The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-07-07
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Woodland. Cal, was sold the other day
for $50, the purchaser to cut it down and
remove it.
The Digger Indians played a game Of
base ball at Rancho Chico, Butte county,
Cal, recently. They understood the
game pretty thoroughly.
One gulch in Montana is said to have
produced sos, 100000 in placer gold and
the old tailings in the gulch are still be-
ing worked at good profit.
Among lot of thirteen rattlesnakes
killed near Mono lake last week, one Of
the reptiles was found to have swallowed
half grown chicken, whole.
Chief of Police King, Of Los Angeles,
who made murderous assault ON the
editor Of the Porcupine in that city a few
days ago, has sent in his resignation.
1t is thought that the town Of San
Bernardino is built over buried forest,
because when sinking wells in that Sec
ton logs, etc, are found at great depths.
James page has been found guilty of
murder in the first degree at Placeryille.
tie murdered an unknown man in a can
yOn a few months ago and his victims
| identity has never been established.
The body Of James Jones, a seven
year-old lad, was found few days ago
in a mangled condition on raft in Snake
river, at Texas ferry The boy mysteri-
ously disappeared from home severed
weeks ago.
The big oak tree on Chico creek. Cal,
is p feet in ere Inference, stands about
100 feet high aud spreads its branches
over a circle Of 100 feet in diameter. The
dropping branches nearly touch tbs
ground ON all sides.
c. L. StOrmand, editor and proprietor
Of the Arizona Advocate, and ex-Secre
tary OF the Board Of Prison Commission
ers, left Yuma two weeks ago and ha
not been heard from bot once since. HI
Is supposed to have Territorial money il
his possession, and Ii Is believed that h
has ran away. He Is probably the frs
editor that ever bad /. chance to get hoi,
Of any public money.
Work on the borax claims in East Cal
leo, which were recently purchased b
Coleman & Co., says the Calico Print
has been progressing ever since the CON
pany obtained possession Of the propert,
several men are employed in taking gu
bOrax. The deposits that are bein
opened up are large and Of high grade
We learned from F. NJ. Neel, the for
man, that building l4x40 feet is to
erected ON one Of the claims in fe'
days, and that it was not yet decide
how soon reduction works will be bui
for manufacturing borax.
e The San Jose Mercury says: Jewell
g friends have covered the floor Of his &c
3 with Brussels carpet, and furnished hi
;. with pink cloth with which he has man
b featured a table cover, pillow sham, etc
( with friDged edges. They have also fu
nished him with an esthetic suit Of viii
: linen, including satin necktie, pate
= leather slippers, and coral and 60
. shirtstud IN the form Of cross. At b
head Of his bed tiny cross Is suspend'
a by blue silk ribbon, and ON the wa
4 with pink cloth background, hangs
gilt crucifix. With his hair parted e
l. actly in the middle, and banged al
h curled, he is just too sweet. This Jew
g we are speaking Of is the same man wh
y on Sabbath evening, went to the hou
; OF James Z. Renowden, and after p;
p taking Of his hospitality, brutaIly Ill
dered him and Archibald Mcintyre, |
q cause they resisted an attempt to r
, them Of their hard earned savings. Fro
henceforth let us cease to admire t
y lamb as the symbol OF innocence, and ?
IS in its place the jackal and the hyen;
y Another paper says fiocks OF silly, sen
re mental girls have been running to
murderer's cell every day. The moth
a should vigorously use on these girl
" good thick single.
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