The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-22

Kentucky and other States which have had
long and disgr4ceiu deadlocks recently are
doing more to form a public sentiment
which will force change to the popular
vote plan Of electing Senators than all the
arguments originally advanced by the advo-
Gates Of this plan could accomplish. Those
arguments, indeed, had very little weight.
and some Of them were absurd The recent
discreditable and demoralizing wrangles,
however. furnish reasons for a change Of
election methods which are Obvious and /
urgent Conventions would not choose bet
ter candidates for Senator than Legislatures |
select. but uedrr the convention and pop |
ular election method one day. voting would /
end the contest
Now girls. here's something ior you. Say, |
along about II OF p O'Clock at night after
your mother has gone to bed AMI dai has
wound up the clock. PIT the ga. "a the kit-
chen turned the dog out doOrs, yawned a
half dozen times aud remarked that 1t looks
as il we'd have blizzard before morning
then il Charles Awgusta refuses to take the
hint approach him with tablet Tor the mar
gin Of an old newspaper aud pencil. and
your sweetest smile and tell him yon have
funny puzzle for him first to make a 70" Of
eleven ciphers then to make perpendicular
mark downward on the right OF the first
cipher; upwards on the right oiiourth down
wards on the right Of the 9th; upward on
the right Of the seventh and eight;downward
ON the right Of the tenth The marks should
be half an inch long Ask him to read what
he has written. lou will be alone two min
utes thereafter EN.
There is a chance ior the officers to do a
little detectve.work and ferret out those who
are breaking the law in furnishing whisky to
Indians For couple Of days the fore part
Of the week some eight or ten bucks and
squaws have been drunk and making con.
siderable disturbance 10 town. Those who
| furnish the whisky should be caught and
cinched, it is getting to be too common an
occurance here and a stop should be put to
| it. The United States court at Carson makes
short work Of parties selling whiskey to
Indians and good portion Of the inmates
of our State Prison, women included, ate
serving time for this offence. The attention
of the U. S. Officers there must be directed
to this section. We think one or two ex.
amples will abate the evil altogether,
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that the volunteer force OF the country is not
such an effective defense against invasion as
the people have believed In battalion
500 strong, which was given twelve hours
notice to parade, some of the men appeared
in slippers, the swords. rifles and accout-
erment were in bad condition, the troops
could not drill and one officer was found to
be ignorant even of the words OF command.
A force of that kind would make poor
showing il any of the welldrlled armies of
the Continent should land on the coast of
England, and the government does well in
strengthening tho navy Call.
Last Friday, what looked like a serious
accident was narrowly averted Frank
Allen was rounding up some horses below
town, when the horse he was riding STUN.
bled and fell breaking tsneck, twas Instantly
killed, never moving after having fallen,
the horse pinioning its rider under it, The
accident was observed by number of per
sons who instantly went to his assistance, he
was helped up unhurt in the least
On Saturday last an Italian while on his
way to the post office to get money order
dropped an envelope containing three five
dollar bills, but did not miss it till he got
there. In the meantime miner picked IT
up and proceeded to blow it in Immediately
down in China town On discovering he
had the money he was made to disgorge but
all that he had left was five dollars and six
bits.
, New York Herald Protests from Ger.
many, Italy and the Netherlands against the
, Dingley bill bring US face to face with the
, grave consequences that may follow its
enactment into law Fortunately they have
come in ample time to warn congress Of the
danger and to enable thoughtful members to
secure changes which will avert disastrou,
commercial war.
After his notorious escapade with French
actress and his unsavory connection with the
Chimay scandal. the King of all the Belgian,
will not surprise the world by his new ides
Of establishing rival Monte Carlo on hi,
} private estate in Ardennes. The rulershil
Of gambling Vanity FAIR would seem to be
just above King Leopolds measure. Phil
adelphia Record.
In Miles Mich, seventeen. J caro-
/ school girl has eloped with youth ~ ST.
The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph think.
that first and second childhood should not b,
allowed to mate
) In the jubilee procession Queen Nictorit
/ will sit in rocking chair OF American dssi.
5 which will enable her to bow constantly viii
/ little eNertion Nothing is complete il thes,
times without some contribution from tn
Yankee inventor. st. Louis Globe. Demo
: crat.
!. The hosting works Of the Miliksn min
{ near Nevada City, was burned to the groun,
I lsstweek. The fire was caused by the xplosior
of a coal oil lamp the IRE causing the explos
ion of 20 boxes OF caps the two completed,
demolishing the building