The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-09-10
INLAND NORTHWEST

1 a t""pefauNe association of Bill
ings. Laurel and Park City. Mont. men
TO reclaim land i'm need of drainage Is
being formed.
Gerald Stack. wealthy real estate
man OF Lander, Wyo.. Is charged with
shooting and killing Paul Brown dur
ing an alteration in Chicago.
Prices being paid for Idaho potatoes
have slumped from sl.s0 to Sl.25 dur
ing the last week. greatly reducing the
number OF cars being exported.
| Forty Nevada schools cannot omen
when the new term begins, because
there are no teachers to be had. w. ].
Hunting. state superintendent OF pub-
nc instruction. announced last week.
From several of the mountain and
coast states come reports that teach
ers In the public schools. after signing
a contract. fail to meet that contract
by going elsewhere where a higher
wage is paid.
Theodore Chronos, one of the four
men convicted of numbering Sylvester
j. Prenatt at Butte, December o. 1919.
was denied a new trial last week and
viii take appeal from the order TO the
supreme court.
Mrs. Max Waegele Is dead at Buff
faio, Wyo., through suicide after she
was confronted with evidence proving
that four months ago she poisoned her
e0year-old father-in-law, Fred Wac.
gele, to escape his advances.
Football games win he played BY the
University OF Nevada this year with
several Pacific coast teams and with
the University OF Hawaii at Homo.
lulu. The Honolulu trip win be made
during the Christmas holidays.
A. N. Whltlock Of Missoula WINS
elected president and Alva Baird Of
Missoula secretary-treasurer of the
Montana Bar association at the an
nual meeting at Helena. The 1921 con.
vention will be held at Billings.
Ground for the Van Orsdal memorial.
hall to be erected ut the Montana
Deaconness school at the cost Of $780,.
600 was broken at Helena at a cere.
mony in which members of the Mon.
tana Methodist conference partic.
ipated.
Two carob trees on the ranch of
J. A. Yoacum, Jr., near Gridley. Colo,
are the same as those spoken of in the
Bible as the "breadfruit tree" accord.
ing to a report received by Yoacum.
from the nited States department Of
agriculture.
Although the prospect for winter
range in southern Wyoming and north.
ern Utah In the vicinity of Manila.
county seat Of Dagget county, are ex.
eellent, heavy grain loss was suffered
from severe hailstorm August 10 In
Lucerne valley.
quarantine against sheep coming
INTO Utah from Idaho is to be rigldlv
enforced unless the flockmasters CON-
ply with the proclamation Of Cover.
nor Bamberger and carry out the reg
ulations which the state livestock
board has stipulated.
TWO suspects are in Jail at Lander.
Wy", following an attempt to kill the
general manager of the Poposia mine
ana two paymasters in the mountains
and steal the payroll of $4,000. One
man was seriously injured in the
lighting. The money was saved.
Heavy losses to grain crops in the
country to the north Of Great Falls.
Mont, was occasioned by one Of the
leavlest hailstorms ever known In thar
section. The storm extended for MANY
niies from east to west and at one
pace left path seven miles wide.
i the Oregon Short Line railroad in
Fi9 earned an income sufficient to
ply dividends totaling $4,000. 900.
WITCH was S1,0OOOOO in excess Of sim
nnr payments In the preceding year.
4 re dividend was declared at the rate
a per cent on capitalization of |
Il o0,O0O,O0O.
fire-fighting expenditures In the in.
9 rmountain forestry district have
r " io"Cl lldu LOT several years. &C. |
cDlding to a report received by the
supervisor of the Wasatch national
forest, from district headquarters at
Ogden. The worst part of the fire
season Is over.
Simon (Old SoD Soloman, aged SO. |
whose spectacular career and extern
sfye operations in the oil fields Of |
PENNSYLVANIA half a century ago
brought him into national prominence.
Is dead at Casper, Wyo., paupes.
Soi0man. who died In local hospital |
after a brief illness, was buried n |
potters' field.
Robert Case, of Billings, has found |
mat making pet of a ratflesnake is |
attended with difficulties. He has Just |
from hospital there after
i've days of suffering from the effects |
y sting on the hand, and his arm is ,
still badly swollen.
Twelve Nevada ex-service men have
been given awards of $50 scholarships I
1t the University of Nevada by the
'tafe educational committee for de-
nobilized soldiers of the national war