The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-02-09
COAST NEWS.
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I, The glass works at Salt Lake City ar
turning out bottles by the million.
4, The biggest ice crop on record is bein!
se0red along the Truckee river
The Court House ut Susanyille, Las
\ sen county, is said to be haunted.
! The people of Corinne, Utah, ar,
raising money to sink big artesian well
The Sacramento river was never known
J to be so low at this season as it is now
The school teachers of Shasta county
have combined and resolved that INC
teacher should accept less than $50 pei
month"
A 9-year.old boy was sent to the Napa
Asylum from Livermore last week. He
will be a companion to his brother, II
years old.
The authorities of Ogden were obliged
to prohibit coasting in that city on &C.
count of the numerous accidents.
Harry Hanson fell 81 feet in the shaft
OF a mine near Helena, Nj. T., last week
and then got up and walked off.
Francisco Nunea, Mexican living
near Julien, celebrated the Tooth ami.
versary of his birth on New Years.
The old man is still hale and hearty,
his only failing being in eyesight.
The Mokelumne valley will be one
unbroken orchard from Westmoreland's
bridge to New Hope, q distance of about
forty miles in length and four miles in
width on either bank of the Mokelumne.
Certain counties in Dakota pay three
cents per tail for the caudal appendages
OF prairie dogs. These trophies are said
to be legal-tender for anything from a
drink of whisky to church contribu.
ton.
1t is reported that two brakeman ON
moving train near Fresno fought duel
with pistols on top of car the other
day, in which one received bullet
which entered over the heart, passed
around the body outside the ribs and
was cut from his back with razor.
Sac. Bee: Matters in Los Angeles
must be in bad way The Tribune
prints tax list of 81 columns long, the
mercantile agencies report from ten to
twelve failures day. Both the Trib-
une and the Times charge each other
with bankruptcy, and everything ap.
pears to be tottering on the verge of
general tumble.
A Tombstone dispatch says of HarQue
Hals: The camp is full of broken, rag.
ged, dirty, desperate men, the otf.scour.
ings of the Pacific Coast. Robberies
take place daily and nightly, and two
murders have already been committed.
The last was that Of A. G. Metzler, who
went from San Diego, and who was
found with a knife thrust through his
heart, and his watch and wallet gone.
ThelSalt Lake Tribtne says: Several
hundred dollars have changed hands
here on bets that $50 gold piece con.
tanned $40 worth of gold. The claim
was that it contained that amount less
the alloy and cost of coinage; but accord.
ing to the Philadelphia, Carson City and
San Francisco Minis there is $40 worth
Of gold in a double eagle, the cost of
manufacture. ETC., being otherwise paid.
A Salt Lake Justice of the Peace was
recently called upon to unite couple in
matrimony. The name of the groom
was John Pill. When the Justice
reached that part Of the ceremony where
the bride agrees to take the groom for
better or worse the Justice said "Clara,
do you take this Pill:" The bride was
heard to respond eyes" almost inaudibly
while her face was suffused with bushes.
George Quincy, Of Puyalluy, w. T.,
who used to be a freight brakeman ON
the Northern Pacific, has fallen heir to
$ll.00O in curious way, An elderly
German visiting puyallup some years
ago met Quincy and took fancy to him.
The German returned to Europe after a
time and Quincy had forgotten all about
him until he was informed recently that
the old man was dead and had left him
his entire estate.
FREE SCHOLARSHIP. The New York
College of Veterinary Surgeons has offered
the Nevada State Board of Agriculture
free scholarship in that institution for
the benefit Of some worthy young man
Of limited means. He will be required
to pay the Marticulation and dissecting