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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-04-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

lower end of Spring Valley, adjoining Jos.
Coumerilh 6 on the SOUTH poasessory claim to
5 cres land including springs, known SIS Coal
Kiln springs, about 10 miles Sc of Dry Valley;
posses>ory claim to acres land including
springs, known as Big Pine springs, about
miles L of Dry Yslley mill and formerly
claimed by Paul Succetti III Co.; possessory
claim to lot in Buliionvillc, the second lot
from corner of Main St., formerly known as
John Frei's; possessory acres land including
springs. known as Dow's springs, al out II
miles Sc from Pansca, with impts, consisting
of corral, tax 81 II, penalty II cts, adv s. to-
tai 50 SS.
welland Henry osfessory claim 20 house
and lot in Bullionville, west of The Bullion
vile Hotel, foImery the property of Il Bar
ton; pOssessory claim to lot and Impts III
Royal City. formerly known as Ung Chopgs,
tax 81 81, penalE 40 cts, adv So, total IS 80.
Weeks Chas b Possessoly claim 10 TX OF
SCI, VIZ Of SEE SKI of MEN Ste 8. M of
NWh, &c IT. all in IA. s Il 81 L, APpin lo1gi
tax sl2 % penalty 81 %. adv 81 total SIS AZ.
White A-Poesessory claim to 80 acr, Is land
at the old California Crossing on Muddy River
about y miles of Moapa Indian Res Tvation
known formerly Phil Wrght's, tax $40 II
poll tax SO, penalty 81 81. adv 80, total sl7 g.
Wickotf u L-Possesfsfy claim TO NH SEE
20, NWA Sec q It 20. X CT +, Appln 1926
tax Sl4, penalty 81 40, adv 81 total N AZ,
Wickotf Frank E-pogEe-rory eisim 10 Sch
Sec II, SWh Sec 16, 4 20 S K 81 u, applf
lO,525. tax Si4, penalty 81 10, edv 81, toth
| SIT ~.
Nesbitt J Il Bro. ind John Raede-- Mort
gage, Chattel ana Real dated Sept 4, 1883 VIM
| Cul' orwell to Jua. ana Ct o, kesbiii a. d Iohl
| Roeder, on rancn in Meadow Vail, Wash
! horses, mules, carte, wagons, und etc, tax $50
| penalty So 80. adv 81, total $40 so.
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Here is'the newest dodge for plundcr-
ing the British householder, says the
New York Sunday Journal: A circular
is received by the lady OF the house
from an apparently respectable firm,
announcing some wonderful bargains in
household linen, huckaback and similar
goods. At the appointed time the rep
resentative appears-in one case he
came in brougham. He produces sam
Piles Of the linen, etc., and genera.iy
succeeds in taking orders, the goods be-
ing Of arst-rate quality, and miracu-
lousy cheap. He then announces that
he has with him some lengths of dress
material of novel make and astonishing
value. These he sells for cash on the
spot. Needless to say, the dress ma
terial turns out to be worthless, and the
other goods are never delivered.
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euNco IN PARIS.
The Clever Trick Of N Professional Dia-
mond THE.


