The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-08-03
NORTHWEST NOTES.

washington Ior 1875 Is estimated at
80, Ala, 794 bushels.
Fire broke out in Reno, Nevada, on
the night of the 4th, and a number of
buildings were destroyed.
At Oakland, Ore, fire destroyed two
entire blocks of store buildings. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Collector of Internal Revenue Lynch
announces the total receipts for the
First district of California for the fiscal
year ending June 80, at s3,724.47s.
George Hyde was held up by two
men near Lakeview, Wash He re-
sisted and one of the robbers shot him
in the hip, inficting a serious but not
fatal wound.
The main building at the White Sui.
phur Springs, near Elko, New, was
destroyed by fire last week. This is
the second time the place has been de-
stroyed by fire.
Emile Anderson, fireman. fell from
his engine between Borie and Chey.
enne, Wyo., and was horribly mangled.
He was not missed until the train ar
rived in Cheyenne.
The Burlington surveying corps
operating in Wyoming has now reached
the Elk Mountain coal fields, where
the company is interested to the ex-
tent of $4,000 patented acres.
At Victor, Colo, five tons of dyna-
mite was exploded on the Fourth, in
blasts of 200 pounds each, the last
charge consisting of 500 pounds. The
shock was felt at Pueblo, eighty miles
away.
About 100000 pounds of Nevada wool
was shipped to St. Louis last week.
This is the first Nevada wool to go to
the eastern city, the greater portion
heretofore being sold to San Francisco
merchants.
According to reports received at the
adjutant generals office, fifty nine
members of the Second Oregon volun-
teers have been killed in battle or
died of disease since the regiment
left, on May Is, 1898.
The officials of Winnemucca, New,
have brought to the notice of the war
department the outrages committed by
soldiers of the Twenty-fourth while
en- route to the Philippines, and the
guilty parties will probably be appre-
hended and punished
While workmen were preparing to
solder leaky kerosene can at the
Continental oil works, Butte, case
of gasoline exploded, burning Robert
L. Langstaff, one of the employees, so
badly that he died. John Gillston
was badly burned. The other men
say there was no fire near the stuff at
the time.
The old wagon road from Lake Ia
class repair at cost of $4,000 to the
state of California. 1t is one of the
most beautiful roads in California,
winding, as it does, through the higher
Sierras, along canyons of great depth,
and commanding views of surprising
grandeur.
A relief expedition is being organized
to search for Messrs. Henry Neleigh
John Hanna and Hanson, who left
Virginia City, Nevada, nearly three
months ago on prospecting trip. The
last heard from the party was in the
early part of May, when they were
camped in the vicinity of Pine Grove
Esmeralda county, Henry Neleigh
the captain of the party, is an expert
enced backwoodsman.
, Dan Lucey has been convicted a
, Butte, Mont, of numbering Patricl
, Reagan. Lucey and Reagan left Butt,
| on September last to go to British
Columbia for work. Reagan had con
/ siderable money with him. His body
was found next day some distance from
the railroad track in the canyon. TIL,
head had been smashed with a rocl
and the pockets rihed. Lucey was
/ caught later in Victor, Colo
The Nebraska, Wyoming & Western
railroad has fled articles of incorpora
tion with the secretary of state o
Wyoming. This company is engaged
: in building line of railroad soutl
!, from Alliance Neb., to the main lin
of the burlington, which enters Den
7, yer. From Camp Clark, on the Platt
, river, and about forty miles south o
Alliance, line is now being built t
the Hartvills iron mines and on Yves
through Wyoming.
q Near Bozeman, Mont, on the nigh
S of the 4th, a bicyclist, supposed to b
g W. F. Rhoada of Sparta, Wis, wa
9 shot and killed. lie was attemptin
l. to enter the cabin of William Adam
9 and had just pried open the shutter
q the window, when trap gun was di'
! charged and he received the full fore
q Of its contents in the left side. Th
IL cabin had been robbed several times
II and Adams had taken this means t
= protect his property from tramps, wit
the above fatal results.
Since July the Oregon Short Lin
has moved over / 600 cars of sheep an
4 cattle east from near the Oregon lin
and the rush is as heavy at present I
(, during any part of the season.