Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-06-03
NEVADA NEWS.

q Burglars are bothering the Remedies
With undesired attentions.
Patrick Higgins. of,Austin, died sud.
denly ct Elko Of hsaL Disease.
On the 2Sth OF May the Manhattan
Company Of Austin shipped 81. 48s in
bullion.
The burglars of Virginia City are so
hard driven, that they are even rob
bling printers.
On the Goth at Virginia City, Frank
Morton broke his leg by falling from
scaffold. Several folks have broken
their necks BY like misfortunes.
In the case of Larkin, sentenced to be
hung at Virginia City, superceaeas by
the Supreme Court has been issued. The
case has been appealed.
On the night of the 9th, two prison.
ers named Hughes and Belcher. confined
in the Storey County Jail at Virginia
City. attempted to break Jail but failed.
3. Cook had his left hand cut Of at
the wrist by the circular saw at Mackay
4 Fairs lower mill on the 28!h OF May.
The unfortunate sufferer is doing rs we'll
az could be expected.
An important development has been
made in the Pride of the Mountain mine
in Winnemucca Mountain. A fine body
OF ore has been struck in the lower
works. samples of which assay from $3.50
to $500 per ton.
A private letter from Island Mountain
brings the intelligence that the Mardis
Silver Compsny's mill started up on the
23d inst, and is perfect success, work
ing TO a charm. There is still plenty of
water in the placer diegings and pros.
pecting IL actively going on.
Assessor Griswold informs the Elko
Independent that as near as he can esti-
mate about 20 per cent. OF the cattle in
Ruby and Glover Valleys died during the
past winter, and as most of the cattle
assessed in the county are in that locali-
ty, this will probably effect our ASSESS
year.
There is q lively strife going on be-
tween the Carsonites and the Daytonites
for the Columbus and Belleville trade.
One is making road with Chinese
muscle. and the other with wind pires.
while Wadsworth stands back with folded
arms and enjoys hearty laugh, and the
trade.
On the 9th of May, at Virginia City,
no less than eight men were arrested on
q charge Of vagrancy. The war against
the hummer tribe will be continued until
men without visible means of support
become few and far between. The raid
| against the drones Of the town has only
| just begun. II will be carried through
to the bitter end, and the Police judges
are not likely to be very lenient.
The Humboldt Register remarks: We
have been Informed by parties connected
with the E. & P. r. r.. that the com.
pany has contracted for three hundred
| miles of track iron, and il is their in
tention to push the road through to the
Colorado river ut once. This will open
up splendid country and place us in
direct communication with Arizona.
We fear somebody has been joshing
the Register.
At Eureka Decoration Day was fitting.
ly observed. The Eureka National
Guards, Captain Hubbard commanding,
and delegations from the Hook and Lad
der Company. public schools and citi-
zens, repaired to the cemeteries and
decorated the graves of the soldiers
buried there. At the grave OF Colonel
Cardiebaugh Captain Hubbard made a
short address to those present. after
which the procession returned to town
and disbsnded. The military company
made very SOLITARY appearance.
The Austin Reveille Of the Goth ult.
says that Elijah Cooking, the young man
who was accidentally shot last Monday.
died about pollock last Saturday even
ing. The man John Rich, whose care
lessness was the cause OF Cocking's
death, is utterly broken down with grief
over the unfortunate affair. and is worked
up to such pitch that his physician and
friends fear that brain fever will result.
He is confined to his bed aud utterly
prostrated.
]. T. Goodman. formerly editor and
proprietor of the Enterprise. is at Bonner
Lake. where he is taking things easy.
He hes taken cottage, where, with his
wife, his brother "Lew" and few
friends, he is thoroughly settled. He
has bought fine sail.boat, and. like the
Count Of Monte Cristo, is at home
wherever he goes. Mr.. Goodman has a
mania for fishing. Old Isak Walton
himself never waged a more unreleuting
warfare against the finny tribe
Excellent Roadway is being made in
the erection of the California Company q
new 80-stamp mill. It will stand about
one hundred yards east of the G. and G..
shaft and will be model in every re-
spect. The pits for the battery blocks
and the foundations OF the engines are
all dug and the frame of the building is
almost completed. No stone will be
used In the foundations for the engines
or any OF the machinery OF this mill.
The machinery will be placed upon
masses Of heavy timbsrs securely bolted
together and tamped with clay.
A large force of workmen are engaged
in preparing the foundations of the new
Consolidated pan-mill 1t is being built
on the site of the old mill, but will be
much larger. The site il now covered
with stone-cutters. all busily at work.
while heavy walls are being laid up by
the masons. The timbers for the new
building are being framed, aud it will
not b long before an immense structure
will be seen rising over the site OF the
former mill. In the new mill no stamps
will be seen, The crushing will be done