The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1880-06-26
STATE ITEMS.

The Carson and Colorado road will be
narrow guage.
The towns throughout the State will
celebrate the Fourth in q BETTING style.
Times are on the improve at Aurora.
The people are commencing to shoot one
another there.
Eureka Sentinel: The pack trains are
crowded with orders for delivering ore at
the base of Prospect Mountain.
The Leader says there have been three
insane commitments SO far during the
present term of court at Eureka.
Virginian's call the boy who shot the
glass globe on the Mt. Davidson flagstaff
ISLANDER" because he loves shining
mark.
Mike Owen, charged with the murder
of T. +. Travis in Columbus some months
ago, was acquitted. The plea was self
defence.
True Fissure: Prospecting parties for
the Gold Mountain country, Tule Canyon
and Palmetto have been Quitting during
the week.
Eureka Sentinel: A pocket of ore was
struck yesterday in the incline from the
bottom of the shaft, in the Ell Dorado
No. mine.
Eureka Leader: A large number Of
cattle are being sold in Ruby Valley and
the stock men in that section are endeav.
oring to get out of the business.
The Senate confirmed the appointment
of Charles A. Witherill as Register of the
Carson Land Office. He formerly held
the office of Justice of the Peace in that
place.
The Eureka Sentinel, mentioning TEN
Piute District says: We learn that the
stockholders in the Wyandotte Company
do not propose to entirely abandon their
properties in that locality.
Virginia Enterprise: John Tuzon, who
was very severely injured in the Yellow
Jacket shaft accident, died yesterday
morning, making six men in all who lost
their lives OH the occasion.
Eureka Sentinel: An accident occurred
at the Albion yesterday, by which Mr..
Charles Mcdonald had one of his arms
broken. 1t appears that slip of the
sledge hammer in the hands of his part
ner worked the injury.
Belmont Courier: There are quite a
number of San Francisco and Comstock
mining men in Nye county at the present
time inspecting mines. There are plenty
of good mines in this county, and all we
lack is capital to work them.
Spanish Flat Mountain, between Tule
Franks and Pyramid, is one of the high.
est points in Roop county. From its
lofty summit seven lakes are visible
Pyramid, Winnemucca, Honey, Hum.
boldt, Carson, Washoe and Walker
lakes.
Reno Gazette: w. c. Stokes of Grass
Valley, who is now at Lovelocks, New,
was bitten by dog nearly twenty five
years ago. Every year at about the same
time the scar left by the old bite be.
comes inhamed and remains so for sew
eral days.
Tuscarora Times Review: The hen
kettling bellies on West avenue threaten
to vary their programme by kettling the
Times-Review reporter the first time he
puts in an appearance on that fashionable
boulevard. As he wears Seymour coat,
we would like to know what they intend
to fasten their kettle to.
The District Land offices in California,
Oregon and Nevada have received in.
structions from the Department to the
effect that hereafter claimants for public
timber land must make their proofs and
payments within ninety days after ap.
plication, and they are also prohibited
from removing timber until such proofs
and payments have been made, under
penalty OF being prosecuted as timber
trespassers.
Reno Gazette: A very destructive
army worm has appeared in considerable
numbers in the field between the Marsh
house and the Arlington nurseries. They
are very numerous in the alfalfa fields
along the Arlington road, and have al.
ready done so much injury to jacob
Steiner's place that the cattle have been
turned in to Craze on what is left Of
the crop. The full grown worms arc
about two inches in length.
Eureke Leader: By private Letter
from an old and valued White Pine frienc
we are informed that another fatal &C
cident occurred in the Martin Whit,
tunnel, at Ward, last Saturday. Abou
o'clock in the morning, after the morn
ing shift had gone on, a miner by the nam,
of James johnson, u Welshman, was pre-
pairing to put in a set Of timbers over tn,
turn-table, and was cutting away tn,
rock for that purpose, when from thre,
to four tons of the rock slipped ant
caved down on him, crushing the life GU