The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-06-10
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

WILL APPLY FOR PARDON. Owen
Ferguson notifies District Attorney c. H.
Patchen that he will make application for
pardon at the next session of the Board
Of Pardons, which will meet in Carson
City on July 10th. His grounds for ap
plication are: lst, Time served, s wears
and two months; I'd, uniform good record;
3d. clemency on account of age; 4th.
first conviction and previous good char
acter. 1t will be remembered that this
man Ferguson in 1873, who was ward
in the county hospital, orded the cook to
make him some chicken soup for dinner,
but the cook not obeying his command,
he procured surgeons knife from the
stewards room, attacked the cook and
stabbed him to death, then threw the
knife away. Ferguson was convicted
Of murder in the second degree and sent.
enced to serve a term of fourteen wears
in the penitentiary for the crime. Now,
if the honorable members of the Board of
Pardons are of the opinion that. Ferguson
had just cause and provocation for killing
the cook for not making chicken soup,
and this is "free country" they ought
to pardon this good citizen. However,
should they believe that murder is a
crime, and those committing it without
cause should be punished, it is to be
hoped that, as Mr.. Ferguson's record is
so perfect within the prison walls, and
the reverse out of them, they will in
kindness to the convict permit him to
serve out his full time.
On his assessing trip through the west
portion of the county, Assessor Hoffman
stopped at the Pah.Rump ranch. While
there, during the evening, the hostess re.
quested him to send her fashion plate
If he ever had an opportunity, for she had
not seen one for seven years. Poor crea-
ture, what a punishment this must have
been, to have thus been kept in the dark
i'll regard to the fashions of the last seven
years. There are doubtless a number of
husbands who wished that their wives
had of been i'll the same fix as the above
mentioned lady. The distance from Pah-
Bump ranch to the nearest neighbor is
seventy-fve miles.
BRISTOL S. M. COMPANY. = This COM
pany is now carrying on its work in a
manner that ought to have been done
long ago. Mr.. Roe informed us that the
company will soon commence erecting
hosting works over the Mayflower shaft.
The mill has been closed down the past
week, owing to the breaking of the pump,
which is being repaired at the Raymond
r E1xyc oh A J.,
made with the Meadow Valley foundry
for set of new pans. The late runs
made by the mill were not successful
The old Burke dump is being over.
hauled by a couple of chloriders in search
OF hidden treasure. In carly days, when
base ore was of no account, and Dwight
Walker was the Superintendent of the
Burke, number of tons of rich base ore
was extracted and dumped out with the
waste, and these men thinking that they
will be able to find it, as Walker told,
while on visit here some three years
ago, about where he thought it was, and
he then had notion of starting in search
ing for it himself.
DAY CoMPANY.-Work is be pushed
ahead on all the company's property.
During the week several more teams were
set to work hauling ore to the furnace
at Bristol from the mines. The Mendha
mine at Highland is looking well and the
Day at Royal City is all that can be
wished. The furnace will start up to-
day, unless some unforeseen accident
should happen. Large quantities of coal
and ore are piled On the dump.
REDUCTION OF FARES. Ed. S. Havens
Agent for the Phoebe and Eureka Stage
Line at this place, gives notice in this
issue that persons holding tickets to the
San francisco Excursion which leaves
Eureka on June Both, that the fare from
Ploche to Eureka will be but $40, and
from Bristol to Eureka, SIS. Those
holding excursion tickets can only avail
themselves of these rates.
BRISTOL is filed with men in search Of
employment, who have been brought
there by false rumors sent abroad. The
men connected with a company, in fact
the only company that has employed any
force of men in Bristol District, says there
Is not possible show for men obtaining
any kind of employment out there, SC
men in search of employment will do well
TO keep clear of that town.
AUCTION SALE.-L. s. Scott special
administrator of the estate of w. L. Nc
hee, gives notice that he will sell, Oh
June 18th, at o'clock 2. NJ, all the per
sonal property at the late residence o.
SAID Mckee, in Pioche Also the safe
desk and letter press at the Courthouse
For full particulars read the advertise
ment. sN
GILMER & SALISBURY Co.-This com
pany, of Bristol District, is working fou
or five men at the Tempest mine. Afte
the shaft has been cleaned out this fore,
VIII probably be doubled, drift run an,
the shaft sunk little deeper. Fou
men are doing contract work in the Iroi
mine. The prospect in the Tempest i