The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-01-30
INLAND NORTHWEST

and were healthy.
One result of the recent coal min
ers' strike was that ii forced the city
Of Helena into the retail coal business.
and the city Is still selling coal.
Among the big irrigation projects
now proposed in Montana is one
planned to reclaim 10000 acres Of
land In Hill and Chotesu counties.
yerdicts acquitting Marie. Fay and
Ted Mcdonald of the murder at Spo-
kane last June of w. H. McNutt were
returned by jury in superior court
Idaho has made good record In the
unemployment of former service men.
According to figures issued. Idaho has
given employment to greater number
Of service men than any state in the
union in proportion to population.
Ninety-four bills and miscellaneous
assortment of memorials and resolu-
lions, some of the latter being pro-
nounced more important than many of
the bills, were passed by the special
session Of the Oregon legislature.
Billings Shriners will ask the i'm
perial council, which is to meet ins
Portland, Ore, next June, for the nee
essary authorization for the establish
ment in that city of what would prove
to be MOntana's third Shrine temple.
The Idaho Honey company. organ
lied at Idaho Falls, Idaho, last fall.
has made carload shipment direct to
Copenhagen, Denmark. The company
has 1900 stands Of bees and operates
two trucks taking care Of the business
General Pershing let it be knowrr-
during an address at Seattle, that he
does not want to talk about politics.
while on his tour of the country.
Everybody should know where ]
stand" he said. II am not a candi--
date for president"
With every American Legion post
in Colorado pulling for Denver as the
convention city, a concerted effort will
be made to secure the first American
Olympic games of world war veter--
ans, which will be held November IL 1,
| II and IL OF this year.
The Australian ballot. in use in
Oregon for more than thirty years.
has been discarded by strong parti-
san vote Of the Oregon legislature in
special session. The straight party
voting system is provided for as the
official ballot Of the state.
That part of the main state high
way running east and west across
Montana which crosses the Rocky
mountains near Glacier park has been
designated Roosevelt pass, and will
be so designated on maps of the state
highway commission in the near flu
ture.
Adrift in rowboat without oars.
two small boys were rescued just as
they were about to be plunged over
the seething rapids in Rogue river
near billiard, Ore, by Bert Laurence,
a ranchman, who rOped them with a
lariat from shore and hauled them To
safety.
The assessed valuation Of livestock
In Montana increased from SAG, 235, 493
in 1915 to $157 sol 800 in 1919. The
total number of livestock in Montana
on March 1, 1919 were: Cattle. all
classes, 1,214,724; horses, all classes
91,S17; sheep, all classes. o.l07, 797
hogs. 76,S05.
Mrs. Nevada j. Haywood, wife OF
William d. Haywood of Chicago, "sec.
rotary Of the Industrial Workers OF
the World" died in Denver, January
%, after a long illness. Mrs. Hay.
wood, who was born in Nevada fifty
years ago, has made Denver her home
, for number of years.
WOrR of dismantling shipping board
wooden hulls left uncompleted on ways
/. in Seattle, Tacoma and other north
west cities will be begun within a
week or two by George f. Rogers
Astoria, Ore, shipbuilder Mr.. Rog
ers has been given contract for the
, work by the emergency fleet corpora
ton.
Representatives OF the beet sugar
industry from all parts of the countr,
will gather In Salt Lake, January q
and p. for series of meetings which
will deal with different phases of tn,
business. The United States Bee
Seed company will meet January u
for consideration of problems Of bee
seed production.
The historic pilot schooner JOSEPH
Pulitzer, once in service Off New Yorl
harbor and later Off the Columbi.
river. has been placed in drydock a
Portland for OVERLAPPING, preparation,
to being sent to Alaska, where sh,
IS to be used in Interpret trade b,
> private parties, who have purchase,
her. The Joseph Pulitzer was bull
. as a sailing vessel In 1884.
Governor Emmett Boyle Of Nevad,
has agreed to call a special session o
the state legislature on February Z f
act ON the fed.ral suffrage amend
: nent, provided the suffrage leaders O
the state would guarantee the expens
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