The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-03
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islature.
Senator Joseph II. Dixon, Montana's
next governor. has had four hundred
applications for jobs, and, 1t seems,
expects about. six hundred more.
Pete Syslo. homesteader I'm the
Devils basin. In sIontana. committed
suicide by throwing himself under the
wheels of a moving freight train while
mentally deranged.
A wave of smallpox is threatened ut
Mountain City, in northern ElkO
county, Nevada, according TO a report,
all Of the residents of that old camp
having been exposed.
Miners coming from Ely, Nevada,
report that camp In very depressed
state OF mind owing to the fact that
the mining companies are steadily re-
ducing their working forces.
Ray Bennett, employed ut the Mex.
lean mill, at Virginia City, New, met
with a serious accident while at work
Mt the plant. His left arm was caught
In the machinery, and the flesh badly
lacerated on the forearm by gear
wheels.
As a result of a movement that has
been on foot for the past several
months in Gardnerville, Nevada. for
the organization of chamber of COM
merce. plans are now taking definite
shape for the early organization Of
the new civic body.
The jury at Lewiston, Mont, in the
case of Gus Cooley, the negro charged
with the murder Of Charley Jackson,
colored, member of the same gang
of railroad laborers as the defendant,
returned verdict Of guilty of murder
In the second degree.
Petitions for revision of the Ne
throughout the state. In the event the
movement to change the divorce law
Is unsuccessful, 1t is said that the
proposal will be carried to the next
election as referendum measure.
With his throat cut from ear to ear
and his head hanging to his body only
by the vertebra and the back tendOns,
Jose Elardi, Basque sheep herder
was found by the chambermaid at a
hotel in Winnemucca, Nevada. He had
cut his throat with pocket knife.
When the hangar is completed at
the mail flying station, Reno, New,
will have one of the finest hangers In
the United States. 1t is an entirely
new type of construction, although liz
size it approximates the hangers that
have been erected in other parts Of
the country.
In the rugged hills, many miles be-
hind Rockville, Ore, the body Of Alex.
ander Marderas, Basque, an employee
Of the Ballantyne Sheep company,
was found with bullet hole through
the head. He had killed himself the
day before. while he was cleaning his
gun, it is supposed
With strip of his own shinbone re-
placing eight inches Of vertebrate In
the lower part Of his back, James
Laughlin, former soldier and help
less cripple since an accident In 1918,
now walks erect and feels that he Is
strong enough to go to work on his
ranch near Billings, Mont.
Funds at present are insufficient,
for the establishment Of night school
for employed persons in Billings,
Mont, the school board declares. An
effort is to be made to establish such
school next year. The night school
for foreign-born residents Is continu
ing with large attendance.
A colony Of beavers has established
itself in the river at the fair grounds
opposite Roundup, Mont, and hay.
| commenced to work havoc with the bis
| trees, which are one Of the assets Of
| the fair grounds. Permission will bt
sought to destroy them if possible. ii
order to save the shade trees.
With Montana's general fund over
drawn to greater amount that eve
before in the history of the state, ever.
Indication shows that the first bulge
to be submitted by all department.
Of -tate to the next session of the leg
islature will call for much larger ap
| preparations than heretofore.
Among Thanksgiving pardons grant
ed by Governor Shoup Of Colorado wal
one to Philip Cohen. Fort Morgan
Colo, produce dealer. convicted Of tn,
robbery of Mrs. Harry N. Nolan, so
ciety woman of Denver. at the Mode
roadhouse, near there, on New Year
eve. 1917. Diamonds valued at severa
thousand dollars were taken from Mrs
Nolan. but were recovered.
Storm and sanitary sewer work g
far this year In Billings, Mont, ha
cost $33S, 800. 1t is announced by tn
city engineer. The sum was spent 81
single project. the great belt sewe
which Is to drain practically the entir
city.
Mike Sarar. aged SO, committed sui
eide by hanging himself In woodshe
at Butte. Mont. He was desponden
over Inability to secure employment.