The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-09
NoRTHW EST NOTES

The citizens OF Tacoma, WASH,
raised one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in a thirty-day canvass for the
new Y. NJ. C. A. building. the first
coast city to do so.
]. p. Howe, the veteran coast the
atrial manager. has associated with
him Fred J. Eitel and Hans Peterson
for the erection of a fourteen story
theater building in Seattle
Two passenger trains on the Union
Pacific railroad. colIided head-on at
Ridge, west of Medicine Bow, Wyo.,
and the engines were demolished, but
no passengers were injured.
Buffalo Bill" and his party have
arrived safely at the ct. E." ranch, Is
miles from Cody, Wyo. All of the
party are in good health and report
fair success in the hunt for big game.
Three enlisted men OF the battlesnip
Wisconsin Are dead at Seattle, and
two are seriously injured as the re-
suit Of drunken debauch in which
bay rum was the liquor that was con.
sumed.
In battle near Kennewick. Wash,
between a posse and Robert Barker,
an 1S-year-old desperate, four men
were killed. Barker finally surren'
dered and was taken TO Prosser to pre-
vent lynching.
Henry Phillips, aged Ga, an old time
resident OF Butte, committed suicide
by cutting his throat from ear to ear
Phillips had become respondent as
the result of inability to secure relief
from Bright's disease
In a violent fit OF coughing shortly
before his death at st. Vincents hos
pital, Portland, II. l.. Mills of Hubbard
an Oregon pioneer of 1876 and a
nephew of General Robert e. Lee, com
mander OF the Confederate army,
raised from his lungs a buckshot that
he carried in his body ever since the
civil war.
Joe Cans, lightweight champion OF
the world met kid" Hermann, Of Chi
cago, in Cincinnati, on the 3rd and
signed articles to fight twenty rounds
or to a finish, as the club may desire
ON New Years day, before the Tono
pah, Nevada. Athletic club. The purse
is to be $4,000 winner to get so anc
loser 40 per cent.
John WEIGH, of Reno, Nevada, who
has been prospecting in the Walker
Lake mining district, was shot and
seriously wounded by James Hale, his
companion, while driving from Haw
thorne to Thorne The bullet entered
WEIGHS back and II is feared that he
will die. Hale claims the shooting
WIS accidental
"A statement issued by the reclama
ton service shows that the nationa
reclamation fund on June 80, 1896
amounted to $S2,95S,192, of which 81,
sS2,0S4 was contributed last year
North Dakota leads, having contributed
t5OS,S6 Utah, $70,211; Wyoming
s2S4,744; New Mexico, $202,$15, Mon
tana, s5OO.746, and Idaho $SO1,234.
Jefferson +. Howell is the latest 0
several prospectors who from time t
time have believed they have foun'
the site of the old Breyfogle gol'
mine in southeastern California o
southwestern Nevada. To substantial,
his claim Howell has float that is al
most pure gold and identical In az
pearance with samples displayed b.
Breyfogle
Man Hop, one of Seattle's larges
Chinese merchants, declares that TIL
Chinese associations in Seattle ant
Portland are gathering evidence prio
to the sending of formal demand t
the Chinese legation at Washing 70
the removal from Office of Moy Back
hin, Chinese consul at Portland. VIII,
has the district composed of Oregon
Washington, Idaho and Montana.
Scores of horses that made the rae,
from Hawthorne and down the noun
tain sides to the Walker Lake reseI
walton in Nevada, were shot and kille,
Az follo,,ti,g ,,.ornino ~ and thai
suffering. It was found that the AM
mails had been entirely untitled for fu
ture work, having either been cripple,
In the run over the rocky country o
having had their lungs permanently
weakened
Mrs. F. w Esgate, living near Coeu
dAlene, Idaho, placed gun outsid
the house In readiness to kill a coyot
that was lurking near and went int
the house When the coyote again al
peared she called her husband, VIII
was digging potatoes in the fielc
Meanwhile~Eh went into the celia
Wben the husband reached for tn
seE1n II slid intd the cellar. was dis
charged and the Charge of shot passe
into the neck of Mrs. Esgate, infiic
Ing fatal injuries.
Rev Torrance Clark, GO years c
age, assistant pastor Of the Church 9
he Sacred Heart, and well know
Catholic priest of Seattle, was ovel
come by Illuminating gas in his roor
IN the presbytery of the church H
was unconscious when found
Frank Warner was sentenced to 1
years in prison for robbery, committe