The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-04-27
NORTHWEST NOTES.

been elected vice-president of the
Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary
Society of the West.
Lieutenant Gustave Nickel of the
First Montana regiment has arrived
home from Manila and will receive an
honorable discharge
Frank Smith of Pueblo, Colo, driver
of soda water wagon, shot and killed
his wife and himself as the outcome of
divorce suit recently brought by the
woman.
1t is said that money has been Sc
cured for the building of the air line
from Denver to Salt Lake City. Col
orado people have been talking of this
line of road for years.
The employees in the train and yard
departments of the Midland Terminal
company of Colorado are on a strike
for shorter hours About 200 men are
affected. The road is tied up.
Governor Thomas of Colorado will
veto the bill passed by the general as
sembly at its recent session providing
for the indeterminate sentence with
parole privileges for prisoners.
William Harris and John Tell were
fatally burned by an explosion of gas
in the Colorado Fuel and Iron com
panys mine at New Castle, Colo. The
mine is considerably damaged.
Dan Lucy, charged with the murder
of Patrick L. Regain, near Butte, il
September, 1898, has been landed il
the Silver Bow, county Jail, he having
been captured in Cripple Creek, Colo.
An insane man, Richard Willis, con
fined in the Yuba, CAL, courthouse
managed to fire the building, and wa
himself burned to death. The count!
Jail, adjoining, was also completely de
stroyed.
The citizens of Meanwhile, Ore.
have petitioned the president to dis
charge the soldiers from that tow
now serving in the Philippines, an,
protest against their retention in tina
country.
Floods caused by melting snow i
the mountains near Sheridan, Wyo.
did an immense amount of damage i
that city. Five buildings were washe
away and the main supply pipe of tn
water works broke, shutting off tn
water supply.
Paride Fransoi, a miner, was kille
in the Union Pacific coal mine at Roc
Springs on the Goth, by fall of Goa
His partner escaped the same fate
going out of the room for some oil fc
his lamp moment or two before tn
coal fell.
A fight, is on in Grand Junction
Colo, regarding licensing saloons. A
licenses expired on the 18th, and tn
new council has refused to grant Ii
censes, the marshal being instructed
close all saloons. The matter will /
settled in court.
Harry Brasure, aged 40, was browne
in Bitter creek, Wyo., last week. {
had been gambling and drinking ar
was last seen alive at 10 o'clock in tt
morning. Two hours later his boo
was found in the creek. There is son
suspicion that he was robbed al
thrown into the creek.
A Cheyenne woman applied to Il
district court one evening last wee
for divorce from her husband and
less than twenty hours after filing Il
application the case was tried, t.
woman granted divorce, with ST.
alimony. This breaks the record
divorce proceedings in Wyoming.
The management of the Globe Sine
ing company, at Denver, declares tn
the plant will not be closed down, b
that on the contrary more men will
employed than ever before, and tn
che old scale will be paid, but the m
will not receive as much for eig
hours work as they did for twelve.
Two colored miners, Henry Moo
and Mark Miller, quarreled at Ro
Springs last week, and Moore sh
Miller through the thigh, infiicting
dangerous wound. AS a sequel to t
first shooting, William Shortrid
(colored) attempted to kill his wi
because she visited Miller after he W
shot, jealousy being the cause of
the trouble.
The loss of stock throughout I
northwest is not nearly SO large
was at first supposed, all owing to I
excellent condition of stock when [
bad weather came on. The stock
present are in good condition and
doing we'll.
Not only is there an increase in
terest in the mines of Nevada this We
but farmers from all over the state
port indications of good crops News
sis fast forging to the front as an as
cultural state, as well as magnitic
mining commonwealth.
Six of the soldiers of the Second
unteer cavalry who lost their lives
the south last summer were buried
Fort Russell, Wyo., on the 10th in
with imposing military ceremon
The names of the deceased are Rich
Clark, Archie Sackett, Samuel 10
/ son, William c. Comstock, Charles
! Pierson and Lemuel Smith. Two
! +ba;, Buas In railway accidents yvl