Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-03-23
SAN FRANCISCO, March

SAN Francisco, March 81.
About four months since the skeleton
of a man was found in a thicket near
Belmont with bullet hole through the
skull. The discovery of another skele-
ton near the same spot, in hammock,
adds to the mystery, and all the circum-
stances indicate that the men engaged in
q mortal combat; that one was killed in
stantly, while the other crawled into the
hammock and there bled to death. With
the last skeleton were found copy of "A
French paper and fragments of the Call,
bearing date February II, 1872. Por-
tons of the paper found with the other
skeleton bore the same date. Il. G..
Phelps has the silver watch which was
found upon the last skeleton, the bones
were covered with fine clothing. Nothing
is known as to the identity of the men.
The investigation into the affairs of the
Shipping Commissioner Office resulted
in the exoneration of Col. Stevenson.
San Francisco, March %.
Charles Hanson, Mary (his wife) and
Bertha Brener are ON trial in the Police
Court to-day for conspiracy to invelgle
Maria Gardi and another girl into their
house Of i'll. fame, on Waverly Place, in
this city, and for keeping a house of i'll
fame. The girls say they were induced
to come here from New York on prom
Use of employment in a respectable place.
Frank Pixley's lecture on Chinese and
street Arabs, last night, was not we'll at
tended, and he failed to accomplish his
advertised boast that he would stir things
from the bottom. However, the lecture
was much applauded by those present.
The work of removing buildings on the
line of Montgomery Avenue will be com
menced Immediately.
Weather cold, foggy and disagreeable
Second Dispatch.
san Francisco, March %, p. NJ.
The case of w, c. Robinson, charged
with perjury in the Gordon case at Oak
land, was continued to-day until next
Saturday. The Court refused to re-
duce his bail from SIC, 900, and Robin
son was remanded to Jail.
The gross earnings OF the Central
Pacific Railroad Company for February
are stated at 1904, 900, an increase over
the same month last year of 1928, 900.
The Panama steamer took $4,000 gal
Ions wine and 220 tons lead.
Langley's new directory shows the
total population of the city to be 1873,
1923; Chinese, II, GOO; colored, 1850.
After the adjournment of the Police
Court to-day, Charles Hanson and wife,
accused of threatening two inmates OF
their house to make them swear falsely,
were arrested for suborned perjury. Bal
| demanded, $4,000 each.
SALT LAKE, March %.
a correspondent of the News report:
terrible state of affairs in San Pete
county, owing to smallpox and the care
lessness of the people in not adopting
sanitary regulations. In this city the
increased number OF cases cxcites gen
eral uueasiness.
Business seems no way unsettled b,
the late monetary scare, eliminating il
a ran on the First National Bank. Al
the banks, however, took warning am
telegraphed for currency, large amount
of which arrived tonight.
Late private advices from Washingto
indicate that Governor Woods. who, it
generally supposed the President in
tends to send abroad, will be succaede
by Gen. 2. Edward Connor, iorner
commander of this district.
A new paper, called the Grant Nidette
was issued here to-day. 1t is of man
moth DrOpOrtiOnS