The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-11
INLAND NORTHWEST

dead as the -esult OF being kicked in
the stomach by a horse.
The third annual automobile show
OF the county Of Baker Automotive
association win be held in Baker. Ore.
ia April on the 9Th. sth and 9TH.
Farmers of Orchard valley. in
Idaho. plan TO SOW about 100 acres of
annual white sweet clover. The seed
will bet hipped 10 firm in the east
goup Of Shriners in Ontario. Ore.
have formed the Malheur Shrine club.
and expect 10 have an organization
embracing the 80 or more men who are
eligible TO belong.
Charles Mcmahon, 81 years of age.
who was taken from u Union Pacific
train at Evanston, Tyo., while in de
mented condition, attempted suicide by
plunging through window in the Jail.
His neck was badly cut.
Mrs. William Jeffries of New Swe-
den, Idaho, who was severely burned
in u fire that destroyed her home. sue
cumbed to her injuries. Mr.. Jeffr;es
was painfully burned in an effort to
save mis- wife, but he will recover.
Frank Rhea was shot and killed by
Edgar Lovett, at Green River, Wyo.
Lovett then shot and killed himself.
The men had been great chums for
months, and, according to their friends.
they had rever had trouble of any
kind.
Three masked bandits held up and
| robbed the woman proprietor and six
| engaged in card game in a hotel
| at Butte. From the men they obtained
$3.50 in cash and took $3.50 from the
hotel safe, which they forced the
woman to open.
w. H. Duffy, engineer on the w. &
o. passenger train, was instantly
killed when the locomotive jumped the
track at Hugo, Wash. Duffy jumped
from the cab, but failed to escape
the engine and his life was crushed
out as he was buried under 1t.
1t is apparent from newspapers of
the state of Nevada that violations of
the dry laws" are becoming far too
open and fragrant, with the result that
drastic action is being taken and con-
templated to put the lid down.
Over 41,OOO rabbits have been killed
in Blaine county, Idaho, the past win
ter during the determination campaign,
which Is still under way. This is the
number reported to the county agents
office, and does not include thousands
of other animals killed but not re-
ported.
Spokane was chosen as the terminal
point of the Northwest Wheat Grow
: ers' association, an interstate selling
agency to control the sales of the
growers associations in Washington,
Oregon, Idaho and Montana, at a meet
ing at Spokane of representatives Of
the four bodies.
Edward Wise, who was developing
rlining claim near Boulder, Mont,
was killed from blast He probably
picked into the dynamite soon after
g dinner while he and his father Rev.
fender claim by running long tunnel
e 70 get into the lead.
y The first cut in steamship passen-
a ger fares ON the Pacific coast in many
II years came last week when the Pugel
t Sound Navigation company reduced
'e its rates between Seattle and Tacoma
making the one way fare so cents in
d. stead of 20, and cutting the round triI
c. from $1.20 to 80 cents.
is At the April meeting of the Oregon
"a State Highway commission bids vii
* be received for II miles of gradin.
n and graveling on the highway from
8, Ontario north to point opposite
We.ser, Idaho. This is portion o
= the old Oregon trail as designated be
tween Ont1rio and Huntington.
There is herd of 700 or 750 ante
lope, a few deer and very small nun
Der of mountain sheep, which hav
been ranging in the forks of the Owy
hee river during the winter and sun
mering north of the Owyhee aroun
Black canyon, in Nevada. This
likely the largest herd of antelope |
the United States.
81 Standing in the center of freshl
y plowed field snear Minden. Nevad;
with the blue sky for thhe roof an
q the birds for the Choir. Mrs. Ma
& gherite Brock and Captain Karl
\ Drayton. of the United States air ma
3 service were married by Justice Of ii
4 Peace. Anderson. A huge boul1'
4 served the judge as an altar.
h Winnemucca, New, is to lose II
& Nixon opera house, unless decsit
N by Judge McFadden of Ely is set asi,
RI In higher court, McFadden havil
81 decided that the widow of tire la
M Senator Nixon, who presented Il
la $4,000 building to this city, and h
u son, Bertram Nixon. are Jointly e
. titled to the building and ground
W Two types Of contract for the o,
put of sugar beets in 1927, one pi
viding flat rate of 81 per ton Al
the other sliding scale, were q