The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-09-14
NORTHWEST NOTES

The transport Grant, with the W.
ming and Idaho troops, ARR ia
Nagasaki on the Eth, on her va,
San Francisco.
Troops C, E and F Of the Third a..
airy, under command of Major Wess.n
have arrived at Seattle and Joined ~
other troops Of the regiment at Cam
Robinson.
The dead body of man believed 10
be John W. Walton, a resident OF Al
buquerque, n. NJ, has been found
floating in the bay at the foot of Sew.
enth street, Oakland. Cal.
1t is now known that the man can.
tured at Carlsbad, n NJ, Tuesday q,
last week. after hard fight, is one Of
the robbers who held up the Colorado
& Southern train near Folsom on july
IA.
The store house of the Amalgamated
Copper company at Anaconda, Mont
was burned to the ground on the 18th.
entailing a loss of $4,000 The fire is
supposed to have been of ineendiarv
origin.
The Silver King mine in Crook coun.
ty, Or, has been sold to syndicate
represented by F. j. Quealy of Rock
Springs, Wyo., and J. F. Edwards Of
Salt Lake. The consideration is said
to be in the neigh borhood of 81 ,00O, 600.
Augustus Howard, known as the
Australian plunger,' whose some.
what mysterious relations with w. E.
Green, the Denver capitalist, have re.
Gently caused considerable comment.
is declared by San Francisco police to
be an escaped convict.
By the explosion of missed hole at
lime quarry at Anaconda, Mont,
James Mccullough lost his life, Pat
Mcmahon was fatally injured and two
Others seriously injured The men
had been warned, but the warning
was UNDECIDED Mccullough was lit.
orally blown to pieces.
Governor De Forest Richards and
staff leave Cheyenne on the night Of
August "a for San Francisco, to meet
the returning volunteers, who will ar
rive from the Philippines some time
about September /. During the stay
of the party in San Francisco the Oxi.
dental hotel will be its headquarters.
Two men, Clinton Dodson and Oliver
Benson, were arrested in the Galletin
valley, Mont, charged with the muir.
der of Eugene Cullinim. They were
rapidly making their way cut of the
state. The murdered mans watch was
found hidden in blanket They
came from the Black Hills and there is
a strong case against them.
Judge Richardson of the Spokane
superior court has made a ruling in
favor of the gas ompanyagainst the
Street Railway company in noted
electrolysis case. The Spokane Gas
company claimed its pipes were dam
aged by defective ground wire sys.
tenn of conducting electricity The
street railway will be enjoined from
further use of its defective apparatus.
j. M. Pickens, grand recorder of the
grand lodge of the A. o. U. w. for
Washington, mysteriouslv disappeared
a few days ago, He left Seattle osten-
sibly for Stellacoom. Nothing has
since been heard of him Grand Mas.
ter Workman Jones has appointed
James I. Bayer of Seattle to fill out
Pickens's term as recorder. Experts
are examining Pickens's accounts
Large quantities of apples shipped
lato Montana from California and
Utah are being condemned in Butte,
Anaconda and other parts of the state
because of infection by San Jose scale
and Goblin moth. The last Legislature
passed stringentlaw against the i'm.
portation of such infected fruit, and
the condemnation is made by the state
board of horticulture at the loss of the
shippers.
Foster Hogan, an ex-soldier of the
Twenty-fourth infantry, has beea par.
doned from the Wyoming penitentiary
by Governor Richards. Hogan was
serving one-year sentence for assault
with intent to kill His record during
the Santiago campaign is splendid
one, and as he is suffering with con,
sumption his pardon was recommended
by the surgeon of the penitentiary and
by number of army officers.
The statement is made that new
company, called the Santa Fe & Grand
Canyon Railway company, has already
begun the construction of railway
slxty-hve miles in length from VIII
liams, Ariz., to the Grand Canyon of
the Colorado. Active operations have
been going on for twenty days, and
twelve miles of roadbed from Williams
are graded. The company is financed
by Lombard, Wood & Co. of New
York.
George Wilson of Mason City, Ia, is
in Rawlins looking for his runaway
wife, who, he claims, deserted him
last spring and eloped with his broth
err, Irving Wilson. The injured hus
band claims that his brother came out
from New York to visit him, and a
once fell in love with his wife. The