The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-01-07
INLAND NORTHWEST

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rear os his home at Auburn, Wash.
and thrown violently TO the ground.
Irving Pyke, "a. is dead OF u fractured
skull.
Four or five airplanes of the Ninth
Aero squadron probably will be sta
toned in Billings for time next
spring to stimulate interest in landing
fields in Montana.
Half of the business section of Man
haitian. New, was destroyed by fire
which started in a garage. Fifteen
buildings were burned and the loss is
placed at $4,000.
Three men are dead and three are
in the hospital following an accident in
which AN automobile stage went into
the Humptulips river ON Il bridge -
miles north of Hoquaim, Wash.
Applications for automobile licenses
are coming in pretty fast NJ the Ne
yada secreiarT of states office. At
ready 5000 has been collected. which
applies on the first quarter of 1921.
The states one-third share of fees
collected in Nevada for fishing and
hunting licenses from the period be-
ginning April l, 1917, and ending De-
cember 81, 1920, will make a total of
$1,000.
A state law prohibiting the sale or
wearing of shoes with heels more than
IN inch and half high will be asked
from the Washington state legislature,
the State Osteopathic association stat
ed last week.
Louis Woodward, aged 80 years, one
of the most prominent business men
| Of Go!dfield during the boom days,
| fell fifty feet while descending shaft
in the Original Klondike mine and was
Instantly killed.
Potatoes are the principal export
crop grown i'm Nevada. About 5000
acres are annually grown, yielding
| about 100000 bushels. The quality
is excellent, ranging with the best
tubers of Idaho or Colorado.
All Hing, &c years old. an employee
at the Southern Pacific shops, died at
the county hospital at Reno, New,
from burns received last week when
his oil-soaked clothes caught fire from
small fire he had built to keep
warm.
The prospects for good season for
the farming interests of Carson val
ley, in Nevada, were never brighter
than at this time and from late re-
ports it is learned that there is over
seven feet of snow in the Blue Lakes
section, the watershed of the Carson
river.
Because he had failed to receive no.
tice of the penalty imposed by the in
ternal revenue department in addi-
ton to the tax required on homemade
wine, John Monte was fined only $3.50
when he pleaded guilty at Carson City,
New, to a charge of violating the fed
eral prohibition law.
J.. ID. Jones of Cumberland, WyO.,
who, as a side issue during the winter
devotes some time to trapping wild
animals, anne into Kemmerer last
week, ha ling the pelts of fourteen
coyotes and eight wildcats in his pos
session, representing the reward of his
work so far this winter.
The Seattle chamber of commerce
is in receipt of request from the
I, Boise, Idaho, chamber looking to the
calling of a convention at some cen.
trat point where western shippers can
meet with traffic managers of western
railroads to discuss the proposition OF
reducing transportation costs.
q George Okata, alias George Sato, al
!, legged to be a clever forger and swnd
: Ter, was arrested at Ogden after d
chase of six weeks by agents of the
William J. Burns International Detec
!. tive agency, whici. led from Gallup
n. NJ to San Francisco, Portland, Spo
kane, Reno and finally to Ogden
: X. 7. Endow, a native of Japan, ap
!. peared at Carson, New, last week ant
e changed his plea of not guilty TO guilt,
10 to an indictment charging him will
IS padding payrolls of the Western Pa
p cific during the time that the ralroa,
was under the control and manage
10 ment of the United States railroa
+. administration.
Six convicts at the state pententiar
Is at Walla Walla, Wash, made an al
~ tempt to escape as they were bein
o. returned from the jute mill to thei
cells, but were driven into their cell
L. when guards with rifles fired at then
ne When the men started to make
ey break for liberty they attacked JOSEF
We Smith, turnkey, with a bar of iron.
MS Hay producers of the state of N,
IN yada are petitioning the Southern p,
Us cific company to meet the recent rat
reductions made from Idaho points
NC Missouri river points, and reduce I'll
~, present charges of $15 a ton to $40
ny ton.
I'd When the census was taken la,
ye January the bureau found 1,691. I.
sheep on the farms and ranches
ms Utah, as against 1870 800 in 1910.
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