The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-20

j. G.. Brown was up from Panaca
on Monday.
Reno papers claim that the town
Is oyerrun with hard characters.
Sadis Summerfeld has been con-
firmed by the senate as United States
district attorney for Nevada
District Attorney McNamee COM
pleted the school examination on
Friday and returned to DeLamar on
Saturday last.
Fifty miners were drafted last week
BY the Manhattan Company at Aus
tin. The mill has been closed down
and gloom has been cast over the
town.
Coasting has been fine for n week
past. The old folks don't appear to
enjoy the sport as much as in for
mer years. AT any rate we don't see
them out so often
The late cold snap did not inter-
fere with work at the summit mill.
Since the cold snap in December
heaters have been put in and all ex-
posed pipes wrapped and boxed.
White Pine County manages each
year to call in several of her outstand-
ing 8 per cent bonds. The treasurer
sends out notice now for the surrend-
er of six, amounting to $1500.00.
Leafe Stinette died at Eldorado
Conyon this county Christmas day.
He was half brother to A.
L. Price. He was working for the
Southwestern Mining Company.
Sheriff Prudential is expected to
arrive home next Monday. He will
begin his assessing tour in the south
ern part of the county earlier this
this year than last and proposes to
start south early in March.
Geo. v Warren is storing ice in
the old cellar formerly connected
with the Bank Exchange restaurant
on Main st. The ice is twenty in
ches thick OF excellent quality and
comes from Condor Canyon.
Information is wanted by the posi-
master at Ely, of John or Jack
Stager, prospector. who was last
heard OF by his friends in the east
from Ely in 1886 Stager was in
and around Phoebe during 1888.
Stage business on the Milford
route is reported as light, except on
the north end where travel to and
from Stateline and Deerlodge keeps
up steady stream. A special runs
from Desert Springs for the accom-
mediation of passengers and to carry
mail.
The result of the teachers exam
nations last week was that the
whole classed passed, and with good
percentages Certificates were is
sued to each applicant and there will
be no lack of local material to WELD
the rod in our county schools next
fall.
The new Whitley concentrating
table for the Summit mill arrived on
Monday 1t will be in place and
operating within day or two. This
will enable the mill to put through
about 1000 tons of ore month.
The working force will shortly be in
creased.
John and Phil Smith have bought
the Vietti sawmill in the mountains
south of DeLamar, and will shortly
move it to timber patch east of
Meadow Valley Wash in the vicinity
Of Pennsylvania district where a
million or two feet of timber can be
got out.
Last Thursday afternoon at Dutch
Flat, Mrs. John Smith slipped aud
in falling, threw out her right arm.
The contact with the ground result
cd in compound fracture between
the wrist and elbow. She came up
TO Panaca on Friday and DIR. Camp
bell was summoned from here and
went down to set the broken limb
The lady promises to be all right
in few weeks.
Deer'odge is not mentioned as IA
point on the new mail route between
here and Milford. This is probably
because no postofiice has been estab
lished ut Dserlodge as yet. There
are people enough there already how
ever 10 justify opening one, and the
probabilities are that before the new
service begins in July the route will
b changed 30 - to include Deer
Iodmn.