The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-13
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.

N. p Dooley went to DeLamar on
Tuesday.
j. G. Brown was up from PanacO
on business yesterday.
Mrs. H. J. Goodrich went to De-
Lamar on Tuesday to visit for a few
weeks.
Yesterday, at Carson, the trial of
the DeLamar townsite case was to
have begun.
j. Eisenmann went to Helene on
Monday to keep posted on Magnolia
developments.
II. q. Scofield is prepared to make
crayon engagements of photographs
at reasonable rates.
Mrs. Fret and Mrs. II. Welland
went to Helene on Sunday and will
return by the end of the week.
Virginia City is steadily losing its
population. Last week five families,
all old-timers, left for new quar-
ters.
Fred Denne went out to Deer
Lodge district last Friday to do the
assessment work on four claims there
for Joe Cook.
Our shade trees are developing
foliage at a rapid rate. Is Phoebe to
be a sanitarium for outside fever
patients this summer?
G. IL. Light, better known as Ham
Light, an old coaster and who had
heavy ore hauling contracts here in
early days, died last week at ella
Bend, Arizona, of burns.
The Hamilton correspondent of
the White Pine News says of Ely:
Real estate has taken big Jump
since the Ely boom, Property worth
80 before, is now worth SIS.
The flour famine has lifted. A. S.
Thompson received a consignment
from Salt Lake last Saturday, first
grade roller mill product, together
with a general line of fancy grocer
les.
A private letter from Ely says
that but sixteen men have thus far
been put to work and they are on
the new ditch, and that it is yet
question whether Ely is to have II
boom or boomlet only.
1t is said that China Tom, who
formerly conducted the Nevada
Hotel restaurant, will shortly open
in the same line of business in the
Gelobert building on Main street,
just below Meadow Valley street.
inquiries are out as to where Jerry
Pendergast, an old timer, died. He
is supposed to have been in this
section in go or the early '70s. A
large sum of money awaits distrib-
ution to his heires if his death can
be proved.
An important strike was made in
the Con, Virginia mine last week in
the shape of five feet of $500 ore,
which experts say has every appear
ance of permanency. Good essays
are also coming out of the Bruins
wick lode.
Joe Foster had the misfortune to
lose one of his best draft horses last
Friday. The animal was grazing on
the mountain side and fell into an
open cut in the Meadow Valley vein
between the Meadow Valley and
Raymond works.
Geo. s. Sawyer went to Parowan
last Saturday to attend court there,
in suit on the location of claim
in State Line in which the Rice Bros.
of Spring Valley are interested on
one hand and the Clark Bros. of
: Desert Spring on the other.
A notice from the County Treas
urer of money in the General Fund
for the redemption of general in
debtedness against the fund appears
this week. It is under the provis-
ions of the new redemption law, and
every claimant against the general
fund has chance to bid for It.
Complaints are frequent of late,
and come from more than one
quarter of town, of boys, old enough
to know better, throwing rocks in
discriminatory at objects, to the great
danger of pedestrians and others.
Also that private residences are
rocked at night out of pure malic-
iousness. These matters are worthy
of note in court and will be brought
there if they occur again. One would
think that with our small population
such acts of general hoodlumism
would never be attempted.