The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-10-22
STATE AND COAST.

one for his wife.
"What did the Irrigation Convention
accomplish" The Carson Tribune says
this question was propounded Saturday
without satisfactory answers.
The valuation of railroad property in
Washoe county under the assessment
rate fixed by the State Assessors will be
$50, 3lS less than last year.
The commission to select site for
San Francisco's public building have Sc
lected site at the corner of Seventh and
Mission Streets, paying $l,040,0O0 for
it.
The San Francisco Post is authority
for the statement that 20. stamp mill is
being built in that city for Montgomery
district in the southern part of Nye
county.
In the shorthand contest at the Port
land Fair f. L. McGurrn wrote 81
words in 50 seconds from dictation. On
the typewriter he. wrote ia words per
minute blindfolded.
The Prescott Courier reports tin
mine as having been discovered near the
Salton sink in the Yuma desert. Fifty
six per cent. tin is the modest claim
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The journal says the store of |. N.
Blakesleess at Reno was burglarized the
other night. The thieves cracked the
safe and secured $3.50 in money and
$4,000 notes and other securities.
A four.year-old Mexican girl was
burned to death in San Francisco one
day last week. The girl was locked in
room by an older sister and upset a
coal oil lamp with the above result.
The Dalton Gold Mining and Milling
Co., of Marysville. Utah, has made a
rich strike of gold and silver bearing
quartz in its Dalton mine. One ton
taken out yielded upward of $1,000.
Bode Miner: That the fourteenth
amendment to the Constitution is re.
spected in Bodie is evidenced by the
fact that white man, chinaman and
an Indian were playing cards together
the other day.
1t is estimated that nine-tenths of the
water from the Colorado river is flowing
into the Salton Sea, and the winter
floods will agument the volume of water
which may seek Gulf outlet. A lake
$50 miles and 300 feet deep is predicted.
A piece of quartz fell from the top of
tunnel in the Union mine at Copper.
opolis, CAL, the other day, and, striking
the arm of miner named Winters as it
rested on an ore car severed the arm at
the wrist, the severed member dropping
into the car.
Near Portland, Oregon, lives a man
who lis such a confirmed woman hater
that he will not allow female to enter
his house, and he has willed the property
to friend who will hold it only on con.
dition that he never allows a woman to
step on the premises. The fools are not
all dead.
A cattle herder on ranch in Utah
started out to find some cattle the other
day. A heavy storm came on and he
was found dead in the mountains, his
body being watched over by his faithful
sheppard dog, who was gaunt and weak
from his long vigil, evidently never hav.
ing left his masters side.
AS sample of the work of the State
Board of Equalization, the Elko indie.
pendent cites the following: The assess.
ment OF McPhetres and Wilson as fixed
by the Assessor was So, $50. The State
Board has raised it to $1,000. Add %
per cent. horizontal raise to this and we
have 5000, an increase of SO per cent
The Candelaria Belt says "a few
nights ago young man called on a
young lady in place not over one hun.
dred miles away, and, as the young lady
did not care much about him. she had
not great deal to say, but rested her
head on her hand and listened to her
youthful caller discourse until late
hour. Finally she became drowsy, and
the next morning she and her caller
were found hard and fast asleep in their
respective chairs. This is positive
fact"
The Bishop Register of Inyo county,
tells the following remarkable story
Some three or four weeks ago lady il
this vicinity became suddenly affected
with high fever and dreadful pains in
the head-as if it was full Of gnawinI
worms. And, as actually discovered by
DIR. Allingham, that was the actual fact
fly having deposited its eggs in hel
nose while she was sleeping. For {
time her life was in the greatest danger
but finally, after the removalI Of nearl,
two hundred Of the disgusting creatures
each about three.fourths OF an inch il
length, the danger was past. She i
now about fully recovered.
A daring bank robbery was perpe
trated upon the National Bank of En-
terprise, in Wallowa county, Oregon,
last Wednesday afternoon. Cashier
Holmes was lin the bank salone, when
man entered aad asked how much none,
John Smith of Portland had on deposit
Upon the cashier saying that no sue