Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-07-08
SPIRIT OF THEPREss.


One hundred and six degrees in the
shade at Winnemucca on the I'd inst.
1t is reported that an oil we'll has been
struck in Santa Barbara county, CAL,
that flows 500 barrels day.
Elisha Cooking fell 200 feet in the
Savage mine last Sunday and was
crushed to death. Jno. Fleming dropped
dead In the Delta Saloon, Virginia, the
next day.
A young man named Smith was
drowned in the Carson River near &C.
noa on the lst He was about twenty
Eve years OF age. He has a brother in
Virginia and parents in Utah.
R. P. Heating, of Gold Hill, was Sc
lected as member of the National
Democratic Central Committee. Mr..
Heating is an actual resident OF the
State.
The Eureka Sentinel reports from forty
to fifty tons Of good quality Of ore is be.
ing taken put daily from the Eureka Con-
solidated mine. 1t is being transported
to the dump at the furnaces, where about
1900 tons is already accumulated.
The San Francisco Alta says: A few OF
our business men are 80 intensely pa
triotic as to stretch across the street the
letters forming their names, beautifully
f.ck II II.
and other Revolutionary heroes are dis
! played at other points. 1t is touching.
The Eureka Sentinel says there never
was time in the history of the town
when money was half 80 scarce as now.
The mining troubles which prevailed
here last winter. the cause of which is
we'll understood, put the season back at
least sixty days. We all hope for better
times during the fall months, but wh-th-
or our hopes are to be realized, of course
remains to be seen.
Southern Idaho ia overruu with
crickets, from Baker City to Boise and
Silver City. they average fifty bushels to
tho acre. and they amt half Matched GU,
yet, 1t is said an enterprising firm from
Connecticut will utilize this natural pro.
duct by roasting them and knocking
their legs of, when they will be shipped
to San Francisco and Chicago for pea
nuts.
1t is now believed that the hottest
locality this side OF the internal regions
is Indian Wells, the present eastern
terminus Of the Southern Pacific Rail
road. During the hot week the Their
mometer boiled up to 1913 degrees in the
shade. Major Forbes, of the Arizons
and New Mexico Express at this station
recently fell dead from heat while on hi,
way from dinner to his office. Th.
track.layers, and even the Indians, wer,
compelled to suspend work for few days
The Carson Tribune says: In thil
town-this moral town OF Carson-ar,
boys ranging from twelve to fifteen year,
OF age who are in the habit of getting in
toxicated. We are informed that som,
OF them enter saloons where they know
their father has credit and call for bot
ties OF whisky for the use Of their pa
ternal ancestors, and then. gathering
their chums about them, 60 outside O
town and indulge in jolly spree.
When the train which left Virginia OF
the LIST inst. arrived little beyout
Steamboat Springs. passenger name,
DR.. Ferdinand Constall, booked 10
! Ogden, became suddenly i'll. He :calle,
Tor the conductor before he died, an
requested that his money ($6OO) an
, papers should be forwarded to his Wit
:, In Healdsburgh, California. A cor
J siderable amount Of stock and othe
9 securities was found on the body.
q The Winnemucca Silver State report
the following attempt to wreck a trair
Last Tuesday morning the engineer {
. No. !, the eastern-bound passenger trai
noticed some obstruction on the trac
between Mirage aud Hot Springs, on Il
desert. He applied the air-brakes ar
j. whistled down brakes, which broupl
I: the train to a stop before reaching II
obstruction. An examination OF ii
track revealed the fact that five ties b,
been placed across the track for the pu
pose Of ditching the train and endang.
: ing the lives OF all on board.
The Carson Appeal OF Juus 3O'h say
State Superintendent Kelly returned
Carson yesterday morning after an e
tended trip to Eastern Nevada. T
parson 10 as brown as bun. and he ga
h the staging 10 worse than he eyer stru
before. He rode over thirty hours on
: one-horse blackboard. He visited I
!, schools at Phoebe. Lincoln county; Ha,
, ilton. Robinson. Duck Greek and Cher
Creek. in White Pine county. and sor
OF the inland schools ct the eastern Of
D Of Elko county. He reports them all
fourishine condition. particular
those at Cherry Greek. Hamilton al
Phoebe. New teachers have been 81
ployed and additional facilities ha