The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-09-19
INLAND NORTHWEST

In Billings soon.
Matt Feldman, q well known young
man Of Lewistown. Mont, was killed
In an automobile accident between
Hilger and Lewistown.
Absolute necessity of landing field
{" keep pace with the progress of avn
ntion has been felt In Billings. Mont,
and steps are to he taken at once
for securing a suitable site.
Members of the farm bureau in Ben
ION county. Wash. who organized
bull club three years ago, have sold,
for Sl.05o. bull which they purchased
Cor $3.50 when they organized.
Mrs. Nary +. Conkheit. aged SO, said
TO have been the first white girl in
Broadwater county. Montana, and
known 10 have been one of the first
white girls in Montana. died at Hell
ena last week from inirmities due to
old age.
Senator Myers has introduced n bill
/ giving all American citizens who en-
listed in any of the allied armies, in
Guiding Canada, and left the United
States to serve abroad, the same home
stead rights us those who enlisted in
the American army.
A referendum vote taken by the vir-
gina City and Gold Hill, New. miners
on the question of continuing the
strike or accepting the SIS day wage
as proposed by the operators, resulted
In the union members sustaining the
action to resume work ut the So scale.
A survey to check up the results of
the Standardization campaign con-
Quoted last spring in Colorado showed
that where such treatment was prac-
t,ced there was very little smut, but
where the seed had not been treated as
high us % per cent infection was re-
corded
Complaints are being made by Ely,
Nevada, merchants to the city author
tiles against the practice of persons
who interfere by peddling without II
license, with the regular business OF
established houses that are regular
licensed business establishments and
tax payers.
The Farm Bureau Of Willard county,
Utah, through its livestock project
committee and county agent, induced
"a farmers to cooperate in the mar
keting Of the wool clip, with the result
that $500 pounds of wool were pool
ed and marketed at an average price
of 80 cents pound.
The search and seizure clause OF
the Wyoming prohibition law was helt
unconstitutional by Judge J. H. Bur
CESS in the district court ut Sheridan
The court ordered the return to origi
nal owners Of large quantities Of II
quor seized and held as evidence
against alleged violators Of the DIR.
law.
Stockmen and farmers in the seri
tana and adjoining states, where fee
4 crops and pastures have failed TO
/ lack of rainfall, are being given som
relief through well-organized and CO
! operative efforts of the United State
department of agriculture and stat
ht officials.
significant step in the project O
= boring the Moffat tunnel throug
"a James Peak was made at Denver las
- week when L. D. Blauvelt Of Denver
associated with the engineer executiv
staff of the Denver & Salt Lake raj
road for sixteen years, was appOinte
consulting engineer for the enterpris
by the state railroad commission.
Senator John F. Nugent of Idaho, a
the request of the United Stockmen'
association, has telegraphed Presiden
Wilson asking that he grant an intel
view while in Salt Lake, Septembe
%, to a delegation representing ives
ern stOckmen in order that they ma
discuss with him the question Of fes
eral control of public grazing lands
A law under which the state of N
vada is estimated to have collecte
4 100000 annually and which Wa
amended by the last legislature to pr
"a vide for collection of a license fee fl
81 grazing on Nevada ranges at a high.
rate for nonresident stockmen tina
for residents has been declared unco
Stitutional by Judge E. J. L. Taber
the district court at Elko, New
The sum of $165, $50 was distribute
TO persons in the city of Reno in 10
by the various life insurance cor
paldes of the country on account
death claims and matured rolicie
Winnemucca came second with claim
aggregating $4,000, Goldfeld he,
with $4,000, Goodsprings $500
= Carson City $4,000, Tonopah $12, rs
Virginia City $12,750. Ely S1l.50O
The first step toward reclamatit
Of the famous big Bruneau probe
and toward development of the pow
and irrigation resources of the Snail
river in Idaho on scale that will
e one of the greatest in irrigation hi
I tory was taken last week, when Il
wi Twin Falls Bruneau Land and Wat
company applied to the state lai