The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-31
INLAND NORTHWEST

IN audluun 10 Etuucths pIlcte HlpfnAF
mately 80 per cent, have been eiIt-
ting down their working forces.
Four miners were caught in "A cave
IN on the eleventh level of the Pacific
Coast Coal eompanys mine at Back
Diamond, Wash, and crushed TO death.
J. W. Carter, prominent stOckman.
living west Of Ho;yoke Colo. was
gored and trampled TO death by "A bull
while he WAS driving houe herd of
cattle.
Colorado will have Il modified form
of the Kansas Industrial court law If
the coming legislature passes a meas
ure being prepared by the employers
association.
The monthly crop report for Mon
tana. issued by the United States bu-
reau of crop estimates. shows Il
marked reduction in the acreage sown
to winter wheat and rye.
More than 200 young men high
school students of Montana will at
TEND the annual vocational confer
ence mt Montana State college ut
Bozeman, from January 10 to 10.
A farmer who signs his name as
George Smith," has written to Gov
ernor Shoup of Colorado, advocating
Il law permitting farmers to have two
wives as Il solution to the farm labor
problem.
An embargo on foreign woods, goods
made from foreign woois and foreign
meats and favorable action on the
truth in fabric" bill will be asked OF
the 9th congress by the Oregon Wool.
growers association.
Outstanding withdrawal of power
sites on June 30, 1920, amounted to
400, 103 acres in Utah, POS, 391 acres in
Idaho and y .a43 acres in Nevada The
total area withdrawn in the United
States was 2,5S7,015 acres.
Stanley Allen. defeated candidate
for commissioner of the new Golden
Valley county, Mont, has filed a con.
test, alleging Irregularities in several
precincts. MIR. Allen was defeated by
six votes on the official count.
Following his arrest at Billings.
Mont, for highway robbery, l.. J. Ma
jors, a negro, told the police he was
paroled convict from the Salem, Ore,
penitentiary, where he had been sery-
ing sentence for statutory offense.
Joe Howard, 76, a miner, is near
death in IA hospital at Boulder, Colo.
after his partner, Edmund Grant, 20,
attacked him in their cabin near there
with an AK handle and a sledge ham
mer. The men had been pals for
years. A
Stephen and james Goblit brotherA
confessed robbers of the Galloway
seWelry store at Laurel, Mont Decem-
Ter ., We're sentenced to from five to
ten years in state prison. All of the
$4,000 worth of jewelry taken was re-
covered
A number of prisoners in the city
jail at Tacoma, who had been on
bread and water diet because of re-
Iusai TO work on streets, resumed
pick and shovel duty on December u
and We're served three regular meals
and given tobacco.
Following his marriage at Astoria.
ore, to Miss Lillian NJ. Larson.
stenographer, John II. Ward, aged %
was arrested last week, charged with
Deins an escaped convict from the
Michigan penitentiary, where he was
serving time for bigamy.
A suggestion that the meat packers
OF this country sell meat direct TO tbe
puplic III an effort to eliminate the
middleman's profit was made by A NJ
Dehieqies, president of the American
livestock X Loan company, in an ad.
afess at Denver to the Colorado StocS.
growers association.
Friends of Harry Orchard. serving
HE sentence in the Idaho state nriS-
on 1oi the murder Of Governor Frank
steunenberg at Caldwell in 1905. will.
urge MS release at the next meeting
Oh the board of pardons. Orchard
confessed that he set a time bomb in
tle gate of the governors home
}. A. Nelson, second assistant treas.
ufer OF the United States under Presi.
ueht Lincoln, and witness against
the assassins of the martyred execu.
1--WE, died at Tonopah, New, while Wis.
lung at the home of his daughter. He
was 80 years old, a native of Ohio
and had spent the latter years of bis
life in California.
Utah land classified as non.irr,gah,.,
under the enlarged homestead acts
during the fiscal year which ended
June 30 1920, amounted to more than
twice as much as in Idaho
total of 1,5O3,O14 acres in Utah
are classified under the nonresident
provisions of the enlarged homestead
act as being without domestic water
supply sufficient to make continuous
residence possible, the report saws
There We're 545,O34 acres SO classified
In Idaho.
Two northern Montana banks, which
had peen closed recently due TO tbe in.
ability of borrowers to meet tbe,r oh.
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