The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-12
DE LAMAR DOTS.

DE LAMAR DOTS.
The town is rather quiet just now; taking
breathing spell after the 4ths. celebration.
John Wright expects to open his saloon,
situate opposite Shier's drug store, on Satur.
day.
Wsrren's corral is about completed A
new building was completed there three
days ago.
The new boarding house at the Jim Crow
mine was opened last Sunday by Jack
Wheatley.
Building goes ahead as fast as lumber can
be got in. and Main street shows a steady
improvement.
The final stakes have been placed on the
Monitor.Jim Crow group of mines, and
application for U. S. Patent will be made at
once.
John Reese and Joe Bryant have quit
work on the Paymaster claim. Reese will
go to his claims near the Half Moon mine
near Phoebe and do assessment work, and
may resume on the Paymaster later on
The site for boring has been changed by
the DeLamar Company from Cedar Wash to
point in the Valley nearly opposite the
mouth of the Wash and about six miles from
the mines. Here preparatory work of
getting the engine and frame work in place
is going on and boring may begin in about
week
There are about 10000 opium smokers in
the City of New York, according to one of
the witnesses before the Lexow Committee
Our dispatches must be overdrawn some.
what. We read of troops, deputies and
marshals firing into surging masses of stik-
ers, but the resulting deaths and injuries are
comparatively few. Either they are poor
shots, the modern shooting iron isn't what
it is cracked up to be, or the associated
press reporters lie like the devil.
Prospective candidates for county office
are thicksning. Already there is one for
each Office, and in some cases more than one.
Will Lincoln hold convention at all this
year, or follow the course of some other
counties and nominate for each Office by
petition as provided in the new law?
In the international yacht race the Briton
on his own dung hill has wiped out the
Yankee. The Britannia beat the Vigilant
in three straight races, though the wind was
not good in each, The Valkyrie, which
sailed in this country last year, was entered
also but was sunk in collision with another
racer,
Latest telegraphic information is to the
effect that the great strike is practically at
an end, 1t was brought about by govern.
mental interference however and not by
settlement of existing difficulties between
railroads and employees. Trains are moving
with some regularity at all points in the
east, and on the Southern Pacific system,
service was resumed yesterday. Some of
our delayed mail may reach us tonight; if
not, then to- morrow surely.
'Strike" is fast growing to mean carson,
pillage and murder" Every strike nova
days, however earnestly proclaimed by its
promoters, be for lawful redress, ends with
murder and the general looting and destruc-
tion of property. The strikers have lost a
very large amount in the wages they didn't
earn during the past ten days, but they
have wrecked and destroyed more property
ten times over than their earnings would
have amounted to. Somebody must pay
for it all however and that somebody is the
general and partly disinterested public
The course and result of the recent strike
in the loss of life and the wholesale destruc-
tion of property indicates that re-distribu.
tion of U. s. troops might be made with
good effect. We DO longer have any from.
tier, and the troops should be quartered in
the vicinity of large cities and msnufactur.
ing centers, to be at hand and ready to
quell riots and disturbances such as have
existed throughout the country for the past
week, particularly at Chicago The theory
Of state militia is all right, but in every riot
of serious proportions, the militia is frequent
ly in strong sympaty with the rioters anG
they are of little practical benefit. This is
forcibly illustrated by this weeks events at
Chicago, where millions of dollars worth Of
property was destroyed, lives lost, and q
reign Of terror created in very short space
OF time. The civil authorities appear power
less to cope with the disturbing element,
and the rioters played at hide and seek witt
the militia sent out, but with U. s. troops
substituted, and notice issued that after
given hour no lawlessness would be per
mitted, the pillaging and plundering ends
as suddenly as it begins. A mob will recog
nizs only brute force and if it becomes ne
cessary for q government to resort to it i
may as we'll be in its pronounced form oil
the first call as on the last
OF late years the number of barristers il
France has increased to an enormous ex
tent. After ten years struggling in hi
profession, Paris advocate, unless he be
favored by exceptional circumstances
hardly gains fees enough to enable him t.
pay for his license to practice, and the ren
OF his chambers. As for the closed pro
fession Of notaries and solicitors, it is i'm
possible to get into them unless one be the
son.in-law or nephew of some one who i
ready to give up his office in favor of re
lative. Only few months since there wa