The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-12-22

week the ladies OF Phoebe have been
buisly engaged in decorating with ever
green's both the Catholic and Episcopal
Churches for the Christmas Holiday and
for the Christmas tree festivals which
are to take place at both churches on
Christmas Eve. The Sunday school
children have all been alive and active
during the past week, they very soon
finding out what has been going on and
crowding the churches night time while
the ladies have been at work. No pres
ents will be received from the outside
and placed on the Christmas trees, as
such proceeding is apt to cause jeal-
ousy among the children OF those who |
are unable to place gifts for their re-
spective youngsters on the trees. Ac-
cording to what the ladies say, there
has been enough money collected for
both trees to enable the ladies who are
attending to them to distribute present
for each child who attends Sunday
school. Mrs. Mahoney. Miss Maggie
Lynch, Miss Annie Lynch, Miss Aguayo,
and several other ladies', have been very
energetic in forwarding the prepare
tions for the Catholic Church, and Mrs.
Judge Rives, Miss Laura Gill, Mrs.
Henderson, Mrs. LOOMS, Mrs Rich,
Mrs. Lee, aud others whose names we
did not get, have been trimming the
Episcopal Church and making the neces-
sary articles for the tree. About half
past o'clock will be the time for the
music, after which the distribution OF
presents will commence, and we expect
we will see crowd of happy and pleased
yourgster around, all anxious to hear
their names called to come forward.
ROUGH TREATMENT.-Thew witnesses o.
the State against the Muddy murderers
have had about the hardest time OF any
witnesses that we recollect ever hearing
Of Having been taken to Carson by the
United States authorities along with the
prisoners, they were obliged to find their
way back from that town to the lower
portion of Lincoln county as best they
could, a distance of nearly thousand
miles One of them walked from Eureka
to Phoebe, over two hundred miles, and
only had two meals on the road. An
other struck out from Eureka and went
direct to the Muddy, camping out al
! nights, without blankets or covering
this was the witness Dry. And wher
they were wanted here on the same tria
now going on, they had to walk from the
! Muddy to Phoebe, or else come in ar
Y overloaded wagon containing the corpse
, of one of the murdered men; they pre-
fered to walk to that. We don't wonde
!, at Dry getting out of the way and getting
into Eureka after such treatment. Thu
. prisoners, on the contrary, have had tn
best the country affords, have had com
pany both to and from Carson, and nov
. have the Sheriff keeping his eyes OF
them all the time to see that they keel
In good health.
Is COMPLAINT Book. There ID posted a
d inside the Postofice building motto
~ from the Postoffice Department to tn
,. effect that the Postmaster shall keep o
Ia hand complaint book, so as partle
" who have had letters lost in the tran:
a mission through the mails shall recor
"a the same, with the date of mailing, COZ
A tents of letters if valuable and the dire'
Is ton to which they were to be forwarded
is We think Postmaster General Key vi
ID be little tired of that arrangement b.
SO fore he has been long at it.
,e CAME TO TRIAL.-Alex. Dry, one
o. ., the witnesses in the reservation murd
,e case, and who is referred to in anoth
item Is being q missing witness. can
to town during the week to be witne
~ in the trial going on. 1t appears tn
o. when the Sheriff was bunting for hi
Is. on the Muddy Dry was away hunt,
TO for a range for his stock, and as soon
ho procured. he fastened to town. "
40 40 ing his absence at Carson he lost "a
40 worth of animals by his not being
90, hand to attend to them.
an SCHOOL HOLIDAY s.-The School Trl
Ter tees inform US that owing to the 10
on vacation the Christmas and New Yea
-, Holidays for the public schools will
~ yeey short, For Christmas there will
no school from to-day until Wednesd
Of morning, the 26th instant, when SCH
ac. will commence again. 1t will be
81 same holiday on New Years Day,
" school commencing again on Wedn
s!- day, January 2, 1878.
the LocAT1oNs.-Several OF our old-ti
the mines having not done the necess
yer amount of work prescribed by law
inc; inc hold them have been relocated by OF
parties. The Sunbeam has been re
GATED under the name of the Wande
)th, the Little Giant under the name OF
Il is Clymo mine, and two other clal
whose names we cannot recall, un
VI the names of the Phoebe East and G
,vs' Note.
.ino TAKEN A PARTNER Charley HI
ling writes from Grand Rapids, Mich;(
and under date of the 18th instant. thai
will return to Phoebe in few days
ore that he has taken unto himself I