The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-04-11
INLAND NORTHWEH


The new Roundup. Mont. cream.
VIII start operations May Is. and I'M
commence buying cream ana r,aLs
butter on that date.
Police asserted they believe tn.
when they arrested John Field
miner. at Seattle, they stopped an Il.
dustrial Workers of the World Mo,
kill Chief of Police ]. +. Warren VI
NO Agents Wanted" signs are sas,
on the front pOrches of a great mo-
Dillon. Mont, residences lately as H.
annual spring visit of house-to. ho,ss
peddlers to the city has proved soma
what annoying.
Contest proceedings have has,
brought by w. F. Dunn and James =
Mccarthy against Capt. William cu,,.
and Charles II. Treacy, declared h.
the official count to be the Democ-a,
nominees for mayor and city Treasures
respectively, at Butte.
The U. s. employment bureau :,
Havre, Mont, reports that there IL !.
great demand for farm laborers. as.
pecially in and around Hill coun,v
There is great necessity for supn,v.
ing the farmers with labor for tIo
spring blowing and seeding.
The state game warden is now gath.
ering rifles and shotguns confiscatsd
from aliens in various parts of Mon.
tana who had no alien gun licenses
and shortly before the hunting season
opens the weapons, numbering several
hundred, will be sold at public auction.
Assistant Attorney General Choats
has been appointed state code com.
missioner by the Montana supreme
court. The position pays $1,000 a year
and the duties include recodification
of the laws. 1t Is thought it will re-
quire two years to complete the work.
1t is anticipated that as soon as Gov.
ernor Steward appoints the board of
managers for the vocational schools
for girls, whose establishment was pro-
vided for by the sixteenth assembly.
that there will be lively scramble on
the part of Montana towns to secure
the institution.
The mayor of Salem, Oregon, will
appoint a special committee to con.
slider ways and means of establishing
a municipal telephone system, if the
Oregon public service commission is
sues an order allowing the Pacific
Telephone & Telegraph company to in
crease its rates, it is announced.
Announcement is by the West Coast
Lumbermen's association that the
United States Railroad administration
has ordered Of Oregon and Washing
ton mills 175,0OO,O feet of Douglas
fir ties for Atlantic coast railroads. In
addition 10000 feet of ties have been
ordered Of northwestern mills for
French and English railroads.
Capital punishment was restored in
Nevada when Governor Boyle allowed
an amendment to the present murder
act to become law without his sigma
ture. The law makes "any kind OF
willful, deliberate and premeditated
killing" murder of the first degree.
punishable by death or life imprison-
ment, in the discretion of the jury.
Use of captive balloons, as well as
airplanes in patrolling the forests of
the west, to locate fires, and for fight
Ing fires from the air, was predicted
by Henry S. Graves, chief of the
United States forest service, who at
tended five-day conference at Spo-
kane with district foresters from Mis-
soula, Portland, Denver, San Francis
co, Ogden and Albuquerque.
Announcement comes from Tacoma
by heads of the local BARRIERS, cooks
and walters unions of formation of 2
of thirty one labor unions
under the card and label section of thu
American Federation of Labor. Con
sentative labor leaders have been
working on the plan since the strike
In February, when radicals were able
to dominate the labor situation.
Advocates of the house bill for the
rehabilitation Of the Denver & Salt
Lake railroad through state ownership
and the boring Of the James peak tun-
mel blocked the opposition's attempt
indefinitely to postpone action on the
measure in the Colorado senate, when
the upper house adopted a majority re-
port of the committee on state affairs,
which has recommended immediate
The Montana railway commission
has instituted proceedings to secure
for Montana a rate equal to the Maine
rate on green coffee out of San Fran
cisco. The commission is also ask
ing through rate Of A cents on po-
tatoes from Kalispell to the Yakima
valley in Washington. The present rate
is 551a cents.
Questionaires Of 10000 men were
classified, 10000 persons eligible for
service We're examined and
1900 were inducted into the national
army by the city, and county draft
board at Butte.
Nearing his eightieth birth anniver-
sary, III. Il. Dewey. a second cousin of