The police records of the French cap
ital have just been enriched, says the
Chicago Evening Post, by another OF
those clever bits OF Partisan roguery
that make plain American bunco-steer-
ing appear in comparison as inartistic
as hod carrying or sand-bagSing. Paris
dailies published few weeks ago this
announcement:
"a splendid wedding will take place
here toward the end of the month. M.
w. Thompson, millionaire American
broker, will marry Miss Ellen Barber,
the only daughter of the highly respect
ed Rev. j. M. Barber, OF New Zealand
About ten days after this notice APP
pearcd man with white beard and in
clerical garments introduced himself at
the jewelry shop OF Nine. Provost as
Rev. DR.. Barber, and asked that an at
tendant be sent with great variety OF
Jewels to his house in Bassand street, in
order that Mr.. Thompson, his future
son-in-law, might choose fitting wedding
gifts for the coming bride. The old man
designated some ten thousand dollars
worth of jewels as the most likely lot
for his future son-in-laW' s taste and left.
The next morning Nine. Provost herself
took tho jewels designated and some
five thousand dollars worth more to the
house in Bassand street. She was led
into splendid reception-room by a
maid-servant, who took her card to the
pastor" She was received in few
minutes by the old man in a saloon
crowded with evidences of the wealth of
the occupants. lie said:
"My daughter is too i'll to rise. Her
flance is with her, and If you will step in
they will make their selection together. y
The 'pastor" opened the door to adj
NIT the caller to his daughters bedside,
but was stopped by woman's voice:
| 'The woman must come tomorrow.
am not able to see strangers to-day"
"But, my dear child, you can just take
glance or two, SO as to tell us what you
WISH" demonstrated the pastor" and
then turning to Nine. Provost; "The
poor girl has terrible headache and OBJ
| iects to seeing strangers. | will just
give her look at the things myself, and
then give tho order"
lie took the tray with fifteen thousand
dollars worth of jewels, gave Nine. Pre-
vost an album of views of the Yosemite
for her entertainment and then went tc
the woman in the next room. He re-
turned to chat with Nine. Provost, bu'
was called away by tho announcement
81 have made my choice" The pastor
remained away five, ten, fifteen minutes
Nine. Provost became nervous ant
knocked at the bedroom door No an
swer. She tried it. 1t was locked, Sh,
hurried to the other doors. They, too
were fast. She screamed and pounde,
until the janitor came to her rescue
The false pastor and daughter and mai'
servant had gone and have not beer
seen since. They had taken Lhe room
the day before, and had not even pat
the rent.
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A STRANGE CASE.

As the Result of II Wound b. Soliier's
Mind Remains u Blank Tor ii::At Y -.
A very romantic story has just boon
brought to light through the mcdi ~ 81
the Pension Bureau, says the PnI.,i' l.
phia Record. On the LIST of September,
1862, there enlisted at Van Vert, O., in
the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
slender, blue-eyed youth of twenty
named Hugh Thompson. AT the battle
of Chickamauga Thompson was wounded
by case shot and left for dying on the
field. He never rejoined his regiment
and it was generally supposed that he
was numbered among the unknown
dead. The next scene in this strange
history opens on snowy country road in
Northern Illinois, near the village Of
Cleveland, in the winter of 1870. Night
was coming on as small-sized, but
sturdily built traveller breasted his way
against the keen winds that swept the
bleak prairie. He was comfortably
dressed in good working suit, with a
pair of new boots on his feet and coon
skin cap on his head.
He carried an old-fashioned oil-cloth
valise, and appeared to be looking for a
place to stay over night. And there on
the lonely road in the darkening twilight
of that freezing FEBRUARY evening in the
year of grace, 1870, Hugh Thompson,
the wounded soldier of Chickamauga,
'came to himself" as he expressed it..
1t was just as il at that moment he had
awakened from dreamless sleep of
seven years. But his memory was gone
totally and absolutely. His other facul-
ties were keen enough, but he could not
recall his own name, where he had been,
his family, or his home. His entire past
up to that moment was simply blank.
The only thing that connected him with
former existence was an idea that he
was looking for Mr.. Baker, who needed
men to work. This turned out to be
correct. He found him, and was given
employment in a coal mine. Gradually
his mind came back to him, and he re-
membered the scenes Of his boyhood.
The case was so remarkable that II
was taken up by the local papers, and
the story at last fell into the hands Of
Thompson's father. Their relationship
was easily established. Through all his
wanderings-and this sounds like a Sun
day-school tale, but the incident is
legally proved and forms part of the
evidence Of his identity-he carried a
little Testament given to him by sis
ter. with an inscription in rhyme, when
he enlisted. The sister still living rec.
ognized it at once when he exhibited II
upon his return. All his efforts have SC
far failed to recall to him any thing that
occurred from the time that he tumbled
over on the bloody field of Chickamauga
until The strange awak ming of his dor
mani Faculties in 1870.
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Application for Il Patent
No. $50.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Eureka, Nevada, September 10 1890.

