Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-09-20
NEVADA STATE ITEMS.
VIRGINIA AND GOLD HILL.

VIRGINIA AND GOLD HILL.
We gather the following items from
the Gold Hill News, of the 10th:
GONE EAsr.-John L. Moore, one Of
the best known and most energetic OF
the old residents and business men of
this section, left Virginia City by the 8
o'clock tain last evening on trip over
the great continental railroad, to visit
his relations and friends in New York,
Boston and other localities, where he
roamed in the days of his youth. Mr..
Moore came over from California, cross
ing the Sierra in March, 1860.
WHITE SAoE.-The white sage on which
the herds of cattle of Nevada now fatten
on thousand hills, was in time past
staple article of food among the Piutes.
A Piute, in speaking of the many adj
vantages the Indians enjoy since the set
Element amongst them of the whites.
said that formerly they we're often almost
starved He said he could still remem-
Der, although he was then but a small
boy, when they used to be obliged to live
almost wholly on white sage.
PERSONAL. - Crittenden Thornton,
Esq, Private Secretary to his Excellency
the Governor OF Nevada, and Guy
Thorpe, recently manager Of tie State
Bank of Nevada at Phoebe, were in
Gold Hill this p. m Mr.. Thorpe will
remain for some days, perhaps perma-
nently, in Virginia City and Gold Hill.
TYPHOID FEvEE.-Wm. Reick, nephew
of Lewis Reick, proprietor of the Ne
vada Brewery, died yesterday of typhoid
fever. Deceased was young man %
years Of age, and only arrived here from
Fatherland about four months ago. We
hear of quite a number of persons being
i'll of feveLs OF various kinds, Of late.
Bound TO BE Orr. Billy Coryell, who
had his right leg and left shoulder brok.
en- some weeks since, by being thrown
from the cars on the occasion of the big
fire in the wood piles below Carson, was
up town yesterday. He was carried NJ
in chair by some of his friends.
ESCAPE FROM THE COUNTY JAIL.-Las'
evening about o'clock Allan Mclean, {
prisoner sentenced by Judge Young
August ., to 100 days imprisonment il
, the County Jail for petty larceny
walked away from that institution.
REV. A. n. FIsHER. Superintendent o
Public Instruction, is sojourning in tn
Atlantic States. He expects to return t.
the sage-brush land in November next.
For day or two past the tall form o
Ex-Governor Blasdel, has doomed up con
spicuously on c street, Virginia City.
COUNTY JAIL.-At the present time six
teen malefactors are housed in the Coun
ty Jail, two of whom are females.
FROM the Enterprise, of the 18th, W
obtain the following:
We copy the following from the Vii
ginia Chronicle, of the 10th:
LAM EXPLOSION. sociabl
was going on at shaft No. 2, on the lin
of the Sutro Tunnel, last might, two coz
oil lamps, sitting ON table in the room
suddenly exploded with a terrific report
A young girl named Mary Butler, in he
fright leaped out through window, fall
ing seven or eight feet, and was slight
injured by the fall. The oil from tn
) lamps took fire, and great sheet of fam
, shot up to the ceiling of the ball room
, causing the greatest CONSERVATION anon
the gay throng. The flames, however
l were promptly subdued, before the builG
! ing or any of its inmates were injured
{ But that was one of the balls that didn
go on.
From other Nevada exchanges we cop
these items:
STATED UP.-From the White Pin
News we learn that the magnificent mi
of the Troy Silver Mining Company ha
e started up on ores belonging to the con
= pany, and the prospects are fattering fc
long and remunerative run.
:, The Carson Public Schools are no
crowded with children, and an effort
5 being made to provide additional scho,
accommodations
NEVADA, and especially the westei
|, portion of the State, is being largely re-
a resented at the California State Fair tn
Il year.
n A. Il. CARPENTER has been sent to Il
:, Woodbridge Insane Asylum from Elk