The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-08-17
NORTHWEST NOTES.

laid the cornerstone of the Wadsworth
school building last week.
Rev. John Morrison, a prominent
clergyman of Portland, died in YisL
lowstone Park while on an outing.
The efforts of the people of Portland
to get the Second Oregon regiment
back before they are mustOr-- out
have been fruitless.
A California sugar company has
purchased a ranch of 5,576 acres in
that state and will plant the entire
tract to sugar beets.
1t is stated that among 200 patients
at the Preside there are onlylthree
cases of typhoid fever and that there
is little danger of it becoming cpl
demic.
government survey is being made
Of the plot of ground presented by the
state of Wyoming to the government
for park. The plot is one mile square
and contains the Thermopolis springs.
Donald and Robert Matheson, aged
10 and 10 years, were drowned while
bathing near Matheson, Ebert county,
Colo. The older of the two boys was
drowned while trying to save the life
of his brother.
Superintendent Barton of the Oregon
Sugar factory, says the outlook for a
good crop of beets is good. Notwith-
standing the hot weather the beets
seem to be standing the drought in
excellent shape,
At Durango, Colo, about 100 union
smeltermen persuaded thirty nom
union men to leave the American
Smelling and Refining company's
smelter, and it is believed the attempt
to resume operations will have to be
abandoned.
Fl. L. Wheeler, until recently we'll
known merchant of North Ontario,
has been killed by landslide near
Dells Camp, Gala. He was buried I'M
der mass of rock that was shaken
loose from the mountain side by an
earthquake shock.
Thomas Holman, assistant electrician
at the Rarus mine, at Butte, was in
stantly killed while putting carbon
into an arc light. He held on to the
frame of the light as he stepped from
a board to the damp earth, thus estah-
fishing ground connection.
, Masked men took John Doyle, en-
gineer of the Garfield Grouse mine at
Cripple Creek, from his work and beat
him severely. The men at the Garfield
) Grouse are unable to conjecture what
3 was the cause of the outrage. All the
S men employed at the mine are unior
r men.
A serious timber fire was raging in
s the hills west of Washoe valley, Ne
9 vada, last week The second growth
I and down timbers were burned, larg'
i amount of cut cordwood destroyed ant
a number of ranches threatened by tn
flames, but up to date no fatalities ar
reported.
Judge John Bowman, a Nevada pi
oneer, is dead. He came to Nevada
1862, and was pioneer of Austin an
. Belmont and was twice elected to tn
% assembly from Nye county and serve
>, one term as speaker of the house.
~ 1877 he came to Reno, where he live
u during the remainder of his life.
: At Pasco, Wash, an unknown ms
:; entered the house OF Frank Schun
man, attacked Mrs. Sehuneman with
scythe, and was shot and killed by h
son, Louis Schuneman. The dead mi
:, was tramp. He had presented hil
10 self at the house the previous evenil
A. and asked for food, which was fl
a. nished him.
es Donald j. Cameron, the Leadvi
business man arrested on the char
of highway robbery, and who was
badly injured from bullet wound IL
in he could not be removed from
home, escaped from the guard plac
-
he lures a short time afterward.
To- wife will be prosecuted for assisting
nd his escape.
en- Dave Edwards, of Rock Springs, a
'th his wife got into an alteration, WI
The Dave attempted to emphasize his arr
nd ment with physical force, whereup
ey. Mrs. Edwards secured pistol and P
en- sented her better half with four leaC
me pills. Dave is in the hospital, W
about even chances for his life, VIII
Mrs. Edwards will stand trial for
attempt to commit murder.
me- During the visit of Governor Tan
of Illinois to Colorado he was taken
and grand hunt by prominent Colora
ters ans, when he killed mountain Ii
the which he will have mounted and s
lty, to his home. He also shot yol
ates deer, which is against the law,
for penalty being fine of $40 to $500,
was ten days to six months in Jail, or be
en- and the governor may yet have trouI
any as the game warden declares his I'M
ton of prosecuting the culprit u
his return from California.
One of the largest cattle deals knC
lingo in northern Montana was closed
week when Oscar Stephens of
rom Mapinnis purchased the property