The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-02-21
INLAND NORTHWEST

ruptcy, declaring Inability to pay Obl1-
cations aggregating s499.412
More than q dozen lumber and |
single mills in southwest Washing |
ton which have been idle through the |
winter are arranging to resume op- |
erations within the next few weeks.
For the first time in the history Of |
the University of Washington, poiit.
ical speakers last week address
ed students at Seattle at the invita-
ton of the president of the univers
ity.
Officers of the Owyhee irrigation
district are seeking to have>th gov.
eminent take up and complete the
work On the project The district lies
in eastern Oregon and headquarters
are at Nyssa, Malheur county.
A. T. Wright of Billings, Mont.
of adjustment of the Order of Rail-
way Conductors, was shot and slight
ly injured when he resisted two men
who tried to rob aim in Chicago.
Two Mexicans, one of whom is be-
lieved to have been Rafael Lopez, the
bandit who killed five men in Utah,
escaped from jail at Powell, V'yo,
after being arrested en- trivial
charge Officers are now searching
Tor the fugitives.
That all future irrigation work In
Oregon must be financed by bond
issues and carried out with the aid
of the federal government was the
dominating flea expressed at the
opening sessions OF the Oregon state
irrigation congress at Portland.
BY denying an application for pub
lication of summons in a divorce suit
based on less than years residence,
Judge Moran inethe district court at
| Reno New, went on record as up.
holding the constilutionality of the
new divorce law requiring years
residence, except when both parties
live in the state.
1t fell to ice Streng OF Ogden,
Utah, to buy the first big wool clip
in Montana for the 1914 season, when
he closed the deal last week at Great
Falls for the ]. 3. Long company's
product, estimated at between 100000
and 100000 pounds, and sheared from
$500 sheep. The deal was closed
at 10 cents, it is learned.
Charles Morey, who escaped re-
Gently from the penitentiary at Can.
ON City, Colo, was captured in Help
er, Utah, last week. Mores was serv
ing a sentence Of from three and Q
half to five years on white slavery
charge and escaped while doing road
work with a gang OF honor prisoners
with gang of honor prisoners.
While returning from a dance a
Reno, Mace McCubbin shot ant
killed Mrs. Gertie Gundry, with whom
he had been keeping company since
August, and then killed himself. Hi
, first shot was directed upon Mrs. Der
Boalen, sister OF Mrs. Gundry, an,
afflicted light wound in her wrist
: Unrequited love prompted the deed.
The arrest at Chehalis, Wash, o
revealed the facts OF three murders
= which the sheriffs OF Lewis and Pa
cific counties have been recently IN
yestigating, committed in Octobe
and November OF last year. The vic
Tins were all JAPANESE workmeI
: killed in a quarrel over card game
;. Following it's custom of elevatin
> the vice-president to the premier O
/. flee of the organization. f. H. Vince
:, an of San Francisco was unanimousl
: elected president of the Western RI
. tail Lumbermen's association at tn
Salt Lake meeting last week. H.
rempleton of Great Falls, Mont, wa
elected vice-president and A. l.. Por
h ar of Spokane, reelected seeretar,
treasu
immigration officials at Los Al
: geles put up to- their superiors
: Washington the question OF whethe
!, Louise McElwaine Goto, America
a. wife of q Japanese, should be depor
:. I'd as an undesirable alien to Japa
o. land she has never seen. The gil
n whose parents live in Butte, Mon
and who met Manzo Goto, a Japanes
u Omaha, was married to Goto {
he high seas off San Diego, son
% months ago.
w After carrying his marriage licen
nm n his pocket for four years Csc
oil. ;aari astounded the clerk in Il
vr marriage license bureau at Butte
art alling there last week and asAil
,ar the paper was Still good. Being
ormed that lie document was at
good as ever, Sarri announced tn
ie was to marry the girl named thel
Or. II, Annie Petrttu. They had agre
he marry when the certificate W
nd .rst issued, but Quarreled
re. Milton II. Lee, arrested in Salt La
ng II January 81, charged with havi
ounterfeiting dies in his possessit
as made confession tn which
,ays he served three terms In 5
our .uentin for stage robberies IN
lad yocamitp and one term for train r,