The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-09-07
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Engineer Beebe was killed aud Fire.
man Hill severely injured in a freight
wreck on the Bitter Root branch of thu
Northern Pacific railroad.
As the result of a lovers quarrel
George Bond of Denver. killed hi.
sweetheart, Goldie McKonkie, and put
three bullets in his own body. Bond
will recover.
The wool season at Big Timber
Mont, has come to close with rec
ord of 2,45O.0 900 pounds of wool re.
ceived. Prices ranged from 1411l to Is
cents per pound.
The sum of Sc, 900 has been raised for
the widow and children Of Sheriff
Hazen, the CONVERGE county, Wyoming,
sheriff, who was killed by the Wilcox
train robbers last June.
John A. Hancock of Durango, Colo,
and assistant professor of philogogy in
the Colorado university, has captured
the superintendency of the Santa Bar.
bara, Cal, city schools.
The body of Andrew Peterson was
found in the woods about two miles
from Spokane last week. A half-flled
bottle of morphine lying by his side
told the story of his death
The Second Oregon regiment has
| disbanded and the men have returned
to their peaceful occupations after if
teen months service in the volunteer
army of the United States.
The tie boom across the Platte river
at Fort Steele, Wyo., broke loose on
the 9Th inst. and 20, 900 railroad cross
ties were lost. number of these
will be recovered, but the loss will
probably reach $4,000.
Last week 81, 900, 900 in coin was sent
from the Carson, New, mint to San
Francisco. The money was placed in
5000 bags containing 81, 900 each The
money shipped from Carson was coined
there in 1890, since which time it has
been stored in the vaults.
The Denver Smeltermen's union has
voted almost unanimously to continue
it's strike until the American Smelling
and Refining company shall agree to
pay the wages awarded by the state
board of arbitration. The two large
shelters in Pueblo, as we'll as two in
Denver, are closed.
Northern Montana was visited by
very severe electrical storm on the 9TH
At Wolfpoint, near Glasgow, two half
breed girls, Ella Kneer and Daisy
Gerry, aged Is and 10, were struck and
killed. At Great Falls bolt struck
the freight house of the Great Falls G.
Canada railroad, setting it on fire and
destroying it.
A delivery from the state peniten.
tiary at Deer Lodge, Mont, was pre-
vented by the timely discovery of a
tunnel forty feet long, which for long
time the convicts had been at work on,
probably for months. A depression in
the ground of the yard gave the plans
away. The convicts were within four
feet of the wall and freedom when the
plot was discovered.
At the Carnegie fossil quarry in Wy.
oming, a huge fossil dinosaus, and a
new species of diplocadus, one of the
mammoth dinosaurs, which existed In
Jurassic times, have been unearthed.
! The whole length of the dinosaus was
sixty feet, and it stood twenty feet
] high at the hips, the thigh bone or
femur. being six feet long and fifteen
: inches in diameter. The animal had
head like frog.
No one has yet put in an appearance
to claim the estate of John Walsh.
: Walsh, it will be remembered. was q
stranger who died suddenly in Gard
! nerville, New, few weeks ago. After
: his death it was found that Walsh had
: on his person bank book showing de-
: posits to the amount of 1921 in the Hi
D hernia bank, San Francisco, and GER
!, tificate of deposit of 500 in the Washoe
I County bank at Reno. He also had
S24. 40 in cash.
At Colorado Springs, William Borden
shot and fatally wounded Miss Mabe
: McKenna because she refused to marry
him. The shooting occurred while
l. | tho IL inu ta~afhar Cara
i milo street. Borden escaped and the
y girl was taken to st. Francis hospital
Several hours afterward, the police
searching for Borden, came upon his
dead body near where he had attempt
II ed to kill his sweetheart. He had shot
n himself through the head.
|. In a shooting ARRAY at Rawlins,
e Wyo., w. A. Stewart, aged 81, was
v killed. Stewart, with two companions,
r; Al Rogers and T. A. Wallace, were re-
It turning from a dance. Rogers was
(. under the influence of liquor and fired
/. revolver into the air. This shot was
r. followed by several fred from crowd
u q short distance away, one OF whicn
struck Stewart in the right groin'
. from which be died almost instantly
A number of arrests have been made
but it is not known who fred the shot
The annual reports of the nine say
ings banks of San Francisco have JUS
been fled with the state bank commits
sioners, and shows their resources al
the close of business on July 81 to Ot
: $l23, 401 ,234.99, gain of 100000 II