The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-09-19
NORTHWEST NOTES

past record is confirmed by statistics
already gathered.
Miss Margaret Byron of Boise won
the state tennis championship of Ida.
no. womens singles, when she defeat.
ed Miss Mabel Anderson of Lewis.
ton on the Boise courts
A comparison of building statistics
az given by the American Contractor
of Chicago, shows that Salt Lake is
decidedly advancing on the PRINCIPAL
cities of the Pacific coast.
Bob Bracken. who believes he has a
fortune in diamonds which some mys
ferrous pursuer wants to steal was or.
dered held at the Reno jail for obser.
walton pending hearing under an In
sanity charge.
After a tenacious battle for life. fol
lowing an attack of appendicitis which
overlook him two weeks ago, Dwight
Allison Dawson. former postmaster or
Reno. passed away at Reno hospital.
September 10.
That the Western Federation OF
Miners will have to step in and re-
habilitate its wandering brother, is the
opinion of most of the members of the
Boise labor union. touching the Butte
labor question.
Louis Avansino, one of the most
widely known residents and property
owners of Reno, passed away in San
Francisco from on attach of t,.L.:a
fever from which he had been suffer
ing for about two weeks.
Potato digging in Idaho already has
begun and shipments are being made
to eastern markets. 1t is not thoueht
there will be car shortage as there
are more cars as well as better stor-
age facilities than last year.
p. Grandjean, supervisor of the
Boise national forest, has asked the
Oregon Short Line for bids on hauling
mr. and pine cross ties, in view of hav.
ing Installed at or near Boise plant
for treating ties in southern Idaho.
Grading for the new depot which is
to be built by the Southern Pacific at
Verdi. New, was begun last week.
Construction will be rushed to compile
ton as rapidly as possible and Verdi
Will soon have one Of the neatest little
depots on the line.
word has been received from R.ck
Springs, Wyo.. that H. Van Densen,
cashier of the National bank at that
place, is dead, after an illness of two
weeks with pneumonia. He was one
of the leading men of Rock Springs
and prominent Mason.
Four track gangs have arrived In
Cokeville, Wyoming, and will i'm.
mediately begin laying rails for the
new line between Pixley and Folger.
One gang will be quartered at Pixley.
one at Folger and two at Sage. The
work will require about one month.
Ellis Morrison. for many years well
known in Republican politics in the
state of Washington and in 1895
speaker of the legislature, died at his
home in Seattle, aged GA years. Be-
fore coming to Seattle he had been for
five years member of the Pennsyl-
vania legislature.
Walter A. Byers. aged So night
clerk in the Seattle postoffice, ano 4
practicing attorney, was arrested with
his pockets full of letters taken from
the mails. He made a full confession,
saying he had been abstracting money
from letters since January because he
was hard up"
The steamship Mariposa, which left
Seattle Saturday for Skagway, car
lied the last freight which can reach
he Yukon river boats for transporta-
ton down that stream, along whose
shores ice has already begun to form
| The last boat from White Horse to
fairbanks will leave September 81.
Ralph sheldon Of Pineville, Ore, en-
| tered plea Of guilty of murder In
| the second degree. and was given a
| life sentence In the penitentiary. Shell.
don poisoned his infant son on June
TO- After the child died, he cremated
the body in the kitchen range burying
| the remains on the mountain side near
! the home.
Railroads are mighty fine things,
| guess, but don't want any more
in NINE" remarked Samuel B. Con-
nelly of Pioneerville, Idaho, aged go.
who has just returned from his first
| trip on a real railroad train. 'Ill stick
to the stage in future" Mr.. Connely
has the distinction Of being the oldest
living Master Mason in Idaho.
A federal grand jury has been
| called at Boise to consider evidence
| in the possession of the district at
torney, including charges against D
Simpson and L. G., Long, officers OF
| the American National bank of Cald'
well. and alleged to be responsible for
the failure of that institution year
| ago.
From six to eight carloads of early
potatoes are being loaded for mar
ket daily by the growers of the Deer
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