The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-12-03
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
DNaTH OF MoTIsIER FULLER.

Ex-Judge Mortimer Fuller passed away
from among us, surrounded by few of
his many friends, on Tuesday night No.
vember 29th, at half-past ten o'clock
He died calmly, though after much suf.
fering. His death is mourned, not only
by all our old settlers here, but by the
community at large, Of which during his
life he was an active working member.
His body was buried Thursday afternoon.
His brother, o. Fuller, and sister, Mrs.
B. p. Avery, relct of our late Minister
to China, reside at Berkeley, California.
Mortimer Fuller was born about fifty
seven years ago in the State of New
York, moved at an early age to Kalama-
zoo Co., Mich, and thence about the year
1850 to California, where he engaged in
various pursuits. For number of years
he resided at Marysville where, with his
brother Orlando, he was proprietor of a
livery stable business. While living in
California he represented his county in
the State Legislature two sessions, where
he did much good work in fighting against
the plots of wrong-doers, who then, as
now, sought to control all political bodies.
About fifteen years ago he came to this
section of country, being one Of the earli-
est pioneers of Lincoln county. He went
first to the Pahranagat mines, which were
at that time the center of the extremely
sparse population, afterwards coming to
Phoebe, when this town had as yet hardly
a name. Here he was elected, in 1870,
District Judge of the Seventh Judicial
District, and by minority party In
those days the crying want of the people
was an honest man for Judge and most
certainly in this respect, even his worst
enemies admitted Judge Fuller supplied
the want of the people. When corrup-
ton was quite as bold in the land as
it is now; when hundreds of thousands of
dollars were the sums paid for mems con-
sciences; when it was fashionable and
even popular to be allied with thieves;
when judicial purity meant mere pit
lance and sheer, he did his work, and
he did it honestly and well.
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THE TERROR OF HIKo. Big Jack Bax-
ster is looked up as terror by all people
in Hike owning dogs. The poisoning Of
a couple of hundred dogs in that village
within the last four months has been laid
to Big Jack. The Hikoites swear thatit
was owing to Big Jacks cussedness they
were deprived of their CANNES. For the
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accumulation of dogs in Hike, and when
Big Jack rode into that town the other
day, it caused quite commotion. The
women rushed out of the houses and
gathered their dogs and brought and tied
them in the house, while all the young
kids commenced exercising their lungs by
believing abound, and such racket for
4 quarter of an hour Hike never had wit
messed before, and probably never will
again After Big Jack had taken his
departure one little pup, very probably
an orphan, that had eluded the watch
fulness, was found FITS spirit had flown,
and was then on its journey the to Celes-
tial kennel, where the spirit Of all good
CANNES go, and where his pupship will
never be annoyed by having the small
boy harness an oil can to his caudle ap-
pendage. AS the pup was poisoned the
citizens did not quarrel over the posses
sion of the corpse for the purpose Of con-
verting it into sausage meat.
BRISTOL S. NJ. Co.-The gross amount
Of bullion shipped by this company since
November lst, is 1913, 945. SO, with about
$1,000 in amalgam belonging to the No.
vember run. The running time of the
mill will not exceed twenty-six days in
producing this amount. The ore of the
Mayfower mine carries Is per cent. mois-
ture, and owing to the limited means for
drying at the mill, the ore cannot be dried
as fast as the stamps will crush it. The
mill is crushing about II tons of ore per
day, dry weight. There is 100 tons Of
ore on the mill dump, and 20 tons are
daily hauled from the mine. The drying
capacity of the mill is to be increased at
once, and work is being done on the well
and the water supply is increasing.
r. E. FLAGG, the we'll known foreman
of the Day mine, is now Assistant Super.
intendent. He and "Old Gould" manage
to smell out the ore where nobody else
could find it. "Smellments" are rather
extra good in cases of this nature. The
Day boys all feel jolly, and we don't
wonder that they do.
ToYs.-Goodman & Co. have large as
sortment of toys. The mechanical toy;
are very fine and the collection of doll.
displayed at this establishment is the
grandest ever brought to Phoebe. The,
have all sorts and sizes, from a nigge
baby whitewashed up to a wax doll thre
feet in height.
LosT.-Mr. Jas. Pierson lost a bundl
of blankets and bag of clothes from o.
of his wagon somewhere between Pioch
and BENEFITS Springs. The finder wi
be suitably rewarded upon delivering tn
same to the San Jose House.
ATrENTIoN.--Supt Gould gives motto
that all bills in Phoebe against the Da
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