The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-04-23
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.

Go to the band dance on the first of May.
Governor Jones life is said to have been
heavily insured.
George b. Warren returned from Salt
Lake on yesterday stage.
Mrs. C. w. Pettee and Miss Lizzie Reilly
went to DeLamar on Monday
Salt Lake City, through trouble with the
light company, sports no lighted streets at
night
Manager H. A. Cohen Of the DeLamar
Co., is expected down from Salt Lake on the
bullion coach.
Small boys and matches resulted in the
burning of orson Orton's barn at Parowsn
last Monday.
The District Court will convene next
Tuesday, the 2Sth. The grand jury reports
for duty that day.
Judge Rives is expected to arrive next
Sunday to attend the approaching sitting of
the District Court.
Several new district court suits are spokel
of. Litigation, like many other things, APP.
pears to go in streaks.
Deputy Sheriff Jake Johnson was in town
to-day from Eagle valley where he has been
searching for prospective jurymen.
Miss Annie Clinton, clerk of the Record
er's office. went to DeLamar on Monday to
visit with her sisters and take weeks well
earned rest
Chas. Turner came up from DeLamar last
Friday and vent on to Tintic, Utah, yester.
day morning. where he will be employed on
the Tintic Miner.
John Roeder contemplates dismantling
his stone business house ON Lacour street
and utilizing the valuable portions Of it in a
new building at DeLamar.
Martin Kennedy yesterday received
notice that he had been granted a pension
from the Government. His application has
been pending for the past four years.
The Juveniles congregated at the residence
Of A. 8. Thompson on Tuesday afternoon,
the occasion being party by Miss Ada in
honor Of her tenth birthday.
Pat Morrell, plumber of Virginia city,
disappeared about three weeks ago, and lie
supposed to have wandered off into the hills
and then committed suicide.
Arbor Day was observed here on Tuesday
In closing Of the schools, and while no new
trees were planted, the existing ones around
the school building were pruned and trim.
med up.
A marriage license was issued from the
County Clerks Office on Monday to Dick
Lee of Psnaca, authorizing the marriage of
himself and Miss Annie f. Keele, of the
same place.
John Roeder, accompanied by his
daughter Tenie. arrived from DeLamar on
Tuesday evening enroute for Salt Lake,
where Miss Tenie will visit while her father
proceeds to Colorado on business.
The Chino ranch, in San Barnardino
county, was sold last week to English par
ties for $1,000 900, ten per cent. cash,
s550,0O0 in four months, balance on time.
The new owners will colonize it.
Garry Williams, an old resident o.
Cherry Geek, Nevada, has been arrested al
the Kimberly diamond mines in South
Africa for high treason, he having taken an
important part in the late unpleasantness
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The Anaconda company has expendes
over $72.000, 600 in the purchase and de
velopment of its mines. aud the erection an,
operation of its smelters and refinery, ant
has the names Of 5000 employees upon it,
payroll.
Sheriff Prudential returned on Frida,
last from his annual assessing trip to tn
southern part of the county. Owing to tn
length of the county and the distance be
tween settlements it take from 25 to 8
days to make the rounds.
Since his arrival here last Monday Mur
ray Clay. the l6 year old son Of Mrs. c. Z
Newell. has been laid up with an attack Q
intermittent fever, which set in while the
were on the road here. He is now i'm
proving and viii be out in few days.
An English expert says Georgia has 18th
richest gold field on the face of the globe,
and adds the equally astounding statemen
that the mines Of north Georgia are capabl
Of producing forty millions annual,
Georgia's gold belt covers FROM 5000 TO 400
square miles.
Persons who knew murderer Vaughn i
in his life say he had the temper and il
stinct Of fisnd. He, on different occasions
tied horses and csttls to q stake and bea
them nearly 70 death in fits Of ungovsrn
able temper, also lsoersting them wit
knives, etc.