The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-04-27
STATE NEWS.


Several fatal cases of diptheria have
recently occurred in Winnemucca.
Reno, the intellectual and universal
hub, has formerly opened a public Ii.
brary.
Tuscarora, at special election last
week, voted in favor of levying school
tax by As majority out of total vote of
1856.
Twins were born to Big Valley
squaw last Wednesday. The combined
weight of the papooses was seventeen
pounds.
The Appeal says the appointment of
E. B. Zabriske as Meter and Refiner
of the Carson Mint gives general satisfac.
tion at the State Capital.
An important strike was recently
made in the lower level of the Durand
mine at Aurora, Nevada. Assays ran as
high as $50 ounces in gold per ton.
A young Piute, lad Of about l6 years
of age committed suicide at St. Clair,
Lyon county, last week. He put the
gun at his side and pulled it off with his
| toe. bU. F
At Reno the shipping season for cattle
is about over. There are not to exceed
400 head of beef cattle on the Truckee
Meadows. The price remains at about
six cents.
Eureka has a pig that lays in wait for
miners coming off shift to get what food
is left in the dinner buckets. The pig
fights all the dogs away that are on the
same errand.
Percy Leadbetter, nine.yearold boy,
had his left Lex crushed below the knee
and left arm broken by getting caught
in a locomotive turn.table at Reno one
day last week.
There is quito an excitement about 40
miles south of Wells, in Butte Valley,
over the discovery of rich tin ores. Salt
Lake parties are negotiating for the pur.
chase of one ledge.
Gazette: Charles Fassets graveyard
drug advertisement to be seen on the
eight.inch boards of Saunders cemetery
reads as follows: eve bought our
drugs of c. M. Fassett."
The promise of Senators Jones and
Stewart that in the event Of Republican
success at the Presidential election, coin
ing and all other work would be ordered
resumed in the Carson Mint has beer
quickly verified.
Railroad men estimate that there ar
from 1000 to 1000 tramps from Well
to Ogden-all heading West One hun
dred and twenty were counted at Well
in one day, which is greater humble
than the town population.
Sam Davis says: "The Appeal ofic
has just purchased new dictionary
and hereafter there will be no misteake
in orthograffy in these coloms. We di
not procure this valuable book for GU
own privet use, but simply to refur t
in settling Disputes with the tipoes."
Va. Chronicle: The resumption {
coinage at the Mint at Carson will il
crease the force to total of about :
, employees. The highest salaried Office
, that of Superintendent, who receive
$4,000 year and the lowest that of I'll
, adjusters who receive $75 a month eacl
A number of Paradise Valley farme
have formed an organization under Il
name of the Paradise Artesian We
Company. They have subscribed 81, 81
for the purpose of purchasing we
boring machine, and have ordered b
draulic jetting machine Of eight hora
= power.
Homer Index: The venomous WOO
tick is getting his solid work in. He i
sinuates himself into sacred recesses
the body, and how he gets there witho
a search.warrant the good Lord on
knows. When he has struck soft 81
he burrows and digs until he drives
victim nearly crazy.
George j. Garrison, the new meteo
p logical officer at Hawthorne, presents
first report, "The relative humidity
the barometer to the maximum tempe
ture is impercepible, but the win
h terrific velocity with the accompany
!. minimum precipitation Tor circulation
sand, has produced id mean te
per (ature)."
y It is doubtful if there is anywhere