The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-13

association il composed Of coal dealers
who have entered into combination 70
keep up the price Of coal and drive ont
Of the business all who do not comply
with their requirements
A successful attempt 10 rob the
North Pacific Coast Railroad 3 station at
Tomales, a few days since. and NJ. l..
Schuester, the station agent lies IN
precarious condition from the effects
Of a beating received at the hands OF
an unknown man. Schuester was
struck heavy blow ON the back Of the
head and robbed Of $50 and watch.
The trustees for the Whittier Re-
form School, st Whittier. are about
re ady to adopt plans for the improve
ment and enlargement Of the school,
made possible by the appropriation of
800, 900 for the purpose. Plans for
several new buildings are nearly COM
pleted and the changes and improve
ments in grounds, ETC., are mapped out
ready for adoption.
A small house occupied by John
Pettygrove and Will Treat at Ander-
son, has been burned. IL is supposed
/ that the house was robbed, then set ON
IRE. Fifty dollars and two watches
left in the house are supposed to have
been taken. A young man named
Perry was arrested ON suspicion and
one of the watches was found in a
bundle claimed by him.
Governor Budd has pardoned Charles
H. Barker, who had been sentenced to
serve six months Imprisonment in the
County Jail at Auburn and to pay a
fine of $1,000. The fine was reduced
by the Governor, and Barker will be
liberated upon paying $50. Barker is
hotel keeper at Roseville. He
thrashed rival hotel keeper and was
fined by the local Justice Of the Peace.
After court adjourned he whipped the
Justice. He was fined and sentenced.
He has been in Jail month or more.
Amazon Hernandez, Mexican
woodohopper, was fatally injured near
the Llagas at San Jose. He was in
the habit of carrying giant powder
cartridges in his pockets, as he fire.
quently used them for blasting tree
stumps. While he was carrying ex-
plosives about in this way he tripped
and fell, knife in his pocket struck
against cap, and nine explosions fol-
lowed in quick succession. Herman
dez was terribly mangled, and there
is no hope of recovery.
The largest seizure Of contraband
liquor ever made in Alaska has been
brought to Portland, Oregon, by the
steamship George W. Elder The
seizure consisted Of twenty tons of
liquors and was packed in various
kinds of packages for the purpose of
deceiving the custom officers. Many
Of the packages were shipped as 'bak-
ing powder, kerosene. turpentine, I"
and other devices were employed to
ge. the liquors past the custom Off.
cials. The liquor represents more
than $40, 900 in value.
The approaches to the tunnel of the
San joaquin Valley Railway at Point
Richmond are being prepared, but
nothing has yet been decided as to the
surveys between that place and Stock
ton. Grading has been finished for
half the distance from the Kings
county line to Bakersfield. II is
thought that the road will be COM
plotted earlier, but it was not consid-
cred that the increased expense of
construction would have been justified.
The next new work will be the build
ing OF the loop Of twenty miles from
Visalia to the main line of the Valley
Railway south of Hanford.