The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-06-17
INLAND NORTHWEST

sFHfes convention 10 be held in POca-
tello on June 18th under the auspices
Of the Idaho Reclamation ASSOCIATION
Mrs. LYDIA Southland, charged with
murder az her fourth husband. Edward
Meyer, at Twin Falls. Idaho. arrived
Ia San Francisc1rucsday from Hano-
lulu, In custody OF V. II. OrmsSy. n
deputy sheriff of Idaho, and his wife.
Practically all the sheep men OF
sianti. Utah have sold their years clip
az prices ranging from l5c and zoe per
pound. The representatives OF the
Nantucket Min company purchased .
good portion of the local product az
from ISL to 20 cents. However. some
was sold to Ctah concerns, consigned
to the Jeremiah Williams company Of
Boston.
Cooperation and joint action by All
the metal working trades unions in tina
country to resist further reductions
In wages and Increases in the hours
of labor was urged Wednesday by
James u Connell, president of the met
al trades department of che American
Il
Federation of Labor, In his annual
address to the departments congress
at Denver Colo.
Increase of 100 second feet in the
flow of the Boise river during the
past "a hours was announced Tuesday
night by J. b. Bond, head of the U. s.
reclamation service at Boise, Idaho.
The flow of the river registered l6,
700 feet Monday morning at s, o'clock
and 17.400 feet al 5 o'clock. Tuesday
morning It Jumped to $4,000 at 8 o.
clock and was 1880 at 8 o'clock In
the afternoon.
Representing the state board of agri-
culture in the absence in Victoria,
b. c., of III. Il. Hagan, chief Of the
bureau of plant industry, J. w. Fox,
county crop and pest agent of Utah
went to Callao to suggest and organize
campaign against grasshopper
plague which is reported 10 be damag-
ing the crops there. The call for help
was sent in from Ray Rawlins, presi-
lent Of the farm bureau at tJalIao.
Contest of the will of James A. hurry
wealthy western capitalist. was filed
in court at Salinas, Colo, late Wednes-
day, by his sister, Anna M. Flynn, and
his niece, Agnes G. Doyle, on the
ground that the document already
nled is not Murry's will, and secondly.
chat the local courts have no juris-
diction in the case because hurry was
resident Of Montana. The hurry
estate is estimated variously at from
$5OOOO00 to 15,000,OO0.
Wage reductions. ranging from
slightly under II per cent to 1879 per
cent, and averaging in the aggregate
approximately 12h per cent are re-
commended by the board of arbitra-
ton to which was submitted the
controversy between the Utah Light
, and Traction company and its plat
; form shop and track employees. The
decision of the arbitrators was rend-
cred Wednesday night, and 1T will
mean decrease in the annual payroll
Of the traction corporation approxim-
iting $125,OOO ,
After four days Of terror and suffer-
ing, Pueblo was astir Wednesday in
an optimistic mood. The city and ita
citizens nerves have been restored, as
I'll fear of further floods have been
, alayed. AS the raging, angry waters
! Of the Arkansas and Fountain rivers
subside, buoyant course prevails. For
the first time since Thursday night,
last, citizens slumber was not distur-
, bed by alarms of floods. The churn-
Ing, rushing waters Of the eddyina
. currents was replaced by the hum Of
motor patrols and the buzz Of attemp-
ted business resumption.
Ten San Francisco planning mills
and lumber yeards, closed in sympathy
, with the Builders exchange lockout,
, reopened Wednesday on a union basis
, without reduction in wages for union
, men employed, 1t was announced by p,
81. Mccarthy, president of the San
Francisco Building Trades council
, The exchange started a lockout more
than a month ago because the union
: employees refused to accept q IN
per cent wage reduction decided or
by an arbitration board. Last weel
he exchange announced that its mem
bers would resume business June Il
on an open shop basis.
, The ARK of the Church Of the Liv
, ing God" vessel built by J. e. Lewis
negro evangelist, with the declared
. intention of carrying party Of mis-
sionaries to Africa, was lying at the
: bottom of the Los Angeles harbor We'd
, nesday. having sunk shortly after it's
, launching late Tuesday night. Tht
:, evangelist and two assistants were
| thrown overheard when the craft cap
!, sized. but reached shore safely. Lacl
Of ballast was declared to be the cause
Of the trouble. Lewis spent thre,
years building the ark, doing most O
the work with his own hands. Thi.
. little misfortune is just test Of thu
. Lord" he said. "He let the ark sinh