The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-05-23
INLAND NORTHWEST

rural college, mas Deen engaged =.
Judge Of dairy cattle for the next r,s,
state fair.
Frosts in Utah during the past wee.
have damaged strawberries heavi,r
but nearly all other fruits have :.
Gagged harm.
Moving-picture slides advertiser.
Utah's war savings campaign haxs
been prepared by the Salt Lake offi..
for distribution and exhibition In th.-
aires throughout the state.
Trial of the first Of 70 alleged indu..
trial Workers of the World arrestaa
at Seattle on criminal anarchy charges
in connection with their activities dur.
Ing Seattle's recent general strike viii
be held May 10.
No trace has yet been found of five
prisoners who escaped from the county
jail at Everett, Wash. by saving their
way through three steel barriers. Tho
escape was discovered ut as the last
of the five made his departure.
A report from the Billings Y. NJ G
A. shows that between the dates Of
May and May 10 almost 800 returned
service men had taken advantage OF
the hospitality offered by this organl.
cation during their stay in Billings.
The codling moth has appeared in
the vicinity of MissOula, Mont, and II
IL the intention of the state board OF
horticulture to carry on thorough
spraying campaign this spring in order
to eradicate this pest, which is dan.
gerous to fruit.
WashingtOn's prospective winter
wheat crop alone exceeds her com.
bined 1918 viii ter and spring wheat
production by more than 100000 bush
els. The $4,000 acres seeded last fall
came through the winter with but
3 per cent loss.
A conference agreement whereby
transfers and chauffeurs of Spokane
will receive $4.35 day, helpers "a
day, with time and half for overtime,
was accepted by the union and the
strike of about 500 local teamsters and
chauffeurs was declared at an end.
Letters have been received at Bill.
ings detailing conditions among men,.
bers of the old Second Montana in
France that have served to arouse.
more or less indignation. 1t is set
forth that they are employed as labor.
ers and scullions at large educational
institution.
Joseph Kellar, state parole officer
held unique reception at Portland
when he kept "open house" at the
courthouse for men on parole from the
Oregon state prison. More than 205
paroled cOnvicts had been notified by
mail to report. Only one was out Of
employment.
Seven indictments against the state
fish and game commission of Oregon
were contained in a resolution passed
by the executive committee of the
Multnomah Anglers club, petitioning
Governor Olcott to make an immediate
probe Of the administration of the
commission.
The Pacific Coast International
Longshoremen association closed its
second annual convention at Seattle
with the adoption of resolutions pro-
testing against shipments of arms and
ammunition to Russia and favOring
the immediate withdrawal from Russia
of American troops.
After more than twenty-three years
of continuous service with Yellowstone
park touring companies, Howard FL.
Hays, who started as busboy With
the Wylie Way Camping company, has
purchased the company and is now
sole owner of what is known as the
Yellowstone Park Camping company.
A cash scholarship Of $500 is to be
awarded sometime during September
by the Harvard club of Utah, accord
ing to announcement by the chairman
Of the scholarship committee, last
week. 1t will be open to any Utah man
who desires to enter Harvard in any
Of its departments, either as an al,
vanced student, graduate or freshman
City officials at Cheyenne have an
nounced plans for the construction OF
800 1000 hospital, to be known as the
RANGES Warren Pershing hospital
United States Senator f. f. Warren
gave $4,000, the city contributing thu
remainder. The hospital will be named
In honor of Senator Warren's daugh
ter, wife of General John J. Pershing
who died in fire at the Presidio, SaI
Francisco, in 1915.
Taxation officials of Montana are
engaged in the preliminary operation
of putting into effect method of lane
classification declared to be unique il
the west and which is intended to give
the state board of equalization a more
accurate basis for estimating tax val
nations. The entire area of the stat,
to be cut up into 40-acre tracts AM
the exact value of every acre of eaci
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