The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-02-14
INLAND NORTHWEST

The stage line from Thorne 10 bouie'
New. has been abandoned, as mail con.
tracts will now 20 via Bridgeport
A legislative investigation of the
high cost OF living by a committee
of three members has been proposed
in the Nevada legislature.
Butte physicians who recently raised
their rates are 10 be called before
committee of the legislature. AT the
request of the local labor unions. to
explain their action.
a bin is before the Wyoming iegis-
lature providing for the semi-annuai
payment of taxes. there being consid-
cradle difference of opinion regarding
the merits of the measure.
The money to build the new spur OF
the Strahorn railroad from Dairy TO
Bonanza. Ore, is reported to be more
than half raised, and it is thought the
balance will be secured in a few days.
Opals weighing six ounces and of
fawless texture are being mined in the
Thousand Greek opal field in Nevada.
Expert lapidarists have pronounced
the Nevada product to be of the finest
grade
If a bill introduced in the Montana
legislature becomes a law, the educa-
tional institutions of the state Will
derive an annual income of S34,OO0
from the interest On uninvested school
funds.
The North Pacific district, compris-
ing Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
will receive S272,422 of the million
dollar federal fund for the building or
roads and trails within the national
| forests
The deficiency bill before the Ne
vada state legislature calls for an APP
preparation Of $4,000 to care for the
| deficiencies in state institutions. the
state prison leading, with 1,T16, and
the asylum S14,14S.
| The town of Winnemucca, New, III
having trouble securing a dog catcher
| who will round up the numerous dogs
which infest that town, and up to the
present time no one has been found
who will agree to accept the position.
Metropolis New, ranchers are doing
remarkably well raising poultry, one
farmer who has 200 hens spending 81
each day for feed for them and selling
So worth of eggs. Turkeys are also
being raised with profit in that COM
munity.
Charged with padding pay rolls, in.
dlctments have been returned by the
federal grand jury at Carson, New,
against p f. Connolly, former road
master of Winnemucca district, and
twelve former section foremen OF the
Western Pacific.
Aftef-Ave previous unsuccessful at
tempts to end her life, Mrs. Mable
Johnson, wife of FallOn, New, ranch
err, Jumped from the roof of the hos
pital at the state asylum a distance of
forty feet, her skull being fractured.
death resulting.
The officials of Ormsby county, New,
are contemplating making the women
of the county pay poll tax. 1t is ar
gued there that since the women are
engaged in all the businesses in which
the men are engaged, that they should
bear an equal burden.
The Oregon state board of health
giving a record Of The influenza cases
reported to that office, including those
who had used vaccine treatment anc
those who did not, makes goof
showing for the use of the vaccine
but advises that the effects do not las
long.
!. A member of the state brand com
mission of Wyoming reports that hi
board has paid 100000 to Wyoming
cattlemen since April / last, and still
has $4,000 on hand to be dsbursed
: This immense fund was derived from
:. the sale of stray stock at the singh
market of Omaha.
! Hancock and Taylor, the prospector
:, whose mysterious disappearance fror
. their camp in the Colorado river cOur
try below st, Thomas, Nevada, cause
sensation in that state, were FOUL
murdered it is believed, the bodies be
> ing found in badly mutilafed cond
~ ton and partly eaten by wild animals
The death is announced at Los Al
r, geles of Charles Forman, Nevada pie
!, neer and Indian fighter, at the age G
a 81. Forman took part In battle wit
=. Indians near Virginia City in the earl
days, when ninety-two white men OF
posed several hundred Indians. an
only twenty of the white men SUI
~ vived
Of In full appreciation of the fact ths
n the finest livestock in the world, grow
~ in the intermountain country, will
70 on exhibition at the fat stock sho
IS next April, to be sold on the secon
lay of the exhibition, order buyel
from the east and packing buyers fro
the east and west will be in Salt Lal
no In large numbers during the first wee
re- In April.
On With mean temperature OF ~
w degrees above zero, the month of ia
III uary was the warmest January Heller
~ has experienced since the local weat
err bureau station opened there In 1Ss
There will be no harness races tn
~, t,.rc of f,ft TIM INT