Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-08-02
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

California pays its farm laborers. an
average Of S4i per month.
Montana has more frs,.class papers
and printers than any other Territory in
the Union.
The Columbians are trying to have the
county seat of Esmeralda county removed
from Aurora to their camp.
The Young Mems Social Club will
hold meeting this evening at Browns
Hail. Observe the notice.
ONE case occupied the attention Of the
Justice Court yesterday afternoon. Reg
istration has reached los names.
Nevada gets away. OF course, with the
medals for the biggest and best miner
al display at the Centennial.
Crickets arc playing havoc with the
crops in Bull Run Valley. Elko county.
In some instances entire crops have been
destroyed.
Senator Jones is expected home about
the last OF this month, when, it is said,
he will commence stumping the State in
the interest of the Republican party.
An Arkansas professor says that for
$4,000 he will drive the Indians out of
the Black Hills in two weeks with bal
looms and sharpshooters. A Sioux once
saw small balloon at circus IN Saint
paul and he fall back dead
1t is estimated that there are now 240,-
900 Angora goats on the Pacific Coast,
and quite an industry is anticipated in
breeding them, as their skins make e1.
cellent lap.robes and gloves, while their
wool is very valuable.
The manzanita tree, which grows in
great numbers in California. is found to
be the ''nest" OF n species OF coccus re-
sembling the cochineal insect. from
which carmine is obtained. 1t is thought
this discovery may be put to practical
use.
At Ephraim, Sanpete county, Utah,
on the Gath ult.. Peter Peterson, son of
the Bishop Of that town. struck a young
man named Larsen on the head with q
fence pole, killing him instantly.
The other day Black Hills stage
driver undertook to horsewhip his pas.
sengers into getting out and pushing up
hill, but the gold-seekers held a coroner s
inquest, and found that he died of pneu-
MONA.
Three bundled claims have been taken
in False Bottom gulch. four miles from
the Spesrfish settlement, Black Hills,
and upwards Of 600 miners are now at
work in the diggings, all hopeful Of
finding them rich on bed rock.
The Montana journals fear that the
military operations in that Territory.
may drive the Indians into the settle
ments of eastern Montana. where they
will have an opportunity to recruit their
supplies from the settlers.
lis expected that the railroad between
Los Angeles and San Francisco will be
completed by the middle of next Sep
TENDER, and the men now employed
there will be transferred to the Colorado
| desert. to finish the ITO miles this side of
Fort Yuma by The end OF the year.
The Deadwood Pioneer claims that the
agricultural interests OF the Black Hills,
when fully developed, will only bs sec
ond to their mining interests. There is
large quantity OF bottom land along
the streams, and stock ranges of er at
extent covered with rich nutritious
grasses.
The Austin Reveille declares on it's
honor that member OF the Sazerac Ly.
Jog Club, now in Philadelphia viewing
the Centennial Exhibition. writes to Il
friend IN trat city that the We ath.r is so
hot in Philadelphia. that ice cream ig-
mites by spontaneous combustion.
Articles of incorporation Of the Pyra.
mid Gold and Silver Mining Company
have been filed in San Francisco. The
capital stock is $40, 600. 900. Directors,
Wm. NJ Lent. Seth Cook, Henry Cook.
W. F. Myers. f. F. Otiston. This is
the company which purchased 600 feet
Of the original Segreg, ted Monarch. aud
| is known in this district as the Jones
Company.
| Postmaster Stone has received letter
from Frank O'Neil. dated Dayton. Iowa
July 18th, asking for information regard
ing his son. Frank O'Neil. whom be has
not heard from during the past three
years. The son was with Barney Jones
in Hamilton, White Pine, some years
ago. and any information as to his pres
ent whereabouts, wonld be ersoD1ully re-
ceived by his anxious father at the above
address.
A cloud burst in Lewis canyon, ten
miles east Of Battle Mountain, on the
23d ult., done an immense amount Of
damage. Cottonwood trees fifty feet
high we're uprooted and swept down the
valley. where some of the wagon wheels
were afterwards found, ten miles from
where the house stood. Oxen were car
ried off; their horns and limbs broken,
and their bodies literally torn to pieces.
Boulders almost as large as an ordinary
house were carried miles down the canyon
and grove of cottonwoods and willows
was, with the soil in witch they grew,
swept away. In Lewis canyon every
building. with the exception of the mill
and the boarding house, was carried of
by the flood.
Conrad Clausen. q late arrival in Vir-
ginia City from San Francisco, where be
has been residing in Jail for several
months, created quite sensation in
Virginia City on the 26th ult. Conrad
fell in love with Mrs. Violo Dewey, now
residing in that city. As she would not
have anything to do with him. but it
seems had another protector, the boot
less peddler of pencils resolved to APP