The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-28
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.

Last nights mail did not arrive here until
nearly II o'clock to-day.
Mayor Prudential is celebrating his
thirty third birthday to day.
Mrs. James Duffin is improving slowly
from her recent severe illness.
E. L. Godbe returned Tuesday from Salt
Lake after a several weeks visit.
Fake footracers are said to have cleaned
up 81 400 from Carson sports.
BoRN.-At Phoebe, Nevada, February 81,
1885, to the wife of A. J. jacobson, a son .
B. G. McDonough, chief clerk at Dooley s
DeLamar store came up from DeLamar on
Saturdays stage
Miss Maud Alley, the Eagle Valley school
teacher, came in Friday afternoon for short
visit and returned home Sunday.
Last Friday the time of the arrival of the
Milford mail was changed and the mail is
now due here every evening at o'clock
George Nesbitt made business trip to
DeLamar this week, he first visited Cedar
Springs and then took peep at the bonanza
in the Flagstaff mine.
Washington's birthday passed by very
quietly here only a few flags being raised
about town. The hard times party in the
evening was the only amusement.
number of peddlers were about town
during the week with Utah produce. Flour
sold at 81 % per hundred eggs at twenty.
five cents per dozen and other products at
very low figures.
DIR. Cooper, formerly of Pocatello, Idaho,
and recently of Salt Lake City, arrived here
on Fridays Milford stage and went on to
DeLamar Monday, to take charge of John
Shier's drug store.
ID. L. Wertheimer, DeLamar's leading
merchant, was in town several DAYS this
week, on visit to his folks here. He and
his father left Tuesday morning by private
conveyance for DeLamar.
Richard Gordon was arrested in DeLamsr
for mistreatiDg and abusing his wife and
bound over to appear before the Grand Jury
under bonds failing to give he was brought
up by Deputy Sheriff Jake johnson to-day
and placed in the cooler
Inc prospects for breach of promise case
are pretty ripe. Storms ahead without
warning. The cause of the action ia that
the fair one objects without reserve to suv
body being called Papa Joe, Bill or John
No objections to George.
Ed. Prudential and H. w. Turner made
short trip to Panaca mining district this
week. A number of new locations have
recently been made in the above mentioned
district and active operations will soon be
started on many locations there.
Peter Nutter of st. George, Utah ia
among our cattle men looking. to the
purchase of cattle for the eastern market
The prices are not of the best, but as times
are still hard and money scarce. the cattle.
men are forced to take prices that are less
than the value of the cattle purchased
The dance on Washington's birthday bv
the Quadrille band was pronounced to be a
splendid affair 1t was a go.as.you. pla.se
mask and the different costumes that orig;.
mated from that idea would do credit 10 n
Keepler of the noted "Puck" newspaner
Dancing continued until 43O o'clock in the
morning and all seemed to enjoy themselves
The supper set at Dicks was first class and
the hungry went away satisfied.
Panaca district is directing more atten.
daily, but owing to the depth of the snow
only few have thus far attempted to get
in and do any prospecting. Among those
most fortunate are H. w. Turner and Ed.
Prudential who spent most Of the week in
the district returning here yesterday filed
with golden hopes Of the future They, like
other interested parties, refuse to say much,
but we learn they have made most i'm.
portant location. 1t is an extension on the
north and east of the Advance aud returns
fattering assays. To-day rumors are live
on the streets that some interests have been
Jumped" but reports of this nature are
not uncommon with mining excitements.
The parties who recently invested in the dis.
trict will be known as the Advance Gold
Mining Co., and are preparing to commence
operations in the next ten days.