The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1916-02-12
NORTHWEST NOTES


The population of Nevada at tn,
census of 1910 was S1,S75. and it is es
timated that it wss $4,000 ON July l,
1914.
Indications are that the propose
railroad from New Meadows, Idaho, to
Grangeville. Idaho. may soon be
financed.
Dick Noonan, an aged miner of
Tonopah, Nevada, suffered a broken
leg when he was run down by SOL.
boys coasting on the street.
John Hart, who was arrested at
Reno on a charge Of leaving his team
standing in the storm without food or
water for. more than six hours was
fined $40. +
An appropriation of $4,000 was
added to the fund for the eradication
Of the rabies epidemic in Nevada nv
the Nevada sheep commission which
met in Reno last week.
Drunkenness in Seattle during tho
first twenty-nine days of January de-
creased 81 per cent from the CORE.
spending period of last year, taking
police arrests as authority.
The long-eared bunny is doomed On
the Salmon river tract in Idaho. as an
organization of farmers has been
formed there to poison the animals
which are making big holes In the
haystacks.
A wild cat was killed at Clear
creek, near Winnemucca, a few DAYS
ago. The animal bore evidence of
having had tough tussle with a nor.
cupine, as it's mouth and nose were
covered with quilts.
| A training school for aviation will
| be established at Fort Douglas. Utah.
next August as an adjunct of the citi-
zens' military training camp, accord
| ing to plans of L. B. Mccormick, chair
| man Of the aviation committee.
| The lowest the mercury dropped in
Nevada during the recent cold snap
was recorded at Empire, near Carson
| City. The thermometer fell to "a de-
grees below zero, but warmed to
only" 26 below after the sun came
out. .r
| Yourt Sioux, the Indian who at
tempted suicide at Winnemucca, Ne
vada, by discharging the contents OF
a shotgun into his face, has good
chances of recovery. The red man
was drunk when he committed the
rash act.
Fire which started in the basement
of drug store at Kalispell, Mont, de-
stroyed the building and damaged two
mercantile establishments adjoining.
The loss is estimated at $4,000. The
1 fire followed an explosion in the base
ment of the drug store.
Representative Humphrey Of Wash
ngton at the request of Ezra Meeker,
has introduced bill making an ap-
preparation Of seventy-five thousand
dollars for. surveying and locating a
military and post road from St. Louis
to Olympia, Wash, over the route of
the old Oregon trail
Norman and Carl Smith are under
arrest, suspected of the murder Of
William Maynard, whose charred
body was found few days ago in a
burned cabin four miles from Carin,
Nevada. At first 1t was thought that
Maynard was burned to death while
in drunken stupor.
Officers of the Utah-Oregon Sugar
company have announced that the
bond issue of 100000 has been sold
and that the capital stock Of the COM
pany increased. The company is now
financed and contracts will be let with
in short time for the erection of the
factory near Grants Pass, Ore.
A. A. McAulay and d. T. Cochran,
miners. nearly persisted in the storm
that swept over Nevada last week,
while walking from Reeds ranch to
Lower Rochester, distance of thirty
two miles. The walk took them from
6 O'Clock "Wednesday morning to 4
o'clock Thursday afternoon to cover
the distance.
Miss Myrtle Smith. living near
Eureka, Nevada, while returning from
a rabbit hunt, dropped a rife, the
weapon being discharged. the bullet
entering under the heart and emery
ing at the breast. Pieces of the cloth
ing she was wearing entered the
wound, but were picked out. From
last accounts she was on the road to
recovery.
A movement was started last week
by settlers and land owners on the
Salmon river project, In Idaho, to pc
tition the state land board to make an
appropriation out of the Carey Act
fund Of $4,000 to aid the settlers In
litigating to definite conclusion their
differences with the bondholders, who
succeed in interesting the Twin Falls
Salmon River Land & Water Co.
Not less than $35O.O0O is to be
saved In the administration Of state
expenditures during the biennial pc.
Rod that Governor Alexander serves
as chief executive of the state OF
Idaho. At least that Is the aim. Dur
ing the first year of the blennium he
saved no less than $16O,095.43 In ex
penditures as compared to the first