The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-03-06
NORTHWEST NOTES

week, when 10000 bushels OF May
pluestem sold at that price. This was
Jump OF cents over the record es-
tablished several days previous.
Word has been received from Sena
tor Miles Poindexter that the war &c
partmenf has granted the use Of the
abandoned barracks at Fort Waila
Walla for the use of the Sisters of St
Mary's hospital. which burned last
week.
Agitation in Portland against the
scent fare auto bus bore fruit In
Salem last week, when bill was In
troduced in the senate to place all
autobusses under control of the state
railroad commission, in common With
trolley cars.
AS the result of a conference be
tween government forestry men and
Wyoming state authorities in Chey.
enne, 1t is probable the immediate
steps will be taken to throw open part
of the Wyoming elk preserve to the
: grazing OF cattle.
For the second time during the SEES
sions the lower house OF the Oregon
legislature last week defeated the bill
] OF Representative ]. e. Anderson to
3 repeal a law on the statute books
+ making a health certificate for males
applying for a marriage license.
One million dollars will be saved to
the state of Oregon II the plan ad.
vanced by Senator Bingam and ap
proved by the senate committee on
y consolidation is carried into effect. He
would have a dozen departments dc
/. the work that now Is done by over
q fifty.
Preston G.. Thomas OF Plain City,
y Utah, has just been appointed an agri
cultural agent in South Dakota, and
= will have charge of Butte county with
~ his headquarters at Bellefourche Mr..
= Thomas was graduated from the Utah
g agricultural college in the spring OF
1914.
=. In an address on William Mckinley
- before the Bonneville club at Salt
r. Lake, former Vice-President Charles
- w. Fairbanks said there Is no sub
liner spectacle In the nations his
tory than McKinley's efforts to pre-.
vent the war with Spain and contrast
oy ed Mckinley with the present rulers
r. of Europe
n. 1t required two special trains in ad
q, dition to three regular passenger
on trains to carry the people who left
an salt Lake ON January 80 for Los An
an geles on the Salt Lake Route on the
all annual midwinter excursion. Each Of
,ar the special trains carried It's passen'
gers, and total OF $50 persons tool
. advantage of the excursion rates.
lit. An aggregate saving Of 1000 in ths
no. operation OF six of the principal state
er. departments in the next two years I'm
hat der the biennium just ended, and {
nd saving of nearly $4,000 in the same
uld departments under the 1918 bien
an mum are provided in appropriation
bills introduced in the Oregon legisla
ture by the joint ways and means com
mittee OF the house and senate.
~ Governor Lister sent pardons t.
fifty convicts in the state honor CAM
at Stevenson, Skamania county, Wash
ar last week, when the camp was closed
on One member Of the camp was not par
ICE doned He Is a long termer and viii
nan be returned to the penitentiary TIL
The men were paid so cents day fer thei
! to work, and some of the men have a
UNI much as 500 to their credit
and Land owners in the East Trncka
ling Meadows met at Reno last week an
talked over plans for organizing
mer drainage district for the purpose Q
tess doing the work necessary to drai
ele about 5000 acres OF land that is no.
age made practically useless by the bacl
ho' water from the river caused by roc
reefs that interfere with the free flo
of the river in that section.
orst One of the unique exhibits frol
Nevada at the San Francisco expos
we're ton will be a metal tree prepare
the through the genius of John w. Lode
vi of the Ioder model smelter, nes
day Reno. Mr.. Loder dug up sage brus
line about two feet high, and coated /
rmal body, branches and leaves with mat
from the smelter, the matte contai
e to ing copper silver. lead and gold.
now Expert evidence that the hair foul
wa in the hands of Mrs. Daisy Wehrma
q IN who, with her little child, was my
tne teriously slain in her home near Sea
II II poose in September, 1911, was n
= ~ from the head Of John Fender, &C
victed of the crime and saved frc
the gallows by the passage Of
amendment abolishing capital p,
Clos ishment, has been presented to G.
'ta'. arnor Withycombe.
nices Governor Alexander, in speaking
q Dy fore the Idaho State Horticultural
e de ISOLATION which was held in Bo
"a from January 18th to the 18th, /
citys emphasis upon the need Of adver
70 oc ing. He said that the growers hs
|, ara neglected the most essential thing
oep failing to advertise their wares 9
con that they should be continually Z
prom Eating to get apples consumed
=. " place of bananas, grape fruit and