The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-25

ming TO maze ltbclI Iclt III NcNauut
Humboldt county being the scene of
operations, and where new develop
ments promise good things.
Mrs. Emma ]. Smith, postmaster at
Dallas, Colo, has been arrested on the
charge Of defalcation. Her accounts
are $4,000 short Tho defalcation
covers period of nine years.
Dennis Thomas, colored, was shot at
Rock Springs, Wyo., on the sth inst,
by George Landers, a colored miner,
and has since succumbed to his in
juries. Landers escaped, but his cap
ture is certain.
The big copper mines in Montana
are down for dividends this month. The
Anaconda paid semi-annual dividend
of 81, SOC, 900 on the 3rd making 50, $780, |
900 to date. The Boston & Montana !
will pay a dividend of 5000, 900 on the
goth, making 81, $50, 900 this year, and
$40, 75o, 600 in all from the start.
Governor Richards of Wyoming and
associates, owners of the Osceola mine,
have purchased the Olive D. claim,
which adjoins the Osceola and Rude
feha mines in the Battle Lake district.
| Development work on the Osceola and
| Olive D. claims will be commenced as
soon as the season opens.
An unknown man was killed May IA
near Dana station, Wyo., on the Union
Pacific by being struck by the engine
of fast freight No. 81. The man had
apparently been sleeping on the track.
There was nothing on his person to
disclose his identity. The body was
turned over to the authorities Of Car
bon county for burial.
Commissioner Hermann of the gen.
eral land Office, has directed the super
vision of all the forest groves in Colo
RADIO, except the South Platte reserve
to warn threatened invaders that
sheep found within the limits of any
of the reserves would be put off and
the herders subjected to full penalty Of
the law for trespass.
The wool sales at Rawlins, Wyo.,
for the past week have aggregated
$4,000 pounds as against 6o5,ooo
pounds for the preceding week. Some
of the larger individual sales are as
follows: William Daley, 81, 900 pounds;
R. A. and Myron Smiley, 100000
pounds; johnson & Co., ITO, 900 pounds;
A. M. Startzell; $4,000 pounds.
w. B. Cowan, prominent stockman
of Saratoga, Wyo., died after an illness
of ten days, the immediate cause of
death being septic peritonitis. The
deceased was 40 years of age. He has
been connected with the livestock
business of Wyoming since 1884. He
was member of Rawlins Command
cry, Knights Templar, and leaves a
wife and three children.
Six hundred and five thousand
pounds of woods have been sold by
local sheepmen at Rawlins, Wyo., dur
!, ing the past week at prices ranging
from 10 to 10 cents per pound. The
practice of consigning the product to
Boston and other eastern houses for
storage and subsequent sale, is being
, abandoned, the producers preferring
the certainty of q direct sale to the
uncertainty of future prices
A beet-sugar factory is to be erected
near Salinas, Santa Clara county, Cal.
by Claus Spreckles, costing $4,000, 900
1t will be an immense plant, consum
ing 5000 tons of beets per day during
the operating season. It will turf
out forty-five tons of sugar ever,
twenty-four hours and distribute SIT,
600 per day. To supply the demand o
the factory, it will take 10000 acre
of land planted in this vegetable.
A. j. Joracke, aged 80, was browne,
in the Platte river, near Fort Steele
Wyo., the 18th inst. He was engages
In pulling ties from the river and, it i
supposed, slipped and was swept ava
by the swift current. The body ha
= not been recovered.
d While Montana's governor protest
d against the war in the philippines q
2 being un-American and in furtheranc
70 of policy that he believes is a menac
'e to the republic itself, he declines I
= make demand upon the governmer
= for the return of the volunteers.
u. Captain H. G. Nickerson, agent .
,r the Wind river reservation, is arrane
IS ing to go to Washington with ten rel
J. resentatives of Shoshones and Arap'
a hoes for the purpose of negotiating
- lew treaty with the government, tn
"a resent treaty expiring this year.
at The flooded area OF the Leadvil
a basin is now practically unwatere'
Eight large mines which closed dow
ID in 1896 on account of the strike wi
~ resume operations by June LIST, flu
- nishing employment to 700 men an
producing about 500 tons of ore dali