Eureka, Nevada, September 10 1890.
Notice ia hereby given that the Day Silver
Mining Company whose post Office address is
Iiocho Nevada has this day filed an application
for patent five hundred and twenty linear
feet of the junction mine or vein bearing silver
with surface ground $50 feet in width
situated in Jack Rabbit mining district, county
of Lincoln and State of Nevada, and designated
by the field notes and official plat file In this
Office AS Lott No As the exterior boundaries of
said Lot No. AZ being as follows to wit:
Beginning at a post marked No, | u No '48,
whence mineral monument No. bears 20
deg 200 feet, thence running, = 53.3 $40
It,, to post Marked No. u 3 = No AZ, whence
the original location corner monument bears 8
20 deg W SO feet, thence 20 deg W $50 feet to
post marked No. 3 & 8 No. 4S, whence the
original location Monument bears 1894 deg
Il 46 feet, thence So 3-4 dg.W 1853 IT to postNo
2 U survey No 81 Jack Rabbit lode, $40 feet TO
post on the northern boundary of said No 81
marked No 4 u y s No AZ which post is the
original location monument, and thence N 20
deg n $50 feet to post No the place of begin
n ng. Containing 2 81 acres SO much of this
survey as conflicts with other adjoining loca-
tions is hereby excluded as follows.
Conflict No l ouondago lode Beginning at
most No of this survey No 4S and running
thence S. 20 deg W SO feet, thence % deg W
2Os feet, thence 8 IS "a deg Il 100 ieet to the
place OF beginning containing 0.l5 acres.
Conflict No Blue Bell lode beginning at post
No of this survey No AZ and running thence.
81 "a deg W 40 feet, thence "a IA deg Il,
1866 feet, thence s 20 deg w 1862 feet to the place
OF beginning. Containing 0. OF acres
Total area OF survey. 2. 81 acres CoLnict NO
l 0nondago Obs acres. M H
Conflict No Q Blue Bell 0.O7 acres.
Remainsng area 2. 65 acres.
Courses expressed from the true meridian
with magnetic variation of lG deg east.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion OF said JUNCTION mine or
surface ground. are required to hle their adj
verse claims with the Register Of the United
States Land Office at Eureka, in the State of
Nevada, during the sixty days period Of publ
cation hereof. or they will be barred by virtue
of the provisions of the Statute
j. p. DUNKLE, Register.
tits hereby ordered that the foregoing notice
of application for patent be published for the
period of sixty days item consecutive weeksl
In the Phoebe Weekly REcoRD,a weekly nows
paper published at Phoebe, Nevada.
! Sept 27-10t J. p. DUNKLE, Register.
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WHIPPED AT SCHOOL.
As the Result of ~ Switching Boy b.
came President OF u Raj road.

As the Result of ~ Switching u Boy Be
came President OF u Raj road.
Twenty years or more ago, says the
Atchison Globe, Mrs. John NJ Crowell,
then Miss Grant, was the teacher of a
country school near Yellow Springs, o.
Among her pupils was an orphan boy,
whom the principal farmer of the dis
trict had found in Illinois and taken to
raise The boy was capable and bright,
but he lacked application, and on that
account was never prepared in his les
sons. Miss Grant complained of the
boys short-coming to his adopted father,
and was advised to wear hickory CAD
out upon him. She hesitated, for the
boy was big and strong, although good
natured. But the father insisted, and,
after warning the boy several times,
she one day used the hickory upon him
in the presence of the entire school. 1t
humbled the lad, and 1t was feared that
he would run away that night. He was
accordingly watched. But instead OF
running away, he took a candle and
went to his room, where the light was
seen to burn the greater part Of the
night The next day the boy was in his
place in school as usual, and through
out the day he was perfect in his les
sons. The reformation was complete,
and the orphan became famous in the
district.
Miss Grant came West and married
Mr.. Crowell. A few years ago, while
Mr.. Crowell was still in the service of
the Post-Ofiice Department, he was rid
ing over the Fort Scott and Wichita
road. The conductor was new to the
business and was averse to recognizing
Mr.. Crowell's credentials. But the
president of the road happened to be in
his car, attached to the rear Of the train,
and the credentials were referred to
him. Pretty soon the president APP
peared in person, and led Mr.. Crowell
back into his car ''Your wife, sir,
made me president Of this road" he
said III 1t had not been for whipping
she once gave me would be now a
plodder on the farm 1t was Francis
1icrnan, grownto be rich and famous,
all from the school teachers severe dis
cipline. Mr. Herman soon after called
in his special carat Alchison With his
wife to soc Mrs. Crowrll. lie is now a
and Is bgii:ing railroad
from Salt Lake CITY to Los Angeles
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No. 95S.
UNITFp STATES LAND OFF, F.
Eureka, Nevada, December 26 1890.
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1t is hereby ordered that the foregoing notice
of Application for patent be published for the
period of sixty days ten consecutive weeks) in
the Phoebe Weekly RECORD, a weekly newspa-
per published at Phoebe, Lincoln County, Me-
vada. j. p DUNKLE, Register.
SPIT. 2O.l0t
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JAMES MEANS s. &S4 SHOES

