The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1916-01-22
NORTHWEST NOTES

A two years campaign, in which the
great religious denominations of the
United States have combined, AMI
during which the entire country will
be toured. opened at Seattle last week.
Marysvale, Utah, is to have an
other potash factory. The Frank r.
Taylor company of Philadelphia will
build a plant within three miles of
Marysvale, which will represent IN
investment of $250,000.
District Attorney Lawrence ]. Lille
quist of Coos county, Oregon, All
nounced last week that hereafter all
newspapers and magazines carrying
liquor advertisements would be barred
from sale on news stands.
Predatory animals were responsible
for the loss of 100000 sheep during
1915 on the ranges of district No. of
the United States forest service,
which embraces Utah and parts Of
Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada.
H. H. Riddell, former secretary of
the Oregon Inland Development COM
pany. is on trial at Portland, charged
with having used the mails to defraud
in plan to sell lands scattered
throughout the state on the contract
plan.
Louise Turner, 20 years old, stu
dent at the state normal school at
Bellingham, WASH, was seriously and
probably fatally injured in e coasting
accident. A sled descending hill ran
into a group of coasters ascending
the hill, injuring five.
There was large attendance OF
representatives from all parts Of the
state at the conference held in Win
nemucca, Nevada, last week, to dis
cuss the rabid coyote situation. A
committee Of seven was appointed to
| recommend plan to the conference
for coping with the situation.
Perry Lowe, aged 20, while hunt
ing with his brother, Alden Lowe,
aged 20, was accidentally killed by
being shot through the body. The
two men were near their home on the
Mckenzie river, about thirty miles
from Eugene, Ore. Perry Lowe was
mistaken by his brother for deer.
| The Elko county, Nevada, officials
are drawing up a call for another spe-
cial election for the sale of sewer
bonds to the amount of 100000. 1t
has been found that the election held
last summer for the same issue upon
which the people voted favorably,
was illegal ON account of technical
flaw.
Marion Gould, an aged resident of
Las Vegas, Nevada, aged 65 years, per-
ished in the snow in or near the
Charleston range on New Years day.
The aged man had set out from Owens
siding to inspect some mining inter
ests in spite of the fact that he was
warned not to set out in the blind
ing snowstorm. l.
Believing that everyone he met
was talking about him, John Hen
erickson, laborer Sc years old, liv-
ing at Salt Lake, made a second at
tempt to commit suicide by slashing
his throat with razor. The other
attempt to end his life was made last
spring, when he swallowed carbolic
acid. He is expected to recover.
Judgment for $42.5O0 is asked
against the Cleveland Wyoming Oil
company in six suits filed at Denver
by as many Colorado, New York and
Salt Lake men. The suits upon which
attachments against the company's
property were issued are for the re-
covery Of money which the plaintiffs
say they invested in the company's
stock.
The Montana supreme court has
sustained the validity Of Nevada di
vorce decree. The case cited is that
of P. ]. Loveland who secured de-
cree of divorce in 1911 in Reno and
was recently arrested for bigamy in
| Montana, it being claimed that di
vorce decree granted in Nevada was
not recognised in the state of Mon
tana.
Wyoming Is q state Of large re
sources, whose development has only
begun, says a bulletin of the geologi
cal survey. Within its 1884 square
miles lie the most extensive Goa
fields and the most productive known
OIL fields OF the Rocky Mountain re
gion, thousands Of acres OF irrigated
and dry-farming lands, and extensive
areas Of splendid stock range.
Among the mineral products of the
state Of Wyoming, coal is pre-emi
nent. Its coal fields cover about Al,
l 500 square miles-two-fifths of the
states area-and contained Originate,
an estimated go. 1923, 0OO, 900 tons. O.
this quantity only 17S,OOO,OO0 tors, OF
about one-fortieth Of 1 per cent, ha.
been exhausted. The production il
1918 was 7,3s3,OS6 tons, valued a
$11,51O.045.
. More than $4,000 annually is los
= to the farmers and ranchers of the in
\ termountain states and Oregon an
Washington through the making AM
| RQ1o NJ huttor ~ Tho acknowledgements 4,