The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-05-17
COAST NEWS.

Boise river, Idaho, is very high, and
many ranches down the valley are flood
ed.
The Masonic hall at Silver City, Idaho
was recently rented to prostitutes to give
ball.
Recent rich quartz discoveries at
Barker. Mont, are creating great excit.
ment among miners.
Valuable Autograph stone was recent
ly unearthed in Utah, and specimens are
on exhibition in Salt Lake City,
John Mitchell, the Oceanside Post
master, is under arrest for sending OBJ
scene pictures through the mail.
The melting SHOWS in the C@ur d.
Alenes are causing disastrous floods.
The valley is inundated and many families
are moving out.
A row Friday in the Evangelical
Church Conference at Albany, Or, re-
suited in a fistc encounter and a final di-
vision into two faction.
The Great Falls Smelter and the Helena
and Livingston Smelling Company at
Helena Mont, have closed and it is not
known when they will resume.
The Salt Lake Tribune says the
farmers of that part of the country are
followed by large number Of seagulls that
get rich pickings out of the fresh turned
burrows.
No trains are running on the Union
Pacific or Northern Pacific branches in
Ceur d Alenes, Idaho, owing to the
floods, the water being at the highest
point ever known.
H. A. Moses, sixty-two years old,
clerk in the office Of the Superintendent
of Public Education at Sacramento, died
Saturday from gangrene superinduced by
an in.growing toe nail
Junge Aitken, of the Superior Court
at San Diego, who was recently acquitted
of altering judgment, has caused the
arrest Of two attorneys for the part they
took in his prosecution.
Skeleton bones were found in Sacra.
mento Friday, near where Arthur O'Neil
wealthy brick.maker, was last seen
fifteen years ago, and it is believed he
was murdered and buried there.
Pomona Progress: There are reports
of the starting of honey ranches all over
Southern California this year, but the
reason for this unusual interest in the
honey business We cannot learn.
The San Luis Tribune says the product
of the Eagle ranch orchard last season
was thirty tons OF prunes. 1t is estima.
ted that it will be l25 tons this season.
There being between 5000 and 1000
trees.
The contract for the construction of a
canal 26 miles in the Browns Valley
Irrigation District, Yuba county, Cal
has been let to Hamilton Gray of San
Francisco, for 500, SAG. Work is to be
started at once.
The Indians at Fort Custer, Montana,
have withdrawn their children from
school and refuse to send them back.
They have also abandoned farm work,
and the settlers are fearful of an out.
break.
w. P. Warrsn's 5.year old son fell
into well at Frisco, Utah, the Other
day. A man with rope went dowr
after the child, but when the two were
being hauled up the rope broke, and dowr
they went, and the child was killed.
Calaveras Prospect: 1t is reported
that at the Union Shaft Gravel mine, OF
Central Hill one day last week, from fou
pans of dirt four ounces of gold were OBJ
tanned. This is a splendid showing, an,
if correct, wonld warrant the idea tina
the mine is bonanza.
The laborers at Butte, Mont, have or
iginated a strike for S3 day. The,
have been receiving 81 50. The Knight
of Labor and the Miners Union uphol
the laborers, and as there is much build
ing going on the result Of the strike
easily foreseen.
A bottle of Trib should be in ever