The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-08-19
NORTHWEST NOTES

NulllHULut uUllu
Nearly one thousand oil workers st
voted In favor OF calling
} strike September first IL owners re-
fuse a wage conference.
Charles McNuSy. 81. Is dead and
three other persons are In a hospital
tonight as the result Of eating poisoned
pancakes for breakfast Thursday morn
ING in Minneapolis.
The Tonopah ad Goidfeld Railway
company has applied 20 the public ser
vice commission for permission to
build a branch line FROM Coaldaie to
Fish Lake valley.
B. J. Finch. district engineer Of the
bureau OF public roads, left Ogden
few days ago for Jackson. wyo.. TO In
spect the work on the Hoback canyon
project which leads to the Yellowstone
Park.
Harry E. Stewart. mayor Of Reno.
New, and chairman Of the Nevada Re-
publican state central committee. and
Miss Adeline N. Braun. formerly OF
Reno. were married at Redwood City.
Cal. late Wednesday.
Henry T. Hazard. former mayor oe
Los Angeles and said to he the oldest
patent and land attorney on the Pac-
Inc coast, died at his home at Los
Angeles at the age Of Is. Hazard came
to Los Angeles In prairie schooner 6S
years ago.
Mrs. Madelin Obenchain, wealthy
woman and divorced wife of a Chicago
attorney, is held for investigation fol-
lowing the mysterious murder of John
ID. Kennedy, rich Los Angeles insar-
ance man at Kennedy's cottage at Bcv-
erly Glen near Los Angeles.
Positive identifcationof naked, mus
tilated body found in trunk in Lake
Union at Seattle, Wash, as that ot
Mrs. Kate M. Mahoney, missing weal.i
; thy Seattle woman, was made by Mrs!
G. Hewitt of Wenatchee, Wash, n niece,
Of Mrs. Mahoney police have announ'
ced.
: Proof that DR.. w. E. Stone, former
president of Purdue university, reached
the summit Of Mt canon, an achieve
ment hitherto unaccomplished, mo-
ment before he fell to his death. has
been found by the party which recover
Ell his body, declared dispatch from
fsanff.
A great portion Of the little town OF
= Ayimer, Que, was In ruins Thursday
:" and 125 or more families are homeless
: as result Of Are. The body OF p,
Corties, 6S, a grocer, was discovered
In the ruins OF his shop. Provision!
were being sent from there and from
- Hull, Quebec.
= Lead mines In the Occur d Alene!
:, which have been operating under dilTl
- culities for several months, probably
-; | Will take Oil HcW icdoS VI hAS -
=. cause freight rates on pig lead froE
!. Brawley, Idaho to the Atlatic seaboar'
~ will be reduced from $40 to $3.50
~ ton, says report from Wallace. Ida
:. no.
ed :.
The Wyoming & Missouri River rail
road, which operates between Aladdin
-n Wyo, and Bell Fourche, Sd, dis
lance Of eighteen miles, WIN be sol
a. at public auction at Cheyenne, WYE
September p, next, to satisfy judt
ment held by Mahlon S. Kenmore. {
-. Pittsburg. Pa, Uaited States Marsht
Hugh. Patton has announced.
49,
~, What the forest service officla
n termed the worst fire Of the season
MA Montana and northern Idaho ",
!. burning in the Flathead forest in mort
western Montana. Famed by his
wind, the flames swept over half mi
= Of trenches. The blaze has burn'
over $500 acres. New fires were repe
ted today from other national forests
10 Montana and northern Idaho.
Another chapter In the story OF
years. litigation over Elk Hills oil lal
near visalia California, worth fr'
10y. s2O,OOO,OOO to $35,OOO,OOO, is schedu
Ia to open soon, when United States Ia
office officials begin reheardng an
ton Of the federal government agai
the Buena Vista Land & Developm'
company Of Kern county, with the ST
Of California and the Honolulu c
gers
Notwithstanding the present mac
go 80. ty in local copper mining, the New
$50 Consolidated Copper Company has p
to White Pine county, Nevada,
Of $2,13SO2 on the proceeds of mi