The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-05-04
STATE NEWS.

Wadsworth ladies are enthusiastic
equestriennes.
Laying an egg eight inches in circum,
ference is the recent achievement of ar
Elko hen.
A line Of So miles of fence is being pu,
up in the vicinity Of White River, White
Pine county.
Two men have been arrested in Genoa
suspected of being implicated in the muir.
der of Balma Celas.
Carson purposes giving Senators Jones
and Stewart a grand reception on their
arrival at the State Capital.
I The Mona county fad is now to 10.
cate all the available timber within q
radius Of five miles. There are millions
in it.
A stay of execution has been granted
by the Supreme Court in the case Of
Josiah and Elizabeth Potts, under sen.
'tence OF death in Elko county for the
murder of Miles Faucet at Carlin last
Fall.
The Board of Regents of the Univer.
sity has received ten applications for the
position OF Chemist and Botanist, which
Professorship will be commenced next
term. The Board should send to Ohio
for man to fill the responsible Office.
The Silver State Says: A Golcond.
bachelor is negotiating matrimonial al
lance with the fifteenth widow of a
Mormon Apostle who died recently. A
picture OF the lady sent here for exami.
nation shows her to be rather PROPOSES.
ing in appearance.
There is at the present time 10 the
Carson Mint about $l,6OO,OOO of gold
in shoe bars, being about 9SsA fine, and
80, 1000 ounces in Silver bulliou-s stock
sufficient to keep the Mint running four
years, at least, with the natural inflow of
metal from this State.
Posters are out announcing the sale of
considerable Government property at
Fort McDermit, by public auction, be.
ginning May p, 1889. The Silver State
says: 1t is possible that before the sale
takes place Senators Stewart and Jones
may get the order to abandon the post
countermanded.
The midnight closing law in Nevada
has been declared to be constitutional.
The horney.tongued Comstockers, says
the Homer Index, must now spit cotton
from II o'clock at night till 6 in the
morning. As young Eurkham remarked
when he heard of Harrison's election,
cts tough on us fellows"
On Sunday Fish Commissioner Mills
shipped New Hampshire brook trout, to
be placed in the waters of the neighbor.
hood indicated: Thirty.five thousand to
Comins and McQuitty, at Ely, White
Pine county; 10000 to Hardesty and
Coryell. at Wells, Elko county; 10000
to Sproule, Elko, and 5000 to Swart and
Stock. Paradise Valley. Humboldt
county.
The Piutes of Mason Valley had big
rain dance last week. Tho big man who
brought rain when they de.
sired it, died last Summer, and therefore
they have taken it upon themselves to
pray for rain in their peculiar manner.
If rain does not come soon there will be
another big dance at the Walker Lake
Reservation on which occasion the Piutes
from all over the country will be mott.
fed to be present.
The Winnemucca Silver State Of the
23d ult. lays: Another death from
diphtheria occurred at the County Hos.
pital yesterday, it being that of the
fourth and last child of Mrs. Torodett,
the woman who remained over here with
her SIGH children while on the way to
California. She lost FIVE from the same
disease In the States. making nine in
all. Her husband came here from Cali.
fornia last week, and assisted in taking
care of the sick children, three Of whom
died at the,hospital and one on the cars
at Iron Point, some miles east OF here.
Virginia Enterprise: The best argu.
ment yet advanced in favor of the Sun.
Az closinor r,,nuannank no,no. fraun ana of