sun began publication
nearly two years ago, and Is reputed
to have lost 100000
Two unmasked robbers entered
saloon near the retail center of Port.
land, lined up eight patrons with
faces to the wall, shot the proprietor.
Richard Dungess, looted the cash reg
lister of the days receipts, about 500.
and escaped with their booty.
Mrs. Sarah Todd, the Oldest resi-
dent of Walla Wa.la and probably OF
the northwest, died at the Northwest
Christian home in Walla Walla, last
week. Had she lived until March 20
1915, she would have been 105 years
Old. She was born in Kentucky 10
1910
Edward Gall, Russian. was arrest
ed at Vancouver, Wash, and soon
after confessed having murdered Otto
Ludke, farmer, near Ridgsfeld
Wash, November 20, last. Ludke was
shot While visiting at the home OF a
neiehblr, the assassin firing through
Il window from outside the house.
Announcement is made by the state
tax commission of Oregon that the
state levy for 1915 would be 1884
mills, and that the total state tax
would be $l,O53,OOO less than for 1914
The levy for next year is based on a
,Otal valuation of 1882, 4i30SO, and il
will produce totai tax Of $3,ll2,00O.
Visitors to Yellowstone National
park next season may battle in the
natural hot water that spoutS from
the many Geysers in the vicinity oil
Old Faithful inn. Henry ]. Brothers.
Salt Lake attorney, has been grant
ed the concession for maintaining
public bath houses in the geyser dis
Crict.
John Killman, aged 10, shot and
seriously wounded Claude kinehart
aged 80, at Lents, suburb ot Fort
land, following an attempt at suicide
made by Sylvia Kil.man age l6, sis
ter of John Killman, who declared the
girl had been driven to the acl
through mistreatment at the hands
vi R.nehart.
Alter spending the night guarding
the body OF Game Warden A. s Hub
bard On a Lonely trail near Elk creek
sheriff William SINGER and Deputy
sheriff wilson, walked to the cabin OF
lis slayer, Loris Martin, arrested hin
and brought him to the Jail at Jack
sonyille, Ore. Martin claims he shol
Hubbard in self-defense.
The people of El.ensberg, Wash.
have been experiencing the coolest
weather in years. The Yakima river
is frozen at the intake of the cit.
| power ditch, causing further delay t.
the resumption OF the hydro-eIectrit
plant, which was put cut of commits
sion several days ago by ice cake.
breaking the turbines.
Since the Salt Lake people have
been in control of the EiyGibraltal
| Mining company property located tw'
and half miles north of McGill, New
they have shipped approximately So
| 600 worth of lead ores. 1t was high
grade stuff, the last carload carrying
- per cent lead, three ounces silye
and 40 cents gold.
At the mines and metallurgical de
| partment of the University of Utal
Cntre IS nuM IN e,.h .Oltlon one of tn,
richest chunks OF carnotite ore tina
ever came out of southeastern Utah
1t weighs twenty-five pounds, and i
said to carry 80 per cent uranium
oxides. 1t came from south o
Thompsons, Utah.
According to reports from Big Cot
| tonwood, near Salt Lake, the raise OF
the ore body at the Cardiff is up fort.
feet and is in good shipping values
The shipments down the canyon hav
been about forty tons day Will
driving 100 feet in the ore shoot
which is in nearly $500 feet from tn
portal of the. lower tunnel. The or
averages $25 to $50 = ton.
Recent word from Tintic Is that tn
new 100ton mill which was construc,
ed near Eureka City for the treatmen
of ores from the Chief Consolidate
has turned out its first carload of cor
Centrates. This will make up a ca
OF 30 10 40 tons, The returns iron
its treatment at the smelter Will b.
awaited with considerable interest b.
Tintic operators in particular
One carload of fold ore, 5000
pounds, on which the assay woul
place value OF approximately $1,000
600 has been shipped from Crippl
Creek to Denver. This is believed t
be the most valuable car of ore eve
transported in this country. The min
IS owned by Chicago ana Detroit cap
taiistS.
Ever since the Old Daily mine a
Park CITY, a property with a dividen
record OF $3,925,00O, forwarded cal
.oad OF $50 ore some time ago, report
have been rife that a strike wort