The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1880-11-27


Walker mills froze up and both mills
were closed down. and will remain closed
until the Reef is favored with warmer
weather.
Sam Yeak Of Chinatown had Gin Lee
arrested for "Yeaking" his trunk, sup
posed to contain some $500. Gins ex-
animation came off before Judge A. H.
Parker, with the following powerful cast:
Attorneys for, the people, Gibson Clark
and Ben Paddock; attorney for CHM
Lee, Chas. F. Bowen. The clerk of the
court--well, but we are too modest to
eulogize ourself The examination oc.
cupied three days, and there being no
conclusive evidence that Gin Lee stole
the trunk, he was acquitted.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE Commits.
sioner of the General Land Office has
written letter to General Hill, of Col
orado, announcing an important ruling
in regard to the present law regarding
the annual expenditure on mining claims.
The question submitted by Senator
Hill in behalf of one Of his constitu.
ents was, in substance, whether the De.
partment would recognize as in compli-
ance with the act Of last January an ex.
penditure of 500 worth of work between
October 10th and Goth, 1879, upon min
ing claim located October l, 1879. Com
missioner Williamson, in reply, writes as
follows: "Under the go,
section 1924 of the keviseu statutes
says: The annual expenditures for i'm.
provements was due within each year,
commencing with the date of location,
except in regard to claims located prior
to the enactment Of that law, the expend.
lures upon which were made due by JAM
uary l., 1873, and annually thereafter )
The purpose Of the amendatory law of
January %, 1880, was to secure uni
form period within which the annual ex-
penditure should be required on all loca-
lions, and it provided that such period
should commence on the LIST Of january
succeeding the date of location of each
claim. It therefore follows that claim
located October l, 1879, requires the ,ex-
penditure Of one hundred dollars worth
Of labor or improvements thereon within
the calendar year of 1880, and that what.
ever may have been expended during
1879 will not answer the expenditure re-
quirements Of 1880. It also appears by
reason of the change made in the require.
ments of the act Of May, 1872, by the
amendatory law of january. that claim
located on any day subsequent to the LIST
of January, 1879, requires no further ex-
penditure during the remainder of that
year than is made necessary by the local
laws" The Commissioner adds that he
has inadvertently signed letter indicat.
ing different construction aforesaid, but
the conclusion now given has been reach.
ed after careful consideration, and will
control his official action.
Delirium tremens! Snakes! Jim. jams
Yes, I've had touches of them. Yor
want to know how it feels! I'll tell you
You may drink maybe week, maybe
more. At last liquor ceases to excite
brace up or tranquilize. You drink ,
f-pint of brandy and it has no NOR
effect than so much water. Then 20,
are close ON the horrors. Food wont hell
you. Your stomach rejects it. Nov
your punishment commences. You can
sleep. You are weary. Oh! so weary
but there is no rest. You are tired 0
thinking, yet the tired brain will think
You lie down, drop into o dose for mo
ment and wake up with shock as
touched by an electric wire. You ar
covered with perspiration. You get u
walk the room, walk the streets--walk
walk, walk, and then fling yourself down
praying for ever SO few minutes sleep
All this for days with people about you
and through nights. But no Chinese tor
ture employed in keeping some miserabl
criminal awake till he dies was ever NOR
full of relentless vigilance than you
abused nerves. breads indescribabl
seizes upon you. Your hands have
sensation of being Of enormous size
They do not look it. They feel it. You
head in like manner feels as if enormousl
pulled out Then your breath come
systematically, hot fushes strikes th
region of the heart, all the blood seen
at times to rush in that direction, IN
you fight aimlessly for life and expect
fall dead. This is the commencement
the horrors. Now you are fixed for se'
ing rats and snakes and vermin.
| Miller was life convict in the Indian
State Prison. He talked so much an
80 favorably Of his wife that Trader,
fellow prisoner, sought her out, o. SOC
as his own expired, and married ne
Trader is now under arrest for murde
, and he says that the crime was commits
, on the instigation Of this woman, who
also responsible for her first husband
downfall. He curses the day DO fell
love with her.
J Gold amalgam valued at about $45, o.
/. was brought to Marysville, CAL, Nov.
!. by private conveyance. It was the I
!. sui; Of the annual cleanup Of the M
!. York mine. The men who brought 1t
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