Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-08-08

Six jurymen we're willing to allow the
bill 10 full; one was for 800, one for
S25, one for $50 and one for nothing. |
Tho amounts were accordingly added up. |
making 81, 1872. This was divided by ii.
the number of jnrymep, and q verdict
was rendered for Sl2l.
The Sacramento Record Union says:
Pork packers in the East are sending to
this Coast new wrinkle in smoked
meat-smsll pigs being cured entire. so
that the purchaser obtains from the same
package. done up in canvass, hams.
shoulders and bacon.
The Register philosophically observes;
The farmers are having an easy time this
year. The csterpilars have gathered the
apples, the Colorado beetle lis harvesting
the potatoes, and the grasshoppers are
doing the bayiDg. just find an insect
that will get up the winters wood and
we will go farming.
In the District Court at Carson the
jury in the Huff murder trial. being I'M
able to agree, were discharged. 1t Is
said the jury stood seven for acquittal
and Eve for conviction. Rehearing OF
the case was set for August Il. when the
farce will probably end with the acquittal
OF the murderer.
The work on tho new Northern Belle
mill at Belleville is progressing rapidly.
The frame timbers are up and the build
ing is being inclosed and the roof shin.
gled. The boilers are set and the smoke
stacks in place. The machinery is con.
stantly arriving, and it is reported that
the last Of il is on the way. All OF which
indicates that the time for the start-up
will not be long delayed.
The Montana Independent says the
Secretary of War, under joint resolu-
ton of Congress, is authorized to deliver
five hundred stand Of arms to eseh OF
tho Territories-the Governors thereof
to give bonds for the return Of the guns
when demanded by the Government
What good will five hundred stand Of
arms do2 We need at least two thousand
in Montana alone. The resolution as i
now stands is farce.
A dispatch from Prescott. dated Jul.
3Oth, ia as follows: The second party o
Boston colonists, consisting Of forty
seven men. with section wagons, tents
mules and two horses. arrived here OIL
Wednesday from San Francisco Noun
tain, where they had gone with the ex
pectation of finding the first party Q
comfortably housed, and busy with thei
crops; but instead, they neither foun
men, crops, nor lands suitable for thei
purpose, and. like their predecessors
kept on into Prescott. where they seen
to be at loss to know just what to do.
In digging well at Roseburg. Oregon
last week, after cutting through har
gravel bed, some seven or eight fee
thick, the workmen came upon body c
pure white something unusual i
the black mud district. The characte
OF the mud-in wilderness and lightnes
, would go to prove that in digging the
had struck upon the old bed Of a lax
which fed by the waters of the North an
South Umpqua rivers, spread over tt
3 greater portion Of the valley OF the UNI
a qua, which was drained when the wat,
pouring through its outlet cut ga
= across the coast range OF mountains su
q ficiently large TO permit the lake to emf
+; ty its contents into the sea.
Hundreds of miners, pilgrims and oil
+ ers are in the Black Hills, unable to Of
u tain property or work. Efforts are b
e ing made at Deadwood City to form
II prospecting party. 1000 strong, arme
d and equipped for the undertaking, to {
l into the Big Horn and Wind River cou
"a tries, and give those regions thoroue
inspection. 1t was believed that exte
y sive and paying mines would be disco
cred in the sections named. 1t is evide
that the time approaches when strol
q column Of adventurous men, disappoir
I'd in their expectations and venture
A. will move in organized shape out Of q
:. Black Hills and into the reputed b
y comparatively unexplored gold secto
r of Eastern Montana. The Hills, accor
II ing to the best authorities, are alrea
y overrun. with not one in score baski
in the smiles Of tickle fortune.
, An inquiry into the illegal sale
. liquor to Indians at the Indian Wells
the Mohave desert, has served to exhil
10 at once the loose way in which the bu
ness of the Interior Department has be
8, conducted Of late years. and the capac
in of the railroad corporations which for
long period controlled the politics
California. The Southern Pacific Rs
10 road Company. an offshoot of the G,
lg trail Pacific, has established tempors
terminus at the point menti oned. a
rum shops being opened on tbs pub
IN lands adjoining the attention OF the
dian Agent was called to the matt
He investigated the subject and discov
that the land where the railroad der
was built was on q section which ma
years ago was transferred to the State
81 California for school purposes, while
ry Secretary of the Interior had subseque
ly set the same land apart as an Ind
-, reservation. Thus. the Interior Depa
VI ment claimed land belonging TO
yer State of California and designated it
an Indian reservation. while the railro
ara company. without any claim whatever
- the ground. has seized and occup