The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-03-19
INLAND NORTHWEST


gar beet factory at an early date.
September Is. - and 30 will be the
dates for the western Montana fair
this fall, according TO announcement
;ast made at Missoula.
The annual summer session at the
college of agriculture and mechanic
arts at Bozeman, Mont, will begin
June II this year and end Sept. 8.
Losses of livestock from disease on
the national forests OF the internoun-
tain district during 1919 amounted to
254 head of cattle, 5 horses and 1854
sheep.
George Requa, the deputy sheriff Of
Wells, New, who was shot i'm the head
while attempting the capture of Joe
Bell and Leonard Fristoe, died at Ely,
last week.
Joe Bell, one OF the men charged
with implication in the killing of Ar
thur St. Clair, constable of Wells.
Nevada, has been held to the district
court for trial.
The broken truck of freight car
derailed eleven box cars and tore the
rails from the ties for a distance of
about 600 feet at Beppo, New, eighty
five miles west of Ogden.
Gophers killed in Montana last year
through the efforts of the farm bureau
and cooperating agencies, totaled
more than 100000, according to u
statement from the farm bureau.
The Democratic state convention,
meeting at Reno to elect delegates to
the San Francisco convention, turned
down the nomination of Senator Key
Pittman to be delegate at large.
George T. Riggs has been convicted
at Billings, Mont, on his second trial
for the murder Of his wife, but this
time sentenced to life Imprisonment
instead of to death as at the first
trial
A portable alfalfa mill is being in
stalled in the LOvelOck valley in Ne
vada. About 900 tons of alfalfa have
been secured by the company INSTALL
ing the mill, and this will be convert
ed into alfalfa meal.
An effort is being made to ascer-
tain If 1t is possible to organize a
baseball circuit to include a number
Of Montana cities i'll league to main.
tain and support team in state
contest for premier honors.
The Oregon Short Line is one Of
three railroads in the United States
when maintains a sanitary inspector.
This official travels constantly over
the line and in every way safeguards
the health of the railroad employees.
The report of the auditor shows that
the assessed valuation Of Elko county,
Nevada, is $4O,S53, 1886, and the taxes
collected amounted to SEA O88.81. The
estimated population of the county is
14.761, there being 4,024 registered
voters.
Young men and boys, ranging from
ID to 20, comprises the majority Of
offenders coming before the courts, is
the consensus of opinion expressed in
letters from mayors of various cities
in the west to Mayor E. A. Book, Of
Salt Lake.
Charles Stevens, 19-year-Old bank
messenger, convicted of the theft Of
registered nail package containing
$4,000, at Helena, last November 8.
was sentenced to the maximum penal
ty of seven to fourteen years in the
state pententiary.
Mrs. Estelle V. Collier has been
nominated by President Wilson as
customs collector for district forty
eight, comprising the states of Utah
and Nevada. 1t is believed Mrs. Col
lied is the first woman to be appoint
ed to such position.
Oswald and Elmer Watkins, broth
ers, and Mrs. Agnes Watkins, wife of
me latter, entered pleas of guilty at
Helena to grand larceny by hiding
$4,000 stolen by Charles Stevens, a
bank messenger, who was last week
sentenced to term of seven years in
the state prison.
announcement was Tlaue last week
by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, Of
distribution to its permanent en-
ployees of a bonus of 10 per cent of
heir yearly salaries. The distribution
was made last week, the amounts be-
1g paid in capital stock of the COM
pany at the par value of $40 per
share.
Exposure of an alleged conspiracy
to defraud the government of large
portion of lands under the Shoshone
reclamation project near Powell, WyO..
which are to be thrown open for set
clement March 10, has followed an in
vestigation and arrests will take place
If an attempt is made to put the plan
in operation, it is announced.
Eight per cent of the 1919 Wash
ington wheat crop, or 3,20S,O0O BUSH
els, is still on farms of the state, the
February crop report of the local fed
eral bureau of crop estimates states.
Twenty-Five per cent Of the oats crop
of 100000 bushels and p per cent