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, 1877-01-13
"lAOw ~ Crops:?"

From all parts of California comes the
cry of no rain. The indications at the
present time point conclusively to thr
fact that in the Golden State there will
not be half a crop ST cereals or vege-
tables. ut is an i'll wind that blows no.
body good" Oregon, where drought is
unknown, will find ready sale for all her
products at remunerative prices. Wash
ington Territory, especially her farmers
,aad grain raisers, may take advantage of
6le circumstaces by putting in grain
which will be in demand this year We
hope our producers here on the river
will raise less hay and more grain.
With bad crop prospects in California,
the numbering interests all over the
coast will be less brisk than usual, con.
sequently, the demand for hay may be
less than usual and the prices poorer.
Flour will be high and by raising wheat
our farmers can have their own flower
and keep the money at home that would
otherwise GO out of the county and out
of the Territory. We believe wheat
raised any where above here on the Sno-
homlsh, Pill Chuck, Skykomish or Sno-
qualmie will make good -four, and now
that we have mill and experienced
miller here, farmers should by all means
raise bread enough for our own county
at least. The Stillaguamish, Swinomish
and Skagit regi,ns, heat the world al
most for barley and oats. We know
positively from having seen it growing
that the Snoqualmie region will produce
corn, far superior to the Russian river
valley in California, if the variety, known
throughout the New England states as
the Canada corn is planted-and that
variety is acknowledged all over the
country, to be better than any other tor
table use. The corn meal, of which the
famous Boston brown bread is made,
comes from Canada corn. Now, with a
soil that will produce all these grains in
abundance, and vegetables unequaleCl
any where, with climate where stock
OF all kinds can be wintered with very
little if not without dny feeding, we see
no reason why we should not he pros.
porous community even if there is no
crop at all in California, and the ium-
beriug interest here on the Sound comes
to stand still. But if our farmers per.
sist in exporting nothing but hay and
importing every thing else even to
bread and meat, if the lImbering inter.
ests OF the Territory are only duH, we
viii be pinched with want before the
year 1873 comes in VIII not our farm.
srs, all over the county, try at least to
zaise gruin enough tor their own use
, 1877-01-13

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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05
THE ONE TON BILL.

The following is the text of bill
lature. 1t is of interest to the owners of
mines producing not more than one ton
of ore per day:
An Ac, providing for the taxation Of
mines that produce one ton or less a
day of ore or mineral bearing material,
and to encourage the prospecting Of
undeveloped mines.
SECTION /. All mining claims produc-
ing not more than one ton OF ore day
mineral bearing material containing gold,
silver, copper, nickel, bismu,h, anti
mony or other valuable metal, shall be
assessed and taxed for State and county
purposes in the following manner
From the gross yield or value of all ores
or mineral material of whatever char
acter, there shall be deducted the actual
cost of extracting said mineral from the
mine; the actual cost of asserting and
transportation to the place of reduction
or sale; the actual cost of reduction OF
sale, and the remainder shall be the net
proceeds, and shall be taxed as provided
for in this Act
Sec. 2. All bullion produced from any
mine that extracts not more than ont
ton of ore or mineral bearing material 9
day, shall be assessed and taxed at its
full market value after deducting the
actual cost OF mining, asserting, hauling
and reducing.
SEC. g. On claims of this class pro
ducing not more than one ton day
there shall be no allowance made for ex
penses incurred prior to the quarter il
which the assessment is made.
SEC. 4. This Act to take effect on ant
after the first day of April, eighteen hun
dsed and seventy seven.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05
A POKER THIEF.

