The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-09-21
NORTHWEST NOTES.

was outclassed.
A stock buyer recently purchased
e5, 900 head of lambs in one bunch,
near Reno, Nevada, the price being in
the neighborhood of sos, 900.
S. B. Roberts shot and killed Nate
Young at Big Timber, Mont. The men
were ranehers and had quarreled over
a piece of government land.
The Wyoming soldiers will return on
q special train, which will cost in the !
neighborhood Of $4,000. Nearly every
town in the state is raising funds
The sparring exhibition given at the
Olympic Athletic club, Denver, for the
benefit of the free train fund of the
Colorado volunteers, Melted about $500.
1t is estimated that 10000 people
from various towns in Colorado and
Wyoming attended the first days ses-
sion of the Frontier celebration at
Cheyenne.
A four-year-old son of John Lam
bert of Spokane, while playing, lay
down on the railroad track and fell
asleep. A few moments later q train
crushed the life out of the little one.
Simon T. Morse, while working
placer ground in Butte, was slowly
smothered to death by cave-in. His
little daughter saw the accident and
ran for assistance, which came too
late.
Mrs. Wallen, wife of Northern Pa
cific section boss, ran in front of q
passenger train at Painted Rock, Mont,
to shoe turkeys from between the
rails. The effort cost her her life and
the turkeys were killed, too.
Near Topaz. Nevada, last week two
men were riding in horse race, when
one hit the other one over the head
with whip to keep him from win
ming. A lively fight ensued in which
one of the parties was badly, probably
fatally injured.
Harry Staininger, II years of age,
was killed and Frank Murdoch, also II
years old, mortally wounded by Henry
Bartholmus of ouray, Colo, whose
watermelon patch they were raiding.
Bartholmus says he shot intending
only to scare the boys.
George Wilson, the man who came
to Rawlins, Wyo., looking for his wife,
who had eloped with his brother,
found the guilty couple at Encamp-
ment, Wyo., where they were living as
husband and wife. They are now in
the clutches of the law.
During the celebration of Frontier
day at Cheyenne, while Nelson Perry,
q cowboy, was roping wild steer, the
animal, which was ferocious beast,
upset the horse and rider, the cowboy
falling under the horse and receiving
Injuries which may prove fatal.
The annual celebration of Frontier
day at Cheyenne came to an end with
a grand reception given at the
capitol in honor of the Frontier day
bride and groom and the twenty-five
bridesmaids. During the two days
celebration the exciting scenes of thir-
ty years ago were re-enacted.
John Korte, wealthy retired mer-
chant of Cincinnati, dropped dead on
the streets of Leadville on the 21st. He
has been q sufferer from heart disease
forsome years and heart failure was the
cause of his death. He was one of the
Cincinnati excursion party, which was
spending few hours in the city.
News comes from San Francisco OF
the death of L. p Drexler. Deceased
was for years a mining man in Nevada
and member of the legislature thai
sent Fair to the senate. He was noted
for his enterprise and independence OF
judgment. His first trip to the west
was from St. Louis to Salt Lake by OF
team.
John Audrachi reports to the Helena
Mont, authorities that while crossing
the Mullan pass over the main rang,
of the Rockies, he was held up by tw,
highwaymen, who, after robbing him
bound and gagged him and lowered
him into a shallow prospect hole som,
distance from the trail. He would hay,
remained there to starve had not ,
man named Murphy, believed to be on
of the gang, pulled him out long ate
the other robber had gone away.
The state board Of equalization de
cided to raise the assessment of Mon
, tana in excess of the total assessment
as eqaulized by the county boards. Il
doing this the board invites lawsuit o
, big proportions as it will be disregard
ing deision of the supreme court mad
in 1896, which was in effect that stat
equalizers could neither raise nor lowe
the aggregate assessment as equalize
by the county board. The contemplate
increase in assessment would probabl
amount TO S3,OO0, 200.
4 What appeared to be case of at
tempted white-capping occurred o
Cache creek, Colo, near the Utah line
A. Corley, G. Corley, Harry Smith an
i. Willis Kissee, ]. E. Walker and Oti
, Corley are already under arrest an
warrants are out for others. One Evan
charges that masked mob surround
. ing his home and with all manner Q
threats tried to force him to leave hi
. | land and compel his son to SIGN a dee