The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-01-30
NORTHWEST NOTES

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congress.
An unidentified burglar. who was
trapped in a house in Seattle, was
killed in running pistol battle with
four policemen.
Ten-round boxing matches will be
allowed in Oregon If bill introduced
by Senator Perkins of Multnomah
county becomes a law
One man was killed and three others
we're injured, two seriously, when an
Oregon Washington railroad freight |
train hit an auto stage at South Elma, |
Wash.
William d. Scott, president and gen.
eral manager of the Spokane, Portland
& Seattle railway, died at his home at
Portland of heart failure. following an
illness OF two weeks.
Eleven young men, mostly higa
school boys, pleaded guilty at Baker
Ore, to charges of assault and bat
terry following the hazing at the
Young Mems Christian association OF
Merl Jasper, aged 15 1t is claimed
Jasper was badly beaten.
First substantial signs of a revival
in the northwest lumber industry
were noted last week when announce
ments were made of foreign engage.
ments for more than 27,000,000 feet
of Oregon fir to leave the Columbia
river between now and July l next.
party of Northern Pacific officials
last week inspected the recently &C.
I quired Gilmore & Pittsburg railroad in
Idaho. Business men Of Salmon CITY
entertained the party. What improve.
will be determined as result OF this
trip.
The Snoqualmie tunnel, bored
: through solid rock 1900 feet at the
L summit of the Cascade mountains In
{ snoqlalmie pass by the Chicago, Mil.
= waukte & St. Paul railroad, has been
y completed 1t cost $2,250,00o and its
s. construction occupied more than two
: years.
= Citizens in the vicinity of Manti
Utah. are very much interested il
!, the discovery of a ledge of minera
- which is declared to be pure epson
- salts The ledge is large one abou
!" thirteen feet thick and distinct out
- eropiIgs have been traced for about
: mile.
y One OF the largest real estate deal
n of the season was concluded at Dillon
a, Mont, last week in the sale of tn
IN Frank Schulz stock ranch near Glel
in dale to Kimball and Dansie of Sa
u. Lake The price is said to have bee
or ever $4,000. The Schulz ranch is or
60 Ct the finest stock ranches in southel
o, Montana.
i'd Mrs. Rose OConnor, said to be tt
OF leader Of a band of desperadoes r
IN sponsible for not less than ten mu
wv ders in the mining section OF sout
tt ern Nevada, is under arrest at Scare
light charged with the murder OF
NJ. Neblett. She is accused also
shooting and perhaps fatally woundil
:. G. A. Lane.
Death OF one and injury to four
suited at Pullman, Wash, when a b.
az sled carrying five smashed into
'es plate glass window Edward S. Bat'
er % years Old died almost immediate
nc with severed jugular vein. M.
eX Poor sustained badly fractured Il
II Another woman and two men we
'ar hurt less severely.
III Charles II. Zevely, who abs for t
MS years been principal of the Oak Rid
u's school, As miles southwest of Eugel
lef Ore, has been arrested on a charge
hos contributing to the delinquency
oh Rachel Tiller, aged II, former pul
uo who died at the home of her parel
10 in Cottage Grove, January IS, I
VIC hours after she had given birth tC
boy
Howard Dalton of Willard, Ut
ON, and the potato crop which gave b
ne. first place in the Utah boys club C
ted test last season, are the subject o
nall long article issued by the public
, bureau of the United States dep;
md ment of agriculture. In addition
enI the publicity, young Dalton's ACHE
by ment netted him $141.07 in cash
free trip to the Panama Pacific
position
John A. Fraser, who was a mem
cleo of party that had numerous
DOS counters with Indian along the Nc
1ee' Platte in the early COS, and who
q messenger before taking up min
non in Utah, was buried at Butte last W
lihs with Masonic honors. Fraser joi
the gold stampedes to Colorado, Id
and then to Montana, and had plf
sior mined in practically all the
,c5 placers of the state.
was BY proclamation issued last W
from Governor James Withycombe put
Tha end to martial law at Copperf
ates Ore, which had been in effect S
January 2, 1914, when Miss
]. Hobbs, secretary to Governor v
bout who went there backed by Colont
pub. K Yawson and force of militia
lated closed the saloons because of all
atary transgressions of the law by sa
eived keepers and gamblers.
Figures to show the financial