The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-01-23
INLAND NORTHWEST

Beaverhead county. Montana. this win
ter from lack food and exposure. &C
corning to reports
The city election ut Carlin. Nevada.
on the question of bonding the city
for $4,000 TO build q municipal cleo
trio plant. carried by a majority OF
three TO one.
A man believed to be Harold Roth
well. charged with the murder Of An
drew uren. aged oil station tender Mt
Seattle. February s. 1918. has been
arrested at Evanston. Wyo.
Idaho's Thunder Mountain area,
comprising 1.116.O00 acres, lying ap-
proximately 100 miles northeast Of
Boise. the capital, by act of congress
has been created 4 national forest re- |
serve.
Prohibition in Missoula county. Mon
tana. seems to have cut in two the
number of arrests made. The sher-
IFS record for 1918. the last wet
year, was 122S. In 1919 the total
| was Co.,
A new method for manufacturing
gas which will produce u large guam
tity Of coke for commercial and do
nestle consumption Is being discussed
by directors of the Billings, Mont.
Gas company.
Montana's common school perma-
nent fund, which Is administered by
the state land office, Is the larger Of all
the permanent state funds, according
to the report Of the net balances for
for December.
A fox farm Is to be In full opera
ton at Billings, Mont, within few
weeks il the plans Of H. b. Green
leaf and ]. L. Fox mature. The two
plan to raise the fur-bearing animals
on large scale.
The state supreme court in a de-
cisiOn handed down ut Salem, Ore,
held that Governor Ben w. Alcott re-
I tains his office throughout the entire
unexpired term Of the late Governor
! James Withycombe.
State police raided a homemade
= still being conducted, 1t Is alleged, a
e Dayton, Nevada, by A. Sidelio. TIT
still Is alleged to have been making
y five gallons Of whisky per day at tn
y time of Sidelio's arrest.
Billie Lucas, well known in Nevad
as a prize fighter, and who has bee
lately making his home in Ely, she
:, and killed a woman In the restricte
!. district at Elko, then turning the gu
~ on himself, ended his life.
The menace of the jackrabbit
40 Bingham county, Idaho, Is so gres
~ that drives" are almost daily affair
lo- In one locality, from within spat
of one square mile, 10000 rabbits wei
81. driven into corral and slaughtered.
Walter s. Evans. who had been CO
~. nected with a number Of mining e
n. terprises in southern Nevada, died
20. a GOldfield hospital last week fro
no what physicians said was the rest
is. Of drinking whisky" containing. wo'
les alcohol.
ere Ratification Of the national ECU
ish suffrage amendment in Oregon W
completed on January IA, when T
ing president of the senate and the speak
az, Of the house in the legislature affix
ide their signatures to the resolution
II ratification.
ker The ever increasing seriousne
md among the farmers and stockmen.
to the rodent problem in Nevada, is
dicated in the statement that grou
squirrels and jackrabbits are ma
tanned in Nevada at an annual c,
airy Of between $2,5OO,OOO and $4,000
gees Reorganization of the Nevada ST
late police so as to meet new cOnditit
nili- imposed by the national prohibit
Her amendment and so that the state '
be better able to cooperate with
federal authorities in the enf0rcem
Of prohibition laws is planned at or
Joseph Bogue of Billings, Mo
has applied for compensation to-
state board on the claim that WI
employed as fireman for bal
\ company he was bitten by cat.
claim was disallowed because his
Jury did not cause him to lose Il
The still, several barrels of mi
anu gOOUly quuullly VI HoouSi
whisky taken in recent raids on
- Lahey ranch, near Dillon. Mont,
VI now held by officers pending the
~ Of Thomas Lahey and wife, Q
y charge Of Illicit liquor manufactur
:M$sss#A All persons who filed applicat
for tracts Of the 10000 acres Of
III eminent land which was to have
disposed Of by lottery ut Cheyenn
December %, will be enabled to
just what they wanted instea
drawing straws" for the desirable
u tons, this condition being due to
q fact that there were not enough
plications filed to cause any cont
This has been freak" winte
Montana. Late November and {
u December were almost the coldes
IA the history of the state. During
81 coal strike when little fuel was
4 x3$ hod tho morcurv hOvqrpd arOun