The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-02-06
INLAND NORTHWEST

penters is to be held at L.wistown.
February = TO 4.
Pronounced victim 81 wood aleo-
hol, William Quinn died in the rail-
road hospital at Las Vegas. Nevada.
Joha l.. ConsldIne, u former Nevada
newspaper man, has been appointed di-
rector :. prohibition for southern Cali
fornia.
Battle Mountain. Nevada. l. Ia have
a new bank. Organization was per-
fected recently. the capitalization be.
ing placed at 5000.
The Nye county Nevada. grand jury
has returned indictments against
Mickey Sullivan and Mike Moriarity
on charges of syndicalism.
1t is expected that the Nevada leg
stature will be called into session on
February for one day to consider
ratification OF the federal suffrage
amendment.
The per capita cost OF running the
state government OF Nevada was SlO.41
i'll 1919 as compared with 500 in 1918.
according TO the annual report of the
state controller.
Efforts to stage a fire prevention
campaign of statewide scope in an
effort to cut down fire losses in Mon
tana are being made by George Z.
Porter, state auditor.
A four-year-old girl died at Elko,
Nevada, as the result of swallowing
chewing gum. Instead of chewing
gum and discarding il, she chewed it
and swallowed it like candy.
Voluteer census takers, operating
under the Commercial club, found in
a few hours in only a portion of
I Helena. 306 persons whom the federal
census workers are said to have
| missed.
The alien report of the Anaconda
Copper Mining company, received by
the board, shows the company has in
its employ 1868 aliens, of which 946
have taken out first papers to become
citizens.
| John G. Gardiner, an electrical oper-
atOr, was electrocuted at Primrose. a
Milwaukee railroad power sub-station,
Il few miles west of Missoula. His
body was found about an hour after
! the accident.
| Candled eggs Will be the rule in
Montana if the state board of health
ut its next meeting adopts the tenta-
tive regulations compiled by ii. NJ.
| Shea, director Of the department of
food and drugs for the board.
The state of Nevada has per capita
valuation of approximately $1,000 and
Il surplus per capita of $50 in money,
bonds and state property. No money
is owing outside of the state, as state
bonds are held by school funds.
! Government control and regulation
of sugar is directly responsible for the
addition of millions of dollars to the
high cost of living, according to a
bulletin, issued by the Montana De-
velopment association at Billings.
On charge of wife desertion and
failure to provide, William Anderson,
former United States collector of in
ternal revenue at Portland, Ore, was
arrested in Reno by the police at the
request of the Portland authorities.
Charles Il. Levers, formerly a promi-
nent lawyer of Reno, and for several
years connected with the law depart.
ment of the Southern Pacific company
in San Francisco, died at San Fran
cisco from an attack of pneumonia.
| Jones Il. Moran, a ear inspector,
pleaded guilty at Winnemucca, New, to
a charge of giving and furnishing in
toxicating liquor to another" and was
sentenced to serve three months in
the county Jail and pay fine of 500.
Although number of iAluenza
cases in the state of Montana have
been reported to the state health
board, there is no cause for alarm. say
officials of the board The cases thus
far reported are of very mild char
acter.
When man was found on a train al
Reno, suffering from smallpox, all the
train and were taken to the pest house,
where all the necessary precautions
were taken to prevent the spread OF
the disease.
Sugar beet growers, members of the
National Sugar Beet Growers a>so
citation, in convention at Denver, voted
to demand more money for then
product A Sliding scale, based OF
the seaboard price of refined sugar
was adopted.
BUSINESS interests of Goldtield, Ton
opah and other southern Nevada town.
have lodged protest against III,
plan of the owners of the Bullfrog
Goldlield railway to junk the road. l
connects Goldtield with the Tonopal
: and Tidewater line.
Charles ii. Behling, brakeman, wa.
instantly killed when the train of eigh
loaded cars got beyond control nea
keystone, Nevada, dashed down TIT
grade and piled up in wreck. Othe
members of the crew escaped will