The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-07-13
NORTHWEST NOTES

On the 2Oth ult BE was strp.Ls -
runaway empty cara
It Is stated that German e,,,..y
intend TO soon build a great smsl,.-
Shasta county, Cal The new sn.,.
win double the copper output of sb,..'
county.
Vincent Ryan, a prominent nsw.,.
per man of the Pacific coast and a.
Of the Tacoma News, dropped a.,
Thursday morning in Tacoma re.,,~
rant
Paul Reuther, a stone mason a..
mitted suicide at Spokane by iumD;.
into the river. He had acted ous.,Is
for several days, and it is supposed i.
became insane over financial dif,sr,
ties
The Bimetallic smelters at Leadvir.
have resumed operations, emplov;,-
about eighty men. The Arkansas Vi
ley and Union smelters, employing sO0
men, have made no effort as vet 10 :.
sumo.
Clarence T. Johnson of Cheyepns
has been appointed an assistant in I.
rigation, agricultural department !,
$500 per annnm. The appointmeu,
was made through the civil serEi..
commission.
The company Of the Tweuty-fourtb
infantry which has been stationed a,
Fort Russell has departed for the Phil.
ippines. A troop of the First Unitss
States cavalry has taken their plsc.
ut Fort Russell.
Soldiers of companies L and NJ, Twep.
ty-fourth infantry, raided saloon a,
Winnemucca, New, while their train
was passing through there en- route
for the Philippines, stole what LIQUOR
there was in sight and shot the bar.
tender, infiicting painful wound
The train was searched, but the cul.
prits were not identified.
The sum of $4,9O3, o95. OF, or 32.2 Der
cent is the gain in net receipts at the
United States branch mint in Denver
for the fiscal year ending June 80, over
that of 1898. For the last twelve
months the gold received and paid 70,
at this mint was s2l ,144, PAT, as agains,
SIC, 24o, 44I.e3 for the year ending June
80, 1898. About 81 per cent of the bull.
lion received at the mint is credited to
Colorado mines.
The manager of the Fountain hotel,
Yellowstone park, says that on the
Goth inst, and continuing until 1850
without intermission, there was an
eruption from crater about fifty feet
north of the Fountain geyser, which
has always been considered to be moth
ing more than a pool. The size Of the
opening is about the same as the
famous Fountain geyser. The erup
ton played from 200 to $50 feet high
The San Francisco coroner's jury
which investigated the killing Of
Charles Kopp by his wife, found that
the shooting was a case of justi6able
homicide. Kopp was attentive to an
other woman, to whom he had decided
most of his property. The wife, who
is a consumptive, was goaded TO her
murderous act by Kopp dedantly tell
ing her that she no longer had place
in his affections and admitting her ac-
cusations against him.
The Colorado Paris exposition con-
mission has made a contract with l.
D. Higbee, representative of the
largest statue-casting firm in the
country, for solid gold statue for ez
hibition at the Paris exposition. TIT
design represents an 'up-to-date
girl, the figure of life-size being cas-
in solid gold, IS karats fine, the cas-
with its base being six feet four inehe
In height. 1t is estimated that mil
lion dollars worth of gold will be used
A party of recruits from Cleveland
O., en- route to the Philippines, started
riot in the railroad yards at Denver
on the 30th ult., by assaulting ca
repairer with a razor. In the hgh
which ensued, large number OF rail
road men took hand and one solde
had three ribs broken and severa
others received severe wounds. IW
of the soldiers, named j. j. Posey AM
j. H. Masterson, were arrested by tn
police and held for disturbance.
David Doty, ranchman of Uini
county, Wyoming, had an encoun'e
with bears last week that came nea
costing him his life, The old maj
who is SO years old, ran up againS
three bears. He shot one, the secon
fought him to a finish and the tnir
ran away. Bear No. 2 got on TOP
him after shooting bear No ! oeior
he could reload his rifle, and there wa
a lively hugging match. Doty cam am
out victorious, but he will stay iI !"
hospital awhile.
A Union Pacific fireman named bm
Anderson, fell from the running-ooar
Of his engine coming down Sherma
hill, in Wyoming, and was run over '
the entire train of fifty cars his ooO
being terribly mangled. The deceaS'
was single man.
Lightning struck house in SpokaD'
turning everything in the house "
side down, and breaking bedsIs'
into thousand pieces on when
woman and her child were sleeP.,n'
. but strange to say neither the NOW