The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-30
ReHWEST NOTES

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IL Las Vegas and Tonopah rail-
company is making good pro
in laying the rails of the road
Beatty to Rhyolite, and Bullfrog
cts to be Connected up by the
! OF the coming month.
he Ute Indians who have been
cling through South Dakota into
oming in defiance of the gov
lments orders, have arrived at
1rt Meade, accompanied by the
ixth United States cavalry.
Sixty lives were lost and nearly a
core of vessels were swept to de-
truction on treacherous reefs and
sand bars of the Gulf and River st.
sawrence during the season of navi-
alton now drawing to colse.
At the quarterly meeting on the
= ifth OF December, at Cheyenne, Wyo.,
I If the State Board of Medical Ex-
lminers the board will begin the
preparation of its report to Governor
Brooks and the state legislature.
Coroner Carroll. OF Seattle, has
signed certificate stating that Mrs.
Maude Creff1eld, wife of the leader of
the Holy Rollers, who died suddenly
in the county jail, came to her death
by suicide from strychnine poisoning.
The people of Port Blakely have APP
pealed to the government authorities
at Seattle for permission to use dyna-
mite in order to blow up the wrecked
steamer Dix, so that the bodies of
those who drowned in the cabins may
be recovered
Con Lopez shot and killed his
paramour, Therese Repossa, in
house Of ill-fame at Newman, Cal.
Lopez than shot himself through the
head, falling dead across the body of
his victim Jealousy was the cause
of the tragedy,
The Las Vegas & Tonopah rail-
way company, which is Incorporated
under the laws of Utah, filed an
amendment to its articles of incorpor-
alton with the county clerk at Salt
Lake City last week, which will per
NIT of Its building aline to the Green
water mining district in Inyo county,
Cal
The identity Of Mike Kelly who
committed suicide In the county jail
at Colorado Springs, has been dis
covered and the discovery practically
proves the theory that he was one of
the three divide bandits. Kelly was
known for many years at Colorado
City and in the Ute pass region as
Kelly the Robber."
After jury had been drawn in
suit brought by United States District
Attorney Burke against the Burling-
ton railroad in the United States dis
trict court at Cheyenne, for violation
of the safety appliance law, the at
torneys for the railroad confessed
judgment The suit was civil action
and a fine of 800 and costs was inn
posed by the court.
Charles A. Smith, proprietor of
drug store in Billings, Mont, is in
critical condition as result of being
shot through the shoulder and groin
by Daniel F. Watts. Watts also shot
Oscar Colburn, prescription clerk, in
the back of the head He will re-
cover. Watts had been discharged
for short-changing the register.
The demurrer of the defendant in
the action OF 100000 damages brought
by Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, against
former Governor Peabody. former Ad-
jutant General Sherman Bell and Ad-
jutant General Buckley Wells, is sus-
tanned in an opinion returned by
Judge Robert r. Lewis of the United
States district court at Denver. Meyer
alleged wrongful Imprisonment by the
military.
Material is being assembled at
Caliente, Nevada. for the Phoebe
branch of the Salt Lake route About
half the rails are already unloaded at
Caliente and enough ties will be on
hand within the next sixty days or so
to cover the line.
Linemen at Laramie have begun
stringing a copper wire in the new
line to connect New York and San
Francisco already leased to a New
York brokerage concern. The wire is
OF copper, 210 pounds to the mile
cost % cents pound.
Since the destruction of the round
house at Winnemucca, Nevada, by
fire a short time ago. the Southern
Pacific has decided to make Emley
station midway between Humboldt
House and Mill City, a division point
instead of Winnemucca.
AL Trosses, brakeman on the o
r. & NJ, was killed few miles from
Huntington, Ore. He was setting
brakes on a car on siding. In some
manner ne lell rum the Cal an'
another that had been kicked II
struck him, crushing his head.
Joe Collins, section foreman in the
LARAMIE, Wyo,, yards of the Union Pa
cific. was run down by switch en-
CINE, meeting almost instant death
John Reimers, foreman of the section
just south Of the yard section, had
his left leg broken above the ankle
Conductor Frank Land is dead and
Brakeman Burnside is fatally hurt as
the result Of an accident on the AL.