The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-01-19
NEVADA NOTES.

NEVADA NOTES.
Lieutenant Governor Poujade lectured
at the State University yesterday after.
oon.-Carson News.
Lundy New is one of the few places
in the world where the local paper is de-
livered by carrier on snowshoes.
1t is reported that two saloons will
close their doors to-day. There are q
few left.-Virginia Enterprise.
There are 1855 patients in the Nevada
Insane Asylum at Reno. The Gazette
says sixty of them were received into the
institution during 1892.
The Board of Commissioners of Nye
county have levied tax of SO. 35 on each
800 valuation for the year 1885
cents for State and $3.50 for county pur-
poses.
The editor OF the White Pine News
has been arrested for criminal libel on
the complaint of Frank X. Murphy and
held in the sum of $500 to appear before
the grand jury.
The Free Press says James CLARK,
| the retiring Treasurer of Elko county,
turned over to his successor the sum of
500, O57, 40 cash, and $2,ll4, so in White
Pine county script.
The sum of 81, 5Sl. so has been sub.
scribed in Virginia City for the benefit of
the widows of the late Edwin NottEe and
William Hughes, who were recently
killed in ali explosion in the mines.
The Carson News, which is edited by a
lady, has the following link suitable
for love letters is made of solution Of
iodide of starch, and characters written
with it will entirely fade in four weeks u
1t is presumed the editor speaks from
experience.
The News says the tax levy for ths
ensuing year in White Pine county ha,
been fixed by the County Commissioner.
at So. 20 on each 500 valuation. About
$4,000 of White Pine county script hal
been surrendered at an average of A.
cents on the dollar.
The salaries of Lyon county officer
have been reduced with vengeance. TIL,
Silver State says that the law provides
that for the next two years the sheriff
shall receive only $50 month and fees
and is allowed no deputy. As the feet
amount to only $l5 month, the sheriff.
offics is not much of plumb.
A st. Louis dispatch says that mar
named Whalen, president of the St
Peters mining company of Eureka, Ne
vada, was arrested in that city on war
rant charging him with fraud, in having
beat people out OF 100000 in stocl
transactions some two or three years ago
The Enterprise says that letter hal
been received in Virginia City from Jesu
Maria, Old Mexico. announcing the exc
cution by shooting at that place of tn,
murderer of Captain Andrew Fraser, for
merly of Virginia City. The execution
sock place on December l..
d. X Dickinson, M. D., surgeon at tn,
Homestake mine in the Black Hills, ant
formerly resident of Phoebe and Whit,
Pine, was passenger on this morning.
train from the east, en- route to Passa
dena for his wife, whom he will bring t,
! Reno for her health. Gazette.
. The Carson Appeal says Warden Nc
> Cullough has fled his annual report ant
: shows that the cost of maintaining pris
. oners per capita is lower than in an,
previous year. The cost for 1912 pc
capita per diem is 40a cents, about eigh
a cents less per diem than for the two pre-
r ceding years.
The Lundy Index appears to have
hard time of it, as appears by the follow
Q ing; sit is dreary work, this diggin
y items out of snowdrift, and then to sc
y them up out of your head Will
/. another man chucks wood into the stow
y to keep you from freezing, and a squa,
!, holds an umbrella to save you from bein
smothered by the snow that blow
/. through the cracks Of the crazy old prin
!. shop"