The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-05-28
INLAND NORTHWEST

enne Gu Information that he Is Frank
X. Linton and wanted in Seattle.
Wash. ON forgery charge.
Two masked men held up Charles
c. Smithson, delivery truck driver for
Il laundry at Ely, Nevada, and robbed
him Of collections amounting To 500
The custom of observing Carson
Valley Day, June 18th. as designated
IA number of years ago, will again be
fi.tingly celebrated at Minden, Nevada
More than 100000 will be received
in Nevada this season from the wool
clip. according TO estimates made by
those familiar with conditions in the
industry.
Reports from every section of the
country, with the exception oI Idaho
and Wyoming, indicate that the wool
crop this year is one of the largest
on record.
Fred Peterson was sentenced TO one
year in Jail by Federal Judge Bean
at Portland when he pleaded guilty
to having altered war savings stamps
in his possession
L. w. Fristoe, VINO was convicted of
killing Arthur ST. Clair, constable of
Deeth, on February 20, has been SEN
fenced TO life Imprisonment in the
Nevada penitentiary.
A raise of fifteen per cent in sal
aries has been granted all teachers in
the Winnemucca, Nevada, district
IL oh hnu 20
elected for next year
The population of the Nevada pen
itentiary will be reduced to seventy
five with the placing in effect of par
oles and pardons recently granted by
the board of pardonS and parole.
Statistics just compiled by the fed
eral crop appraising bureau indicate IA
potato acreage in Idaho at least D per
cent less than last year, or $4,000
acres, compared with 10000 acres in
1919.
Adopting q resolution in which the
members of the order oppose divorces
| and demand that Sunday laws be
passed in Ely, the Knights of Column
bus convention held in Ely, New. came
! to a close on May Is.
Judge Moran of Reno has quashed
the summons in divorce suit, holding
that when a person in divorce suit
comes to Nevada with the sole purpose
of submitting to service to summons
it constitutes collision.
John Francis Sullivan, an employe
of the Ward mine, is dead at Ely,
Nevada, as the result Of falling off
truck used for hauling ore. The
truck wheels passed over the right
side of his body, severely crushing
him.
A fund of $1,000 will be given from
the funds of the state veterans wei
fare commission to pay the expenses Of
representative from every county in
Montana to attend two-day school in
Helena during the latter part of this
month.
One of the five boys who escaped
from the state industrial institution at
Worland, Wyo., by knocking their
guard senseless was drowned. OF the
, rest, one has been recaptured, two are
still at large and the fate of the fifth
is in doubt, although it is thought prob
/, able that he also was drowned.
, Mrs. Jennie Posner, 60, with her two
, grandchildren, Fred, aged t. and Billy
Kramer, aged 6, lying on either side
of her in bed at her home were found
, dead by asphyxiation at Portland. The
woman is said to have become de-
f spondent over the death of her daugh'
e ter, mother Of the two children.
$ Miners in Wyoming gain an average
e increase in wages Of 81 40 over the
r pay received when the strike was
S called last November by a new agree
e ment signed between Wyoming mine
operators and representatives of dis
trict No. %, United Mine Workers OF
America. The increase is retroactive
o to April 1.
Coyotes and wildcats are taking {
: very large toll of lambs from tn,
i flockS of the Adams McGill company
> according to the Ely, Nevada papers
= The losses from the depredations o
= these animals are greater than from
', weather conditions. From ten t,
: twenty lambs from each flock ar
killed every night.
Nevada has nearly a million acre
|. If land under cultivation. Five hun
# dred thousand cattle roam her fire.
" ranges. Sheep to the total of 1900
|e 600 find subsistence in the deser
If places and her mineral product il
S, 1918, according to the United State
Geological Survey reports totaled $50
$4,000.
Reports from Montana state tn
i'll lamb crop will be very short. and tina
n wOolmen ought to get dollar for thei
10 fleeces to come out even. This seq
~ sons seven months of winter. Xix
n that Of 1886, has been more than tr,
ne ing. 1t has also been disastrous wit
losses amounting to 40 aud so DC
cent.
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