The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-17


A party of twenty three Coxeyites enroute
from Ellensburgh to North Yakima, Wash,
in a boat, lost four men through cspsizing
last Saturday. The party arrived at North
Yakima in sorry plight.
Warden Bells men have tied up 1000
boquets of sagebrush, and Goverdor Colcord
| has forwarded them to Commissioner
Yerngton. Mr.. Yerington will tie every
spray with a silver cord and it will be a
charming souvenir of Nevada - Carson
News.
| Meetings continue to be held scoring w.
| c. p, Breckenridge, some even petitiouing
or asking him to withdraw from the contest
for Congressional nomination. 1t will be
wonderful if, in the face of all these demon
STATIONS against him, Breck nrdge should
again secure a seat in Congress
W. II. NJ. Cobb of Carson, who was
stricken down with spinal meningitis sew
eral days ago, died Wednesday. Deceased
was past grand chancellor and supreme rep.
resentative of the Knights of Pythias of
| Nevada, ond if he had lived he would have
represented the Nevada Knights at Wash.
ington in the coming August at the meeting
there of the supreme lodge.
Foster the weather prophet must certainly
be endowed with supernatural gifts, for all
his predictions appear to connect on time
with his forecasts. He predicted stormy
and windy weather the latter part Of last
week and the beginning of the present and
we enjoyed it to our hearts content in the
way of clouds of binding dust 1t has had
one good effect it has cleared our streets of
waste paper and bark.
The United States Association OF Pilots
now has a woman member in the person of
Miss Calie French. She is first female mem.
Der ever admitted. Miss French is twenty.
two years old and knows the Ohio and Miss.
issippi rivers thoroughly from Cincinnati to
New Orleans She spent fifteen years on
the river with her father, Captain G. 0.
French, who runs boat between Cincinnati
and New Orleans.
Fifty lndustrialites took possession of a
freight train at LoYelocks, this State last
Saturday and all efforts Of the trainmen to
put them off proved futile Tho railroad
people finally gave up the attempt to put
the Industrials off and ordered the trainmen
to pull out for Winnsmucca where warrants
OF arrests for the tourists had been issued
The men were desperate and declared they
would fight rather than walk across the
Nevada deserts.
In view Of the many recruits expected tc
flock to the banner of the Phoebe contingent
and get meals free gratis for nothing Joe
Cook has hit upon happy expedient to
keep the men out OF town and conduct them
selves in a peaceful and soberly manner
He intends to put them all at work develop
ing his mine the Lafayette; he says they
cannot expect any pay whilst in the pursuit
of honor and glory and ought to be thankful
for such an outburst Of generosity on his
part
The White Hills mill is running smoothly
and turning out a great deal of bullion
The ore is saved up to over ninety per cent
and bullion is nearly 800 fine. Over half a
ton of retort bullion is piled up in the mill
and as soon as it is melted into bars it will
be shipped to market. The main shaft on
the G. A. R. mine, from which the mill
supply of water is obtained, in now down
400 feet and large volume of water has
been struck. The mill hereafter will be run
night and day. -Kipgmsn (Ariz.) Miner.
o. K. Olsen, an old employee at the
Hanauer smelter, met with an accident last
Saturday from the effects of which he died
the day following. He was at work oiing
the machinery, something he has done daily
for years. In some unaccountable way he
was caught in the betting. He was not
wound up in the machinery but was hurled
forward by the belt for quite a distance.
When picked up it was discovered that his
back was broken and his whole body para.
lyzsd, He was also bruised and marked
about the head by his fall,
The work of excavating a canal for utiliz
ing Humboldt lake for irrgsting purposes,
has begun in earnest. Three hundred feet
of canal have already beeh cut, ranging in
depth from seven feet to twenty feet, and
in width twenty-five feet at the top to eight
feet at the bottom. A dam has been placed
in the say slough to keep as much water as
possible away from the workmen while
running the canal north from the slough.
the lake front is dotted with cabins, and q
number of claimants have carried lumber
to issue lands to build houses by which to
hold 100 acres when the lake is drained. -
Lovelock New Era.
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