The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-28

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The engine and compressor of the
new mill at Ely, were ready to be
tested last Sunday and the mill was
expected to start up sometime this
week.
The jury in the case of Walter
Kermeen, the boy who was caught
in the act of firing the Carson school
house, disagreed, standing nine to
three for conviction. The district
attorney will be petitioned to dismiss
the case.
A Sacramento man found nuggets
of gold to the value of 81 so in the
gizzard of a wild duck. 1t is suppos-
ed the duck is Il recent arrival from
the Klondike.
Excessive drinking skaters the
nervous sytem weakens the brain
and Injuries the appetite, destroys
the digestive organs and causes cold
feet. So says New York physician
A new territory to be named Lin
coin is proposed to be cut out of the
northwestern part of Alaska. 1t will
include the Yukon and extend north
to the Arctic ocean. The new town
of Weare, half way between Dawson
and st. Michaels on the Yukon, is
the proposed capital of the new ter
| ritory.
A correspondent in the Reno Ga
zette says; "There is not stack of
hay between Sacramento and San
Francisco, which leads one to believe
that California will want every pound
Of hay Nevada will bale this Fall 81
The mining laws of Nevada have
been compiled by H. G. Cutting un.
der authority of the last legislature.
The work has been carefully done
and as soon as passed on by the
Board of Examiners, will be publish
ed iii pamphlet form. This is some
thing our people have been looking
for some time, especially since the
enactment of the new law last winter
which creates radical changes in the
location of claims and other matters.
At Elko, last Saturday Isaac Os-
treicher was married to Miss Nettie
Scrougham, both of Elko. Ostreich-
er is the keeper of the railroad hotel
there. 1t will be remembered that
his wife eloped several months ago,
going to Salt Lake, whore the
papers were for few days full of
accounts of his oyertaking her and
causing her arrest, etc He return
ed to Elko and was granted a divorce
within the past 80 days. He evident
ly wants to show that when it comes
to scroughing he can do little of
himself.
Mrs. Logan, an incorrigible who
arrived from a sixty days sojourn in
the Elko restraining institution last
Saturday proceeded to make herself
obnoxious as usual. She was promp-
ly arrested, tried and convicted on
two separate charges and was given
sixty days in the county Jail on each
charge making continuous sentence
of four months, all the law would
allow. Judge Regan deserves the
credit and help of every citizen in
the community in his endeavor to rid
the town of this class of people,
Tuscarora Times Review.
This section has more than pass
ing interest in the Union Pacific rail
road sale. If the Southern Pacific
takes it in it will mean that the pres
ent gap between Milford and Los
Angeles will remain open indefinite
ly. That company is satisfied to let
things remain as they are and an
other transcontinental line is not de-
sirable. On the other hand if some
independent syndicate takes hold,
or any of the present great systems
operating further east than the
Union Pacific, the chances of build
ing on the present grade will be ex-
ceedingly good and would encourage
many who now untertain ideas of
moving away, to remain in this Sec
ton, while it would bring in many
new residents willing to take their
chances of opening up something
along the proposed rout.