The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-03-25
STATE ITEMS.

Times arc beginning to look brighter
for Tuscarora.
The News reports valuable strike in
the Star mine at Cherry Creek.
The bill appropriating 500, 900 for the
erection of a public building at Carson
| has passed the Senate.
The Austin Reveille reports no suffer-
ing among the stock some thirty miles
down Reese river valley.
The Aurora Herald boasts that there is
not fund in Esmeralda county but that
has money in it and that the county will
soon be out of debt and one of the fore
most counties in the State.
Austin Reveille: 7. B. Childs, county
Assessor paid into the County Treasury
to-day the sum of So, 204. so, being on ac-
count of bullion tax for the quarter end.
ing December 3lst, 1881.
Eureka Sentinel Several parties who
have been talking of emigrating to Wood
River this Spring have changed their
minds, and think that Eureka's present
| outlook will do to tie TO for another sea
son at least
Winnemucca Silver State: A week ago
woman applied for decree of divorce
from her liege lord on the ground of
desertion. The plaintiff and two or three
| witnesses were examined in her behalf;
the defendant did not appear and the
| relief prayed for was granted by the
Court. As soon as the order of the Court
was made license was granted to the
woman to again assume the matrimonial
yoke, from which she had been twice
released by law, although she is not yet
twenty years old.
Surprise Valley farmers, says the Reno
Gazette, started in the Winter with i'm
mense quantities of hay. 1t sold in No
vember for $3.50 per ton in the stack.
Owing to the large numbers of stock cat
| tie and horses that came there to feed it
has gone to $40 per ton. There is no
great danger of hay famine unless the
Spring is very late. If it is there is
plenty of grain that can be fed. Wheat
can be bought for dollar hundred
| Barley is worth five bits.
Martin Molkembuhr a station tender
at the Bullion mine, at Virginia City,
pushed loaded car into the 22O0-foot
station and was drawn after it. He fell
IS feet and sank to the bottom of the
shaft in a depth of 100 feet of water.
The body was not recovered until o'clock
next morning, when it was found to be
completely cooked and the face unrecog-
nizable. Deceased was native of Ger
many, and 4S years of age. He belonged
to several benevolent associations, from
two of which his family will get the sum
of $1,000.
The Virginia Chronicle, in an article
on the Importance of the next State cleo.
ton, gives the following list of officials
to be chosen in November next: Gov.
ernor, Lieutenant Governor Member oil
Congress, Justice Of the Supreme Court
Secretary of State, Controller, Attorney
General, Treasurer, Surveyor General
Superintendent of Public Instruction
State Printer, and Clerk of the Supreme
Court. Nine State Senators and a full
Assembly forty members) are also to b.
elected. Upon this Legislature depends
the Warden of the State Prison and two
Regents of the State University. Tn,
State Senators elected will have a vote a
the session of 1885 for United State
Senator to succeed John p. Jones. Coun
ty and township officers will also b.
elected throughout the State.