The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-04-01
INLAND NORTHWEST

that their recovery was considered
doubtful, when steam crane fell
from a railroad trestle at Portland.
A considerable sum was raised AT
Lewistown, Mont. for the fund In aid
Of the destitute in Ireland through
tagging. a card party and concert.
Miss Catherine Wagner. aged 10.
was seriously wounded when she at
tempted to take rifle from the shelf
nj her home in Anaconda. Mont. the
weapon being accidentally discharged.
The Yellowstone Special" train will
start on its daily schedule betw, en-
Salt Lake and Yellowstone on June
20 and the season will last TO Sep
temher 10, according 10 announcement
made by the railroad officials.
The largest profits realized by
manufacturers and sellers of moon
shine" whisky was revealed officially
when Louis Primorch confessed to the
federal authorities mt Tacoma that his
profits were $4,000 last year.
During the session of the Nevada
legislature $50 senate bills were in
trodueed, of which eighty-nlne were
passed. In the assembly DO bills
reached the chief clerks desk ana
about 200 of them We're enacted
Sheepherders will receive $50 a
month this year and rancn hands $40.
according to wage scales agreed upon
in Helena by the National Woolgrow-
ers' association, which met to con-
slider wage problems, financing and
warehousing.
Latest report received from the
field of operation Indicate that the
campaign now on to make of Fort
Missoula, Mont, an educational or
health center for former service men
Is making progress toward success
full conclusion
Northern Idaho residents, fostering
formation of the new state of Lincoln,
which would comprise ten counties in
north Idaho, part of western Mon
tana and eastern Washington, are to
raise Il fund to be used for propa-
ganda purposes.
Con J. Kelly, member of the Butte
police department, was given judg-
ment for 81 $50 representing wages
alleged to be due him when he was
laid off the force from June /. 1919,
to April -, 1920, in a decision rem
dered last week.
Mrs. Barbara Ross, Of Miles City,
Mont, shot in the stomach during an
enforcement raid, died at local hos
pital, and Constable William M. Bay
alleged to have done the shooting, was
| placed under arrest on the charge OF
involuntary manslaughter
Farmers in the drouth areas of Mon
tana may borrow up to 5000 from the
federal government In order to plant
| 1871 crops, says a statement from the
office of NJ. L. Wilson, count,
agricultural leader, at the state col
lege at Bozeman. The loan is limited
to 81 per acre.
One young woman identified as
Miss Sophie Losh, IS, of Priest River
| Idaho, was killed, two women and a
man perhaps fatally injured, and one
man and one wcuan slightly injured
when speedy automobile In which
/ they were riding collided with a street
| car at Spokane.
Engineers and firemen on the Los
Angeles 4 Salt Lake Railroad are not
entitled to increases in pay over rates
established by the Lane commissions
| general order No. 81, under the
United States railroad administration
according to a ruling handed down by
the railroad labor board in Chicago.
Butte was Unanimously selected as
| the home for the 1922 state bowling
tournament at the business meeting
| winding up the official end of the 1921
| play al the Y. M. G. A. at Butte. After
| the business meeting $50 bowlers who
| participated in the contests of the
| past week were guests at an elaborate
| banquet.
Terms of the Volstead federal pro
| hibition enforcement act were substi
| tuted for the present "bone dry" pro
hlbition law in Montana with the
passage by the state house of repre-
sentatives of bill which had alread,
passed the senate and goes to the gov
ernor. The bill permits the manufac
ture of NEAR beer"
| The last acts of the Nevada legis
lature before the closing of the thir
| tietb session We're to pass the gen
erai appropriation bill, carrying ap
| preparations amounting to $1,374, 900
and to fix the state tax levy for ths
| years 1921 and 1922. For the current
year the levy was fixed at 60 cent.
and for 1922 it will be 62 cents.
ii. NJ. Dengler head of the federal
forces in Montana enforcing prohibit
tion, announced that for reasons OF
economy four enforcement deputie:
were laid off last week.
The regular session of the Seven
teenth assembly cost the state of Mon
tana $10,163.20 less for officers ant
attaches than did the regular session