The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-04-13
NORTHWEST NOTES.

The Union Pacific land department
has leased 100, 600 acres of land to Lara.
mic county stoekmen for term of five
years.
Gardner, the insane sheepherder who
recently disappeared from oseeola,
New, has been located at Current
Creek.
In n row in a saloon at Rabare,
Mont, Charles Buckley was shot and
killed by Charles Simmons The two
men had been at outs for some time.
The president has signed a procla.
nation opening to settlement on May
4th next the larger portion of the
Southern Ute reservation in Colorado.
Two ranch hands of the Judith ba-
sin, Montana, named Rodgers and Will
son, quarreled over a woman, and Will
son was stabbed seventeen times and
will die.
The president has appointed ]. Blair
Shoenfeldt of Douglas, Wyo., as agent
for the Indians of the Union agency in
the Indian Territory, vice D. NJ. Wis
dom, resigned.
The building and machinery of the
Butte General Electric works were
damaged by fire to the extent of $780,
900 one night last week. 1t caught in
the roof from n y,,ira
Stuart Rice has been appointed re-
ceiver for the Tacoma & Columbia
River Railway company in Washing
ton on the petition of the bondholders,
the Continental Trust company of New
York.
The body of Fireman Murray, who
lost his life in collision near Missoula,
Mont, last winter, has been discov-
cred. The body was so mutilated that
it could only be identified by the
clothing.
Joseph Smith was crushed to death
by cave-in at the Los Angeles mine,
Cripple Creek, and three others were
injured, but not fatally. Smith is the
last of four brothers to meet violent
deaths in this district.
Two masked robbers entered the
cabin of Andrew Michaels, near Col
vile, Wash, and held the unfortunate
mans bare feet over the fire, in order
to make him disclose the whereabouts
of his money. His feet were severely
| burned.
A daring hold-up was perpetrated at
| Winuemucca, Nevada, one night last
week. Three masked men entered
Jim Gutridge's saloon, covering the
crowd at the time in the room with
revolvers. Gutridge was slow in
throwing up his hands and was beaten
over the head with a revolver. The
robbers secured over 500 and escaped.
Companies L and of the Twenty
fourth United States infantry left Fort
Russell last week for San Francisco
There were 1SS men in the companies,
which were Differed by Captain Brent
and Lieutenants Rowland and Morse
The troops occupied special train of
ten cars and were given arousing fare
well reception at the depot.
Workmen have been sent to Jules
burg to commence the laying of the
new steel on the Union Pacific road
from that point to Denver The line
was originally part of the Gulf sys-
tenn and during the receivership got
into bad physical condition. New rails
will be laid the entire distance and
the track rebuilt. Rough rails are on
the ground now for forty miles.
Thomas M. Murray died in Butte
April from the effects of horrible
burns received while working around
the converters. A ladle of molten cop.
per was raised with the electric derrick:
when in midair, or some twelve feet
above Murray it tipped and the red
hot copper struck him, burning a hole
deep into his head and waist and burn
ed almost to his entrails.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with Oregon's secretary of state
of the Eastern Oregon Land and Irri-
CATION company. They will build
reservoirs at Spring Cove and Cow
Valley on Willow Creek and can bv
this means reclaim 10, 900 acres of valu-
able land above Vale, Oregon. This
company has project on foot to supply
Huntington with water by system OF
storage reservoirs.
At the recent city elections Anaconda
elected the entire Democratic ticket
except police justice, Butte elected a
Democratic mayor and four aldermen
the Republicans electing city treasurer
police justice and four aldermen. Al
Missoula Republican mayor and tbs
majority of the council was elected
At Helena five Republican and three
Democratic aldermen were elected
Livingston went Democratic and Boze
man Republican.
The sheep losses in the Belle Fouch,
country, Wyoming, will not exceed
per cent. In some instances the WOO
of the sheep would be found frozen t,
the ground and the herder would hav,
to cut the animal loose before it coult
get on its feet.
The Northwest Telephone compan,
is pushing their line into the Sever
Devils country from Huntington, Ore
gon, and will connect with the Ions