The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1916-04-22
NORTHWEST NOTES

Sueep SAeaFlnS Is beginning III Ne
cada with the coming OF warmer wea-
ther
Reno Baptists are making plans for
the construction of hew church edi,
flee his year:
This springs woal clip in Utah will
amoln, to T., % . pounds With
total valuation of $3,75o,QO0.
Fraok Daegan, a worker in the Ne
yada-Wonder mines. in Churchill coun-
~, Nevada, was killed by fall of rock
while at work
J. G. Blake. aged 50, for 10 years
chaplain of the state penitentiary at
Canon City, Colo, died of acute gastri-
tbs after years illness.
George Mer.ch shot and probably
fatally wounded Pete Grayoac in a
dwelling house at Ruth, New The men
had quarreled over a trivial matter.
Neyadas donation to the oattleship
which bears her name, a solid silver
service set of 20 pieces costing $500,
has been on display in the different
towns OF late.
Expenditures authorized by the Ore
Washington Railroad & Naviga-
tion company in addition TO normal
outlay will aggregate SO 100000 during
the present year.
About fifty Indians of Wadsworth,
Nevada, are engaged in improving the
rNF a., ia q
ton of the cemetery at Wadsworth
The graves have been unmarked for
years.
George j. Winchel, civil war veter
an, aged Y, took his own life at
EugeM, Ore, by slashing his throat
With a razor. His body was found
in a woodshed near his home by his
daughter-in-law.
A telegram was received from Col
onel Roosevelt on March 20 by Secre.
tary of State Anderson, saying, Il
hereby direct that you do not permit
my name to be placed on any ticket in
Montana primary"
John d. Richards, one of the best
known and esteemed young men on
! the Comstock, fell to his death as he
was being hoisted from the ZOO to
the 2,5e0-foot level through the joint
Ophir- Mexican winze.
A corporation organized by A. +.
Carlton, banker of Cripple Creek, and
capitalized at $10,500,O0O, has secured
control of the Holly Sugar company,
which operates beet sugar plants at
Holly Colo. Sheridan, Wyo., and
Huntington Beach, Cal
Edward IL, Sackett, Telluride, Colo,
contractor, was declared insane by the
| jury before which he was tried for the
| killing OF DR., G. +, Ridder, Of VIII.
mette, H., at Twin Lakes, on the
hight cf February 29. He was remand
ed to the custody of the sheriff.
NJ. P Preston, convicted of murder
in Goldfeld, and who is now selling
insurance i'll Milwaukee and whose ap.
plication for pardon was to have been
acted upon by the board at its coming
meeting has withdrawn his application
| by letter to George D. Smith, secretary
of the board,
Nevada" is a Spanish word mean
ing snowy" or white as SNOW" and
the name of the state was derived
from the Sierra Nevada. The state
ranls sixth in size in the Union. ItI
lengch from north to south is AS
| III, itc -
area IS l09,S2l square miles.
Nevada will experience this year tn,
greatest growth it has ever had, in tn,
opinion of these in position to know
There have been several gold rushe
to Nevada, but they have not givel
the state permanent population. Th
rush this year will be land rush Q
bona tide settlers and home makers.
Two deaths from spotted feve
, caused by tick bites, the first in Wye
ming this year, We're reported las
week. Fred w, Roedde died at Caspe
and Seth Cole at TEermopolis Mrs
Roedde, who was bitten by tick, is i
: such serious condition in Casper hos
pftal that her recovery is despaired o.
The state game department has bee
, notified by John Hunton OF GrayrockS
Wyoming, that he killed an immens
bull elk. in violation of the state pre-
tective law but in protection of hi
property, when the animal attacked
= valuable bull and in a battle for leat
ership of a herd of COWS was gorin
the domesticated animal to death.
!, |. b. Humphrey, a well known cit
;. zen and capitalist of Denver. has a
, rived in Independence valley, in N
: vada, in the Tobar region where he
making arrangements for eXtensiy
!. cultivation cf the lands in that Sc
tion. Humphrey has men and team
engaged in clearing away the brus