The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-09-28
NORTHWEST NOTES.


end.
The state OF Wyoming has 279 pen
and they drew s39,o5S last
year.
Fighty-five thousand young trout
have been distributed in the streams
of Northern Laramie county, Wyo.
From Reno, Nevada, comes the news
that the water is SO low in the Truckee
river that the electric light works are
unable to run.
The Colorado regiment will probably
be mustered out on September 8 and
leave San Francisco for home on the
following day by the special train.
The total output of Cripple Creek
for the month of August, according to
the most careful estimates, is 1860
tons of ore, having value of 81. 3s2, 900.
The mine owners aud business men
of Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek,
will send to the Paris exposition in
1900 pyramid of gold worth $1,000
900.
A young hobo robbed NJ. ]. King, a
Keystone, S. D., prospector, of S270
and gold watch at Rawlins, Wyo.,
and made his escape on one of the
westbound soldier trains.
A report is current that the Wyo-
ming Southern will soon be built, all
reports to the contrary notwithstand
ing. A large amount of capital is said
to be interested in the line.
Civil service examination will be held
at Carson, New, October 7, to establish
an eligible list from which appoint
ments may be made to positions in the
mint and assay Office at that place.
Two Wyoming volunteers, Sergeant
Benjamin Moore, company H, and Cor
poral Thomas Olsen, company F, died
on the voyage home of dysentery.
Moore was buried at sea and Olsen at
Nagasaki, Japan.
The following Wyoming postofices
have been lately ordered discontinued;
Cheeseman, Big Horn county, mail to
Sunshine; Davidson, Laramie county,
mail to Mountain; Omstead, Crook
county, mail to Morse.
Governor Thomas of Colorado in a
letter praises the action of the depart
ment of the Pacific for the manner in
which Colorado soldiers were treated.
Secretary Root has thanked the gov
ernor for his communication.
John Tooker Henderson, who died al
Denver recently, was at one time cap.
tain of the famous vigilantes at Vir
ginia City, Mont, and at several
periods in his life he helped make the
stirring history of the Rocky mountain
region by subdueing lawless elements
At Billings, Mont, Alonzo Teeters
a fish vender, attempted to criminally
assault tie young daughter of ]. A
Morley Upon the fact becoming
known a warrant was issued for Tee
ters' arrest. When the sheriff entered
the house he found Teeters dead ant
on the floor an empty bottle which hat
contained strychnine.
Long-distance telephone service be
tween Denver and Cheyenne was estab
lished last week, when the line wa
formally opened to the public. Cover
nor Thomas of Colorado, and Chic
Justice Potter of Wyoming, exchanges
congratulatory messages in behalf o
two states over the completion of tn
line and establishment of telephon
service
Through the arrest at Butte, Mont.
Of Mayer, an assayer of Butte; John
Boyd, brother of Mayor Boyd of Phil
ipsburg, and James Mcdonald, an EN-
ployee of the Granite Bimetallic mine
the disclosures of wholesale thefts o
silver bullion from the Bimetalli
company have just been made. A
least $50, 900 worth of bullion has bee
made away with.
Advices from Binghamtou, N. Y.
state that company of New Yorl
millionaires recently acquired title
large tract of oil land in Wyomin
and, under the name of the Union OF
company, will sink wells and deYelo
the properties Three prominent mem
bers of the firm, accompanied by o
experts, are now en- route to Cheyenn
TO complete the arrangements for star
ing work at once. Machinery was pul
chased some time ago.
The battery of the Wyoming ligt
artillery came back with three officer
and fifty-seven men. Captain Clark,
the commander of the battery. was lie,
behind in Yokohama. 1t is presume
he missed the transport. First Lie,
tenant j. NJ. Gilmore is in command
aided by Lieutenant G. A. Bristol TIL
only deaths recorded in that comman
was that of Frank II. Sinex, who die
I in San Francisco of typhoid fever, an
that Of Pat Sullivan, who died in Hon
lulu of pneumonia.
j.. As result of a quarrel abou: famil
affairs, Oliver Holmes, an elderly res
, dent Of Livermore, CAL, was choked