The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-10
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.


postoffice.
Take in the entertainment next
Monday night at Thompson's Hall.
Peter Piper's vote of DeLamar on
the beauty contest has been received
and counted in.
T. j. Osborne leaves tomorrow to
be absent several weeks on business
at Salt Lake and Carson.
Monday next will be Valentines
day. The beauty contest has directed
attention to this and it looks, as
though many love missives will be
sent hereabouts.
Wednesdays mail did not arrive
until 3 o'clock the following morn
ing morning due to breakdown Is
miles beyond Desert station and ex-
cessively soft roads.
Joe. Vanina leaves this week for
Alaska. His late sale of mining
property at Eagle Valley District
gives him good travelling stake.
Judge Talbot is reported to have
gone to Seattle on business connect
ed with Klondyke syndicate in
which he has an interest.
Chairman Luke Syphus of the
County Commissioners was up on
Monday from Panaca on official bus
insss and returned that evening.
Hon. Geo. ). Sawyer will leave
next Tuesday for Carson to attend
several cases now on appeal to the
Supreme court from the District
court here.
DIR. Campbell was summoned to
Listens ranch in Meadow Valley
wash on Saturday to attend Lizzie
Liston who is suffering from a bad
cold and slight affection of the heart.
The corporation laws of the state
have been compiled and are issued
in pamphlet form for public use.
Secretary of State Eugene Howell
has our thanks for copy.
Nearly every county in the state
has elected representatives from its
fair women to contest for place on
the Omaha Exposition souvenir
medal.
The Milwaukee Sentinel, says
that although oratory has declined
since the days of Webster the vote
on the Teller resolution shows tina,
there are large number of silver
voiced Senators in the halls of Con.
gress yet.
f. r. McNamee and James Gile
came up from DeLamar on Sunday
for the Commissioners meeting on
Monday and returned Tuesday. Mrs
Giles also came along for a day OF
two's visit with friends here.
The scrip matter has about resolv,
ed itself into the proposition that
scrip ought to be worth at least as
much as the expenses incurred by
those are obliged to earn it. This
proposition though, hasbeen de,
MED for long time but
the payment of the General
County Fund money last Monday by
the Commissioners is practical re,
cognition of the principle and here,
after unless something new develops
we ought to hear no more such com
plants as came at the last sitting o.
court, that poverty prevented mer
from attending court as jurors, ant
that the pay the county offered fol
their services made it contribution
on their part, since it brought then
out in debt.
Three cases are on appeal to tn,
Supreme court from the Distric
court of this county and will be mr.
gued during the latter part of this
mouth The first is that of the
April Fool Mining Company vs. r.
L. Dula and others, involving water
rights in Ferguson District and
which was tried here year ago be.
fore Judge Cheney, resulting in d
Judgment for Dula. The second is
the scrip case OF A. s. Thompson vs.
the Board of County Commissioners
questioning the legality of the late
scrip law, and the third is the case
OF james Nesbitt VS.. DeLamar's
Nevada Gold Mining Co.. involving
title to the Sleeper, or Fraction
mining claim in Ferguson District.