The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-03-26
STATE AND COAST.

Dy jumping from the sJeiIt aulaipals
into the bay Of San Francisco.
Earthquake shocks were felt last week
at Seattle, Tacoma and other places in
Washington, and at San Francisco.
Mrs. Mary A. Clark, one of the sur.
viving members Of the Bonner party Of
1910, as buried at yisalia last week.
The scheme to remove the capital Of
New Mexico from Santa Fc to Albuquer-
que has been defeated 10 the Legislature
Charles n. FELTON, will fill the vancancy
caused ty the death of Senator Hearst,
of California, in the United States Sen.
ate.
The Utah Asphaltum company, with a
large capital and extensive deposits of
the mineral, has been organized i'll Salt
Lake.
The .se OF r. W. Lewis, indicted for
killing A IL. Ruse at Winnemucca, has
by stipulation of counsel been continued
until next October,
Carson Tribune: The U. S. Mint is
running at full blast and turning out in
the neighhorhood of $500, 600 per month
about equally divided between gold and
silver
A bill has been introduced in the
| Legislature to abolish the Office of District
Attorney in each county and provide for
the election OF one for each Judicial
District.
The petritied remains Of giant have
| been found in the Bad lands of Chateau
county, Mont. One leg is said to be
eight feet long, and rib measured two
and half feet.
ID. d. Butterield, OF Reno, an old man
IS years of ages a carpenter by trade,
while crazed with drink cut his throat.
His recovery is doubtful.
Samuel JOHN, of Galena, arrested for
lunacy, and taken to Reno for examina.
ton, has been adjudged insane by Judge
Talbot, and Doctors Dawson and Hood
He is now sojourning in the asylum.
Sheep shearing was begun in Mason
valley the first of this week. Probably
10000 head of sheep will be sheared in
the valley this season. Lyon County
Times.
AT Richfeld, Utah, ON the 18th Lu.
ther Palmer, who says he is secret de.
tective, arrested one Mcpherson charging
him with robbery in Wyoming. The
latter drew his revolver and shot Palmer
twice, besides clubbing him over the head
with it. Palmer cannot live.
A fire in the Odd Fellows hall at San
Jose, Cal, did damage to the extent of
$l5, 900. The upper portion of the build.
ing, including the lodge rooms, was
badly damaged. About fifteen lodges of
different societies will be obliged to seek
new quarters.
John O'Donnell shot and seriously
wounded his wife in the Randolph house
in Virginia City. 0'Donnell recently re-
turned from Grass Valley. CAL, to file
an answer In response to suit for di-
vorce instituted by his wife on the
ground CT extreme cruelty.
The Gold Hill "diggins" continue to
be the theme OF excited discussion in the
Wyoming press and in all mining circles.
Stage lines are being arranged for from
various points along the railroad, and o
big rush is looked for as soon as the snow
banks disappear. Denver News.
The Auburn, CAL, Argus tells of
resident who dreamed that he found a
nugget Of gold in Auburn ravine, and
on awakening was SO impressed
that he went at once to the
spot indicated in his slumbers and to his
surprise found a piece Of gold of the
value of about $40.
Assemblyman Thompson has intro.
duced bill in the Assembly placing a
license of SIS per quarter on any male
over q years of age who CANDLES at any
percentage game in the State of Nevada.
The committee on public morals have al
ready reported favor ably on the same
The new Spokane smelter is now prac-
tically completed. The only work that
remains to be done is the connecting Of
the blast pipes and the laying of the rail.
road track. 1t is pronounced by smelter
men who have visited it as being equal
in every respect to the big smelters of
Colorado.
5. L. Journal The passage of the bill
opening the Occur d Alene county in
Idaho to settlement Is causing almost as
much excitement as when Oklahoma was
opened. The country is rich in mineral
deposits and agricultural lands, and with
the advent of the proposed railroad will
come to the front in great shape.
A press dispatch from Sacramento
states that "a bill providing for the con.
struction Of broad guage railroad from
Salt Lake City through Nevada by way
of Beckwith Pass to the seaboard has
passed the assembly This may be the
Santa Fe line, Of which SO much has
been said Of Late L. Journal.
Salt Lake Tribune: Coroner Harris
held an inquest on the 18th over the re.
mains Of male infant found in the Jor.
dan river on the 10th. Owing to the
length of time the body had been in the