The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-01-23
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.

Henry Eilers returned from Salt Lake o
Friday after spending month with hi
family there.
For high class commercial printing cont
to the Record Office. With new and selec
faces of type we are bound to please you
and prices are put way down.
John Purcher visited the Line District fol
several days this week, and expresses the
belief that the discoveries will become botf
extensive and permanent.
Max Sbaefer and Jerry Manning came VI
from DeLamar yesterday and went on to
Cave Valley by way of Silver King, pre-
sumably on a prospecting trip.
Miss Tille Roeder came in from DeLamar
Tuesday evening, and will act as assistant
clerk in the County Recorders Office until
the rush of work there is disposed of.
to his family in the shape of bouncing
baby boy. The event occurred on the 18TH
and mother and babe are both doing we'll
MARRIED At Eagle Valley ON the 10th
inst, Ernest Randall and Lille Hammond.
daughter of John Hammond Justice of
the Peace Hartuug performed the ceremony.
The residents of Spring Valley have pc.
titioned for the establishment of postotfice
there to be known as Newlands The
present service to Ursine is to be continued
on there, and later, if the developments at
Line continue, the route will be extended
there, or a separate service for Line district
will be sought from Desert Springs, Utah.
Ii two bills which nave ueen introduceu
ever become laws we shall have two add.
tional members of the cabinet in Secretary
OF Commerce and Secretary of Labor.
Much can be said in favor OF the establish.
ment of these two new executive depart
ments OF the government, and little is said
against them, still such changes are never
hastily made. Both bills are old acquaint-
ances OF Congress- Neither would add any,
thing to present government machine; they
would merely make executive departments
OF the Labor Bureau, and of the several
bureaus of the Treasury Department VIII ch
deal with commercial matters.
Spirited but Ineffective efforts have been
made IN both House and Senate to hurry the
action of the respective Foreign Committees
IN reporting resolution for recognition Of
Cuban belligefency The men in control of
those committees have indicated very plain.
ly that no hasty action will be taken, by
referring it to subcommittee and il ia
well nigh certain that the ADM nistration |
VIII not take any action until directed by |
Congress to do so. Meanwhile agents of
Spain are said to be spending money liber.
ally to delay Congressional action,
Those who expected dispute between
the Q. s. and England over the Alaska
boundary better pack those expectations in
moth balls and pigeon-hole them. There
isn't the.slightest probability of their ever
being realized. When the report of the
commission headed by Gen. Dufiield, Chief
OF the U. 5. Coast and Geodetic SURVEY
now in the hands of the Secretary of State
Is sent to Congress, as it will shortly be. il
will be officially seen that there is practical.
ly no difference between the boundary line
run by the American engineers and the one
previously run by English engineers. The
greatest difference between the two lines NJ
any gwen point Is six feet and seven inches
or fifteen seconds of longitude.
democratic newspaper men of Wash
lngton are just hopping mad because of the
language used by President Cleveland in
his letter to Senator Gallery, of La. de.
nying that he had made any deal with the
morgan bond syndicate. The paragraph in
the letter to which the correspondents take
special exception is the following: 81 am
amazed at the intolerance that leads even
excited partisanship to adopt as basis of
attack the unfounded accusations and as.
sertions Of maliciously mendacious and
sensational newspaper" 1t is well known
although Mr.. Cleveland seemingly singles
out one paper = the N. Y. World - that
the story OF the bond deal was sent ont Inv
practically all the correspondents in Wash.
ington, although the Democrats made il as
easy as they could. This matter was not
sent at haphazard nor without Investigation
but after repeated attempts had been made
to get denial or affirmation from Secre.
taryiCarlisle or thejivite House. The Dem.
ocratlc newspaper men would have been
only too glad to have had even hint upon
which denial of the story could have been
sent out but when that hint was repeated.
ly refused they think Mr.. Cleveland rather
rubbed it in by Safeguarding those who
used the story because they believed it
true, and because neither he nor Secretary
Carlisle would deny it.