The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16

The bennington Rustler saws:
lr. James Nichol made a big strike
n copper about eight miles east of
own. He has fve-foot ledge
which can be traced for a distance
# 1900 feet The rock tests 80 per
,ent in copper.
The speed of the bicycle has not |
yet reached that of a running horse |
or a single mile, but on long dis
;ances the horse is not in it. The |
other day rider on an English
course made on his wheel 100 miles
IN 206 minutes. That is very clear
time
The suit in the United States dis
trict court at Carson to recover prop
prty assigned by james Heney At
torneys Woodburn and Coffin in lieu
of fees for defending him in the
mint case was decided in the attor-
neys' favor yesterday. Woodburn
gets $4,000 and Coffin $1,000.
A party of Government surveyors
are at work on the Comstock and
will find out, before they leave, just
how far the surface of that section
moves east each year. Shafts that
were once struck are too crooked to
allow of bucket being dropped in
them, it is said.-Carson News.
The Examiner publishes cut of
Mrs. Christine Feldt, the woman
with whom Lutgert the sausage-ma-
ker accused of the numbering of his
wife, is said to have been in love.
We no longer have any doubt of the
sausage-maker's guilt. The man
who could love such looking wo-
man as that is capable of any thing.
A certain county school district OF
Elko county is inquiring for lady
teacher who in middle aged and re-
asonably homely, stating as a cause
that the young men of the district
fall in love with and distrait the at
tention of every nice looking young
woman who comes here to teach.
For further information apply to the
County Superintendent of Schools
The Kansas City journal has gath
cred some sample stories showing
that there are times when it is so dry
in the western part of the State tha
you have to soak a hog over nigh
before it will hold swill. There ar,
places where water is wet only OF
one side, and there is one plac'
where the owner of a ferry boat hauli
water IL months in the year to keel
his ferry running, while one poo
farmer runs the we'll through tn
clothes wringer every morning to ge
water for cooking.
The Dingley bill is not an unalloy
ed blessing, even from the points O
view of manufacturers. On the frs
of the present month the employees
the Napolean Tobacco company, Chi
ago, were notified that, owing to tn
increased cost of the material use
due to the Dingley bill, cut in th
wages of 20 per cent had to be made
The men struck against the the II
duction and now smoke stack, ths
on November Sd of last year was be
ching smoke, presents scene of il
action such as was portrayed by th
Hanna posters picturing what woul
occur if Bryan were elected.-Ogde
Standard.
Much significance has been give
the announcement of the formatio
of an alliance between France an
Russia, though what the nature
that alliance is wholly unknown
the public. The French people hay
, rejoiced over it as though Alsace an
Lorraine were already restored; BIZ
marck has made fun of it, while a
the world has wondered over
In another part of the world an il
cident has just transpired that m,
have almost as much significance
the Franco-Russian alliance. Th
. is that China is to sell Germany
' coal naval station near Foochow, Il
station being that of the port
Tung-yung-kow. This shows
least the existence of friendly rel
tions between China and German
A and may mean that Germany is CT
{ tiviting friendlier and closer relatio
8 with China which she may hope
Q turn to her advantage some day.
: would be natural if Germany shou
q seek to make her influence in t
i affairs of China which she may no
i to turn to her advantage some dt
1t would be natural if Germa
> should seek to make her infuer
v in the affairs of China dominant
> as to have an offset to Russia in
If far east. This naval station will g
If her vantage ground in more Wi
n than one. She has colonial pol
,s and is very anxious to sucure ht