Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-10-30

deck underneath, leaving a nice clean
table top with family bible in the CEN
ter. Ii is intended to be used when
pious family are playing cards and some
one knocks at the door.
Gold Hill boasts OF Celestial who Is
thoroughly civilized, and is enl'sht'niug
his Mclean brethren in ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain for them TO
attempt to detect. If walked mp TO /
faro table last Wednesday and walked
away over 5000 ahead. Friday lie |
found three sbsrps playing poker. and |
in very short time broke the party aud |
won $50 And yet he ia called |
heather.
Apeculiar document has been received
by Professor John LeConte, President |
Of the California State University. The
writer of this strange letter, who dwells
in n small town in Ohio, states that be is
the inheritor OF two fortunes Of El2j,OOO
each. and that he proposes to donate
them to the University OF California.
One condition, however, is attached to
the gift: that the graduates shall each
year send him their theses, which he
shall criticise in Latin. He refers to
parties in San Francisco, but as they can
not be found, it is supposed that the
man is insane, and is lavish OF wealth
which exists only in his imagination.
1t is announced that the Union Con.
has received from Washington and put
on record United States patent for its
location. 1t will be rememered that the
Ophir had formerly 1900 feet, OF this
275 feet on the north was allotted by
agreement to the Union Con-. which had
previously GOO feet of which 300 was
claimed by the Sierra Nevada. The
Union patent includes that 300 feet,
making 1875 feet from the north line of
the Mexican to tho south line of the
Sierra Nevada. The Union is thus the
largest location between the latter mine
and the Cbollar. The east boundary is
the Scorpion, near which ,hs eastern
shaft is located.
Kate Miller, the woman who was on
tho 2Sth of July convicted in the Eureka
Police Court of disturbing the peace by
using abusive language to the landlady
of the California lodging house, and sem
fenced to term of 1875 days in the
County Jail, was restored 10 freedom on
the Goth, upon a pardon signed by all
the members Of the Pardoning Board Of
Carson. The woman had served SO days
of her sentence. The reason assigned
by the Board for the granting the par
don was the fact that they had received
a petition signed by the District Attor-
ney, County Commissioners and other
county officers, and that no remonstrance
had been forwarded showing why the
prayer should not be granted.
The Inyo Independent mentions the
arrival at Independence of young Ashim
and his mother, and speaks of the recent
attempt of the Perasich brothers to muir
der the former, as follows: "A little
judicious hanging would teach such bar
barians as those would-be assassins 6
lesson they richly deserve. Such high
handed outrages are rarely ever justitia
BILE in the eyes of civilized community
and certainly not when the object of re
venge was on his way to stand tria
and receive such justice as the law may
award, as was the case in this instance
Ashim was not attempting to evade tria
or justice, but exactly the reverse. And
i, anyway, men who will thus fire into
stage load of innocent passengers ou9h
} to be hunted down and treated as any
T other wayside murderers, and we do no
doubt they will be-
On the Eastern bound train Sunday
! says the Reno journal, was man anG
his daughter who were going "home tc
America " happy in the realization OF
Y their hopes. They had been in Reno a
3 year or two, both working, he at odd
7 jobs which he could pick up and she as
chambermaid in one of the hotels. BY
, dint of hard labor and strict economy
they had saved 5000 over and above
) their fare East, and were then going
r home "to mother" as he called his
, wife. He had enough, he said, to keep
him with what little he chose to do, for
the remainder Of his and his wife's lite
and then Sallie, the daughter, could have
the old homestead. This was told to an
, old pioneer who spoke his piece" after
this fashion: +" have been on this coast
twenty-six years; have had six fortunes
at different times; now il / were TO sell
oil I had in the world | could not pur-
chase an emigrant ticket to Omaha. .
And yet each were happy
The Tucson (A.izona) Citizen of tho
9th says: The Pinal Mountains arc full
of prospec.ors, making good discoveries
| The Silver King mine is reported as look
ing well, but work is almost suspended
on it in VIEW Of the prospective sale
Several other mines in the vicinity OF
the King are being developed with fine
prospects Near old Pinal Camp some
, rich discoveries have recently been made
, the ores of which assay as high as SIS, 0O(
per ton. The new placer diggings or
Q Lost Gulch, twenty-five miles north OF
q Pinal Camp, are being worked with
vigor. Nothing very rich has beer
. found, but good average wages are ex
pected to be made on quite an extent o.
: ground. Very flattering discoveries o
o silver and copper ores have been made
= few miles east of Lost Gulch, but a.
they are on the San Carlos Reservation
they cannot, OF course. be worked now
> Governor Stafford will leave here in
+ few days for San Carlos and 90 will
Q Agent Clum to see If that part of the
Reserve covering the mines can be ex
cluded without detrimeht to the Indians
and thereby let the miners go ahead
y We know Agent Clum will readily re
d commend the measure. if no injury o
. interference will thereby result to th
Q Indians or their management
There is nothing more difficult in thi
world of difficulty than to persover
against adverse fortune. We suppos
; that the gold mines have thousan
stories of the lottery of the lode. Her
is one which we find in the correspond
ence of the Kansas City News Abou
two years ago two young men had be
4 tween them about $500, 1.-the savings @
4 a long spell of work " They were OF