The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-01-16
NORTHWEST NOTES

menu pitdueu guilty. last week III JUS
tice court 10 permitting gambling in
his premises, and was fined $l25
Seventeen saloonkeepers were ar
rested at Vancouver. Wash. charged |
with the unlawful sale of liquor in a
city voted dry under local option.
Losing his hold while at work clip |
ping cable at the top of telegraph |
pole at Reno, George Z. Bennett, a |
Western Union lineman, was fatally |
injured by falling As feet to the pave
ment.
William Murphy. who was recently
shot four times in the legs In pistm
iuel with Cenobio Farias, at Reno,
may lose leg, 1t being feared ampu
alton will be necessary to save his
| lie.
Governor Emmett d. Boyle issued his
irst proclamation on January 8, when
Nevada Livestock Quarantine No. S
vas given out by him as a measure of
precaution against the foot and mouth
4isease.
Governor Ernest Lister has granted
lnal pardon and restoration OF full
rights of citizenship t. c. W. Wappen
stein. who was convicted of receiving
brides while chief Of police of Seattle
n 1911.
Members Of the veterinary depart
nent of the University of Nevada are
having an active time these days to
| "A Ie, tbatr
professional and official services in
various parts of the state.
The arrest of Charles w. Jarvis for
beating his wife who resides in Eu-
gene, Ore. led to the discovery of a
complete counterfeiting outfit, which
includes a quantity OF material for
making counterfeit silver dollars.
Inability of flour millers in Utah to
secure wheat from the farmers in this
section, together with the rise in wheat
j prices throughout the nation, caused
The retail grocers to raise the price of
) -four to 1915 per hundred pounds last
$ week.
A jury in Seattle acquitted Joseph
e Rogers of burglary. Rogers admitted
d that he reached his arm through the
n open pantry window of Seattle resi-
/ denee last month, hoping to get din
, ner. He found only empty dishes
b however.
q John M. Harrington, one OF the old
c time cattlemen of Nevada, who wa
L for many years connected with the BIZ
A lr-erests of Miller & Lux, died at Rem,
q .fter an illness of considerable dura
% ion He was 60 years of age an,
we'll known all over the west.
That the University OF Idaho is dc
ng great work for the state and tina
It merits thorough cooperation no
only of the people of Idaho, but @
neighboring states as we'll, Is the be
y lief of a committee Of Spokane bus
c. ness men appointed by the chamber c
Ut commerce to visit and report on tn
a university.
Vi Northwestern senators and congress!
Is men, who last week invited Presider
OF Wilson to visit the northwestern state
: upon his return from the San Fral
~ cisco exposition next spring, left tn
gu White House convinced the presider
III will not make the trip to the expos
ns zion and, therefore, will not get to tn
- northwest this year
~ Ned Burt, 5year-old boy Of Ogdel
:, Utah, proved himself hero when h
"a res ,ued two companions aged and
ss rom the icy waters of the Ogde
liver. The boys were plunged into tt
stream when the ice broke beneat
S. he sled upon which they were coas
ng. Their cries of distress attracte
rs 3urt, who rushed to the river an
lrew them to solid footing
IN. Bait ste Robeno, arrested at Pendl
a. .on, Ore, with pair of handcuffs
he his wrists which the flesh had owe
nd grown, has been identified as ma
he who had escaped from Inspect'
%. Greenblatt at Nooksack, Wash, Jul
NJ |, 1918, just after he had been g
he rested near the border as suspe<
Cd .ul ag the nineteen months since tn
re late Robeno had been at large, unah
Id o get the handouts off and afraid
Isl surrender
or John G. H. Sierks, 25-yearold
mate of the Oregon state insane al
,ur,, has confessed to the killing
Mrs. Daisy Wehrman and her lit
boy in their cabin near Scappoo
CT Ore, on the night of September
1911. John Arthur Pender, OF Ogd'
Ill Utah, had been convicted Of the cril
no and is serving life sentence.
he The house has passed bill pass
or at the last session by the senate p
lay viding that persons who made 10
he tons of phosphate lands under
to placer mining laws, shall be EMIT
ov- to patent upon compliance with
son placer mining law. Many entries
Sed Idaho and Montana will pass to pat
on. under this bill as soon as is signed
the president.
Wilson ]. Thyes was shot by
,,,, Henkle at Lovelock, New, during
quarrel. The bullet entered the
side, lower than the heart, grazed
left lung and is thought to have b