The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
NORTHWEST NOTES.

nounced.
The Grand Junction foundry at
irand Junction. Colorado, was destroy
ID by fire on the l4th inst. Loss S4,-
700, with insurance of So 900.
D. G. Corbin, of Spokane, and asso-
,iates, will establish beet-sugar fac
tory near Fairfield. Wash. One thou
sand acres of land have been secured /
for a site.
Frank R. Pellet, a Great Northern
freight conductor, was killed at Adrian,
twenty miles west of Spokane. He
was on the caboose into which light
crashed.
A huge avalanche of ice and snow on
the Great Northern railway near We'll
lington has done such damage that traf-
fic between Seattle and Spokane was
suspended for several days last week.
Mrs. Eichstad, of Olympia, Wash,
threw herself under Port Townsend
Southern train near Tumwater and
was instantly killed. She was about
60 years of age and OF unsound mind.
At Grand Junetian, Colorado, two
non-partisan tickets are in the field
for the voters to choose from at the
municipal election, and the Democrats
are contemplating putting up ticket.
The first train to reach Como, Colo,
from Denver since February 21, steam
ed into that city on March 10, and was
enthusiastically received by the citi-
zens of Como The train had been an
entire week coming from Grant, dis
lance of 29 miles.
! The train that has been snow bound
on the Cheyenne & Northern railroad
for the past four weeks, was aband-
oned on the 18th. The passengers
were taken in wagons from A!tus to
Horse Creek, where they were trans
ferred to a train and taken to Chey-
enne.
Railroad men report that fasteners
are coming to the northwest in greater
mum ers than ever before, even than in
the boom days of 1850. They have
been coming for thirty days, though
the stream has not been particularly
notable till within the past week OF
ten days.
"Red" Pipkin, leader of the gang
which held up Santa Fe Pacific train a
Grout's Station, New Mexico, on Marcel
30, 1898, has been lodged in jail at Win
nemucca, Nevada. Pipkin admits hi
identity and sic ned paper waving
requisition He will be taken to New
Mexico for trial.
Residents of the mining town o
Hayden Hill, Lassen county, Gala, II
the extreme northeastern portion O
the state, are greatly excited over a,
exceedingly rich strike of gold ore
The vein is about Is inches wide at
feet from the surface, and 1t is sal
prospects from $1,000 to S12, 900 pc
ton.
Messrs Keefe & Bradley, of Chey
enne, who are putting up the govern
ment building, have been given a col
tract to repair and rebuild the govern
ment palace in Havana, which is
be used as United States governmel
building A force of workmen will {
from Cheyenne to Havana at once
work on the proposed changes.
Serious range troubles are imminel
in eastern Laramie county on the ram
, between Salem and Horse creek b
tween Mark Goad and G. j. Heyshal
large stockmen, who recently placed
large number of cattle in this distriC
and number of small ranchmen w
9 occupied the range for several yea
> The small ranchmen have given t
! newcomers notice to vacate, or prepa
for trouble.
:. Robert Pillson, a noted character
r. the Platte valley, died at Saratoi
It Wyo. last week aged So. Pillson "
n an old-time freighter and Indi
- fighter. Lately he has been in pa
If nership with Lord Rolli, a wealt
Of Englishman, in the stock busine
Pillson weighed over 300 pounds, a
- nine years ago, under his personal
rection he had an immense coffin
himself made which weighed
IS pounds, and in which he was buried
" " The Wyoming state board of equ;
~ cation has raised the valuation uI
"a. live stock for purposes of taxation
per cent over last years rates. Rar
cattle are raised from SIS to $40
- head; range sheep from SITS to So
oh and other classes of stock, except
horses, which are unchanged,
. raised in the same proportion.
raise in these valuations will liner e
the assessed valuation Of the state
Wyoming S2,000,o00.
At Cripple Creek last week, j
Buzanez, Greek miner, shot and XII
Robert Shaw, another miner. 81
fred the first shot, when Buzanez
turned the fire, the bullet cutting
artery in Shaw's leg, from which
bled to death before physicians arri
Andrew A. Grome, the Democr
nominee for mayor of Victor, Colo.
dead, from the result of an explo
of giant ire-cracker in his hand W
he was celebrating the establishn
of Cripple Creek mining district in
separate county last week.
Six cars of steel rails for the ex