The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-09-07
NEVADA NO res.

The Mason Valley Tidings reports a
sharp earthquake ct Caudelaria on the
18th ult.
Peter Cissidy. az old time prospector,
died Wednesday morning in the county
hospital at Winnemucca. Silver State.
Fred Gray. whdmurdered Adam Dixon
at Genoa on the 9Th of July last, desires
to plead guilty to the charge Of murder
in the second degree.
The Reveills says Assessor Easton has
almost completed the assessment roll OF
Lander county and thinks it will fall
short from $50. 200 to SIS. 900 from 1892.
The Ely News says that Chris Porkson.
Of Cleveland. White Pine county,
Nevads. was robbed in Salt Lake City
of $500 by bunco men. Porkson was on
his way to the Chicago Fair.
William Clemens. until recently en-.
ployed as miner in the Yellow Jacket
mine. died last week at Virginia City.
he was member OF the A. o U. w.
lodge. the California Order of Foresters
and the Gold Hill Miners Union.
Eddie Freeman. aged nine years, died
last evening from eating wild parsnip.
About four weeks ago he had party and
the little folks grated wild psrsnip. o.
aavoring, into some ice cream they had,
and the child has been sick ever since.-
Reno Gasetto.
M. Booth arrived in town Sunday
evening from Tuscarora. He re-.
ports the various places on the coast that
he has visited. including Colorado.
Dakota. Montana. Idaho. Utah and DOR.
tions Of Nevada. very dull.--Austiu
Reveills.
A Reno dispatch Of the lst inst. saws
that Alva Gould, one Of the earliest
Comstock pioneers and thu man for whom
the famous Gould and Curry mines were
named, is dying. OF late years no has
made g living by peddling fruit to
passengers on the overland trains.
The Journal says that w. H. Gould.
one Of Reno's most enterprising citizens.
died Thursday from blood poisoning.
He contracted the disease while cutting
open an animal which had died from
blackleg or some disease which ia now
prevalent among stock on the Truckee
meadows.
Fred Frey, who carried of the honors
at the recent examination for the West
Point cadetship. has received word from
the war department that he is not eligible
on account of age, being few months
too old. This gives the cadetship to F.
q. Butterfly of Gold Hill, who stood next
highest on the list. Reno Journal.
Thomas Dunsdon sold the pick Of hi,
geldings lately for So per head. Fred
Steiner also sold over twenty head of
horses for SIS per head. In the bunch
was matched span of Cleveland bays.
the breeding Of which cost Mr.. Steiner
double what he sold them for. The
same horses would have sold here ten
years ago for 5000 each.--Austin
Reveille.
The Gazette says two more deaths
have occurred in Reno from diphtheria.
The infant daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. A..
e. Wright died Saturd ~ tn ,rning, and
f1ve year old daughter of P. G. Algier
died Friday night. A number Of
prominent citizens of Reno call upon the
Board OF Health to exercise proper pre-.
cautions to prevent the spread of diph.
iberia In that town, which promises to
become epidemic.
Rev. ]. B: Hinkle, who came to
Nevada in the carly sixties, when the
people Of Nevada were operating under
territorial government, and who has
preached the gospel to the people Of this
state and territory for over thirty years,
has decided. 1t is said. to retro from the
ministry and take up permanent resi-.
dence on little farm about q mile
northeast of Reno. journal.