The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-05-07
SILVER REEF NEWS.
form tho "Miner" of April I'll

sAo -oAA4SA "a AFAA% 49,
1t is our duty to resent the insult ex-
tended by several papers comparing the
ladies of Silver Reef with those of Phoebe
and Panaca. From judgment matured
by experience of extanded travel in Eu-
rope and America, combined with taste
naturally acute, we are qualified to make
the assertion that the ladies of Silver
Reef are the most beautiful and charming
of any city of like size in the world, while
those of Phoebe and Panaca--but we
cannot be cruel.
A miners meeting was held at Iron
City, Iron county, Utah, on April IL,
1881, for the purpose of organizing what
was previously known as Silver Belt Min
ing District, in that county, and for
framing Constitution and Bylaws
therefor and the election of a Recorder
Joseph M. Watson was elected Recorder.
The Stormont Company have twenty
four men at work in their mines at pres
ent.
John II. Rice has placed barbed wire
fence around the shade trees in front of
his residence. God bless the Duke of
Argyle.)
A breakage in one of the concentrate
castings in the Rowland pulverizer at the
mill has made it necessary to resort to
the stamp battery for short time. The
accident will not necessitate the stoppage
Of the mill, and in few days a duplicate
casting will arrive and be in place.
The deadlock is broken.
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OF the strange stories connected with
the fate of Alexander II. not the least
curious is the following, published in the
st. Petersburg Beehive: One morning,
about fortni ght before the catastrophe
of the 18th of March, while looking out
of his bedroom window, the late Gear
noticed two or three dead pigeons lying
on the ledge of the balcony. As the I'm
perial pigeons, like those Of the Piazza di
San Marco in Venice, are privileged birds,
His Majesty ordered an inquiry to be
made as to how they had come by their
death. 1t was soon discovered that q
huge hawk had taken up its quarters in q
nook of the Winter Palace roof, and EN-.
crying thence every morning made 0
regular practice of thinning out the EN-
peror's flock of pigeons. Imperial com
mands were issued that this columbicide
should be shot; but the hawk contrived
to evade the vigilance Of the domestics
and continued to kill its two, three OF
four pigeons daily with impunity. A
powerful trap was therefore baited anc
set for it upon the roof, and early mex
morning it was seen from below caught
by the leg and struggling to get loose
Before the servants could reach the spo
to put an end to the birds agony it hat
dragged the heavy trap over the edge o
the parapet and fallen with it upon tn
paving of an inner courtyard, overlooked
by the imperial apartments. When tn
Emperor was informed that the hawk hat
met its death in this strange manner h
appeared much disturbed in mind AM
observed several times to his attendant
that "the whole affair was of evil omen.
There has been startling and extraol
binary discovery in connection with tn
approaching Yorktown Centennial celt
bration. It will be remembered this
, Yorktown, during the late war was OF
cupied by the contending armies, an
was for considerable period the heat
quarters of several of the Federal con
manders. Against one of these a col
spiracy is said to have been formed, an
the most desperate measure institute
and well nigh carried into execution
The entire village was undermined, ar
dynamite explosives with electric attacl
, ments were placed at different points,
! as to secure the destruction of every Ii
= ing soul in the town. The discovery W
! pure accident at the present time. 1
3 Northern gentleman was looking at Il
+ extremity Of Cornwall's Cave, he can
a upon passage just large enough to a
q init the body of man, and pushing /
!. investigations, found the electric bs
teries, the dynamite bombs, and all t
appurtenances necessary to blow Yor
/, town out Of existence. Of course, t
: bombs are now harmless. That the min
= were never exploded is only account
II for by the supposition that their intend
!, victims had departed before the perso
J who constructed the mines had complet
;Ss their murderous arrangements. The {
!. plosives are now being removed and t
- mines filled up, so that no danger will
~ hereafter incurred.
10 The plague having broken out in M
40 opotamia, the Egyptian Sanitary Bos
= has established quarantine regulations,
re prevent it's approach. Vessels plying
I, Mediterranean ports cannot pass the 81
y Canal without examination.
IL The police detectives have been q
pensed with in Cincinnati by order
Mayor Means who considers them u
~ less and corrupt adjuncts Of the pol
= system of the city.