The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1916-11-17
NORTHWEST NOTES

ers.
Adyices from the wool centers OF
Nevada, are that this seasons output
will be about the same as that Of last
season.
Fully 500 delegates are expected to
attend the lntermountain Good Roads
convention which win be held in Og-
den, Utah, = 10 and IA.
Wool clipping in all parts of Ne
vada is progressing rapidly and indi-
cations are that the season will con
| tinue we'll into the month OF June.
While preparing to leave Salt Lake
for Los Angeles. Arthur NJ. Coll, aged
80 years. Canadian, was arrested at
the station on a complaint charging
him with grand larceny at Miles City,
| Mont
The Jarbidge mining district to the
| north of Wells, New, is calling on the
Western Pacific TO supply 1t with min.
srs, as number OF the mines in the
district have increased their opera
| lions.
The state F ~ "a convention
held at Chicago, after electing dele
| gates TO the national convention
adopted a resolution criticizing as in
competent and va" ing" the "-s"u
: /, s~4rst. -
Frank White, Indian. arrested in
Reno, will have to go back TO Carson
| City 10 serve out 14-year sentence
on serious charge. White was out
| on probation. He violated his proba
| ton by getting intoxicated.
The office of the Japanese book
keeper connected with the Kemmerer
Coal company of Frontier was looted
| by three youths who live there. Some
| money and number OF powder check:
| valued at over $50, were stolen.
One hundred and twenty one dogs
| Of every species, description and dis
position have been caught by the
poundmaster at Reno since he went
to work, March 81 OF this number
| "a have been killed and the remain
| der redeemed.
A Russian wedding celebration at
| Cumberland, Wyo., lasted several
| days and resulted in several fights
Seventy-two kegs of beer, eighty gal
| ons of wine, fifty chickens and thirty
turkeys were consumed at the wed
| ding feast. which accounts for the
prolongation OF the occasion.
j. A. Young Is the assumed name
Of a former grain merchant, mayor
and postmaster of an unnamed Utah
city who has confessed, according t.
the police at Tacoma, that in two
years he has swindled grain firms oil
Tacoma, Portland. Oakland, San Fran
cisco and Minneapolis out of $1l 900
OH forged bills of lading.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will make survey of the proposed
thirty mile branch extending south
from the main line TO Castle Dale
and Huntington. Utah, to tap the 30,
600 acre tract of land wherein it il
proposed to build $1.OO0,000 sugal
factory and an irrigation project Il
cost another $l.000.0O0.
Miss Margaret Dantzler and Har
old Jackson were the winners at the
annual defamation contest held il
the White Pine county high school a
Ely, for the purpose of selecting rep
resentatives from the local institution
to compete at the state interscholas
tic oratorical contest which will b,
held at Reno on May Is.
What is believed to be the first cas-
in Utah of rabid animal biting hui
man was reported last week to thu
state board of health, when Wild;
Hanson, 3 years old, daughter of VIII
liam Hanson, rancher living neal
Lucin. Box Elder county, was brought
to the home of DR.. l.. H. Robinson a
Bountiful after she had been attacked
by coyote.
Bids have been asked of a number
of locomotive building companies b.
the Denver & Rio Grande for the con
struction of ten SaCta Fe type locomo
tives to be placed in service on 1t!
Utah lines. The cost of the engines
will be about 100000.
The deal for the Nevada Sugar com
pany's plant at Fallon has been closed
| according to a statement issued b!
George Wingfield. Wingfeld and cap
italists interested in the UtahIdaht
| Sugar company will form the Nevada
| Utah Sugar company.
The monthly crop report of tn,
United States department of agricul
ture, issued April Is, 1916. shows tina
the losses from disease in horses ant
mules in Nevada were 25 per LOO
head, the heaviest percentage of los
for any of the western states.
The Nevada Utah Sugar compan.
filed articles of incorporation at Sal
Lake last week and will take owe
the plant Of the OH company, whicl
attempted to operate sugar factor
at Fallon, New. some years ago. Tn
Utah-Idaho Sugar company is behin'
the proposition to rejuvenate tn
sugar beet industry in Nevada.
Burglars broke into the office Of tn
Fruit & Produce association at Ash
land, Ore. and blew up the safe. tn
explosion being extremely violent
/ ONLY a Few dollars were secured