The description of the Poker Thief,
AZ published in the Utica IN. Y. Herald,
shows that large amount of inventive
genius is expended for the benefit of
criminals and inssS of their wills methods
OF swindllng:
In one of the drawers of the poker
table was found an ingenius and wicked
device attached to vest, which may
properlv be called a thief. The vest is
OF fine cashmere and is we'll made. 1t is
single breasted, with double fly on one
aide. The buttons which hold the vest
together are on the inside, while an
other row on the outside are shams.
The vest buttons nearly to the neck, and
is harmless in itself; but in the middle
of the fly is an opening large enough to
allow small frame to slip out close to
the body Following this frame, by
tearing open the lining of the vest, was
found an ingenious piece of mechanism,
composed of German silver and brass
springs, and attached to this was a long
spring of brass wire, through which was
passed small gut or cord. This was
long enough to reach through the leg OF
the pantaloons OF the wearer, the cord
terminating in a loop, which could be
fastened around the heel. The gambler
wearing this device, could beat hla mas
ter the devil, at poker, provided Mr.
Devi did not have another thief in
his vest. la playing with greenhorn
or Sucker" as verdant victims are
called, the wearer of the thief would
take his chances at getting large hand
by hook or crook, and if he failed out
side and above board he would use the
thief Set in the frame that could be
forced from the machine by extending
the foot attached to the cord, he had
one, two or three aces, kings or queens
cards high enough in rank to beat bis
opponent After receiving his hand
from the shutter, he would hold 1t close
to his body to examine it, and If not
pleased at its size, down would go his
foot, out would pop the frame, and ther
he would exchange his poor cards fol
better ones. Each time the deal came te
him be could pick out large hand ant
slip if into the thief's frame 30 as to b,
ready when needed. An experienced
gambler talking about this device las
evening said that a greenhorn playing
against this machine would not have a.
much chance to win as to recove
handful of bills thrown into fer.
furnace. All sorts of efforts we're mad
to get this machine from the police, bu
all of them failed 1t is the best evidenc
in the world that this was 'sure thing
or "skin" gambling room, in which n
man had show for his money.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05
SEQ uEL TO A SOCIAL SENSATION.

Months ago Western society rang with
the accounts of grand wedding. fair
daughter of one of the Oldest and
wealthies. families in the Mississippi
Valley had been united to foreign
nobleman The arts of Worth were ex-
hausted in the preparation of the trous-
seau. Members of the arstocracy from
all sections of the country we're present,
and never was there more brilliant
social event in tine history of any one
present. The dark -whiskered nobleman
was reported to be enormously wealthy.
In his own country be lorded over vast
domains and bid his bondsmen trembe.
His exits and entrances were attended
with a flourish of trumpets. When he
walked he was attended by vassals armed
to the teeth He was supposed to own
vast castles, the most impregnable OF
which he inhabited, and spent the season
In making fierce forays upon the bear
that aboupded in the Businesses of his
native forests. The wedding was sue
seeded by dizzy round of festivities and
society was ablaze. The impressive
foreigner finally departed with his beau
tiful American bride, and it was said that
they would proceed forthwith to the
native land Of the noblemsn, and pro-
ceed Immediately to inhabit one of his
palatial castles. A sturdy Hibernian at
work yesterday among the hotel ruins
turned over some rubbish and found q
scattered pack of letters. Some of the
people in the inclosure began curiously
to examine the documents. One OF then
was from the Russian Capital. The datt
was several months back. II was from
the bride OF the nobleman, and repre-
sented that his pretensions Of grea
wealth were false. 1t was even doubted
whether he was nobly connected. Itwa
feared he was an arrant impostor. Tn
writer represented herself as being in alb
solute need of money for the purchase o
necessities. The letter was addressed t
very near relative. This is one of tn
secrets that the ruins gave up.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05
NOTICE.

To H. Duffenbacker, J. M. Pierce, T. g. Cole
man and John Baker, and to whom 1t may con-
Germ, you are hereby notified that you are in.
debted to the undersigned in the following
amounts, viz: b. Duffenbackea SIS, ]. N.
Pierce $40, r. 8. Coleman 50 and John Baker
$l6.25. in gold coin, for money expended by US
in working the st. George mine, situated In Ely
Mining District, Lincoln county, State Of Me-
vada. Unless you pay us at our office in Phoebe,
Nevada the above proportional share Of. said
expenditure on said mine winthin ninety days
from date, together with costs. your interests
in said mine will be forfeited to US by due pro-
cess Of law.
Phoebe, Nevada, Feb. 27, 1877.
II. 8. LUBBOCK.
maoOd B. H. ELAN.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05
Dissolution Notice.

VTNHE cO.PARTNERsHIP HERETOFORE Ex-
listing between the undersigned under the
firm name of the RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
organized for the purpose of printing and pub
fishing the P,oche RECORD, is this day dis
solved by mutual consent, r. W. Simpson with
drawing from the concern. AL. debts incurred
by the said company, as authorized by the part
nership agreement, will be settled by the re-
naming partners, who will also collect all out
standing debts and carry on the business u
heretofore.
RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Phoebe. New, April "a, 1877. a26-td
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05

All persons having business with this office are
requested to address the RECORD PUBLISHING
CnMpANY. We have no authorized Agents.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05
THE RECORD

Ia dsliyered in Phoebe and Bullionville at %
cents per week. payable to the Carriers.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05

