The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-10
MAND NORTHWEST

The Montana State Teachers e>rn
citation probably will hold It's thirty
second annual convention nj Grea
falls.
Wheat shipments from the northern
Montana division Of the Milwaukee
during October totalled SO cars. this
largest number ever sent out In q
single month.
by the accidental discharge OF a
rifle which she was handling Mrs
John Llvesay. 60 years Of age. was
dangerously wounded nj der bone
near Chinook Mont.
The air mail radio station Mt the
University OF Nevada established "A
record for sending and receiving mes
sages when greetings were exchanged
with n snip 1000 miles at sea.
An average net profit of $500 per
;hird acre Is the result thar has
been obtained by four potato club
boys under the direction of the Farm
bureau of the Fernley. New. commun-
Ity.
Protest against the omission of the
Salt Lake-Yellowstone road from the
rark-to-Park highway was made In
resolution adopted at recent con-
vention of Idaho Commercial club sec
retaries.
Flowing Is In progress in various
parts Of the Judith Basin country in
Montana and has been for week
past many farmers taking advantage
Of the fine weather to prepare for the
spring planting.
Walter Newell, state prohibition en-
forcement agent for Wyoming, was
found guilty of manslaughter in con-
necti0n with the death Of Frank Jen-
nings in raid on the latter's home
near Laramie on September Z, 1919.
Following conference between the
stOckmen Of Elko county. Nevada, and
the Fish and Game club. 1t has been
agreed that the stockmen withdraw
their objection to stocking the range
with a number of elk from Montana.
Acquisition of the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad properties by the
Western, Pacific company has result
ed In the announcement that $1,000
BOO will be expended Immediately on
In California and Ne
vada.
Losing his course and t. e gasoline
and oil having been exhausted, Pilot
Arthur Cox Of the United States air
mail service made n forced landing
1T Saratoga, Carbon county, Wyo.,
while flying from Salt Lake to Chey-
enne.
Elon Smith, a cabInetmaker of Ta-
coma, was charged in an information
filed last week with endangering hu-
nan life, felony, In connection with
In explosion which on October 25 last
the home Of #. II. Shong,
rlaim agent for the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul railroad.
Although Custer county Is 40 years
Did and practically every county in
he east half of Montana has been cut
rom this original daddy" of them
all, the official seal ,ppears never to
ave been adopted by resolution or
he county commissioners as the law
repaired. This discovery has Just been
made.
The revival Of inunclpal financing
N the last thirty days in Utah and
Idaho Is an omen Of future construc-
lion activity that Is most important.
In that period bonds to the amount Of
S2,S73.000 have either been sold or
the bids for the sales have been ad-
verrised by fifteen communities in the
two states.
The Fallon (Nev.) Eagle says it
may not be generally known that
Churchill county lands are being
grabbed up at pretty lively rate this
year, but glance mt the assessment
roll shows conclusively that many
home people, as well as those from
other states, have been investing in
railroad lands.
A policy opposed to any marked re.
duction Of wages was arr eur ted al
Spokane by J. G. II. Reynolds, secre.
tary-manager of the Associated Indus
tries of the Inland Empire, following
recent conference of members repre-
sentihg Industrial establishments OF
eastern Washington, Oregon and
northern idaho.
The forest fire loss In the Inter
mountain country has been greatly re
dhced in the last few years by the
cooperation which Is being extended
by the general public. according tc
John McLaren, national forest exam
iner. In charge Of fire protection ir
the Second forestry district, with
headquarters In Denver.
The large mill OF the Coates Lum
her company In TillamOok, Ore
closed December l, for an indefinit,
period. adding one more to the mum
Der OF idle mills in Tillamook and nd
j0in.Ls counties. More than 15
men are affected by the closing o
the mill. The estimated unemploye,
In the country through the closing o
various mills is 700.
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