The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-10-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

near Tuscarora, New. last week sold
Ill head Of cattle for $4,000. This is
better than ssh per head.
A. e. Drexler, Who pleaded guilty
at Reno to forgery. Was sentenced to
serve a term Of not less than one year
nor more than ten years IN the state
penitentiary at Carson City.
Greater facilities for handling tho
parcel post business win be added to
the Salt Lake postoffice as a result
Of the inspection of the federal build
ing by Secretary William G. McAdoo.
Indictments have been returned by
the grand jury against W. B. Slaughter
and Coney c. Slaughter, former presi-
dent and cashier. respectively, of the
closed Mercantile National bank of
Pueblo.
To provide a place OF resort after
the prohibition law goes into effect
January l next. for laboring men who
now gather in saloons, the city of
Portland has leased a fourstory build
ing and viii fit Il up at once.
| In order to stimulate the efforts OF J
the volunteer department. the Elko
commissioners have passeu an order
awarding a prize of SIS to the first
company of Elko that gets water ON
a blaze and $40 to the second COM
pany.
Word has reached friends in Reno
CT the death of George Kristzer, who
for many years was a resident of
Reno, which occurred in San Rafael,
Cal. MIR. Kritzer was enc OF the Ne
vada pioneers, who maze and lost
many fortunes.
Fire, said to have started from a
minor explosion waile a LOCOMOTIVES
was being fred up at Greybull, Wyo..
destroyed the Chicago Burlington d
Quincy railroad roundhouse and the
machine shops adjoining. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
The Oregon highway commission
has adopted resolutions that 100000
, be set aside for the comp elton Of the
highway between Hood Riger and Mo-
y sier, provided that Nasco county vote
bonds and construct highway from
: Mosier to FairaaA4s.
At a meeting of the Spearhead
company in Goldaeld, Neyaua, it was
decided to resume work on the propa
!. erty on company account III Is estiil
= mated that it win require about a
week or ten days to get the shaft and
top works into shape.
]. G. Roberts, for several years rep
resentative at Denver OF the United
States bureau of mines. has resigned
to become the first professor of the
Dr. Joseph A. Holmes chair of safety
engineering at the Colorado State
School OF Mines at Golden.
The auditor OF Humboldt county
Nevada, has been advised by the sec
rotary OF the state tax commission
that the increase mace in Humboldt
county lands by the state board o.
equalization does not Include lands o.
the Southern Pacific company
The national convention of the Wo
mems Christian Temperance union, IL
session at Seattle, refused to change
the annual meeting tine from Thu
closing three months oil the year te
spring, by defeating a constitutional
amendment making the proposed
change. II
His right elbow shattered When ht
was thrown from an overGurning auto
mobile, Charles Hufield of Riverton
Wye, did not realize that he had beer
hurt until after he had used the in
iured arm in rescuing three com
panions who were pinned under tn
machine.
Sheriff Slavin of Tonopah still ha
- a posse on the trail of San tucci, tn
bartender who shot Mcfarland an
Chase at Manhattan last week, bl
7 on account Of the lapse of time sine
the shooting ARRAY, it is considere
that the chances of capturing The gul
man are slight.
William BTamson, aged %, was hel
on charge Of murder and Mrs. Wi
liam Booth, aged 80, as an aceessor
10 following a preliminary hearing
se' WIlliamina, Ore, OF charges CROWN
out of the Staying of William Boot
no the woman's former husband, age
'eu 3d. who was found shot to death ne;
his home.
aS' Governor Alexander has issued
quarantine proclamation, pronibitir
|
= states in the union into Idaho, G
cepting from Utah, Washington, o.
gon, California, Nevada, Wyomin
Arizona and New Mexico. Its purpo
is to prevent foot and mouth disea
X being imported into Idaho.
Il Mrs. John Peterson, aged SO,
Il dead at Superior, Wyo. and NJ
John Isaacson and baby are IN sc
II Gus condition as the result of the
Il piosion of gasoline with which the y
II men were cleaning clothing One
II the women placed q pan OF gasol
Ia on or near a heated stove and a
"A minutes later the explosion occurr
Is showering the three occupants of
room with blazing fluid.
Ray Bradley, seal clerk at
Vegas, net with an accident in
railroad yards at that place VIII
resulted in his death. Falling betw'
two cars he was caught by the tr'