INTELLIGENT TURTLE. Mo-,
April 20.-A monster sen turtle, weigh
Ing over 1900 pounds, shipped from
New Orleans, consigned to E. M. Greidh,
st. Louis, was cut loose from the Hat to
which he was fastened, by some un-
known party, while being transferred
across the river at Columbus, Ky, and
ne made his escape into the Mississippi
river IL was impossible to rescue him.
tae made headway for down stream.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05

Fights enliven the Illinois Senate.
Senator Robinson, OF Cook county, re-
fe-red to Senator Marshall, of Will, "as
the grinning animal with dirty linen and
bad odor, who was constantly annoying
him." Marshall said Robinson only
smelled himself, whereat Robinson
struck for him Marshall guarded and
hit Robinson square in the eye.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05
NOTICE.

T HAVE THIS DAY SOLD THE BUTOHIR-
i ing business heretofore owned and man.
aged by me the last twelve months to NJ
August Adelman. All persons owing bills fol
meats bought st the Peoples and Nevada
Markets prior to this date will please call and
pay them 1T my store ON Meadow Valley strses.
Phoebe, March l, 1877.
ms-ln ~ .oLuT1.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05

Commodore VanderbiIt's widow has
started on Southern tour with her
mother, her sister-in-law and DR.. Lins-
ley, the late Commodore's physician
The widow has received her legacy. and
has presented the Doctor with $40, ,000
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05
NOTICE.

rT,O PATRICK KAvANAGH. AND TO WHOM
L it may concern. you are hereby notified
that you are indebted to the undersigned
in the sum Of $3.50, gold coin, for money
expended by me in working the "Home Rule
mine," situated In Ely Mining District, Lincoln
county, State of Nevada Unless you pay me,
at my residence in Phoebe, Nevada, the above
proportional share Of said expenditure on said
mine within ninety days from date, together
with costs, your interest in said mine will be
forfeited to me by due process Of law.
THOMAS J. MCMAHON.
Phoebe, Nevada, March 22, 1877. mr2A90d
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05
NOTICE.

H.N. Toftman, Alexr Mcmillan, Henry
Cumisky, Mrs. 8. O. Barnes, John 8.
Atchisen, A. M. Shields, F. W.. Lam
mister, Thomas Greives and unknown
owners, and to whom 1t may concern. you are
hereby notified that have expended in money
and labor the sum Of three hundred and ten
(S3lo) dollars on the Black Prince Nine,
situated in the Ely Mining District, Lincoln
County, State Of Nevada. Unless you pay me
at my office in Phoebe, Nevada, your proper
tional share of said expenditure on said mine,
for each and every foot you may legally own in
said mine, within ninety days from the date
there Of together with costs, your interests in
said mine will be forfeited to me by due process
Of law.
CHARLES STEIN.
Phoebe, New, January 90, 1877. ja27-90d
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1877-06-21
Indianapolis Notes.

EDS. HERALD:-We are to have cele
bration. We hope for a successful day
Our committee will do well to secure Mr.
Cutts or Judge Sampson as speaker, anC
don't trouble about brass band. Mos
people have seen band horns, since thai
is about all we get from a band. On
said day give US some of old Gen. Put
mans music. A. III. Harmonson, for many
years resident of this place, and for the
past year in the hardware trade at South
English, has gone to Kansas. Mr.. Fl. has
many friends here wish him good luck in
the State that fought prehistoric Kuklux,
E. H. McCune has been quite sick the
past week, and we are glad to see him
about again. Mrs. Gray has been very
poorly for some weeks, but is now some
better. DR.. Hanks is East on business.
Miss Lizzie Dixon, was thrown from Wei
lington Beams buggy last Sunday and bad
ly bruised. Caused by a fractions horse.
VIM. Mallory had good calf killed, while
in the pasture last week, by some useless
ours. This is the third calf Mr.. NJ has
thus lost in few years. We endorse
your dog law Uncle John. 1t is mystic
ry to US from our knowledge of chemical
changes of the air, how anybody can skate
here in summer, and yet every day or so
our singers persist in "Glide- ding glide
ding" from a bit of music call Skating.
More appropriate to sing "Mudding"
We have a new barber and shop. Mr..
'Zan" Jordan, boss. May he barber
witho' barbarity, and shave witho' shaw
ing.
What poor dupes we of the North
are. We have always been taught that
treason was crime. For that reason we
saw John Brown hung. But we are much
like the man when the mule kicked him.
"Ah," said he II thought it was q hsrse,
but-but, l was-much mistaken" We
quote from narper's Weekly under head
"Blue and Gray" at is most fitting,
therefore, that the President, soldier of
the blue, should have been invited to share
in the ceremonies of Decoration day in
Tenn, where flowers will be strewn upon
the graves of both the gray and blue, and
that the P. M. Gen., soldier of the gray
was invited to take part in the ceremony
in Ohio"
How very polite we are here lately. GOT
the gray, sounds more euphonic than
"reb," Johnny" or even GRAY back"
Mr.. Hayes and Key snapped coats or pull
pits. How patriotic it must have sound
ed to those Buckeyes "of the blue" to
hear Mr.. Key say, Fellow citizens, on
this bright and balmy May morning, in
this our God blessed land, we come to
strew these pure and fragrant memorials
on the graves of thousands of your brave
sons whom and my soldiers 'of the
gray" shot on many bloody field, tore to
pieces with blood hounds, and starved to
death in that grand old hell -On-earth, An
Jacksonville. But let us forget the past
because you then whipped u.s." Strange
that in this good feeling to The North Gen.
Sheridan, Logan or Butler were not asked
south. Yours, I'll.
June 18th, 1877.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1877-06-21
Leighton Items.

