Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-09-03

prisoners, and writs OF hsbess corpus
rave been sued out for each Of them.
The San Francisco News Letter reports
hat Michael Reese has stopped smoking.
BE is saving up to buy pair OF boots.
The people OF Silver City are trying
10 establish a system Of water works in |
their streets for the protection OF prop |
erty from fire.
The cell floors Of the new Virginia
City Jail are being put in. They consist
Of solid weights wrought iron plates
OVERLAPPING several feet OF masonry.
By q recent ruling Of Judge Blair, OF
Wyoming, qait claim deeds for land
from the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany are worthless pieces Of paper.
A San Francisco company is now at
work developing the Golden Jacket mine
in Humboldt District, near the old vii
lage.
The Oreana Smelling Works near
Winnemucca. owned by Gen. Conner.
have been purchased by the Hurricane
Mining Company.
A Spanish woman. about twenty-slI
years old, named Cipriana Avila, COM
mitted suicide in Virginia City on the
9th ult.
Artesian wells will be tried on the
bench lands in the Walls Walla county.
II success is secured, much land now
almost worthless will be made valuable.
1. ia whispered around, says the
Herald, that another Salt Lake journal
is about to succumb to the hard times,
and pass in its chips. Ono by one the
roses fall
Active preparations are being made to
develop the copper mines on Hazard
Point. Montana. The parties interested
are building cabins. laying in stock OF
provisions. aud intend putting in full
winters work.
The Sumner Kern county, Gazette.
August Goth, reports the attempt of a
man, supposed to be John Mcintosh OF
Nevada, to com init suicide in that place
a few days before. by a poisonous dose
OF laudanum.
The body OF Mart. Phelps. a brake
man on the Central Pacific Railroad, was
on the 28th ult. found lying on the track
seven miles west OF Reno terribly man.
gled. He was head BRAKEMAN on freight
train No. 8, bound west.
A d street Virginia woman a few
nights since made a wager that she could
smoke one hundred pipes of opium at 9
single sitting. She succeeded and won
800, but has been in al almost insensi
BILE condition ever since.
The Salt Lake Herald says the gen
eral reduction Of wages has not seriously
effected the laboring classes in Utah
Though there are hundreds of men il
that city and Territory out OF employ
ment, wages are but little lower thar
they were two and three years ago.
The Pueblo (Colorado) Chieftain says
the immense crowd attracted by the nov
city of the first State Convention woult
lead stranger to suppose that Office
seeking, and the making OF officers, wa
the principal industry OF the Centen
NAL State.
On the oath. a lad named Myron Fales
aged about fourteen years. was drowned
in the Humboldt river at Palisade
There is probably no stream OF its siz,
in the United States, in which so man!
persons are drowned as the Humboldt.
RIP Heating, q we'll known broker il
Gold Hill, has been sued by Miss Emil.
J. Edwards of San Francisco. for breacl
of promise. The young lady alleges tina
her feelings have been damaged to tn
tune of $50, 900 or thereabouts.
The shaft in the Consolidated Virgini
mine has been completed to the 1850
foot level, where large station is bein
opened. A cave in the Gould Il Curr.
shaft has interferred with the raising O
ore. In the course of few weeks tn
nine will be producing from $500
1000 tons per week.
Jack Sipples, an old Comstocker VIII
is to be seen knocking around the Delt
good deal. has just received the intelli
gence that he has fallen heir to $40. 90
worth of property in Boston.
Chalk il. boss. "
Certainly, Mr.. Sipples.
The Honolulu Advertiser chronicle
the death in that city, August 9Th, {
James Robinson, native OF Englant
aged 90 years, who had arrived at h
islands in 1922, in the British whale
Hermes, and lived there ever since
period of fi'ty-four years. He was senit
partner of the firm Of Robinson Il Law
renee. shipwrights In Honolulu, once {
well known there.
, Tom Watts. printer who is We
known on this Coast and in the Eas
and who is a practical railroad man 9
well, is foreman of the work on the G.
@. side-track. Tom has carried Il
banner "a long time, and has inspecte
: enough railroad, three feet at time,
be able to form definite idea as to h
way the work should be done,
The Lompoc (Cal,) Record Of Augu
18th, says recently there was taken Al
pounds Of wild honey from a tree /
, George Anthony and others, on the j
nata rancho, in Santa Barbara count
And yet thirty years ago John G. Fir
mont. the Pathfinder" declared tn
the honey bee could not exist west OF Il
Sierra Nevada range. The little bu,
bees find their best homes on this Goa
now.
The book.keeper of the Carson Mir
reports a reduction in the wages OF th
Mint operatives OF ifteen per cent.
former reduction had been made, who
was about all that some could stand an,
live, and the present reduction is severe
ly felt, especially by the ladies. At on
time they received 800 per month il
Rreenbacks. This was by the previou
reduction cut down to $50 in like cur
rency, and now fifteen per cent more i
taken off by reason OF the reduction il