Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-20
NEVADA STATE ITEMS.

SOME weeks ago Mexican who came
there bearing an assumed name COM
mitted malignant murder at Columbus
and was hanged for it by the citizens.
His wanderings are the occasion Of the
following statement which we find in the
Borax Miner Of Feb. Z: Deputy Sheriff
D. S. Miller, Of San Luis Obispo county.
California, was in town last week with
requisition from Governor Bradley for
the arrest of Victor Mongallo. alias
Ramon Castillo, for IA murder committed
in the San Luis Obispo in June 1872.
Mr.. Miller had long and arduous trip,
being snow bound in Carson for five
days, and arriving at Benton shortly af.
ter the stage had left for Columbus.
Nothing daunted, however, he set out on
foot through the snow and slush, and ar
rived at the Toll House footsore and
weary, and there for the first time learned
that certain citizens of Columbus had re-
leved the State of California from any
further trouble or expense regarding the
object of his search, by hanging him, on
| the very day that Mr.. Miller left home
for Columbus, and that his long and
vexatious journey had been made in
vain Carson Appeal, 18th.
DESPERATE CRANcEs.-Our harry and
adventurous miners will always persist
in taking chances on their precious lives.
Yesterday morning q cage loaded with
miners was coming up from the lower
working level of the Belcher mine, at the
changing of shifts, when one OF them
accidentally dropped his candlestick,
and it fell off the cage into the station.
The bell had already been rung to hoist
the cage, and it was liable to START with
a sudden jerk at any instant; yet our
miner deliberately stopped forward to
recover his candlestick. Just as he did
so up jerked the cage, and he pitched
forward into the station heels over head,
aided by the shoes of his companions,
just in time to save his life, for in anoth-
Ell instant he would infalliably have been
caught between the side of the cage and
the cap timbers OF the station and torn to
pieces. Nobody appreciated the desper-
ate chance he was taking better than
himself. But so it goes. Sooner than
have to wait for the next cage, after the
signal to quit work and go home is CIV
en-, many miner will take desperate
chances in order to 60 up with the first
lot. Many miner has rushed forward
and sprang upon the cage under such
circumstances, when he knew that the
cage was already rang up, and perhaps
would start just as he sprang and before
he had secured his footing. In time
past some terrible fatal accidents have
occurred in that way. until regulation
had to be established to the effect, that
} If miner got upon cage, or attempted
to do so after it was rung up, he should
be Immediately discharged.
A GIANT POWDER FIsHERMAN.-The
chances are, unless the people on the
Truckee River keep a very bright look
| out next Summer, there will be as many
trout destroyed by the use of giant pow
der next season as were thus killed last
Summer and Fall. The plan would
seem to be to 60 along the river wher
the water is low, and chuck giant powder
: cartridges into all the deep holes wher,
Reno, and along the Truckee generally
should see that this programme is no
carried out. The fish are being killed of
at sufficiently rapid rate by the com
mon and lawful modes of taking them
as is shown by the shipments mad,
through Wells, Fargo & Co. from Wads
worth during the four months last past
r which have been as follows: October
6,770 pounds; November, II. 900 pounds
December, $4,000, and in January
ll,235 pounds.-[ Enterprise, 18th.
DETENTION. eastward bound pas
sengsr train of the Central Pacific wa
showed in last night at Blue Canyon
and will reach Reno probably during tn
course of the afternoon. Engines an,
: snow-plows have been sent from Trucke,
a | to Blue Canyon to render assistance I,
! the disabled train. The Virginia an,
Iruckee passenger train awaits the ar
rival OF the Central Pacific train at thi
D place before leaving for Virginia. =
g [ Reno Journal, 14th.
BILLIARD MATCH Negotiations ar
being made for grand billiard contes
g between Mr.. McCleery, who is stoppin,
s at present in Virginia City, and Mr.. L
/, A. Gates, Of Eureka. The game vii
probably be played in Virginia. Il Col,
Hill News, 14th.
ENcAMPMEsT INsrrTuTEp.-At O. clocl
yesterday afternoon. ut Odd Fellows
Hall, Worthy Grand Patriarch Georc
Morrison, assisted by D. d. Patriarch D
. y. Atkinson, instituted Silver State En-