The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1879-09-13

extracting ore in Como District, and in
will ioiu the -spks Of ore producing
elaine. The ors is not veEy rich, but il
will nevertheless pay for mining and
milling, and leave quite profit.
Eureka Sentinel: On Sunday morning
man named Gus Dirkof living in
cabin on Monroe street attempted to
commit suicide by shooting himself in
the head. The wound is not u dangerous
one. He is said TO bavs been subject to
fits of dependency of late caused by
Losses in stocks.
Elko Post: Last Thursday the Central
Pacific Railroad Company set men to
work at Deeth. building a new depot
and laying rails for side track. When
the improvements are completed An
agent and telegrapher will be put in
charge, and the station will become one
of the most prominent shipping points
on the railroad in this county.
Enterprise: At the County Jail there
is now confined the worst lot Of prisoners
ever within its walls. Night before last
they started in, and for pure meanness
howled till persons on the opposite side
of the street could not sleep. They kept
up this business yesterday to such an tx
tent as to interrupt the business in the
District Courtroom. They were only
silenced by threat TO buck and gag
them.
Eureka Sentinel: About fifty subp@Has
have been issued for witnesses on the
part of the defense in the Comins. Hoyt
libel suit. Among the number whose
presence is desired are John w. Macksy,
James G.. Fair, the Auditor OF the Vlr-
ginia and Truckee Railroad, who is
ordered to produce the books OF the COM
pany; Col. Pete Canavan, who is ex-
pected to testify that he paid Comins
$1,000 for cocktails before breakfast,
and many other distinguished gentlemen
throughout the State. The trial comes
| off in November. and Judge Lansing
will represent the prosecution and Bishop
& Sabin the defense.
A Paradise Valley farmer writes as
follows to the Pacific Rural Press: / see
an article in the Press copied from the
Reno Journal, Of o wonderful crop of
oats. seven feet high, grown at Glendale.
without irrigation or rain. 1t is pretty
good for ssgebrush land. can report
another pretty fair yield. From land in
Paradise Valley. Nevada, on the ranch of
r. F. Riley, there was cut this season
ten tons of good hay (wheat and oats
mlxed) from two ceres of land. 1t was
grown without irrigation. Also. from
the same kind of land. on the same
ranch. there was threshed 80 bushels Of
good barley to the acre, raised without
irrigation. Who next?
Silver State: Matches yesterday re-
ceived a letter from bis sister, the
Princess Sallie Winnemucca, who is now
teaching the indians at Yakima Ressrva.
ton, Washington Territory, in which
she says that the Piutes taken there last
Winter. are dying of like sheep. She
says that no Indians taken sick get well
aud she wants to get away from there
She speaks in terms OF the highest
praise of Father Wilbur. and says thai
some fifty of her people we're recently
converted and baptized. by him. Sht
noticed the contrast between tie treat
ment of the Indians at Yakima and Nal
heur. and says that not an Indian wal
ever taught the alphabet at ths'Iattel
place. while many of them at Ysklni
are fluent readers.