The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1916-01-15
NORTHWEST NOTES

beet campaign and the opening OF the
factory at Fallon, Nevada, next tea-
son. was taken up last week.
An old trunk, picked up In the WI
lamette river at the foot of Flanders
street, at Portland, when opened re-
vea!ed the dead body Of man VINO
had been stripped of his clothes. Tla
body has not been identified.
Twenty Thousand square miles of
Wyoming, the biologists assert, is Of
a character indicating the presence CT
oil. Less than one-tenth of this area
is embraced in the districts in which
scientific prospecting has been done.
The Seattle police are looking for
William Busky, who affixed his cross
to an affidavit to the effect that he
was with Joseph Hillstrom from to
10 o'clock on the afternoon Of Janu-
airy 10, 1914, when the Morrison muir
der took place in Salt Lake.
The board of health of Sparks, Ne
vada held a meeting last week for
the purpose of discussing the sanitary
conditions of the city. Fourteen resi-
dences were reported to be in an un-
sanitary condition and the owners
were ordered to clean them up.
Carl Steinmetz, who was supposed
to be insane, was placed In jail at
Winnemucca, New. The man jumped
from the second story window of
Lovelock hotel. He was only slightly
| injured and gave the officers a hard
battle before he was recaptured.
Frank Rupp, q mill man. was
crushed to death last week in the War
Sagle mill at Manhattan, New. No
one witnessed the tragedy, but it is
presumed his coat caught in the belt
ing where he was drawn into the
shafting and his body was frightfully
mangled.
The tearing down of the buildings
at the Butte race track and the cut
ting up of the property into building
lots mark the passing OF one OF the
most. historic race tracks of the west.
The track was built by Marcus DAILY
nineteen years ago at cost or
$4,000.
Dennis Murphy of Tonopah, who
had been making an extended visit to
his birthplace in Ireland, was recent
ly killed there by being run down
while riding bicycle. The point OF
buggy shaft penetrated his stom-
/ ach, causing death a short time after
| the accident
At the conclusion Of continued In
vestigation into the sudden death at
| Palms, near Los Angeles, of w. j.
| Guthrie, wealthy mining operator.
| formerly of Butte Mont, the authori-
ties said they were satisfied that
| theory of foul play, tentatively ad-
| vanced, could net be supported.
The Chinaman who was murdered
at the Mcintyre ranch near Halleck,
| Nevada, on the evening OF November
9Th, left an estate valued at several
hundred dollars, consisting Of money
in the First National Bank Of Elko,
besides a stock of goods carried by
himself for sale to the cowboys.
Il The Winterwood ranch property in
\ Clark county, Nevada owned by John
II C. Winters and John Nj. Prophet OF
| New York has been purchased by l..
Lindsey and his associates OF Los An
: geles. The deal Is said to include 4,
$50 acres, one section of the origina
purchase having been sold to Japan
= ese.
The pupils of the Dressli school, 9
short distance from Elko, recent.
killed coyote with clubs in front OF
the school house. A pet dog and the
coyote were engaged in fight in the
school yard which attracted the at.
| tention of the pupils, who charged the
coyote with clubs and finally succeed
| ed in beating it to death.
III Although Ogden and Salt Lake Off
/ GERS are reasonably certain that J. H
| | Ripley. prosperous cattleman of Sgd
ney, Mont, has been saved the loss
Of $4,000, they are still on the look
out for members of gang of swim
dlers who are believed to have inter
ested the Montana man in fake
horse race game few days ago.
Major James Ormsby is completing
| the installation of wireless telegraph
| plants at his home at Casper. Wyo.
| and at his ranch, fifty miles to thu
1 uOTlHedSC ana Wnen Inc SySloAi 10 IL
operation he will direct his large
sheep business by wireless. The tw'
plants are of sufficient power to re
ceive messages from points up to TO-
miles distant.
II Probably the most earnestly pa
y triotic man in Wyoming is George L
Durbin, II years OF age, bailiff Il
the United States district court a
Cheyenne, who gets about with the as
: sistaaae Of two cork legs. He Is tn
l first Cheyenne man, so far as has bee
III made public, who has taken out men
=. bership In the National Defens
~. league, the headquarters Of which ar
I'VE at Washington, d. c.
\ The body of man was found r,
Gently In the Carlin, New, railroa
yards and from all appearances he me
his death while stealing ride on on
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