Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-02-09

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owing $500 borrowed money. $3.50 To
Phoebe merchants, $3.50 to Dry Valley
merchant, about 81, 900 for hired help.
besides $3.50 to teamsters. Pass the
scoundrel around.
A NOVEL HoUsE.-A miner has con.
structed, on the hillside south of
Meadow Valley street, very comfort
able little house out of dry goods boxes.
A valuable idea, where lumber and lodp-
ing are as high as in Phoebe. In his
little castle he has bed, stove, and all
the usual comforts and conveniences
found In the cabin of provident and in
dnstrious miner.
SERVED HIM RIGHT. An indignant
matron threw her beastly drunken hus-
bund out of the house, last night, say
ing, as she did so, that "she had worked
hard to get money for him to buy rot-gut
whlskey with long enough" That was
all we heard, as we passed along; suffi-
Gent, however, to make the case out in
the wonan's favor.
FOLK u LEVIN of the Main street cir
culatins library, have just received a
new and extensive stock of all kinds of
books-poetry, fiction, novels, history.
biographies, scientific works, etc which.
by means of their admirable loanino
system, are accessible to everybody.
Read what they say in the Special
| Notice department and give them
call
BLASTING POWDER has raised in price,
since the breaking out of the horse dis
ease, from S. to Sc 80 and 81 key.
Mining men feel greatly oppressed by
what they consider an unfair advantage
taken by the dealers, and talk much of
getting even,' some way or other.
AN anvil report, about 8 o'clock last
night, near the junction of Lacour and
Phoebe streets, shook the buildings for
several squares. We were told it was
fired in honor of somebody's marriage.
1t was loud enough for wholesale ex
plosion of nitro-g lycerine.
HoRsEs FOR s.-Alexander
Manoun brought in from his ranch, YES
terday afternoon, about twenty horses.
for Death Valley stampeders. Parties
are going out i'll that direction and to
Sacramento district, Arizona, every day.
To ARRIVE To-DAY.-The following
passengers left Hamilton yesterday for
Phoebe. who will arrive on to-lay's stage
John Anderson, Peter Crossen, C. M.
Craig, W. Il. Marsen, John w. Brown,
Miss Lou Eldridge, G. A. Woodward.
CONDITION OF SrocK.-The horse s
ranched in the valleys contiguous to
Phoebe are reported to be in fine condi-
ton. They have not been fed hay on
grain. Parts of Southeastern Nevada
cannot be excelled for grazing.
ABOUT seventy-fve of c. II. Lights
team mules are down with the epizootic.
Gen. Page will have to hurry up the
Bulllonville Railroad, or the quartz mills
will be compelled to stop running.
We have not received at this Office, yet
a capy of the Lincoln county funding
bill, and it would be rather expensive to
have it transmitted by telegraph. This
IN answer to many inquiries.
The Helena (Montana) Herald says
the bankers find it profitable to buy
crude ore, and ship it, for manipulation,
40O miles by wagon and thousand by
rail. 1t must be rich.
RARE SPoRT.-See the advertisement
of Mr.. Reyes. He will have a shooting
match to-day for chickens with the re.
volver-the favorite shooting-iron of the
miner.
Mr.. KUENcER, an extensive mine
owner in Sacramento district, Arizona,
LETT for that section yesterday, to press
the development OF his property there.
SENTENcED.-In the District Court,
yesterday, Joseph Hinkersall convicted
OF grand larceny, was sentenced TO the
State Prison for fifteen months.
ANDY FIFE expects to have half his
mules at work again next Tuesday, and
the balance by Saturday-providing they
continue to convalesce.
E. e. BARTER, lately from Eureka, has
a saw-mill nearly completed 35 miles
east of here, where there is said to be an
abundance of timber.
The Raymond & Ely company have
oxen engaged hauling ore, taking the
place OF the mules down with the cpl
zootic.
The snow has about all disappeared
from Meadow Valley, and the farmers
are getting ready for gardening.
FRANK PERRY, convicted of grand lar
ceny, will be sentenced on the 18th