The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-21
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.


The present term of school will
close with the last Friday in May
The week has been pleasant
generally. II is time Main st, had
clean up.
Anthony II. Godbe went to Salt
Lake on Monday. He will be back
in few days.
Between two and three tons of
concentrates are shipped from the
Summit mill everyday.
Tomorrow will be Arbor Day.
Plant tree or shrub even though
you may not live to see it mature.
Charley Lytle was in from Eagle
Valley on Saturday The prevail
ing epidemic of colds affects that
section also.
Up to the 14th. inst, 81 bodies
had been recovered from the snow
slide which recently occurred in
Chilcoot pass.
Railroad talk has subsidized. Moth
ing has been heard of it for sew
sral weeks. Two months ago the
indications were strong that rails
would be laying by this time.
Some Of the very early fruit has
already been destroyed by frost, but
unless other late frosts come the
fruit crop will be good in nearly all
the surrounding valleys.
Assessor Prudential left for the
southern part of the county on his
annual assessing trip last Saturday.
He win 90 FIRST 10 the extreme
southwest and work back. occu-
pying about month on the trip.
Croquet promises to be the COM
mon sport this season Four diff
ssrent grounds are in course of pre-
earation here and II IS not an easy
task where every one muat be cut
out Of mountain side.
Fort Douglas is now soldierless.
The Oath. marched out last Monday
bound for New Orleans via Denver.
The post will be left in charge Of
one officer and light Isprinkling OF
enlisted men,
An offer of55 cents on the dollar
has been made for the stock and
good will of the Geo. M. Scoot Il Co
Hardware firm at Salt Lake. The
assignee regards it as a good bid
and has recommendedits acceptance
10 the court.
A Western paper, speaking of the
death of local citizen, said he died
"after long period of general de.
vilitry." 1t meant" debility, but the
mourning family were hardly re-
strained from furnishing a corpse
for another funeral.
Moro Castle is not such formid-
able fortress as many suppose. In
fact; it is relic of the days when
soldiers had just ceased to fight with
bows and arrows. The guns of a
modern battle-ship would knock it
into promiscuous healp about as
quickly as they would demolish a
haystack.
The report of G. A. LaGrave, IN
surance Commissioner of this State
shows for the year 1897 that $S3,.
O56.4S was paid to the companies in
premiums, while $27 ,86S.25 was
paid for FIRE losses.
In life insurance the premiums
paid the companies reached $75, 974.
80 while the amount paid by the
companies on deaths was sac, 1853. 81.
Local politics begin to be whispered
about now. 1t is early in the season
but already there are candidates for
every Office on the ticket, from as
sembly to Commissioners, and in
some cases more than one. Unless
first signs fail there will be great in,
terest manifested inpolitics this
fall and this county's vote will
be larger than any time in 20 year,
past.
The wreck of the Maine has beef
abandoned. The navy department
has annnlled its contract with tn,
Chapman and Merit wrecking Com
paily and the Boston towboat Com
pany. The ten inch guns have
been left in the turret. We can
afford TO take chances on the Spani-
ards getting them out to use against
us IN case Of war. II is not known
Jet whether the value of the material
taken frcm the wreck covers the
nHpeuoe Of recdvaPy or not.