Walton & Marks shipped three car
loads of hogs last week. Tuesday they
will ship two Car loads of fat sheep to
Chicago.
The Leighton pilgrims TO the Black Hills
have all returned. The latest arrival was
James and Thomas Stops, Jacob Ray has
not arrived yet, he stopped off at Des
Moines to let the fever subside before
rushing into the embrace of his friends.
They all tell the same story, no gold,
no money, no work, nothing plentiful bu,
disheartened and distressed people. They
came the same route as the Shoemaker
boys, viz; by buying skiff and floating
down 'old muddy to Yankton. Running
boat-yard seems to be a profitable bust
ness at Ft. Pierre, $40 is the price for q
boat that win hold two men.
John Walton has added fine shoe show
case to bis store, which is quite an i'm
provement on the old way of displaying
goods.
We have at last got full-fiedged polit
ical club. The greenbackers met Monday
and organized themselves into a club. TIL,
object being to further their cause polit
ically. II they had organized with the OBJ
ject of greenback getting they would hay'
no doubt secured larger following.
J. Stops and Ed Krause have each I'm
proved the appearance of their places b
building new feace in front of thsi
dwellings.
KYLE.
June 18th, NJ.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1877-06-21
JASPER COUNTY REPUBLICANS
The Attempt OF one Policy Man In the Co.
to MisrepreSent the Sentiment Of the
Late Convention.

PRAIRIE City, June l2.-ED. REGIS
TER: A correspondent writes letter to
the Gate City and one to the Hasokeye,
in which he not only misrepresents me,
but the sentiment of the Jasper County
Republican Convention. Personally I
care nothing for this and viii only say
that every material assertion he makes
about me il utterly false. / did not "beg
my way into the delegation" having re-
eeiVed every vote except one, of the TIP.
delegation aud the unanimous support of
the convention. I was not defeated in
my own township on the policy issue,
and can to-day beat any man two to one
on that issue in Des Moines township. /
offered no resolutions directly or indirect.
ly and did not speak to member on the
subject of resolutions. l am not the only
anti-policy delegate to the State Conyen-
ton from this county by about sixteen
The writer Of those letters failed to state
the fact, that though not a member Of
the convention, was called out by voices
all over the house to reply to q speech
made by agentleman who proclaimed him.
self in favor of the "wait and see" plan.
He failed to state that my very radical
exposure of the anti-policy view met the
almost unanimous approval of the eonven-
ton, the same men responded with APP
plause who received the preceding speech
in perfect silence The resolutions re.
ported, while containing no consolation
for Hayes policy, SO disguised the conven-
ton that not over dozen voted aye, and
they so feebly as to be barely heard across
the room. A motion, not q suggestion,
was made, to take the sense Of the con-
vention on the policy, which was improp-
erly ruled out of order. A motion to ad-
journ was put at the first opportunity
and allowed to pass, on account of the
lateness of the hour and because trains
were due by which il was known delegates
wished to return home. The truth is the
convention was anti-policy, and the
Hayesites did not dare to let the matter
came to. vote, and that the matter was
allowed to pass BY mere suferance.
These facts can be proved by ten good
Republicans for every one who can be
found to contradict them. If SANDER,
prescription and Misrepresentation are to
be applied to every man who refuses to
swallow the Presidents weak surrender of
the Republican principles, the sooner it
is known the better.
Yours truly, ]. w. HAMMOND.