The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-01-28
INLAND NORTHWEST


ed Al walla Walla. Wash. of a charge
Of numbering Eliza Hamilton. eolored,
with an AK the night Of November ..
As compared TO 1882 head OF
horses ten years ago. Idaho now has
s93.l23 head. of total value Of $24.-
S6s.3T6. or an average of Ss312
head
The total value of all farm property
in the state OF Idaho in 1919 Is put at
$Il6.137 $40. as compared to 500, 3I7,-
lsl ten years ago, an increase OF 134.6
per cent.
The labor commissioner OF Nevada
reports that during 1920 the average
total wage for employees In the state
per day was S4.3s, with an average of
"a hours work
In the last two years skins of wild
animals valued at SlO,947 so have been
sold as a result of the efforts of the
official hunters stationed In various
parts of Nevada.
| Over 40 cases of whiskey and gin
were dumped into the city drain, at
Billings by the police and county Of
ficials. The liquor was taken in
raid on bootlegger's home
The supreme court of Montana has
denied the application of William o.
Spear to file complaint direct in
that court in an effort to test the
constitutionallty of the direct primary
law
The average wage of the Nevada
farm hand per day for the past year
was $3.O4; that of miners, $3.50; mills
and quarries. $3.50; railroaders aver
aged $4.29; trades and merchandising,
$4.07.
A prisoner serving 80 days in the
Reno city Jail attempted suicide by
hanging, but was discovered by the
jailer, who cut him down just in time
to prevent successful termination of
the venture.
Wyoming sheepmen are taking steps
to eliminate all unnecessary expendi-
lures. The scale of pay for sheep
herders has been agreed upon as $75
a month in place of the former wage
Oh SlOO month.
Arrested as a suspect, man giving
the name of Pat Flanagan Is being
held by the police in connection with
the kidnapping of 15-year-old Billings
girl, who has been missing since the
first of November.
A bill providing that judges and
newspaper men be privileged to with
hold from grand juries information
given them in confidence has been in
PRODUCED in the lower house of the
Colorado assembly.
protest against the proposed utili-
cation of waters of Flathead lake. In
northwestern Montana, for irrigatine
land in Washington under the Column
bia basin project has been voiced by
the Montana state senate.
Miss Lucy Herbertmeyer, teacher
in the public schools at Great Falls
Mont, exposed a number of teachers
pupils and others to smallpox when
she failed to consult physician when
suffering from what she thought was
an attack of grip
A stringent anti-alien land bill. mod
eled after the California law, has beer
introduced in the Oregon legislature
The bill was examined by Attorney
General Van Wrinkle, who decided
that its provisions were fully within
the constitutional powers Of the legis
lature.
| yyhin oh nhu ioso
necessitate the amputation of his LEFT
arm, were sustained by Undersherif1
w. A. Combs when a gasoline tanl
used to supply fuel for an Illicit still
exploded while he and other Officers
were removing it from a cave attached
, to the home of John B. Gravhill, neal
Billings, Mont.
' Having ascertained that approx
mately $4,000 of the $1,000 brands ant
| marks recorded in Montana with tn,
: state livestock commission are mac
tive, the livestock commission has de
cided to recommend to the Legislative
assembly the enactment of law re
curing the re-recording of all sucl
marks and brands
Automobile thieves are becoming S,
numerous and so many cars are bein,
: stolen in Montana that insurance mel
are talking of an immediate raise ii
premiums. According to insuranc
men the companies have stood a heav
loss in this section Of the country an,
it is expected that some of them will
decline further business except a
rates which would be practically Pre-
hibitive.
In 1920, 1904 motor vehicle
licenses We're issued in Utah. For thi
year an order Of $4,000 new license
was filed for Utah, at cost of 3
cents per pair Of license plates, or
total of $13,5OO.
So rapidly is the influx of unen
ployed coming to Seattle growing tina
authorities are considering reopenin
the famous Hotel de Gink, which wa
aln Il rxri,, 41A A.