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NOTICE. OF
TAX SALE.
DELINQUENT LIST OF PROPERTY For
TIRE YEAR 1850, LINCOLN COUNTY,
NEVADA.

Notice Is hereby given to those whom IL may
concern and TO the following named persons
and to all owners of. or claimants to, the feal
estate and improvements thereon, or improve
ments when assessed separately, hereinafter
described, known or unknown. That the taxes
for State and County purposes for the yeal
A. d. 1890, assessed against tho following de
soribed pieces or parcels of properly are now
Delinquent that ten per cent penalty and two
dollars, $500, cost of advertising, has beer
added in esch case, and that any piece or parce
OF property upon which said taxes, penalty an6
costs shall remain unpaid on
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THE LOCO HABIT.
AS Deadly and Irresistible Among Horses
as the Opium Habit Among Men.

as Deadly and irreSlstIDie among Horses
as the Opium Habit Among Men.
1--WE have on the plains of Texas and
New Mexico what might appropriately
be called natural opium joints, where
horses and mules metapporically hit
the pipe" and become regular fiends,"
said former Texas ranchman. CAS- a
matter of fact, there is no opium nor
any pipe, but no joint ever offered bet
ter facilities for it's habitues to become
moral and physical wrecks than certain
localities on the plains do to the horses
and mules which are there exposed to
the temptation OF the loco weed.
Now a good many plainsmen ridi-
cule the idea that the loco leads horses
and mules astray, and soon makes
wrecks of them, and | have heard
men say that they have known
their horses to pasture regular on what
they call the loco weed and thrive on
it. If that is so, the loco weed of Cali,
fornia is not the same as what we call
the loco weed of Texas and New Mex
ico The California loco is what we
call the rattle weed, I guess, because
it has a pod with seeds that makes
noise in the wind like a live rattlesnake
Some people out there call it the
vegetable rattlesnake, and declare
that its juice is deadly poison, Now the
loco weed of Texas and Mexico is differ
ent, and / never knew horse or
mule to go away with it except in the
winter time 1t has n light green
bunchy growth, and will have it's fresh
looking leaves above the snow when no
other vegetation looks so tempting, and
it is then the unsuspecting animals are
beguiled by it. After a horse or mule
has taken his first crop of loco he will
give everything else the go by to get
more of it, and soon becomes a con-
frned loco eater. No opium fend ever
longed for or sought more persistently
for his pipe than horse or mule will
long and seek for the fatal loco lunches
If the animals can not obtain the plant
they will fall into a state of abject
nervous collapse. They see things as
the drunkard suffering from deiirium
tremens sees things. They VIA plunge
and rear and tremble at imaginary
things, and become utterly unmanage.
able and irresponsible. A few leaves of
loco will restore them to placidity, so
far as theirnervous system is concerned,
but they gradually lose in physical
vigor and intelligence. until at the end
of two or three months, they are vir
tually imbeciles and physical wrecks.
They become thin and weak and die in
evident delirium.
MANY an excellent horse, of the best
breeding and previous irreproachable
reputation as a herdsman's aid. have |
known to be led to ruin by the insidious
loco weed, and die as pitiable wreck
as any human being who ever fell
victim to the destinations of opium. -
N Y, Sun.
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something, A short distance from
their companions they struck another
trail, anl as they were looking up and
down the sound of an approaching
horse greeted their ears. Hastily con-
ccaling themselves behind bowlder,
they were surprised to see their miss
ing Mexican ride up and pass along on
