The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-06-29
NORTHWEST NOTES

paid in full.
A postofice has been establisb.s
Gray Rocks, Laramie county w.
and Ester E. Atkinson commiss;o ~,
postmaster.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler. of Co.
has been selected president ~ - ~
University of California at a sal,
of slO,O 900 year.
Two colored men named CroroL
Bentley of the Twenty-fifth infans ~
Private Clay Of the IT,.
fourth infantry during a ouarrel :,
Cheyenne.
In San Francisco Bunker Hill A.
was observed by the firing of s,ln.
at all the forts in the harbor and j
flying of flags on residences and hr.'
ness houses
While attempting to crawl tbron.,
between some cars that were in mott.
Eddie Neiron, of Rock Springs. WV
received injuries from which he di.a
in few hours.
Charles Rathburn, the well-knom.
horseman, and R. N. Forncools h..
just consummated $50, 900 wool cal.
OF Wyoming wool to the Eiseman CON-
pany of Boston.
Manager Otto C. Floto of the r.,
orado Athletic association confirms ~.
announcement sent from CHICAGO tb.,
he has offered $50, 900 for 6gbt h.
tween Bob Fitzsimmons and Kid NJ
Coy.
A head-end collision between t,ro
freight trains occurred near Wiore.
mucca, Nevada, last week. Roth
engines were smashed beyond recoc
milton. Fireman Merrill was severelr
hurt.
Ex-United States Senator BeniamiD
E. Harding is dead at his home in Cot.
tage Grove, Ore. He was elected IA
the United States senate in 1862 to Gil
out the unexpired term of Senaor
E. D. Baker, deceased.
Pinkerton detectives armed and IN
uniform have been ordered bv the
chief of police to keep off the streets Of
Portland. The order is made under
the state law passed by the last legis
lature, prohibiting armed bodies Of
armed men, or armed patrols, other
than those appointed by law. from
parading on the streets of this city.
A II yearold boy was drowned in
the Spokane river last week, and
kodak enthusiast, who was taking
snapshot at the portion of the river
including the cofferdam where the
accident occurred, while focusing his
instrument saw the boys body pass
across the picture on the sighting lens
He was the only eyewitness to the
The 18th inst was observed as
public holiday in Cheyenne, the oeea-
sion being the laying of the corner
stone of the United States government
building, the foundation of which has
just been completed. The exercises
were under the auspices of the grand
lodge of masons of the state, the grand
master being Governor Defonst
Richards.
The commissioners of Converse
county, Wyoming, have appointed Tom
Cook to succeed Josiah Hazen, who
lost his life June ), in the fight on Tea.
pot creek, with the Union Pacific
train-robbers, as sheriff of the county,
A subscription is being taken up by
friends of the late sheriff to raise funds
to cancel mortgage of $500 which
covered his home at the time of his
death.
A Mason Valley, Nevada, boy while
driving the cows home one night last
week, was knocked down by the herd
and was being trampled to death,
when one old COW came to his assist
ance, and fought the rest of the herd,
keeping them away from the lad until
members of his family came to his
assistance. In the language of the
nursery poets, this COW will hence.
forth 'be dressed in the finest silk"
j. Frank Davis, chief deputy in the
office of d. NJ Dunno, collector Of in.
ternal revenue for the district of Ore.
gon, Washington and Alaska, has been
suspended pending the decision Of the
department at Washington, D. C.
Davis is charged with various violations
of the internal revenue laws during
the administration of ex-Collector
Henry Blac6man.
The estimated wool clip of Sweet
water county, Wyoming, for this year
is 100000 pounds. OF this 1,0OOON
pounds have been shipped to eastern
houses on consignment
about 100000 pounds have been sold
outright, and leo, 600 is in progress OF
being hauled from the shearing pens
to the railroads. The average price
which has been received on sales made
outright have been 11% cents per
pound.
The Rhodes Marsh borax works az
Hawthorne, New, have been destroyed
by fire, the loss being estimated "
$4,000. The origin of the fire is un'
known, but it is believed to have been
by Indians smoking cigarettes
under the building.