Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-10-26
GENERAL ITEMS.

The number Of registered voters il
A1syin Is ~.
Messrs. Kendall and Goodwin speak
tonight st Eureka.
Up. Jones spoke at Carson on Mon
night
There are 692 names registered in Car
son precinct.
A detachment of the LIST regiment L.
S. cavalry lately visited Eureka.
The Sentinel says the registered vote
a, PAisade is 70.
The Carson races commenced last
Tuesday.
On Sunday last Frank Deadly and Pete
arock ran foot race at Eureka. Pete
Game out ahead by about three feet.
A fire occurred at Austin, by which
the blacksmith and wagon shop Of o. II.
Strickland was destroyed. Loss $4,000.
wv. Youug, Jr., candidate for the
Assembly from Lander county has re-
turned 70 Eureka from a stumping tour
over that county. He says II is certain
fUr the Liberal cause
Mr.. J. W. Young, Jr.. of Eureka, ad-
dressed large meetings at Battle Noun
tain and Palisaie. The papers speak in
very complimentary terms Of his efforts.
A private letter from Ida Valley, a
new and valuable mining region, gives
rs cheering news of the richness and
prospective value OF the mines Car
son Appeal.
Col. 1. c. Ellis addressed the citizens
Of Eureka on Tuesday evening last. The
Sentinel saws that the meeting was very
large and enthusiastic and also that Col.
Ellis made & must brilliant and eloquent
speech.
J. Stencil, who Was arrested here in
August last on several indictments for
forgery, and taken 70 San Francisco for
trial, returned yesterday morning honor
ably acquitted IRON al charges. = Eure-
Ks Sentinel
The officers Of the Virginia and Truckee
RailToad Company complain that boys
ara allowed 10 climb on the cars and en-
gines of that company. Several acct
dents have already occurred, and the
Superintendent saws he IS determined
to prevent the practice.
We learn that about two hundred and
twenty-five names would b. registered at
Empire. making in sll in the county,
little over nine tQni-ed-of which. a
friend 81 orr elbow claims 500 for the
Democratic ticket State Register, 20.
A man named Thompson died Of con
sumption Oh the westward bound pas
senger train # the C. ?. Z. K. yester-
day. and his remains were taken of at
Reno. He viii be buried to-day.
He vss e. route from the East to San
jose, C1l.torp.a.- State Journal, IS.
We learn from Ed Wore. a practical
miner. Eho las lately returned from the
mines on Desert creek, Esmeralda coun-
tr, TIA; the inning interests of many
camps n that direction are looking bet
ter AMI brighter than for long time
carson ATpeal, 2lst inst.
The railroad blockade will De raisei
within ten days. Both 8 wagon and
railroad Is to be constructed around the
tunnel Immediately, and turntables
put AZ each end so that cars can be
turued TO the new track without expense
and delay Of building long trestle-
work. Yirg. Chronicle.
Just at the time Of changing shifts at 6
o clock last evening. in the Chollar-Poto-
81 mine Robert Clendenning. who was
working in the old upper works made a
mlsstep. lost his balance and fell down
three sets Of timbers, cutting a severe
cash on the back par, of his head and
otherwise badly b-uising him.-LG. H.
News, 10.
NJ. Riff. Williams, well known on this
coast, died in this city at O'Clock YES
terday morning, Of consumption. super
induced by injuries received in attempt
ing 10 extlnguish the great fire in the
Yellow jacket and adjacent mines. three
years ago. Deceased was a native Of
New York City, aged 36 years, and came
to California in ls50.-Carson Appeal.
The Carson Appeal says the Republic
cans OF Douglas county nominated H. P.
Peck Burnham for Sheriff. d. VALLEY
and l. b. Hickey for the Assembly. y.
Blossom for Treasurer, Erred. Furth for
Recorder, Walter Swart for County Clerk.
and Moses Iebbs for District Attorney.
We hear that the Assembly nominees are
favorable to Jones for Senator.
Yesterday the engineer of the Phenix
opened the whistle valve to inform the
people of the town that it WAS time to 90
to lunch. The whistle opened its throat
aud refused TO be comfortei. All efforts
were made to stop the alarming screech.
but It proved Intellectual until a man
mounted the roof and shut off the steam
by means of long pole. The whistle
exercised It's lungs for the space of about
twenty minutes Eureka Sentinel.