the trail.
THAT chap is up to some mischief"
said Morgan. We'd better get back to
the others and get out Of this country
rs soon as we can. I've beard that you
can't trust greaser, and darn me if |
don't begin to believe it.
When they unfo1ded their story to
Hank he was as apprehensive as they,
but thought the best to be done was go
ahead and tackle whatever came.
"Confound fool, anyway growled
Hank. when you catch me wander
ing about a strange woodpile again you
can hang me for hoss thief. This
fooling about in heathen land is all
right for some, but I'm no missionary"
The pack animals were loaded again
and the party resumed the journey,
not in the best of spirits, as can be
imagined.
The afternoon had nearly waned
without an incident, and the party was
almost feeling secure from Interrupt
ton, when, as they were riding along,
the bushes beside the trail suddenly
parted and a Mexican with a revolver
in each hand stepped forth.
Hands up, senors!'
Morgan was riding in advance of the
others, and the sudden greeting startled
him, even though he had been half ex-
pecting some such command. He made
no motion to obey it, however, but
bowed and smiled, with perfect assur-
ance and not sign Of fear.
1.-The senior has nothing to appre-
hend, replied Morgan. eve are only
travellers; we are not highwaymen, and
he can put up his pistols
'Hands up" sternly repeated the
man, as another fellow emerged from
the scrub with pair of pistols in his
hands, and took place beside the first
one.
What? You still doubt me.' ex-
claimed Morgan. "The senior is hard
TO convince. See, you have frightened
all my men away"
The Mcxicans, at the first call had
almost broken their necks, SO great
was their haste, to gain the seclus sion
Of the bushes, and left the three Amer
leans alone.
You do not know me-" exclaimed
the highwayman. still covering IIor-
gan with his pistols. Il am Miguel
Alcatraz,' and he Strengthened up az
he. gave his name, as though he ex'
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August s.
Flower %

For two years suffered terribly
with stomach trouble, and was for
all that time under treatment by
physician. He finally, after trying
everything, said stomach was about
worn cut, and that / would have to
cease eating solid food for time at
least. I was SO weak that / could
not work. Finally on the recon-
mendation of friend who had used
your preparations
A worn-out with beneficial re-
suits, l procured a
Stomach. bottle Of August
Flower, and COM
menced using it. It seemed to do
ne good at once. l gained in
strength and flesh rapidly; my ap-
petite became good, and l suffered
no bad effects from what I ate. l
feel now like new man, and con-
slider that August Flower has en-
tirely cured me of Dyspepsia in its
worst form. JAMES +. DEDERIcx,
Saugerties, New York.
w. B, Utsey,, St. Georges, S. c.,
writes: I have: used your August
Flower for Dyspepsia and find it an
excellent remedy. O
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THEY SAW THEIR MISSING MEXICAN.
likely that we will be troubled, though
it is not beyond the range Of possibil-
ity."
When this conversati on was going
on, one of the Mexicans had been lying
by the fire, rolled up in his maRta, APP
parently asleep; but as soon as the
American turned into the tent for the
night. he unrolled himself and sneaked
off into the bushes.
The next morning. bright and early,
breakfast was served, the tent struck
and the journey resumed. Upon count
ing noses, it was discovered that there
was one missing and with it the Mex
lean whom it belonged to. The other
MeNicans disclaimed all kno wledge of
his departure. Morgan did not fancy
that incident, but Hank passed it off
by saying that the fellow had got home
sick and gone back home.
When they made halt for lunch
and short rest in the middle of the
day, Morgan and Mark took their rifles
and strQlled Of, Intending to shoot