The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1880-07-10
STATE ITEMS.

There are $50 birds in State Prison.
Scarlet fever has made its appearance
in Virginia City.
The population Of Carson is between
4, 200 and 4, 300.
The fifth gear of Bishop Whitaker's
school for girls, at Reno, will begin
August Goth.
The Belmont Courier says the grass.
hoppers have already done considerable
damage at Hot Creek.
Sentinel: One establishment in Eureka
is reported to have sold forty l0-gallon
kegs, or 400 gallons Of lager beer, on cele-
bration day.
The body OF the Italian, Paul Raggio,
who was drowned in the Carson about
two weeks ago, was found near Riley
Haughman's ranch last Tuesday.
The census returns of Storey county
are all in. and the population is put down
at 1920. Virginia City has 1000,
Gold Hill 4, 48O and Flowery l6O.
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee will meet in Virginia City July
18th to elect an Executive Committee
and make arrangements for the campaign.
Aurora Herald: The Nevada and Cali
fornia Telegraph Company have received
the wire, insulators, etc., necessary for
| the construction of line from Aurora to
Csndelaria.
Mule power, says the Ward Reflex, has
been applied to the cars in the Martin
White Tunnel, trains of four cars each
| are run at present, but the number will
| be increased as soon as cars can be made.
Hugh Faulkner, native of Canada,
aged about "a years, committed suicide
in his cabin at the Red Canyon mine,
near Genoa, by shooting himself through
the head with musket during the tenn
porary absence of his partner, Robert
Morrison.
Miles Finlen and Dave Crosby en-
gagged in shooting affray in Virginia
City on Friday, Finlen being the agrees.
or. Five or six shots were fred. Crosby
was not touched, but Finlen received an
ugly wound in the right arm. Both
were arrested, but gave bonds in the sum
OF 1000 each.
Virginia Enterprise: About 10 o'clock
yesterday morning an accident happened
at the Union shaft which resulted in the
death of two miners--John ABBOTT and
Duncan A. Bethune. The men were
killed by being struck by stick Of tim.
Der that fell from the 900 to the 250O
level, distance of 1900 feet.
Homer Index; The Carson Times says
there are more births to the square rod
in Carson than in any other town Of
double tho size on the coast. The fecun
, dity OF the female Carsonite is easily &C
counted for There is usually little else
, to do than to multiply and replenisf
, the earth" there, except when the Legis
, lature meets-and perhaps this periodical
, influx of vigorous mountainesrs hal
, something to do with the remarkable in
crease of babies.
Eureka Leader: On the afternoon o
the Fourth an exciting swimming mattel
took place at Palisade between a numbe
Of the railroad boys for purse Of 800
The swim was distance Of two miles
, from the swimming pond to the bridge
A The swimmers were WEIGH, Brooks, Oh
Q sen, Ferguson and the Cowley Brothers
e The contest is said to have been very ex
4 citing, the men swan neck to neck +
9 near the out come, when WEIGH pushes
head and shoulders ahead and won tn
4 race.
. John r. Darling, alias "Rattlesnak
{ Dick" and w. G. Chamberlain, both in
! mates of the State Prison at Carson, ha
u fight, during which the former kille
. the latter. The Carson Appeal says
. Darling was soldier in the Mexica
war, and served in E. B. Zabriskie
), company. After the war he roame
- about over the coast, and is said to hav
married more times than any man in tn
United States, One of his wives was th
;. daughter Of Lee, the notorious Mormo
y murderer, Dick is 40 years old and h
Y, victim sc. The term Dick is serving
ms second 1or ROBBERY.
Enterprise: Night before last lsre
" barn on the Sutro ranch was totally d
in stroyed by fire, together with large K
{. farm implements and machinery and
r. r. fine horse. Thirty mules were in
- strong corral attached to the barn an
J, would have been burned to death hs
y not assistance arrived just a. their ha
IL began to take fire. The gate Of the co
= raj was broken down, when the who
= band Of blazing animals went out in
:, u heap, some leaping over the backs
~ others. Had the animals been hors
- they would have huddled together uni
-, ~ consumed. When it comes to Ere mul
~ have more sense than horses. The 10
-. ~ by the fire was $1,000. How the f
y originated is unknown, but it is thong
- to have been kindled by an incendiary.