The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-01-26
COAST NEWS.

pneumonia.
The first official act OF a Fresno Gal.
Justice of the Peace was to marry Mr.
Grogg to Miss Glass.
Miners are still tlocking to the gold
mines in the Harqua-Hala Mountains in
Yuma and Maricopa counties, A. 7.
Serious charges are being circulated at
Victoria of the treatment of prisoners in
the British Columbia Penitentiary.
The old and new towns OF Bozenan,
Montana, are to be connected by an iron
truss bridge spanning the Gallatin river.
The Wyoming coal deposits are the
greatest west of Pennsylvania. Wyom.
ing will also soon be the chief in petrol.
| cum
In Southern Alaska is section OF
country larger than all New England
that has n climate as mild as that of
Washington Territory.
Mrs. Richardson of Santa Paula, Ven.
| turia, started a chicken ranch last year |
with &c fowls. BY the end OF the year
she had sold 564 dozen eggs at 30 cents a
dozen.
| Miss Nellie eastman, the ARIZONA
Mining Queen" has exported ilarqua-
Hala. She is enthusiastic about the
place, and declares that the district is
one of the richest in the West
Upon the bank of Shayit river in the
town of Mt. Vernon, Washington Terri.
tory, stands flagstaff l47 in height and
nine feet in diameter. 1t is a cedar tree,
stright as an arrow, trimmed of branches.
Several prospectors built boat mt the
Needles and started down the river for
the new gold find. 1t is reported that
while going through the rapids the boat
was capsized and four of the men were
drowned.
The Tombstone Prospector says: The
control of the Silver King mine by the
! bonanza cTOWu iltaus pettci titics III
mining men in Arizona. They cannot
invest their cash too rapidly to suit the
progressive Arizonian.
Coltharp and Brown, placer mininH on
Snake river, near Salmon Falls, las,
week unearthed complete skeleton Of {
mastodon. 1t was about IL feet long
:, and it is estimated that the pile of bone;
;, would weigh 5000 pounds or more.
r. The Grass Valley Union says; W,
d were recently shown letter from {
o prominent operator in London. wherein
a he states that inquiries for genuine min
e ing properties are more frequent at thu
e present time than for several years.
IT Jim Witchlatch sold his mine neal
l, Unionville Montana, for l,S00, 900 ant
IN lost that money in Wal! street II,
went to Leadville aud in six month
made .Sl2o,0OO. He lost every cent o
Vi this by the failure of Grant K Ward il
u 1883. He now has new fortune @
= = sl'o,ooo.
Mr.. White, an eccentric citizen {
:. Lordsburg, started to walk into Los Ar
\. geles to pay his taxes. Night overtasin
:, him, he asked and received permissio
to sleep in a haystack, where he was di'
covered and run in for "vag' He ha
=, sued the county for $1,000 damages.
N. Owen Brown, a son of the tamol
John Brown of Ossawatomie, was burie
at Pasadena last week. He was "a yea
ic- old, and has been living in that vicinit
ny quiet and uneventful life for the la
lst seven years. He is said to be the la
lie survivor of the Harper's Ferry affair
me 1850.
leu Charles Meadows, of Payson, favap
lch county, published a card in Hoof al
'es Horn, challenging any man in the wor
'k. to an all-round cowboy contest for So
ely or 81 900 side He will also wag
'rh either Of the above amounts with u!
man on a steer.tying contest, eth
three or five steers to tie.
} to afternoon Tea