The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-18
INLAND NORTHWEST

IL u the Deiief or county and city
officials that the death OF Louis L.
Showers. found dead at Butte, is
case Of suicide
II is the belief of officers than
Frank Pitts. whose dead body was
found in his room AT A hotel in Butte.
zane To his death as the result az the
use Of drugs.
Simon j. Ioder, "a. garage pro-
prietor. was found dead with bullet
wound in his head in ditch at the
outskirts OF Gervais. ore. und his au-
tomobile is missing.
L. l. Murray has been brought Oack
TO Kai.spell. Mont from Colorado. on
the charge of having sold car which
he had bought on the payment plan,
! and had not made his payments.
As a result of the refuS of the SEN
ate to accept the conference report of
the house. the bill inserting a search
| and seizure clause in the Montana
state prohibition law has been decreed
dead.
j. J. higgins. federal revenue officer,
was acquitted on a charge of man.
slaughter in federal court at Port.
land, when the court directed a ver-
| dict clearing him. The ground was
lack of evidence.
The Northwest Mining Mems asso.
| citation, in convention at Spokane,
adopted 4 resolution favoring passage
| of bill before the Washington legis-
| lature which would give ninety-year
lease on state lands.
| Oldtime residents of Anaconda,
Mont, believe that the wors, of winter
is over and an early spring is assured,
| basing this belief upon the actions of
the pine squirrels, which are now
making merry in the timber
Francis Healy, aged 16, has been
awarded $500 damages in an action he
brought at Butte against the owners
of peanut stand, who he alleges as
Saulted him when he attempted to col
| lect $50 which was due him as wages
| A bill providing that iethal gas be
used in executions in Nevada was i'll
troduced in the legislature last week.
Men condemned to die in Nevada have
heretofore been allowed to choose be-
tween death by hanging or by Shoot
| ing.
/ James Bonner, deputy constable for
Silver Bow township, and John Smith,
| deputy constable for South Butte
township, are held in all at Butte on
charges of robbery, in connection with
the holding up of two men at their
room in Butte.
Jay II. Hough, called as the first
witness in his own defense in superior
court at Spokane testified that he
committed the forgeres with which
he is charged only after his late part
ner John B. Milholland, had threat
ened his life unless he did so.
Bob Baker lion hunter, brought TO
Libby, Mont, last week female lion
| and three fifteen-months-o cubs
which he had captured. They were
whipped to Sheridan, Wyo. Baker says
he found the carcasses of six deer
that had been killed by these lions.
There is to be erected at the auto
tourist camp at Missoula, Mont,
huge map that will cover great bill
board, for the convenience of visitors.
1t will show forests, roads, passes and
| towns, and will be painted by direction
of the United States forest service.
George Strixnei, Redmond, Ore.
farmer, was severly burned about the
hands and face and property valued at
$1,000 was destroyed ) the result of
a fire started by the backfire and ex-
plosion of light touring car Strix-
ner was repairing the car in his barn.
Samuel f. Davis, shipping clerk TO
b. l.. Gordon 4 Co, wholesale grocers
or Spokane, in whose employ he had
been for twenty-six years, was arrest
ed on charge of grand larceny in
connection with alleged thefts FROM
the company which it is declared are
expected to amount to thousands of
dollars.
The two-year-old baby daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Eden, of Dillon,
Mont, was painfully burned when the
little one fell into tub of hot water.
-N.> ~AAAiN' iit'o pSCn pay GU III the uOOF-
yard while the mother scrubbed the
Kitchen floor. 1t entered the room
without the knowledge of the mother.
and backed against the receptacle fal
ing in
The Assiniboine anu Grose yentres
Indian tribes have sent representatives
to Havre, Mont, for conference witt.
legal counsel relative to suit to be
submitted for them In the court of
claims at Washington, for reimburse.
ment for lands between the mouth of
the Musseshell river and the mouth OF
the Powder river, south of the Mis-
souri,.
lntimation that bribery had been
used in the defeat of the tax com
mission bill at the regular session OF
the Montana legislature was made by
Governor Dixon In his message de-
livered to the legislature convened in
| extraordinary session Tho ooyarro,