The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-06-06
INLAND NORTHWEST

carl haSSeralier IL cnarEeu Win
shooting Anton Bjork near Paulson.
Mont, the trouble arising over u line
fence.
Fergus county. Montana. now has
committee representing all the COM
munities OF the county, To confer with
the commissioners in regard to plans
for good roads and more OF them.
Two Seattle residents were killed
and seven injured. two seriously. when
two big automobiles. which victims
said were racing each other, crashed
together few miles north of Seattle.
The contract for constructing IS
miles of road in the North Fork val
ley. in Montana. from Coal creek To
the Canadian boundary. has been
awarded. the contract price being
Sl25. 100.
A special election is to be held In
Billings August 10 To determine II the
| city can purchase and operate II muni-
| cipal cemetery under the provisions
of the measure passed by the recent
| legislature.
Or. Edward S. Parsons. for many
years head of the Colorado college at
Colorado Springs, and head of the
English department, has accepted an
offer of the presidency of Marietta
college mt Marietta, o.
The trustees of the Hamilton, Mon
tana, war chest have settled the Ques-
ton of the disposal of the $1,000 that
remained in the treasury, after having
met an war needs. The money is to
be returned to the donors.
Charges of discrimination in favor
of eastern over western soldiers and
, of unfairness in the dealings of the
war department with western men are
contained in letter sent by Governor
Carey of Wyoming to the secretary of
!. war.
, Only three cases of spotted fever in
. the Bitter Root valley and only four
! in the state of Montana, the fourth
D being in Fergus county, have been re-
9 ported to the state board of health.
:. All the Bitter Root cases resulted in
n death.
f The city council Of Whitehall, Mont,
3 has passed the ordinance closing all
places of amusement wherein soft
L drinks are sold, at II o'clock midnight.
s This includes ice cream parlors, pool
d and billiard halls, bowling alleys, and
L cabarets.
+ A rapid advance in the growth of
alfalfa and clover crops In Utah ana
d Nevada during the last month Is noted
p In the latest report issued for the
y twelfth federal reserve bank district,
ID covering general business and agricul-
" tural conditions.
i. II. r. Allison, formerly sergeant In
III the army, testified at Seattle at the
~ trial Of James Bruce that last August
re in Spokane, he heard several industrial
III Workers Of the World laying plans t
at "get" Lieutenant f. w. Becker, Seattl
W naval intelligence officer.
~ Said to be the first man in that dis
e. trict charged with violation or TIL
~ federal statute forbidding use OF graz
or other foodstuffs in manufacture Q
u spurious liquors. Gus Seehafer was al
-. rested by deputy United States MAJ
-, shall at Hoquiam, Wash.
"a Thomas German, 13-year-old son Q
q. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Lee German 9
a. Billings, Mont, was instantly kille
r when he rode his bicycle between aut'
mobiles in the center of Broadway an
into an oncoming car driven by o.
Filshie, livestock dealer.
The Elks of Lewistown, Mont, nay
definitely decided to run speci'
train from Lewistown to Bozeman Il
the Elks' convention there in Angus
It is proposed to take the Elks Dand'
= new organization of about ~ tralhe
~ musicians. all Elks, to the convention
Two unidentified men were bio"
TO pieces, residences and bushes
o,v oouses shaken as if in an eerthqual
~ and windows broken for "a radius
ov- many blocks in an explosion Whl'
wrecked the storage plant OF u
M. Wyoming Torpedo company at ga
DON per, Wyo.
tho Fire swept through Greene Park. T
gee amusement zone of Camp Lewis al
before the flames were controlled |
Uippodrome theatre valued at SIo,o'
40, was destroyed by fire; the Gree
roc park pool hall, valued at S4oooo, d
VII. China inn, valued at $23,0oo, were
most a total loss, and several OH
buildings were damaged by fire a
, IN water.
IN Just what is needed to quicken
odi. terest in the mining resources OF u
,ov. section and other undeveioped MINI
regions of Montana, and Il plan lo'
ing to the organization of permah'
a.. body of mining men to undertake
,neu solution of some problems now g
ne fronting the industry, were discuss
'iie at a meeung of mining men held
It, Helena.
Edward Primrose, one OF the tn
men charged with having held up
robbed the bank of Washougal, Wa
W., last month and who subsequen
in,, shot and killed Chef of Police Ra
o'e' Gibbons of The Dalles, in an ell