The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-02-05
STATE ITEMS.

ramps are DcSLhhing W oo PAehUhu
on the line of the Central Pacific in thi
State.
The White Pine News says join
Quinn has opened first class saloon al
Cherry Creek.
| A wood pile containing over 200 cords
at the rear of the Typo Company's mill
caught fire and was almost entirely con
sumed.
The total number of eonvicts in the
State Prison on the first of the present
year was ISL. Lincoln county is cred.
tied with six.
The Clarence King party Of biologists,
statisticians, minerologists and other
scientists now at work on the Comstock,
expect to complete their labors in about
two months more.
Assemblyman Organ gave notice that
he would introduce bill to build the
State Capitol at Reno, to remove the
State Prison to Phoebe and the Orphans
Home to Tuscarora.
White Pine News The Star Com
pany paid of last Saturday. The monthly
payroll of the company reaches $l4, 900,
and the total cost Of operating the mill
and mine are SIC, ZOO.
The Gazette says paper mill is among
the possibilities at Reno. It will be
built if the State shows any prospect for
better times. Boston parties are the
main supporters of the scheme.
The friends of Bell, who was convicted
year ago for robbing the U. s. mails,
applied to President Hayes for his par
don, but were refused. Bell, it will be
remembered, was sentenced for life.
A private letter received in Virginia
City from Professor Stewart is to the eff.
feet that he is so well satisfied with the
people and the mining outlook down in
Maine that he don't know when he shall
return to the Pacific Coast.
The Carson smelling works have come
to halt for lack of funds. Perhaps the
Carson folks wanted the works, but
wanted other people to build them, Just
like some Eureka citizens want rail
road to the Colorado.
Reno Journal, Jan. %: Senator Ham.
mond, Of Carson, passed through Reno
last night on his way to New York,
whittier he is called by telegraph on
family business. He will not return be-
fore the middle of February.
Appeal The Enterprise boastingly
says that Comstocker got on a bender
the other day and bought $50 worth of
scarf pins. We can beat that in the
person Of Carsonite who got drunk
day or two since, stole his wife's dia.
monds, pawned them for $3.50 and spent
all the money in one saloon for liquor.
Grantsville Bonanza Owing to the
e1ertion Of the Hon. R. NJ. Daggett the
Grantsville Postofice has been entered
on the list Of money order offices. It
will 60 into effect as soon as the neces-
sary arrangements can be made by the
Department, which will be some months
before the commencement of the fiscal
year.
Iimes-Review: Judge Plunkett says if
the new fee bill passes he will be forced
to resign. The bill enumerates certain
services, and fixes the fees, and forbids
him to receive pay for other services
which the law compels him to perform.
The Judge says the proceeds of his Office
would not enable him to keep up lights
and FIRE.
The Virginia Chronicle says: The At
torney. General will soon issue circular
letter to the Sheriffs and other officers
throughout the State informing them that
it is not legal for them to demand Of their
respective counties their fees in advance
in suits wherein the said counties are
parties to the actions. The same rule is
also to be applied in cases where the
State is interested.
Reno Gazette The earth has cracked
open near Murphy's salt marsh, making
long assure four feet wide and of depth
unknown. With view to exploration,
a man was the other day lowered into it
by arope distance of fifty feet, perpen.
dicularly, where the crevice began to din
at an angle Of about forty degrees. The
man could see no bottom, and thought he
had gone far enough, and was hauled
back to the surface.
Ward Reflex: Fifty thousand dollars
worth Of stock in the Eureka and Color.
ado River Railroad stands in the names
of each Of the incorporators, which did
not cost them a cent, an amount equal to
what they propose to give to Eureka,
White Pine and Lincoln counties for
$4,000 in bonds. Any two of them
will own as much as Eureka county and
four Is much as White Pine or Lincoln
without the expenditure of q dollar.
Some Of these men holding $50, 600 worth