Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-09-25
NEVADA ITEMS.

The Sluer State OF Monday says :
| Deputy Sheriff McAllistor arrested fsur
| Chinamen near Orsana yesterday upon
Q charge Of shooting and stabbing three
or four OF their countrymen, members
Of a rival company. last week. The
prisoners were brought here last night
and lodged In jail. So far as known
nons OF the belligerents were killed In
the eight, though several were wounded
and two are missing. Their head men
have probably compromised by paying
damages. and In that event Il will be
very difficult TO convict the fighters.
The Phoebe Record says We were
shown On Tuesday last by A. ]. Blair
an assay Of some ore taken by himself
from the Pleiades naine. situated 10
Ward. The assay was made by Hoff.
man and showed s5.774 81. The ore
was taken from the depth Of $50 feet,
from q drift where the ledge had Just
been tapped at that depth. T. j. Bell
Is the principal owner Of the mine. Mr..
Blair having visited and reported ON il
at his request.
Speaking Of the man who shot Pierce
at Tuscarora, the Siipsr Stale says {:
Hayes resided In this county for several
ysars and was Deputy Sheriff for two
years. lie vas a very efficient officer.
r~esolute In the discharge Of his duty.
but never known 10 be quarrelsome
From what we know Of the ARRAY, he
was acting in seli-dsfsnss whom he fred
at Pierce.
The woodsmen's season Is fast clos.
ing. Mackay. Fairs camp Is drawing to
o close, and men are being discharged
daily. About 20 will be thrown out Of
employment to-day by the closing down
Of the mill; Logging Is now through with
aud some fuming remains 70 be done.
That work will require two months 10
complete.
Ducks are very plentiful In the washes
In the neighborhood Of Phoebe, and
hunters from town who have been out
during the past week have been giving
them a lively game. Several parties
have returned loaded down with this
species Of game. AL seemed to have
had good luck In their expeditions.
The Grand Lodge. Knights Of Pythias.
convened In the Castle Hall OF Amity
Lodge. Reno, yesterday. An ~orsaniza-
ton was Effected aud the reports Of
officers read. alter which the Lodge I'D
journed until this morning.
George Doans. n former resident OF
Ward, about whose whereabouts there
has been 80 much talk Of lato. has been
heard from at last. lie has turned up
oil right in Salt Lake City, which fact ~
announced by the Tribune.
The T~uscarora Reris,o says tho main
shaft Of tho Navajo mine sdown eighty
feet. The engine and hoisting ma
chinsry wsro then being erected very
rapidly aud were expected TO bs in run.
ming order last Tuesday.
The new thsater at Reno will have n
stags % foet deep by 80 feet In width.
The proscenium will be II feet in width.
The auditorium Is TO be 90 by 10 feet
and 90 feet from floor TO ceiling.
Lum Gee, charged with the murder Of
All Ping In Carson, was yesterday dis
charged by Judge withcrell. the evi.
dencs boing insufficient to warrant his
retention.
Owing 10 the bonding Of the Jack
rabbit mine, Bristol District, no work
IL being done on II until the thirty days
for which the bond was given expires.
~. r,;,.1 ct.t.e J.nd Oni,s M Elko
Ia u thing Of tho past, and its former
efficient officers have been rslegated into
private life.
Visitors at the Lake Tahoe hotels are
thinning out. The weather IL growing
colder. and the season IL about drawing
to = close.
There are lO2 men employed at and
around tho Eureka Consolidated fur
nacos.
Diphthsria still RACES in Reno among
the juvenile portion OF the population.