The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-08-31
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Rev. John Morrison, a prominent
clergyman of Portland, died in Vel
lowstone Park while on an outing.
The efforts of the people of Portland
to get the Second Oregon regiment
back before they are musts7-. out
have been fruitless.
A California sugar company has
purchased a ranch of 5,576 acres in
that state and will plant the entire
tract to sugar beets.
1t is stated that among 76O patients
at the Preside there are only three
cases of typhoid fever and that there
is little danger of it becoming cpl.
demic.
A government survey is being made
of the plot of ground presented by the
state of Wyoming to the government
for park. The plot is one mile square
and contains the Thermopolis springs.
Donald and Robert Matheson, aged
~ and 10 years, were drowned while
bathing near Matheson, Ebert county,
Colo. The older of the two boys was
drowned while trying to save the life
of his brother.
Superintendent Barton of the Oregon
Sugar factory, says the outlook for
good crop of beets is good. Notwith-
standing the hot weather the beets
seem to be standing the drought in
excellent shape,
At Durango, Colo, about 100 union
smeltermen persuaded thirty nom
union men to leave the American
Smelling and Refining companys
smelter, and it is believed the attempt
to resume operations will have to be
! abandoned.
II. L. Wheeler, until recently we'll
! known merchant of North Ontario,
has been killed by a landslide near
Delrs Camp, Gala. He was buried I'M
der mass of rock that was shaken
loose from the mountain side by an
earthquake shock.
Thomas Holman, assistant electrician
AT the Rarus mine, at Butte, was in
stantly killed while putting carbon
into an arc light. He held on to the
frame of the light as he stepped from
board to the damp earth, thus estab-
fishing ground connection.
Macleod IAbn
gineer of the Garfield Grouse mine at
Cripple Creek, from his work and beat
him severely. The men at the Garfield
Grouse are unable to conjecture what
was the cause of the outrage. All the
men employed at the mine are union
men.
A serious timber fire was raging in
the hills west of Washoe valley, Ne
vada, last week. The second growth
and down timbers were burned, large
amount of cut cordwood destroyed and
number of ranches threatened by the
flames, but up to date no fatalities are
reported.
Judge John Bowman, a Nevada pi-
oneer, is dead. He came to Nevada in
1862, and was pioneer of Austin and
Belmont and was twice elected to the
assembly from Nye county and served
one term as speaker of the house. In
1877 he came to Reno, where he lived
during the remainder of his life.
At Pasco, Wash, an unknown man
entered the house OF Frank Schune-
man, attacked Mrs. Schuneman with a
scythe, and was shot and killed by her
son, Louis Schuneman. The dead man
was tramp. He had presented him
self at the house the previous evening
and asked for food, which was fur.
nished him.
, Donald J. Cameron, the Leadville
business man arrested on the charge
of highway robbery, and who was SO
badly injured from bullet wound that
he could not be removed from his
home, escaped from the guard placed
| in his home last week, but was cap
tured a short time afterward. His
wife will be prosecuted for assisting in
| his escape.
Dave Edwards, of Rock Springs, and
his wife got into an alteration, when
Dave attempted to emphasize his argu'
ment with physical force, whereupon
. Mrs. Edwards secured a pistol and pre-
: scented her better half with four leaden
8 pills. Dave is in the hospital, with
about even chances for his life, while
Mrs. Edwards will stand trial for an
attempt to commit murder.
: During the visit of Governor Tanner
of Illinois to Colorado he was taken on
grand hunt by prominent Colorado
S ans, when he killed mountain lion,
9 which he will have mounted and sent
:, to his home. He also shot a young
8 deer, which is against the law, the
r penalty being fine of $40 to $500, or
s ten days to six months in Jail, or both'
l. and the governor may yet have trouble
"S UAiO "uAhSh us
ton of prosecuting the culprit upoI
his return from California.
One of the largest cattle deals know
o in northern Montana was closed las
week when Oscar Stephens of For
n Maginnis purchased the property o
q the Judith Cattle company, in Fergu
n county. The price is believed to ex
" coed $500, 900, as the deal involves sew