The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-06-01
NORTHWEST NOTES.

lngton state university elected John
/. Condor dean of the law department.
In olympia, Wash, DIR. and Mrs. Relic
Howard have been arrested on a war
rant from Peoria, H.. charging them
with malpractice.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron company
has closed its coal mine at Crested
Butte indefinitely, throwing 400 men
out OF employment
All the great wheat producing coun-
ties of California expect that the yield
will be mp to the average, aud in some
sections will be exceptionally heavy.
The copper product of the state of
Montana for the year 1898 was SCI, 6O4,-
900, while Arizona produced STA, $780,
600, California 81, $50, 600, and Colorado
s1,7l0, 600
Secretary Hitchcock has approved
for patent to the state of Wyoming a
list of lands selected under the school
grant aggregating 1l1,s72 acres in the
Cheyenne district.
A union of smelter employees has
been organized in Denver for the ex-
press purpose of resisting efforts by
the smelters to reduce wages when the
new eight-hour law goes into effect.
A match has been made between
Kid Mccoy and Joe ChoynslSi by the
Colorado Athletic club, to be pulled off
as soon as the new prize fight law
takes effect, for purse of s1o, 900.
1t has just developed that the regis
tered mail pouch which was stolen on
the morning of May IL, contained four
teen Jefferson county bonds of 5000
each, numbered 100 to 113 inclusive.
1t is expected by the officials of the
Cheyenne & Northern that 100, 900 head
of cattle will move north over their
line during the present season. 1t will
require more than 100 trains to move
this business and many extra men.
Ralph Coates of the First California
volunteers, reported to be missing from
his command in the Philippines, is a
native of Humboldt county, Cal, aged
2s years. He was one of the crack
football players of Stanford university.
Henry Rice,a Nevada, man, has
returned from Manila trip. He went
there to bring home his son, who is
private of battery B, Utah light artil-
lery, bat the young soldier declined to
return, as he preferred to remain and
see the thing out, as he expressed it.
Former Senator Cannon of Utah and
Senator Teller of Colorado were in
conference for several hours in Denver
one day last week. Both refuse to give
the object or the result of their meet
ing, but admitted that they were to-
gether to talk ''some politics."
AID Utah
Snow fighters are still at work with
dynamite and shovel on the mountain
system of the Colorado & Southern
road. Without the aid of dynamite it
is claimed the banks will soon dis
appear, before the 9th of July. The
line between Como and Gunnison may
be open this week.
j. W. Edwards and associates are
engaged in completing the contract for
furnishing 400, 900 ties to the Oregon
Short Line Railway company at Green
River. The ties are being cut and
banked on the headwaters of the Green
river and will be run down to Green
River station when the high water SUBJ
sides sufficiently to enable this to be
done with security.
The past week was a favorable one
for farm work in Wyoming, and seed
ing is now nearing completion in the
more backward sections of the state.
Some of the early-sown grain is up in
the eastern counties. Grass is sup
porting stock in most portions of the
state, but it is in need of more rain.
In the vicinity of Cheyenne the range
grass is backward, and is not far
enough advanced at present for the
stock
A couple of Nevada men have re-
Gently come into possession of a Curl
osity in petrified body. The men
found the body in Death valley in south I
ern California, while they were en-
gagged in mining, and by careful work
were enabled to remove it from the
earth without breaking any of the
members. The body is five feet eight .
inches long and it was evidently that !
of man of strong physique, for il now
weighs approximately 800 pounds.
The estimated wool clip of Casper,
and vicinity for this year is
3, 1000, 900 pounds, which is about 100,
900 pounds short of last years clip.
The shortage is accounted for by the
fact that this years wool is much
cleaner than that of, last year. The
quality of the wool put on the market
this spring has never been better.
With but few exceptions it is very
clean, and is long in texture and sta
Pile. Prices have ranged from II to IL
cents.
The Cheyennes on the reservation
are again becoming restless and ugly.
News has just been brought from Miles
City that while stepdaughter of
Rancher Hanson was riding along on