The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-10-31
INLAND NORTHWEST


Clubs was held last week at Elko.
Jerry Holland and John Sievers
station tenders, were killed TT the Eas,
Colusa nine at Butte, when the cabla
in the main shaft parted, the men
falling 800 feet.
The county commissioners of MuSSel-
shell county, Montana. have called an
election for January Il. 1920, to vote
on the issuance of $780, coo Of road i'm
prov..ment bonds.
While operating circular saw az
Fly, New, Lee Lockett had his hand
caught in the saw. which resulted in
the amputation Of four fingers and the
thumb from his left hand.
Reports from the new camp of Ar.
rowhead, in Nye county, located be-
tween Ely and Tonopah, indicate the
most important mineral discovery
made in Nevada for many years.
As the result of a runaway on the
Miller ranch near Las Vegas, New.
valuable mare tore her foot off when
1t became entangled in the barb wire
and it was found necessary to shoot
the animal.
The Las Vegas Land & Water CON.
pany will help supply the demand for
furnished houses at Las Vegas, Nev..
by completely furnishing % Of the 65
houses erected fs the company for
their employees.
Within a few minutes after he ar
rived in Billings to visit his sick wife,
George Steele of Bear Creek, was held
up and robbed of $3.50 by two IN.
masked men within block of the hos.
pital for which he was bouIid
One-fourth of Buttes' Merchants
have not paid their annual city Ii
censes. Furthermore, they have
agreed among themselves not to pay
them until forced by a decision of the
state supreme court.
Salt Lake is to retain headquarters
of the Oregon Short Line railroad
and Portland will retain headquarters
Of the Oregon Railway & Navigation
company after the railroads are re-
turned to private ownership.
Denver S. Dickerson, former gov.
ernor Of Nevada, and at present In
spector of federal prisons, has been
laid up at Carson for the past tive
months as the result of an accident In
which he suffered a broken leg.
To reduce loss and damage claims
the northwest is planning to secure
uniformity in sizes of boxes and ID
Y attempt to get fewer and better pack
ages. CALIFORNIA; standard sizes Of
= boxes have been Incorporated into ,
a code.
n Gasoline yield from crude Oil rul
g through Wyoming refineries in the sec
g ond quarter of 1919 amounted II
o about SO per cent, being the same a
from Appalachian crude. Wyoming
l. crude sells at minimum Of $1.50
# barrel. Pennsylvania crude sells a
# $4.25.
e John B. Ronstodt suffered peculia
G. and painful accident at Las Vegas
II New. Mr.. Ronstadt was working wit
a large pipe wrench when somethin
Is slipped and he fell, striking his throa
in fracturing his hyoid bone, or Adam
IL apple.
$ Elijah Bess, Upper Saltwater ranc
er and trapper, was found guilty
Columbus, Mont, of murder in Il
first degree, the jury fixing the pc
atty at life Imprisonment. Bess
ii. July last shot and killed Jake Lyon
his neighbor
n Ivan Mcclellan, convict from Sp
Re, Kane county, was killed in the Washin
ON ton penitentiary at Wslla Walla in
is terrific handto-hand fight with
Ike Stevens, another prisoner. The fg
ne resulted from quarrel that was stal
le- ed in the dining room.
ry. Water can convert untapped
sources of Montana into millions
dollars and increase agricultural pi
ers duction 400 per cent. The availat
lie water supply in Montana is suffice
ers to irrigate 100000 acres, although
Ike area now watered is but 1,75o'l
zen acres.
of Jordan located in the center of &
'et- field county, Montana, and possess
lis no telegraph lines, will have wirel
communication with the outside wo
according to the claims of the Jor'
Power company, which has incorpo'
was ed for $4,000 for the purpose of
day Sailing a wireless service betw
ere. Miles City and Jordan.
ler' Efforts made by Denver capital
au to finish the James Peak tunnel
lea the Moffat road before the railr
live promoted by Governor Bamberger
Utah into the Uintah basin can
completed promises to be one OF
greatest railroad battles since
the building Of the transcontinental ro
mem according to Denver newspapers.
syar The total net receipts from the
The tional forests In Montana during