Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-05-23

PENDANTS. The war Between the direct
ors and small stockholders OF the com.
pany promises to be carried to extremity.
IL is reported that the next move against
the directors. will be to attack the legal
ity of the consolidation of the Southern
with the Central Pacific. It being
claimed by the adverse parties. that the
statutory provisions were not complied
with in such consolidation.
The stockholders of the original Gold
Hill Mining Company. have decided to
increase the capital from 5, 900, 900 to TO-
900, 900, in 100000 shares.
The small pox has again made its sp-
pearance in the city. Four cases were
discovered among the whites, who were
residents in the vicinity of the Chinese
quarter. 1t is supposed that q number
of cases exist there, that have not come
to light, Those who are attacked are
removed to the pest house and the
houses quarantined. The health officers
are reported to have expressed fears of
its becoming epidemic and recommend
measures of precaution.
The steamer Colorado, which had sew
eral cases on board, is still undergoing
fumigation in Mission Bay.
About IL o'clock on Saturday night
two respectable young men, one the son
of Mr.. Talbot of the firm of Pope Il Tai.
bot, the other of ex-United States Treas.
urer Cheeseman, were shot. The former
was seriously wounded in the neck by a
man named Neil, clerk with Cope &
Uhler, who mistook them for footpads
and opened fire without awaiting expla-
nations. Cheeseman's wound is less
severe, the ball striking him in the
thigh. Neil is held in bail in $4,000 on
a charge of assault to murder.
M. B. Page, contractor for sprinkling
streets, while speeding his horse at
Golden Gate Park yesterday afternoon
collided with another buggy and was
thrown out, receiving injuries from
which he died in few hours.
The steamer South Carolina, the pio-
neer steamer OF the Panama Transit
Company. opposition to the Pacific Mail,
arrived yesterday morning.
O'Leary failed to make his 500 miles,
stopping shortly before midnight Satur
day at the end of the 439th mile
Schmehl continued few minutes Longer
and scored 2S2.
The Board of Health held specia
meeting this afternoon, to consider
what measures should be taken in re-
gard to the infected steamship Colorado
A committee of two were appointed tt
visit the Colorado with quarantine off
GERS and take such measures as they saw
fit. The board voted to prosecute tn,
pilot who brought the Colorado int,
: port.
/, The physicians at meeting referring
to the recent cases of small pox, dis
, covered in the neighborhood of China
: town, gave it as their opinion that al
: that part of town would become in
fected.
Henry Roberts has sent petition t
the Board of Supervisors, for permissio
to exhibit the head OF the bandit Chavez
captured by him in November last, O
!, Gila river, Arizona. Roberts represen,
q that he has been at considerable expens
since the date of the capture and that
will be impossible for him to receive tn
reward offered by Governor Booth. unit
q meeting of the next Legislature. HI
funds being exhausted, he desires pei
mission to make such an exhibition a
will enable him, by its profits, to retur
to Arizona.