The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-08-07
NORTHWEST NOTES

A petition for the recall election was
filed recently by $50 taxpayers of the
county, in which Starr is alleged to
be corrupt and incompetent"
A special election has been ordered
to be held in Wheeler county, Ore
gen, August 16, to vote on the recall
of Joseph X. Starr, district attorney.
Mrs. Ann Knicesky OF Elk, Wash,
who has been held in jail for more
than a week, pending an investigation
of the death of her husband, John
Knicesky, by poisoning, was released
last week.
Ruth Reed, the woman who is ac-
cused of having fired four bullets into
the body of George Geiger, assistant
superintendent of the Salt Lake divi-
sion of the Southern Pacific, is in Jail
at Reno.
Eastern Oregon streams are the
lowest in twenty years, and the short
age of water for irrigation purposes
is becoming a serious problem, &C.
cording to reports received at the Of
fee of the state engineer.
Baled hay was shipped by parcel
post from Reno last week. The baled
hay weighed about 100 pounds and
was divided into four bundles and the
total toll exacted by the postal depart
ment upon the hay was $1.16.
Carl Johnson, a 17-year-oid Spokane
high school boy, last week equalleC
the worlds 10O-yard high hurdles rec
ord when he went the distance agains
cracks from the New-York Irish-Ameri
can A. C. in 13 is seconds.
Reductions of approximately 25 pc
cent in. residence and Commercial
lighting rates of the Oregon Light
Power company, operating in thirteeI
eastern Oregon towns, were ordered
last week by the state public servic,
commission.
The Smoke Abatement league hope
to agitate the smoke question in Sal
Lake this winter in such a manner a
eth sr to eliminate the nuisance -er
tirely or make conditions SO that notf
$ ing will stand in their way for accom-
plishing their object in 1916.
: One of the largest, if not the lars
est, wool sales made in Wyoming thi
year was concluded at Cheyenne whe
w. R. Adams of Fremont, Neb, pu
chased the Swan Land & Cattle con
D pany's clip of 100000 pounds for
: cents a pound. The purchase pric
# was $132,000.
The Oregon supreme court Frida
rendered decision upholding the cit
: of Roseburg in its proposal to issu
= bonds to aid the Roseburg & Easter
Railroad company in constructing
t railroad from that city thirty mile
into contiguous timber and agricu
tural country.
Leonidas Dean, the sheepherder WI
S kidnapped A. E. Empey, the wealth
rancher and sheepman of Ammo
II Ida, and held him a prisoner for s
Is days for ransom of $4,000, has a
IS mitted that he had also planned
i kidnap number of prominent ldal
sheepmen and bankers to hold the
: for ransom.
is With revolver by his side and
4 bullet hole in his head, Ferdinal
Osenburgge, aged 70, was found dei
lie in his home at Medford, Ore. He W
l. treasurer of the Commercial club al
a. one of the most widely known citize
ID in southern Oregon. Two notes fou
by the body indicated that Osenbrug
-. had brooded over the war.
9. The Union Pacific system may
w taxed by Summit county, Utah,
r 4.9S miles of main line and so of
s. mile sidetrack, according to decisi
of the state board of equalizatie
Is The long-standing dispute betwe
II Summit and Rich counties relati
= to which had right for the railro
taxes has been decided in Sunni
county's favor.
e Arthur A. Lewis, member of t
state public utilities commission, h
EN- been exonerated of blame in conn
he ton with the shortage discovered
IN the city treasurer's office at Spokal
NJ The shortage, which 1t Is said m
., sn reach $4,000, was traceable by missi
"a collection receipts issued in the fl
,aI FIVE months of 1912, during Mr. Lew
a term as city treasurer.
The suspected man arrested
ent Leadville, Colo, is not Rafael Lop
the Mexican bandit, wanted in VI
: for the murder Of six men. The sh
III at Salt Lake received a photogra
Of the suspect, who is said to be
Austrian.
.ool Warrant was issued at Tacoma
the arrest of Rev. Waldo d. Ma
M charging bigamy. He is said to be
Seattle with the woman alleged to
wife No. Q. Rev. Marsh's parchme
his to preach were taken from him in