The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-01-26


Senator Hoar's resolution asking
the President to send to the Senate
the instructions given to the Peace
Commissioners was adopted after q
lively debate in secret session.-Ex
Charles NJ. Sain, publisher of the
Lovelock Tribune, is said to have
been selected to conduct the Silver
Knight Waterman since the retire.
ment Of Senator Stewart as publish.
Eek.
A cable dispatch from Paris says
that Aguinaldo has gone to Iloilo, at
the request of the Philippine Insur-
gents, to lead them, in view of pos
sible lighting with the American
ops.-Ex.
The sword of honor to be present.
ed at the direction of Congress to
Rear Admiral Dewey as national
recognition of his victory at Manila,
has been completed by Tiffany 4 Co.
and will be shipped to Washington
on Saturday. The sword is of %
karat gold, with the exception of the
the blade and the body of the scab-
bard, which are made of the finest
steel; sharkskin is also used at the
grip, and diamonds are used pro-
fusely in the ornamentation News.
New York, Jan. 90 Rear-Admi-
raj Schley was presented tonight
with jeweled sword by his brother
members of the Royal Arcanum at
Carnegie Music hall, in the presence
of 1000 persons. Gov. Lowndes of
Maryland and large number of ma
val officers were present. After receiv-
ing the sword with graceful speech,
Admiral Schley buckled it to his side
and shook hands with about 5000
persons. Tribune.
The Deseret News gives out the
information, purporting to be an
thentic, that the Union Pacific and
Oregon Short Line railroads are back
OF the Utah & Pacific proposition and
that the road will be pushed on to the
Pacific with all possible speed.
Mr.. McCune, in an interview in
the Tribune denies absolutely that
the Union Pacific or any other road
is behind his railroad venture, We
print the articles as they appear in
Tribune Sunday in another column.
Blade.
San Francisco has a lawsuit, over
a strip of land that is 2f inches wide,
1t lies just west of the Calvary church
property, and Mrs. Coda Alexander
demands possession of it and 81 900
damages for its retention by Mr.. A.
Aronson, who is building house
which Mrs. Alexander says encroach-
es on her land that much. Mr..
Aronson says that his house is en-
tirely on his own land, and that he
will tear it all down before he will |
pay 81 900 for 24 inches of land
Report.
Up in Oroville there is four
legged turkey which deserves COM |
mendation for its modesty and COM
mon sense. 1t is the only biped with
double supply of legs on the ranch,
but it has never strutted any for that
reason and has never even taken ad-
vantage of its fellows in the matter
OF its extra supply of fighting wea-
pons. 1t modestly walks on two legs
at time, the same as its fellows, and
keeps the extra legs folded up in its
feathers until it gets tired, then it
let's down the extra ones and tucks
up those it has been using.-Report.
A Dakota paper gives the follow
ing account of cyclone: "a south
western wind tumbled weeds and
Russian thistles through the air at
twenty-mile gait, and the gate went
too. Many stoves were drawn out of
chimneys; the strong wind blew in
the neck Of bottle and blew the
bottom out. Nebraska wagon tracks
went over the town by the thousands. |
The strain on wire fences was SO great |
that staples were drawn out on the
north side Of the posts. A kerosene
barrel standing in front of a grocery
store wa sucked out by the bung
hole and turned inside out like la
dy's slipper. The dirt blew from a
post hole on the hillside and left the
hole sticking out of the ground two
feet with no dirt around it. Elk.
Use Damask Instead of Flowers.
Flowers are never used In Tuscanv
but at Christmas and Easter all the
walls of the cathedrals are decked with
wonderful damask of almost priceless
value