The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-08-14
NORTHWEST NOTES

AeSho July udlh CledTlIlBS ICT LQlS
year show substantial increase over
those Of the corresponding month of
1914.
j. F. Hayes, one of the best known
ailroad conductors in western Utah
and eastern Nevada. died last week
at Salt Lake hospital.
The Campbell-Kelly foundry at To
nopah was destroyed by fire last week.
Several autos in the building were re-
moved. he loss will approximate
$4,000.
MIS-. Albert Griffin of Kane. Wyo.,
and her three children were drowned
when rowboat in which they were
crossing the Big Horn river near that
town capsized.
Percy E. Christy, said to be from
Price, Utah. Is wanted by the police
at Grand Junction, Colo, on a charge
of forgery. The police say he cashed
a check for $50.
Samuel Platt, attorney of Reno and
former candidate for United States
senator, who, with associates, pur
chased the Reno Gazette, took posses
sion OF the property last week.
On an average Of seventy-five trans
continental motoring parties pass
through Cheyenne daily. Seventy-five
per cent Of the tourists are en- route
to the Panama-Pacific exposition, only
few travelling the other way.
Harry Lister, II and Robert Treve-
than, 8, were drowned while bathing
in Hangman creek at Spokane. From.
the position of their bodies when re-
covered 1t is believed one of the boys
was attempting to rescue the other.
After celebrating on the evidence
for less than twenty minutes, the jury
Farios, accused OF shooting William
Murphy on the night of December 21,
1914, brought In verdict of not
guilty.
Caught in the act of saving into a
door in the rear of plumber hnme
at Butte. daylight burglar was over
powered by the plumber and city
inspector, who were called to the res.
idence by a neighbor who saw the
burglar saving.
Carl Guiott, musician of Pendle-
ton, Ore, is enjoying the recovery OF
his sight in one eye after period of
complete blindness lasting Is years.
He suddenly regained his vision while
waIk;nU apd ho rucbod to hic homo RI
behold his wife and child, neither OF
whom he had ever seen.
Reports from the bureau of censu
show that the infant mortality il
lower in Salt Lake than in any other
city or country with the single excep
| ton of New Zealand. The death rat
in Salt Lake is 81 per cent of til,
babies under one year and in New
Zealand it is per cent.
Jose Sa.godo has been convicted
and sentenced to be executed for the
| wilful murder of Bessie Andy, an In
dian woman of Elko. According to the
evidence brought out in the trial, the
Mexican stepped out from an alley al
Elko and without any provocation cut
the woman's throat from ear to ear
| Although the officers have made al
exhaustive search for the whereabout
of Clayton j. Pohle, who disappeare,
from Reno last week, there has beel
no trace of his whereabouts. The rive
and foothills close to town have bee
searched by deputy sheriffs withou
avail, and they are at loss to 10
cate him.
The various district attorney
throughout Nevada have received
list, from the office Of the attorne.
general, of the names of automobil
owners in their respective countie
who have paid their 1915 license. Il
structions have been given to sue fc
the amounts due if prompt paymer
is not made.
Utah fruits this year will demand
good price, according to w. H. Ga
win, general manager of the Uta
Fruitgrowers' association, who sa.
that evidence Of this already Is
sight. The reason, he said, is large
that the crop in Utah would be belo
normal and the demand seems to
unusually heavy.
The doctors of Elko county, Nevad
have been baffled recently with
strange infection that seems to be ta
Ing the form OF an epidemic. Accor
. ing to reports the trouble usual
starts from scratch or bruise on Il
hand, then follows up the arm, accol
panied by severe swelling. So far I
fatalities have been reported.
Albert E. Sanders, who sometime
: assumes the name Of Fred Morgan,
+ Denver & Rio Grande dining car coo
; was arrested at Denver, charged vii
attempting bigamy, on complaint
his supposed wife, Luella Stumbaug
who claims she unknowIngly wei
{ through q mock marriage cesemor
!. with Sanders at Salt Lake In l9ll.