The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-04-20
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Facifc and the road through Saratoga,
wyoming, seem to be assured,
Hon. Ii. A. w. Tabor, postmaster of
Denver and formerly United States
senator from Colorado, is dead.
The grand lodge A. o. U. W. of
Washington has adopted the Classic
cation assessment, by a vote of 100 to 90.
Over mile of the Union Pacific
track near Edison, Wyo., was washed
out last week, causing some delay in
traffic.
A little girl named Clara Woods fell
into Lake MERGED, California. Her
aunt attempted to save her and both
were drowned
A fund OF more than 81, 900 was sub
scribed in Spokane for Florence Crit
teDton home for fallen women. This
will be the ffty-fourth of these homes.
In Grass valley, CAL, Charles Dial,
one of the best known base ball players
in California, died of brain fever,
caused by injuries received in a game.
The president has issued a procla-
nation fixing the limits of the South
ern Ute Indian reservation in Colorado
1t is intended to correct some technical
errors.
William King, supposed to be a
crook, shot Otto c. Giles, a musician,
in Tacoma, Wash, in a saloon quarrel.
Giles is not dangerously hurt and King
is under arrest.
According to the latest report of
Weather Forecaster Bradenberg, the
total snowfall at Leadville during the
winter was 252 inches, at Brecken-
ridge, ais inches.
In Prescott, Ariz., T. G. Barlow-Mas-
sick, wealthy young Englishman,
died from the effect of wound which
he received last May by the accidental
discharge of his pistol.
Robert Armstrong, unmarried, died
at Diamondville, Wyo, on Saturday
night from the effect of injuries re-
ceived from coal falling upon him
while coupling cars in mine No. 2.
William o. Owen of Laramie, late
state auditor of Wyoming, has been
appointed special examiner of surveys
for the department of the interior at
salary of $4,000 year and expenses.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway
hospital at Salida Colorado, has been
destroyed by fire. The patients were
all removed in safety, The loss is
$4,000, fully insured. The recently
built annex was saved.
The South Park line of the Colorado
& Southern Railroad company is still
blockaded by snow beyond Brecken-
ridge, but the rotary is making good
progress and the line will probably be
opened before the end of the week.
A cablegram received from London
announces that w. S. Station has sold
his famou S Cripple Creek mine, the In
dependence, to the Venture company
of London. The price is not stated,
but it is believed to be not less than
$4,000, 900, and it may be very much
larger.
Cooler weather in Montana stopped
the floods which threatened to DESTROY
much property and life. Fifteen lives
were lost near Miles City, the parties
having been forced to take refuge in
tree by the forming of an ice gorge,
from which they were later washed
one at a time, there being but one
survivor.
Juege Hallett in the United States
Circuit court at Denver has refused to
grant an injunction to prevent the con-
solidation of the Denver street rail
ways. The injunction was applied for
by Flora Fields, stakeholder of the
Denver Consolidated Tramway COM
pany. The court held that the section
OF the state constitution forbidding
consolidation of parallel railway lines
does not apply to street railways.
Senator Warren of Wyoming is work.
ing to have the necessary steps taken
to have the Shoshone Indian reserva-
ton thrown open to settlement. Dur
ing the recent session Of the fifth state
legislature, memorial was adopted
asking congress to appoint commits
sion to treat with the Indians for the
purchase of the reservation and ar
range for opening it to white settlers
The Shoshone reservation contains
about 100000 acres of land, nearly
seventy miles square.
The Nevada supreme court has over
ruled the demurrer of the plaintiff in
the Gubernatorial election case of Nc
MILAN VS.. Sadlep, the decision being
with Governor Sadler on every point
at issue and practically winning the
case for him.
Edward A. Won Schmidt, a well.
known yatchman and bar pilot, shot
and killed his former wife, Mrs. lisa.
bella Won Schmidt, who had been d.
vorced from him on the ground OF
cruelty, and then committed suicide at
Alameda, California.
Three thousand new freight cars
have been ordered by the Southern
Pacific in anticipation of heavy bust