The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-09-02
NORTHWEST NOTES

Cloudbursts in New Mexico destroy
ID a number of small towns and viz |
ages the last Of the week, rendering /
several hundred families homeless.
The attorney general OF Nevada has
appealed 10 the supreme court 10 re
verse the decision granting a divorce
under the Nevada laws to Mary rick
ford.
The Rev. III. E. Giles. pastor OF q
Portland, Oregon, church. was drowned
there during the week. when he at
tempted to save a young boy from
drowning.
SAT- Francisco bandits held up pay
masters for the American Can Com
pany the last of the week and got
away with $1,000 being taken to pay
the workmen.
One Of the gre.ieSt automobile races
ever held In Los Angeles is expected
for Thanksgiving day. Ralph de Pal
ma, Guyot, Boll.ot. Rosta, Goux and a
score of other famous foreign drivers
will enter.
The name Of the man who killed J.
B. Kennedy, popular Los Angeles
broker, VIII be stated shortly and ne
win Replaced in jail this week accord.
ing TO Ralph II. Obenchain, former
husband of one of the suspects.
Eight of the 2S coal mines in WASH
ington which have been closed down
since last March IL VIII be re-opened
soon on a limited scale, n. d., Moore,
spokesman for the Washington Coal
Operators association announced o
few days ago.
A handbag containing jewelry valued
at S50,OO0 was lost by Mrs. F. NJ
Howard when the automobile in which
she was riding overturned at Estes
Park, Colo. Mrs. Howard and her
husband of Chicago were touring the
park when the accident occurred.
Jacob b. Brown. under arrest al
! Seattle is wanted la New York for the
alleged theft of $4,000 worth of d!a.
moIds and on further charge of big
amy, according to Detective Thomas J.
Carroll Of the New York police de
partment. who arrived with a reques
| 70 extradition.
A state wide cut in gas rates ha'
been ordered by the railroad commits
sion at San Francisco. Rates wer'
cut variously in diffe, ent localities
| Vallejo was cut six cents per Thousand
cubic feet; Napa and Petaluma, sever
cents; Redding and Red Bluff, eigh
cents, and Southern systems two cents
! Coming as complete surprise I
her friends, announcement was mad
Tuesday of the marriage at Los An
geles church of the marriage of Clar
Smith Hamon, who was acquitted las
| spring of numbering Jake l.. Hamor
+, Oklahoma oil magnate, to John "
German, motion picture director.
was stated tie couple went to Sa
Diego to spend thei' honeymoon.
William Wrigley, Jr., of Chicago
Thursday purchased the Los Angelo
Pacific Coast league baseball club.
IS said that Wrigley paid $4,000 cas-
for practically all of the holdings {
John F. Powers, although neitht
would confirm that figure. Power
purchased practically all of the stoc
in 1914, several years after he ha
sold the Danville, H., club of II
rhree-I league.
The drivers of four automobiles ca
rying General Pietro Barclogio, cor
mander of the Italian army, and h
party from san Francisco to Los A.
geles, We're arrested for speeding
| SANTA NdfIu recently. L lie uIiNtl
were ordered 70 appear in court in te
days. Members of the party said the
were hurry.ng in response to word tn;
, crowd was waiting to greet 'he ge
eral in Santa Barbara.
Vilhajalmur Steffanson. famous Ar
tic explorer who lectured at Glendiy
Mont, recently, has developed a sci
/ Gus infection Of the throat and has le
I for Rochester, Mimi. where he will e
!. ter hospital. Ste'fansson was col
PEELED to cancel Chautauqua engag
= ments at Nampa, Gooding and Jerom
Idaho His lecture at Glendive W
the 18th talk on the far north he h,
delivered in no days.
= On the 9th of September 222 farr
!. will be open to homestead entrv
+. soldiers of the world war IN the Nor
:. Platte irrigation project in Wyom;r
|, and one week later, September 16I
!. 81 farms will he thrown open to s,