The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-09-26

burg. Mont. May 10. was acquitted BY
jury.
The need for residences in Libby.
Mont. Was the chief topic discussed
at meeting OF the directors and men,
beers Of the recently organized Libby
Commercial club.
With the members Of the Elks lodge
in every county in charge. a campaign
To secure ~S5.0U0 for use of the Saliva
ton Army in home service work will
be started In Nevada.
With the forest fire season over. the
most disastrous in the history Of the
Helena national forest reserve. all but
the regular rangers and few guards
have been withdrawn.
AT Harlem. in Montana. has just
been completed most novel athletic
tournament in the nature Of a horse
shoe-pitching contest in which a num-
Der of experts froW various points
participated
Michael O'Neill, aged %, was burned
| to death in his room at Butte. He WAS
| smoking cigar, and II Is believed he
| fell asleep while smoking, and that the
bed clothing took fire. the smoke suf.
| locating him.
| The winter apple harvest in the
Walla Walla valley has commenced.
The crop is valued at $7jOOOO. inciud-
ing several good-sized orchards which
are coming into bearing in paying
quantities for the first time.
AS reward for its loyalty in meet
ing every Liberty loan with an over
subscription. the state of Montana has
been given German artillery field
piece and its carriage, captured by
American forces during the war.
Ole Hanson, former mayor OF Sc
attic, leaves Seattle September 10 to
deliver several speeches on American
ism under the auspices of the lyceum
bureau. He will speak IN Texas, Okla-
homa, Ohio, Iowa, Georgia and other
states.
Gas masks have been used with
great success by some of the crews
fighting fires In the forests OF Mon
J tana They were sent from the east
; by the forest service headquarters,
which obtained them from the war de-
partment.
Although he faced death almost daily
> for five months while in France at
, tached to supply train of the Ninety
: first division of the American army
| and escaped without scratch, Walter
y. Hay returned home only to be kill
ed In an automobile wreck near Great
! Falls, Mont.
Mrs. Bessie Clark, held In the county
Jail ut Butte ON a charge Of the muir
{ der of Grover G. Burns, denies that
she told Officers Rodda and Gilbert
I that she killed Burns. Mrs. Clark re-
:, marked that she had killed Burns, and
!. was willing to give herself up, accord
ing to the officers.
Stock ranges have been benefited
throughout the intermountain region
by the rains of the early part OF the
month. This relief to the ranges nit
igates condition which has been a
serious setback to- the stOckmen OF
! the west, particularly those in Mon
tana, Wyoming and Idaho.
Frank and Robert Mcdonald, wht
escaped from the Jail at Ely, New.
where they were arrested two weeks
le ago for the alleged abduction OF Louise
c. SnelgrOve, 14-year-old Salt Lake girl
e. and who are also wanted in New Yorl
Of on charge Of grand larceny, We're re
!. captured at Atlanta, New.
Eleven silos IRE being constructed II
IL Washington county, Idaho, as resul
e. OF two silo cxcu. sions held in April
es supplemented by the individual efforts
o of tie dairy and livestock committee
Us men Of the county farm bureau, AM
70 the county agent
81 If suggestion made to the cit
:. council and now being considered D.
w the ways and means committee shoul
be adopted the city of Great Falls mex
10 winter will engage in the retail Goa
-. business, dispOsing Of fuel to the pei
- pie of the city at actual cost
to d. Nj. Defines, Victoria cross winner
. held ut Aberdeen, Wash, for Grim
of forgery committed in 19l4, SAL
m, that he had hoped through his wa
lQ record IN FRANCE u wipe Out ms pes
EN- He said he had hoped to die in franc
snt but he came out only wounded.
st A disastrous fire occurred at r.
lance, Wyo., when the warehouse
the Union Pacific Coal company We
81 destroyed The loss Is approximate
$4,000 The origin of the ire IS NJ
,eh known. The structure will be rebui
at once.
It's worth $4,000 to be called
I. w. W., believes Arthur A. Pete
to son of Billings. He has MED su
Tor for that amount against Joseph Ben
OF diet, also of that place, claiming tn
rel. the latter circulated malicious repor
NV concerning him.
rlu' The sheriff and several deputy she
tue ifs of Sweetwater county caught
ivy Bookkeeping party near Rock Sprihe
~ y Ia, Il.