The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-09-03
GENERAL NEWS.

Governor Colcord has appointed j. Ii.
Thies of Lovelock delegate to the lrri-
CATION convention to be held at Salt Lake
in place of George Young, resigned.
The Republican says the amount OF
timber in the Truckee basin is estimated
at no less than SOO 600, 900 feet and it
will be twenty years before it is ex-
hausted.
After all the fuss California made to
get the position, John Samuels OF Ken
lucky has been appointed chief OF the
horticultural bureau of the Worlds
Fair.
The opening Of the Reno public schools
has been postponed on the recommends
ton of physicians to the trustees of the
advisability of doing SO on account of the
prevalence Of diphthera.
A twenty-year- old youth has been ar
rested at Los Angeles for robbing the
United States mail. 1t is said he has
been engaged in the business of robbing
stages in Arizona for several years, and
served term in the Yuma penitentiary.
"What are the natural products OF
South Dakota?" asked Colonel Ingersoll,
on his way west to Montana last month,
when he met Senator Pettigrew of the
infant State. Pettigrew's reply came
tersely: "Divorces, grass widows and
prohibition"
The Carson Tribune says the small
pox patients at the Stewart Institute are
getting along nicely, and the temporary
alarm consequent upon the appearance OF
the dread disease has quieted down.
The quarantine of the school has been
removed.
Four hundred and twentysix Occur
d'Alene Indians will receive $780, 900
from the government inpayment for that
portion of the reservation ceded by them
last winter. This is 81, lis for each man,
woman and child, which means that the
whole tribe is suddenly to be made rich.
An Indian writes to the Carson APP
peal that when he went to the Stewart
Institute he was told that he was tC
learn all about God. He says that they
| told him where Christopher Columbus
was born, General Grant and George
| Washington, but up to the time he left
| he was never told where God was born
Fifteen sacks of gold bearing ore wer,
brought in from Zirn's mine from Pin'
Nut on the Goth of last month guarded
by armed messengers. Each sack will
average ST. 900. A gentleman from Sal
Francisco, representing an Italian syndi
cate, offered Schultz, Zrn's mining part
ner, $780, 900, to be deposited in sixt,
days, for the mine, which was refused
Tribune.
s. L. Journal: The La Plata excite
ment has simmered down somewhat, ant
people are waiting patiently for the de
velopment of the new finds. If the,
prove to be of permanent value tn
camp will continue to grow. If the
turn out to be pockets and pinch out
the camp will collapse almost as rapid
as it sprung into existence. 1t is state
that while A. E. Hyde is personally in
terested in some claims in La Plata, tn
Bullion. Beck, as company, do not ow
any ground there.
S. L. Journal: Marshal Young re
turned home last evening from shol
trip to La Plata, the new Ell Dorado
He says there are in the neighborhoo
OF thousand men in the camp, whic
now boasts of eight stores, "hotel" an
several saloons. Speaking of the mine
Mr.. Young says none of them have bee
developed sufficiently to show just viii
they amount to, but he doesn't thin
; there is anything in sight to justify I'll
excitement and stampede. He advise
workingmen to keep away from Thu
place.
Carson Appeal: The Southern Pacif
Company is having some monster loo
motives for passenger service constructs
to use on the through overland trains b
tween Oakland pier and Truckee on IL
Central Pacific road. They will be
the ten.wheel compound pressure typ
with six drivers, five feet and three.qua
tiers in diameter. They will carry Il
pounds of steam at high pressure, an
the compound cylinder will have
twenty.four inch stroke.
Austin Reveille: Sam Davis, of I'll
Carson Appeal, started ten-cent sui
scription list for the benefit of Mr.
Pratt, in San Francisco, who sacrifice
several square inches of skin to save I'll
life of one Daggett, who was severel
scalded. The fund amounted to Sc,
which was rendered to the lady, but r.
fused. Suggestions are being offered [
what purpose the money shall
used for, and one crank wants it [
be put up for baseball match, but Sal
says insomuch as it is skin game,
baseball game will never win.
Va. Chronicles: Mary Driscoll, WI
died several months ago at st. Mary
hospital, an account of whose life al
peared in the Chronicle, had on depos
in the Nevada Bank 50, 500 in two ce
tificates--one for Sl,G4O and the 9th,
for 5000. The money could not |