The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-03-30
COAST NEWS.

duck are protected by law in Utak.
A newspaper is among the projected
enterprises of Harqua Hala.
|. Smith, owner of the Orofino mine,
Butte county, picked mp a 500 nugget
last Thursday.
A piece of redwood bark was brought
to Visaia last week from the Frazer
mill. 1t was three feet thick.
The Boise City Statesman says The
"big girls" at the Russell school are ex-
perts in the science of ball-playing.
San Luis Obispo county id the leading
butter county of California, and pro.
duced last year over 5000, 900 pounds.
A Tacoma minister told his cougrega-
ton last Sunday that ''there are no cor.
ner lots in heaven" This is important
if true.
Two wind.mills were put up at indie
pendence, Inyo county, last week. They
were the first seen in that part of the
State.
Mrs. Williams has lived in the light.
house in Santa Barbara. for twenty six
years, and has never been away over
night.
Henry Best, Suffer county, CAL,
rancher, has traction engine that will
pillow seventy.fve acres in twenty -four
hours.
A pocket was struck in the Bonanza
mine, Toulumne county, recently, from
which $4,000 was extracted. Gold is
still in sight.
Claus Spreckles announces that he
will erect beet sugar works wherever
5000 acres are devoted to the cultiva
ton of the beet
Astoria has four hotels that stand OF
piles. A favorite amusement of th'
the guests is to fish for salmon from tn,
upper balconies.
Last Thursday the great Sweetwate
dam near San Diego contained &, 600, 900,
600 gallons OF water 1t stood 90 fee
deep at the gauge mark.
There is said to be $5,000,0 900 in sigh
in Governor Watermans mine, known a
the Stoneman, located at Julian, Cal
fornia. He has refused $4,000, 900 fo
the property.
The decayed remains of Walter Brown
a young Leadville miner, who has bee
missing since May Is, 1887, were foun
recently at the bottom of an old shaft I
the Iron Silver mine, l25 feet deep.
In the suits of the United Stat.
against the Sierra King Mining Compau
for cutting timber on the public lant
for mining purposes at Phenix. A. 7
the jury found verdict for defendant
This is an important victory for the mi
ing interests of Arizona.
, A stranger from Mendocino county &
| drunk and crawled under large re
wood tree at Aptos to sleep Saturd'
, night. His sleep was troubled, appa
emily. for he rolled around until
!. tumbled off sixty.6ve foot cliff to t
bed of the creek below by the railro
bridge, but neither his whisky bottle n
any of his bones were broken.
J. The wagon road leading to the Hor'
g shoe mine in Colorado is filled in wi
q rock from the waste dump. The p'
# sage of teams over the roadway pulv
" lied the rock and heavy rain sluic
az off the loose dirt, showing streaks OF I
8 yer in the road.bed. An assay of
A. material in the waste dump, with viii
a. the road. bed was ballasted, showed
value Of $500 per ton.
Robert Cochran, aged fourteen, Kill
Albert Franklin, aged twelve at Hol
IN ter March II. The boys had been sn
IS, ping pistol at each others heads, q
Oh after an interval Cochran took up
of weapon, pointed it ct Franklin's fc
ks head and pulled the trigger. A CT
ng ridge supposed to have been placed
he the pistol by the youngest boy dur
of the interval was exploded and the
en- entered Franklin's head between
'ot eyes, killing him instantly.
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A dealer in cutlery expresses