The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-10-09
NORTHWEST NOTES

and bitten by rabid coyote
One hundred and sixty tons of hay
and a thousand acres of meadow be.
longing to George Russell. Jr., was
swept by fire at Battle Mountain, Ne
vada, last week.
Mrs. Annie Finnegan, one of the old
pioneers of Virginia City, Nevada,
passed away last week at a private
room in the county hospital. after a
protracted illness.
The eighth annual convention Of the
Nevada Federation of WOmen's clubs,
which will meet at Yerington October
9th, will be an assemblage of the
representative women of the state.
Excavation has been commenced
for the new high school building at
Wjnnemucca, New, and it is expected
that the building will be ready for oc-
cupancy by the first of March next
year.
The state game commissioner Of
Wyoming is arranging for the employ
ment of two or three experienced
trappers to aid in the extermination
of wolves in the Jackson's Hole coun
try.
DR.. Alex Wetmore, assistant biolo
gist of the United States department
of agriculture, has been ordered to &C
to eastern Montana for the purpose OF
investigating reports of cholera among
the wild ducks.
As the result of injuries received in
collision with an automobile, Ceci,
l.. Shields, private in the United
States army recruiting service,
whose home is at Salt Lake. died in
the post hospital at Fort Logan. Colo.
j. e. Sexton, general manager Of
the EurekaNevada railway, was grant.
ed request by the state board of
equalization of a reduction in the as
sessment valuation of. the property of
the railroad from $150,000 to $116,000.
j. T. Burns, indicted last May by
a federal grand jury in Portland fol
fraudulently locating claimants ON the
| Oregon and California land grant
pleaded guilty last week and was SEN
fenced to nine months in the county
Jail.
C. Liliopoulos of Seattle, Greek con
/, sui for the Pacific northwest and
| Alaska, received instructions from the
| Greek minister at Washington Tues
! day to issue a call for GreeA reserv-
lists and others eligible for military
duty to be prepared to join their col
ors at any time.
The Nevada livestock commission
| has ordered levy of one mill on each
| dollar valuation of all cattle, horses
and hogs. The money will be used
to pay the expenses of the commission
in stamping out infectious diseases
among livestock in the state. The taa
will raise about $4,000.
The elk in the Olympic mountains
In Washington, which were threatened
with extinction few years ago, nov
| number 1000, according to United
States Forest Supervisor Fromme. o
these 5000 are in the national forest
Recently the rangers have found car
casses of elks slain for their teetf
by hunters.
The most serious damage done by
the earthquake shocks experienced
throughout half dozen western states
shortly before midnight Saturday wa!
tunnel cave-in on the Southern Pa
ciflc railway at Carlin, New, a divi
sion point between Salt Lake ant
Reno, which delayed trains into Og
den for several hours.
Dry territory in Utah is thrown
open to shipments of liquor intended
for personal use, under ruling b!
Judge Arnold of the district court O
Evanston, Wyo. The decision wal
rendered in the case of the state o
Wyoming upon the relation Of w. F
Normandy against the Union Pacifl,
and Oregon Short Line railroads.
The supreme court OF Nevada Il
considering arguments in the case o
the Pacific Land and Livestock com
pany VS.. the Mason Valley Mines com
pany. In this suit tht plaintiff seek
to enjoin the smelling company from
operating its smelter at Thompson
claiming that the fumes from tn
smelter destroys the vegetation i
that section.
Robert Hogan, county treasurer {
Lander county, New, last week a.
, peared for sentence. He had entere
, plea Of Incorporating publ
money. The Judge pronounced
} sentence Of not less than three nj
more than five years in the penitent
ary and then made an order suspen
: ing sentence indefinitely, released Il
: bondsmen from liability and ordere
the defendant discharged from Gu
toay. 1t appeared that Hogan ha
made full restitution.
Il After being out about an hour Il
: Jury which tried ]. B. Auten for Il
murder Of Ray Curtis in Lakev!e'
!. Ore, on the night OF July IL, return'
H.. ysxaiss Of not gniltS aud thA d