Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-01-05

The following from q former resident
Of this town will be read with interest
by all. He throws additional light on
the fate Of Killingly. who vas last seen |
alive at that place.
HiHo, Dec 18th, 1875.
EDITOR RECORD: - In these piping |
times OF peace, quietness and stupidity,
where the soul Of the searcher after items
must grow sicx within him. from the
dearth thereof. perhaps . little gossip,
tvaddls il you will. from an outlying
camp, may not prove altogether uninter-
esiing TO your readers. Our little burg
still reposes ct the head OF Pshransgat
Valley, which winds its now scared and
faded length down toward the turbid
waters OF the Colorado. and the arid
plains that surround Los Vegas. We are
having Winter in mild form the weather
for the most part being simply delightful,
all OF which we duly appreciate, and yet.
With the perversity of human nature, we
often sigh as We look back to those warm
July and August evenings. when We were
want 10 gather round the social smudge,
battle the voracious mosquito, and abuse
our peigbbors. Oh! the Hike mosq quito,
that I could sing his praise as be deserves.
He will impale you through the sole OF
your boot and make you think you have
stepped into snest Of yellow jackets; and
at the witchiug hour Of midnight. when
you fsin would WOO the drowsy god, he
will 90 for you through three pairs OF
Mission blankets and make you sigh for
an early grave. One was captured few
days since. and from the rings on his
bill old mosquito sharps estimate his age
at eighty. six years. aud he yas still in an
excellent state Of preservation, good for
ut least half dozen more campaigns.
Maj. Glendon, general superintendent
OF the Hike Company. and our old friend
@. G. Heath, local superintendent, are
here. attending to the affairs OF the Com
pany. and are at present working small
force on their mines.
DR.. Bidwell has dismantled the Ores.
cent mill and Is about shipping ii to
Ivappab. Our old Bullionville friend
Shafer has opened out in the old John
Ely building with large stock Of gener.
al merchandise. Wilson pursues the
even tenor Of his way at the old place.
and his excellent lady is prepared at all
times to give tho way -faring man meal
that will make him think be is at home
in his mothers house.
The news has reached us-and il has
given general atisfaction-that DeKay,
who murdered his wife recently in
Arizona, is to be hung on the l4th OF the
coming month. He and his family are
well known here. having lived in the val.
ley for the past two years. 1t is probable
that rope has never been used to better
advantage, since hemp was first utilized,
than will that which elongates that vii.
lain's neck.
have noticed in several papers OF late
conjectures regarding the fate OF Billy
Killingly. believe there are only two
men who know just what has become Of
that roughian. Early last Fall lin Sep
TENDER. l think) Billy Killingly rode
down the valley with three head Of horses
one had given ont, and he left it at one
OF the ranches in exchange for Q shot
gun. He then went on down Is far az
Fred Walborn's; not finding any one ct
home, he broke into the house and gather
ed together small package Of provisions.
he was evidently frightened away. as he
left without taking anything with him.
Early on the following morning two
strangers, ranchers from mp north, rode
into Hike. breakfasted, ascertained that
their man vas ahead. borrowed Win.
chester rifle, exchanged their tired horses
for fresh ones, and pushed on in pursuit.
They stated while in Hiko that they had
trailed him for three hundred miles, and
they would follow him to Arizona or the
othes hot place, and il they should come
up to him that he should trouble the
stock men OF Nevada no more. Three
or four days later they returned, were in
clined to be reticent when questioned,
but from the fact that several Of the Win
chester cartridges were gone, together
with one of the horses that they rode
from here, and also that they broush,
back the horses With which Killingly lief,
the valley. and again from an admission
made by one Of them. that when they
parted from killingly he was on the des-
ers north OF Los Vegas, long way from
water, and be hardly thought he would
ever be able to make il. The presump.
ton seems easy that Billy killinsly has
gone where all horse thieves are supposed
ultimately to 20, and it is evident that.
as far as be is concerned. long-haired
saints, who have parted with their onions
in the streets Of the ungodly, can make
the return trip to the land Of Enoct
without fear, and pesky mustangs. mat
ronly mares, and virtnous FLIES. can
masticate the saeeulent bunch. grass and
nutricious sage in peace. ReqMesoa, i,
rlcs. InaAN