The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1880-03-27
STATE ITEMS.
woolly horse visited Reno.

\ woody horse visited Reno.
Candelaria boometh 1t has deck OF
hurdles.
The Gold Hill News man has l3-l5-l4
on the brain.
c. w. Hymer will be hung at Winnie.
mucca Oh April 9th.
The Reno school library consists of an
encyclopedia, and that is boxed up.
Virginia City was recently startled by
the appearance of regular old fashioned
monte dealer in its midst.
The Journal boldly asserts that several
Reno children need spanking Been
making faces at the editor.
All the good land in Mason valley is
taken up. Government land, unim-
proved, is held at 81 an acre and above.
During the month of February the
Comstock mines produced $3.50, 700 in
gold and 1901 900 in silver; total, S4S2,'
600.
The Ward Reflex learns that the
Sadie l. mine, Of Secret Canyon, is
piece of property that will not remain
long in obscurity.
The Silver State is i'll receipt of nu-
merous letters from various places in Cal
ifornia asking for information relating to
the Piute sugar cane.
The Lyon County Times says that
man formerly alluded to as sold Pat
Quinn" is now called Mr. Quinn, since
the strike in the Quinn mine.
The Directors of the Nevada and Cali
fornia Telegraph Company have i'll view
the extension of their line from Aurora to
Candelaria, distance of sixty miles.
The Virginia Enterprise says that if the
proposed square location mining law had
been in existence twenty years ago there
would never have been any Comstock.
The Enterprise says Virginia City is to
have a telephone exchange. The lines
will extend to every important point on
the Comstock, Sutro, Gold Hill, Dayton,
Silver City, Como, etc.
A Reno girl has been made the recipi-
ent of $25 by an insurance company as a
reward for the promptitude with which
she put out fire. That is better than
kindling blaze with coal oil.
The case of Il. r. Parkinson came uE
before Judge Sawyer Thursday, when il
was agreed that the counsel might fill
briefs. Judge Sawyer will render his de
cision the latter part of April.
Ward Reflex: A letter has been re
ceived by DR.. Brooks from Mr.. Lawle
Superintendent Of the Lookout, at Rub,
Hill, in which the writer says they nov
have four-foot vein of $1,000 ore.
Eureka Sentinel: The Eureka Con
will shut down their smelling work
about the lst of April, or as soon there
, after as the weather will permit for eff
| Gent work. They expect to make tn
, needed repairs in about two weeks.
A well-known mining man stated to
{ Times-Review reporter that as soon a
{ the weather would admit of work on tn
outside mining properties, ore enoug
1 would DO supplied in months time t
keep every mill in the district employees
= during the Summer.
Ward Reflex: From all accounts tn
| projectors of the water ditch at Osceol
have secured about all the placer groun
: they care about just now and will doubt
r less push work on the ditch, as soon a
9 the ground thaws. They laid low fo
: the boys and slyly scooped in their claim
e at low prices when they happened t
# catch them in tight place.
4, Austin Reveille: Two Or three day
}. ago an accident occurred in which tn
!, little son of A. ID. Crosswhite was severe
u ly scalded. He was just going to tn
house when some one came to the door
throw out pan of boiling water, an
o didn't see the little fellow in time I
g avert the catastrophe, and he caught tn
l. full contents of the pan right square
e his face. He was severely scalded an
l. in few minutes his face was covere
| =
&c with blisters.
Some woodchoppers working at Secrt
Canyon, near Eureka, being attracte
'e the other day by screams and groans j
IS gulch close by the trail on which the
lc were going to work, came to where
,e squaw was found securely tied to
" tree. Upon closer examination the
lie found dead pappoose strapped to h,
IN back. Upon nntying the ropes tn;
of bound her, the squaw explained tn
n the Indians charged her with killir
er her pappoose to get rid of it, ar
d. had tied her, with the dead baby
&c her breast, to the tree, where she wou
to have been left to die had it not been f
le the arrival of the white men. This
th considered henious offense among II
g. Indians except in the case of twins, al
j, tho L;1l;po of n how Dapoose wau u,b