The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-10-26
NORTHWEST NOTES.

spected this season.
Last season was the most prosperous
in the history of the Yellowstone Ma.
tional Park association.
The First Montana volunteer regi.
ment was mustered out of the service
on the nth inst. amidst great enthusi-
asm.
A contract has been awarded for the
construction of an electric railroad be-
tween Tacoma and Seattle, a distance
of twenty-eight miles.
William Wallace Thayer, formerly
governor and chief justice of Oregon,
died at Portland on the 10th inst, aged
70 years He came to Oregon in 1862.
Rev Paul Kruger, a cousin of the
famoas Transvaal chief, pastor of the
United Brethren church at Ukiah, Or,
has fallen heir to an estate in Ger
many.
A landslide on the Junction road last
week between Grand Junction and
New Castle, Colo, delayed traffic for
some time and did considerable damage
to property.
NJ. Jones, Union Pacific brakeman,
fell from the rear of the engine tank
near Rawlins last week. Thirty-eight
cars passed over his body and he was
literally ground to pieces.
The Montana regiment was given a
rousing reception at Oakland, General
Shafter made short address, commend
ing the men for their excellent service
in the Philippines, and spoke highly Of
their bravery.
Mrs Lydia Adams Williams, bright
| nnwspaper woman of Genoa, New, has
! been appointed by the Nevada State
Board. of Paris Exposition Commission.
ers as corresponding secretary for the
| board.
At the Presidio last week, Colonel
Wholley of the First Washington vol
unteer regiment was presented with
magnificent sword by the men of his
regiment, who adopted this means of
showing the esteem in which they hold
their colonel
"Some of Wyomings Vertebrate Fos-
sils" is the title of book Just gotten
out by the Union Pacific passenger de-
partment. 1t deals with the renowned
fossil fields of the state, which were
recently visited by party ofcclebrated
biologists.
A number of miners of Nevada are
turning their attention to the search
for copper ores, and it is being practi-
cally demonstrated that the state has
millions of tons of the red metal, as
well as gold, silver, lead and other
minerals.
James Walsh recently applied to the
Cheyenne police for assistance in get
ting money from Salt Lake, showing
papers proving he had $1,000 deposited
in that city. He had been robbed End
!
funds.
From Pima, Ariz., comes the report
that ten negro soldiers of the Twenty
fifth infantry, stationed AT San Carlos,
attacked an Apache Indian camp at
night with clubs and beat four bucks
into insensibility. There is fear of an
uprising as result of the deed.
The.sensational suit brought by Rob-
ert and Mary Chatham to secure &C
acknowledgement of the claim to be con-
sidered children of the late Callfornia
, capitalist Robert Mills, ended with q
verdict in their favor They will get a
share of his $500, 600 estate.
At Leadville, Colo, tNo thousand
, people saw Paddy Purtell in the fifth
round knock out Danny Needham, Of
st. Paul in one of the hardest battles
| ever fought in that city. The mer
q were pretty evenly matched. but Pur
q tells fierce rushcs won the fight.
!. w. Norris, formerly resident o.
t Helena Mont, has been arrested on
! charge of bigamy. Norris, who ha
: several aliases, has been engaged II
r mission work under y" auspices of thu
/ Methodist church. lie has three wive
It in different parts Of the country.
II. Maitland kerwin of the Englisl
> army, major in the Seaforth High
: Ianders, was on a hunting trip in Wye
ming when the news of war between
England and the Beers reached him
He left Laramie on the first train T.
join his regiment.
:, Dave Putty and Bud Nolan, who wer
/. arrested at Dillon, Mont, in July a
:, suspected participants in the Union ia
a ciic robbery at Wilcox bridge, "yon
ing, have been released on writ 9
"a habeas corpus, it being proved the me
were not in that vicinity when Tn
crime was committed.
d Robert j. Boykin, an ex-polieema'
d held up Austin's pool-room in DenVe
and secured S4 900. The place had bee
closed for the night, but Boykin, WI
was acting as special policeman at u
. club, induced the cashier to return an
rs compelled him to open the safe. 30
III kin has killed two men in the past al
Is it is doubtful if he will be capture
iP without desperate fight.
- S. c. Gillespie, aged 20, has confess