The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-02-20

year.
Twenty-four government farms on
the Newiands project in Nevada. rang
ing in size from 70 to 106 acres of
irrigable land will be opened TO entry
February 10.
Mrs. Melvina Clark was killed at Salt
Lake when an automobile in which she
was riding 10 a cemetery to attend her
daughters burial was run down by
another machine.
Test is TO be made of the Nevada
sheep law, passed at the last session
of the legislature, which requires the
dipping of sheep within ten days after
their arrival in the state.
Contractors on highway construc-
ton work in Montana will attend in
large numbers "A general meeting with
officials of the state highway commits
sion to be held in Helena, March l.
Total receipts from automobile Ii
censes in Montana for 1919 are $685. |
1913 net. OF this amount % per
cent or $92.G31.S3 will be appropriated
10 the various counties of the state.
Convictions on charges of permit
ting gambling games in their cigar
store in which cigars were the stakes,
is upheld by Justice Murly. in deci-
sion Of the supreme court Of Mon
tana.
Col. l.. q. Cannon, for the past thir-
teen years vice-president and general
manager Of the Nevada Northern rail-
way. and one of the oldest and best
known railroad men in the west, died
at ELY, Nevada.
The entire estate left By the late
Francis G. Newlands, former United
States senator from Nevada, is sub
ject to the state Inheritance tax, ac-
cording to an opinion filed in the dis
trict court at Reno.
The first informations brought IN
Montana, charging violation of the fed
eral prohibition law, were filed last
week against John Burkland and Hugh
Mcclure of Butte, each said to be OPP
Grating drink parlor.
According to an annual live stock
report just issued by the state field
agent, the total value of all live stock
ON Idaho farms and ranges has de
preciated from $1O6, AS 900 in January
1919, to S93,357 800 in January, 1920
The lack of snow at the head of the
Carson and Walker rivers is causing
considerable anxiety among Nevada
ranchers and farmers residing in thu
districts which depend on the water
poses.
In the past ten days, Dave Ros
has caught nine beaver near Winnie
mucca, Nevada. His trapping territor
IS confined to the ODonnell ranch o.
the river below town, and he is aver
aging beaver a day, a very prOitabl
business.
Commissioners of Valley count!
Montana. have just passed resoll
ton providing for the submission
the voters at the time of the primar
election, April %, of the question c
issuance of highway bonds in the SUI
of s2OO,O0O.
Resurveys of lands, whether the tit
has passed wholly or in part from tt
federal government, in township
where fraudulent surveys have cause
great confusion for years, will be mat
on u big scale in Montana during Il
summer of 1920.
The state road commission Of Uti
has decided on the policy of shuttil
down on all construction work not nc
contracted for or under way UNI
either costs of operation are reduce
or state road bonds are legally ma
ketable. or both.
Following the passage of the $50
600 seed grain bonds, the county col
missioners in session at ROundr
Mont, contracted for $1,000 bushels
Marquis wheat at $3.50 per bushel. l
900 bushels of durum or macarC
wheat at $3.50 and 10000 bushels
oats ut $1.O6.
The Nevada insurance law pass
by the 1919 legislature requiring
filing of special specific and tariff ra
ny IRE luSuTduCc COIlptulcS Will
state controller who is eX-Officio
surance commissioner, and prohibit
deviation from those rates, has BIZ
declared constitutional.
The Intermountain AutomOtive De
ers' association was organized at
meeting of delegates from Utah, Ida
Wyoming and Nevada held at
Lake The organization will be CT
posed of automobile dealers, and
purpose is to affiliate with the
tiOnaI Automobile Dealers associat
as sOoh as permanent officers
elected.
The president has issued an exc
tive order that all the lands inclu
within the boundaries of the Sioux
tional forests, Montana and South
kota, MS fixed and defined by the p
lamati0n of September 3, 1919
transferred to the Custer national
est Of Montana and that hereafte
shall be administered as a part of