The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1880-12-11
STATE ITEMS.

DEER are said to be plentiful out in the
Hills.
Poverty Gulch, Eureka, is infested
with sneak thieves.
Tourmalines are found on Crystal Peak,
five miles from Verdi.
There has been a severe snow storm in
the western part of the State.
While Dagget is in New York this
Winter he will finish his book
There are 5000 acres of agricultural
land in Ormsby county. and only LIZA
irrigated.
The wife Of G. J Hillyer, now in Wash
ington, has presented her lord with twins
"a boy and girl.
John Slavan was run over and had
both legs cut off above the ankles at
Battle Mountain.
The delinquent taxes in Lander coun-
ty amount to s34, 5SS go, of which $780,
4l0.77 is due from the Central Pacific
and Nevada Central Railroad. :
]. E. Spencer, Indian Agent at Pyr-
amid Lake, died on Friday night of pneu-
monia. He leaves wife and several
daughters at the Reservation.
A Chinese camp in Independence VAL
ley was raided and broken up by Indians
last week and all the provisions stolen.
The Cinnamon fed and reached Tusca.
FORA with their feet badly frozen.
Wells Drury of the Candelaria True
Fissure, is publishing history of Colum.
bus Mining District in that paper, COM
piled from the old records. A large num-
of the pioneer locators were Spaniards.
A woman tried to break into Jail at
Winnemucca. Her lover was incarcer-
ated for disturbing the peace, and in her
efforts to get to him she broke through
one of the windows of the Humboldt.
county bastile.
White Pine News: We learn that the
San Jose Company has made an import.
ant ore strike in their property at Egan
They have put on an additional force OF
men. The mine has in years gone by
produced much bullion, but latterly the
ledge. though showing lively quartz,
has proved barren. .pdi
Gold Hill News: While D. H. Jack.
son, Alex. T. Brann and John Barton
were hunting quail in Mason Valley, day
before yesterday, Barton accidentally
shot Brann, who was some seventy or
eighty yards away. One shot took effect
in Mr.. Brann's right eyeball, above the
eye, where it is still lodged, and another
struck near the left eye without pene-
trating the flesh, but still with sufficient
force to blacken the eye. r.H
The beauties of stubborn litigation were
well illustrated by case tried in the
District Court, before Judge Rives, last
Wednesday. The subject matter in dis.
pute was measley calf worth $3.50.
The case was first tried in Justice
Court, from which it was appealed to the
District, where judgment was ordered
entered against the defendant for So. sc
and costs, amounting to $275. low
P. News.
There is an embryo city on the line o.
the Carson and Candelaria railroad
called New Jerusalem. Speaking of tn,
place the Enterprise says: The streets o
the New Jerusalem, below Dayton, ar,
not paved with silver and gold. Neithel
are they paved with asphaltum, nor oal
blocks, nor cobble-stone. They are pavet
with something better than any of thes,
things, being paved with potatoes; for
as yet the principal streets run through
the potatoe patches.
| Times.Review: Richard Bridson ex
perienced very narrow escape, at tn
Grand Prize mine, yesterday. Will
coming to the surface, on a water tank
from the 500-foot level, some laggin
broke within a few feet of the surface
and with some rock and dirt came rat
thing down the shaft, striking him, whe
near the 400-foot level, on the head an
shoulders and very near knocking him O.
the tank. Although severely cut abou
the head and considerably stunned, h
managed to keep his hold on the cabl
until arriving at the surface, when gettin
off he was hardly able to stand.
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The scaffoldings are still up around tn