The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-25
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.

Two Salt Lakers have invented q ma
chine that they claim will kill forty
acres of grasshoppers day. 1t consists
of a sheet-iron cylinder, a revolving fan
and two rollers, and is drawn by two
horses.
An Arizona paper says the contractors
on the 35th Parallel railroad have been
compelled to send to San Francisco for
500 Mongolians. 1t has been their de-
sire to employ only white men, but they
could not be secured in sufficient num-
bers.
It is now estimated that fully 1000
men are engaged on the Denver & Rio
Grande road in Utah.
One stack of the new Horn Silver
smelter, at Frisco, Utah, is running sue
cessfully, and others will start up soon.
Bradshaw and Murphy, the notorious
Turner robbers, made desperate at
tempt to break Jail st Salem, Oregon.
The plan was frustrated by the vigilance
of the Deputy Sheriff.
J. w. Day, noted foot-racer, was
arrested at Los Angeles "a he attempted
to take the San Francisco train, charged
with embezzling 5000 He is in Jail.
A correspondent of the Visalia Delta
says: Every one is surprised at the grain
being SO much better than it was ex-
pected it could be after such peculiar
season. 1t has filled generally much
better than last year.
Lately, near Ogden, as the U. & N.
freight train, was running near Cache
Valley, carriage containing two women
and child was struck at crossing.
One horse was killed and the other fatally
injured. The vehicle was total wreck,
but the ladies and child were unhurt.
The Nevada Transcript says that the
citizens of the northern part of that
county along the Bloomington ridge,
San Juan, Columbia Hill and in that
vicinity feel very bitter towards Marys-
vile. One wagon loaded with potatoes
and another carrying hay arrived there
the other day, and as soon as it leaked
out that they hailed from Marysville no
one would buy the produce at any price.
Calvin Wright and James Fisher of
Douglas county, Oregon, discovered the
skeleton of Hudson Bay Company IS
trapper, who disappeared twenty years
ago, in a cut made by the high water
last year from the South Unpqua.
A tremendous blast was made on the
Upper Columbia, along the line of the
Oregon Railway and Navigation CON-
pany's road. A cliff of basalt rock, ris-
ing from the river to the height of $50
feet, and nearly 200 feet at the base, was
shivered to fragments and hurled into the
river.
Recently 5000 buffalo robes were sold
at Carol, Montana, at prices ranging
from Sc to 81, including calf and split
robes.
The Utah Northern Railroad is com
pleted to Melrose, in Montana Territory
377 miles from Ogden. The road is well
built, and is said to be the longest mar
row-guage in the world.
There not only seems to be a great
scarcity of farm laborers in Montana
but cowboys and sheep herders are muci
harder to get this year that ever before.
In the case of Henry Mcdonald for thu
murder of George Myers, who has beer
on trial in Silver City, Idaho, for thu
past week, was given to the jury Mon
day, resulted in a verdict of guilty o
murder in the first degree. The jur,
were out 55 minutes.
It is said that the Utah and Northern
will Immediately commence the building
of branch road from Dillon to Helena.'