The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-08-27


caught one day last week In the Hum
soldt river just west Of Eiko. New.
While helping to start stalled auto
mobile few days ago. I'd II. Yering-
ton. Of Taliac. New. sustained the loss
Of thumb.
Reno and many other cities In Ne
vada report a present shortage Of gooc
potatoes with the states crop less than
two weeks from harvesting time.
On Friday. September 3. Alfred Lane
q homesteader. living near Hathaway.
Rosebud county, Mont. is condemned!
to die for the murder Of q neighbor.
Barry Theade.
A cigaret. supposed TO have been
thrown in the hay by tramp. Is be-
lieved TO nave been the cause Of a fire
harness and Ford automobile al Og-
| den.
City officials Of the cities and towns
of Montana, will assemble at the
Hotel Rainbok In Great Falls. Mont,
on September 23 to =. inclusive, for
the 1920 meeting Of the Montana Num-
cipal league.
| Nevada will harvest one of the larg-
est wheat crops in the history Of the
state. The crop this year Will be in ex-
this more than half will have to be
sent out of the state to market.
Joseph Frederick, aged 80 and his
wife, Anna, were found dead ut Hoi-
yoke, Colo, following an alleged fami-
~ quarrel extending over several
weeks. Frederick is believed to have
shot his wife and then committed sui
eide.
The discovery Of the presence of two
grizzly bears in the Bridgeport coun-
try was reported in Carson, New, last
week. IL Is said to be the first time
that grizzlies have been known in that
section in fully quarter Of a cen
fury.
Mrs. Marie ellison, 81 years old, and
two Of her children. Bertram, years.
, and Jack, Z, were drowned In Lake
, Washington, Seattle. The mother at
tempted to save both lads as they were
being swept beyond their depth by
, waves.
A chemical analysis of the contents
of the stomachs Of James V. McAlCra.
, "a, and Albert S. Kerrlngan, %, who
1 were found In a dying condition al
I Butte, showed that both young men
: came to their death from cocaine poi
r sOning.
For the first time In it's history,
e Utah this year figured the goat indus
try as distinct from sheep. and accord
{ ing to returns from assessors, there
L are goats In twenty of the twenty-nine
! counties in the state. aggregatins
!. about 10000.
i Thomas Il. Williams. one Of the best
i known miners in Western Nevada, was
r killed in the Ophir mine at Virginia
t City, New, when with the car he was
pushing he plunged down the shaft
t from the 500 station to 1885 level. over
e 1000 feet below.
D The Billings city jail contains q
n persons, the largest number it has held
g this year. Recent raids on opium re-
J. sorts and bootlegging joints is respon-
e sible. Besides the q now confined
there IL offenders were recently trans.
). ferred to the county Jail.
u Seven officers of the union, who
called the strike Of tramway trainmen
l. in Denver, have been sentenced to 81
e days in Jail for contempt by Judge
II Greeley Whitford. The judge found
Is them guilty Of calling the strike in VIC
= lation of an injunction.
- Governor Boyle. Of Nevada, has de
:" clared quarantine against the ship
y ment of alfalfa from WashOe county
owing to the discovery there Of the
alfalfa weevil. The Washoe alfalfa
cannot be shipped out of the county
says the order of the governor.
g. Harry Jones, colored. is charged
with murder for the killing of Charle'
IN Jackson in the kitchen car at Becket
1T Mont Jones shot Jackson three time
or and, according to the witnesses two o
to the shots were fired while Jackson wa'
err running to get out Of the car.
III Delta, shown by the 1920 census U
rs be the second largest town in Miliar'
county, Ufah. was literally not on tn
81 map ten years ago. The new tow
AZ now has population Of $50, accord
u ing to the United States census re
turns for 1920 just announced.
n When moonshine still exploded Il
nj the barn at Butte. 1t destroyed, tn
,- building. ruined the mash, slngeu III
Ito whlskers of Arthur De Wulf, and wa
IS, the cause of the police arriving on tn
ID scene which brought about the arres
of De Wulf and Ernest Kent. charge
with Bookkeeping.
Stealing a mans wife, driving ava
with her in car belonging to him, te
!, egraphing to him for money from tim
!. to time as the trip progressed, an
i. leaving sick baby deserted in a ho'
- Dital hundreds of miles from its on