The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1886-08-07
COAST NE VS..

There is large crop of sahuara fru
this year, and the Indian drunk will |
protracted in consequence.
| The Medical Lake Washington Teri
tory election was contested before til
canvassing board on the ground tha
voters had been bribed by coffee an
icecream.
A Placer county supervisor gets ipeca
into bis watermelons by putting the stu
into the stem Of the vine. The melon
thus doctered make the moonlight in
vaders very sick.
The Anderson Echo says that Chimes
who were compelled to give up thei
lease of the Star Gardens, near Rec
Bluff, poisoned the water in a well OF
the place. Wholesale destruction of life
was averted by the appearance of the
poison on the surface.
The Arizona Citizen says: Talk is
revived Of the investment Of very large
sum Of money in Pima county industries
in short time, by Eastern capitalists.
The proximity of the final settlement OF
the Indian question is establishing a
better confidence in the safety to life
and property here in the future.
Henry Amy, of New York, and other
well known capitalists, have bought
the cattle ranches Of Don Pedro Aguirre
and Don Juan Elias, near Arivasca,
Arizona. The investment calls for an
outlay of 100000.
A proposition is on foot to extend a
small iron pipe from the Chandler oil
we'll at Petrolia to San Pedro harbor,
where it will steadily discharge small
stream of oil on the water and make it a
placid sea, on whose breast the ships that
float shall have no barnacles.
The surveyors on the extension of the
Southern Pacific Railway are now in
camp at Paso Robes Springs, having
run the line from San Miguel to that
point. A new town, having great prom.
Use, has been laid out on the Paso Robles
ranch, six miles south Of the springs,
Well-borers on the Cienega ranch,
within six miles Of Los Angeles, re.
Gently discovered a large outflow of
gas, and an incorporation, called the
Mexican Oil and Gas Company, has been
formed with a capital of 81, 900, 900 to
furnish gas to Los Angeles and surround.
ing Gowns.
Trouble occurred at Washington, Ne
vada county, on the 25th, between the
citizens Of that place and the so.called
"spies." Two of them,
named McPhetridge and Hoffman, were
notified to leave. Another was assaulted
md went to Nevada City and swore out
! warrant.
Eddie Wright, eleven years old, the
ION Of Rev. NJ. Wright, Of Riverside.
while in bathing at Long Branch, Mon.
lay. straddled log lying in the water
when breaker flung the log and the
ad on the beach. The lad was thrown
underneath, and his skull was crushed,
death followed immediately.
The Indians that it is proposed to re.
move from the San Carlos Reservation
IRE the Warm Springs and the Chiri.
,ahaus; the former by census Of 1880
numbered 575 souls if Indians have
'oulsl. and the latter 246: total 52l.
Two years ago they numbered 42O.
Of them are now in Florida
and an unknown number on the murder.
ing path.
The Sierra Valley Leader says: The
has pig with tail on it's side
about three.quarters Of an inch behind
the shoulder blade, and on medium
lateral line on the side. 1t is about as
long as the caudsl tail, and with the
'ame appearance. with the exception Of
the bone. There is nothing peculiar
about the mother, and it ia one of the
peculiarities Of nature. The extra ap.
pendage in no way interferes with his
pigship. as he is the brightest and most
lively Of the lot.
Do not kill the gopher snakes. They