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The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27

time, Superintendent Pembroke is
proving up the 700 and 800 levels and
thus tar the results have been most
gratifying.
While the main resources OF the
property are yet to be tapped, not
expecting to reach them for probably
another zoe feet, new lenses of ore
have been encountered where they
were least expected. Some carrying
high grade silver-lead values; while
the Record is informed that several
splendid shoots of milling ore have
been encountered.
Tie fact that the famous Yuba
dixie cuts through the domains Of
the Boston G. Phoebe company, gives
! reasonable assurance that the per
formances of the old Yuba mine, witt
all output of millions to its credit
are to be repeated by the Scott mine
in the Boston & Phoebe.
No mine in the Phoebe district /.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27

The Las Vegas Promotion Society
is thn name of an organization which
has just came into existence at Las
Vegas and the articles Of incorpor-
alton of which were filed this week.
This is in the nature of business
mems organization, having for its
purpose the promotion of the gen.
eral welfare of the community in
which 1t exists. Its prime object is
to advance the interests of Las Vegas
which contains in its population many
live wide-awake citizens. A similar
lar organization should be maintained
In Phoebe. It would do lots OF good
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27
JURY AWARDS DAMAGE
TO JOHN HoHsHuLx.
Mucker Injured In the Potcsi Zinc
Mine sued For $4,000 Damages
and Gets Verdict For $o,ooo-At-
torneys For Defence May Move
For a New Trial.

After being out for several hours.
the jury empaneled in the case OF
John TIohshulz VS. Potosi Zinc Mining
company last Saturday night, brought
in a verdict for $4,000 damages in
favor of the plaintiff.
Hohshulz sued for. $1,000 for per
sonal injuries sustained while engag-
ed as mucker in the Potosi mine
at Good Springs and which result
ed in the loss of both eyes.
Attorneys for the defendant have
signified ther intention to move for
new trial
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27
oEMIJoHN PRESIDENT
A VISITOR IN CAMP

William e. Bailey, president Of the
Demiiohn Mining company, returned
to his home in Salt Lake yesterday
morning after spending a week in
camp.
He expressed himself as being very
well pleased with the progress made
with work since his last visit and
feels confident that there will b.
some important developments on thu
200 within short time.
Mr.. Bailey expects to return to Pi
oche again early next month.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27

recently. When the subject was
preached, both closed up tighter than
the proyerbial clam.
II is believed in Salt Lake, however,
that there is considerable significance
attached to the Breen visit to Phoebe
and 1t has been pretty strongly hint
ed at that be came here as the rep
representative of Cole-Ryan interests
which al. biz ftttors II the Giroux
Consolidated mine at Ell and the
m irrational Smelling company.
which is now epragca Il. the erection
Of a large smelter in Tooele county,
Utah While there Is no positive
proof that Mr.. fs~cen was here for
the purpose stated; 1t is q foregone
conclusion that some Of the big smelt
Ing men nave Their eyes turned to-
wards Phoebe for their future supply
of silver-lead ores.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27

Although the Boston & Phoebe
mine, controlled by the Scott Mines
company. has been the scene OF a
vigorous development campaign for
several months past, few citizens of
Phoebe have realized the character
of the work carried on there.
The Record has been reliably in
formed that almost 1000 feet Of new
workings have been driven since the
first day of last January and that
significant ore discoveries have been
shown on several levels including
the 800, the present lowest level OF
the mine.
When the current year was usher
ed in the shaft was about 700 feet
deep. Since then it has been car.
ried on down to $40 feet, and it is
the purpose of the company to cor,
time it on to 1000 feet. For the
present, However, sinking Of the shat
has been stopped; but in the mean.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27

tor.
s. B. 49, Creating Clark county.
Al. G. H. p Allowing University
TO receive donations.
A. Il. J2-t-ItelatinS tc registration.
j. J. G. X. Ito amend Sections,
Article NJ Of the Constitution.
A. b. 10-Establishing experiment
farm.
s. B. 51-Regulating reports Of
mining companies and sale of stock
A. B. distinguishing state print
ing office.
s. B. 114-Fixing salary of the war
den of state prison.
A. B. 62-To dispose of funds of al
olished school districts.
S. B. 37--Amending sheep commits
sion act.
A. B. 43-To regulate hours of EN-
ployment in mines.
A. B. 1O0-Appropriating $500 TO
care of G. A. r. cemetery In Carsol
A. 3. 93--Preventing dumping o
! garbage on any street or sidewalk.
City.
[ A. B. S2--Classifying transfer
stock.
s. B. 31-An act to regulate pre-
ceedings in justice courts.
A. B. 64-Regulating licensing {
automobiles.
S. B. 4S-For codification of publ
records.
I s. j. c. r. 5-Thanking Unite
States Interior department and Jul
tice department for doing duty b
Nevada
\ Sen. Sub. A. B. 55--To compel raj
ways to provide adequate train crew
A. B. 145-Fixing compensation
county officers in Lincoln county.
, A. B. 106--To provide for sale
lands received from United Stat,
: government.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27
Bills Passed By Legislature
Which Receive Governors Sanction

Following is list OF the bills Gov
ernor Dickerson has signed:
s. B. 5-Creating a legislative fund
of 100000.
s. B. Fixing number of attaches.
S. B. Copying Senate journal.
s. B. 1O-Authorizing employment
Of stenographers for Supreme Court
A. B. 9-Copying Assembly journal.
A. B. 14-Typist for clerk of White
Pine county.
S. B. 6-Providing for protrait of
Governor Sparks.
s. B. 12-- Regulating the salary OF
Humboldt county District Attorney.
A. B. 3--Regulating salary of Orms
by county District Attorney.
S. B. 4-For establishment an
maintenance of fish hatchery, appro
priating $4,000
A. B. 27-Creating Clark county.
A. B. Authorizing appointment
Of Deputy Sheriff Of Ormsby county
A. B. 23-Fixing salary of bullion
tax collector. $4,000.
| A. B. 2S-Authorizing bond issu'
for East Ely.
| s. B. 16-For purchase Of film
cases for State offices.
| A. B. 54-Regulating salaries an
fees of Washoe county officers.
A. B. 34-Providing emergency fun
for new school districts.
S. B. 27--Leave of absence for !
G. Dawley.
A. B. Ito provide revenue IL
State.
A. B. 2O-Fixing salary of constab
of Rawhide.
s. B. 26-Consolidating county Q
fees in Lyon county.
4 A. B. 61-Relief of Nevada Histoi
cal Society.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27
,THAYER ENDS CAREER
BY SHOOTING HIMSELF

After broodins over series of DO
nestle aud financial complications,
r. l.. Thaycr, who conducted the Wy
oming saioon On lower Main street.
ended his career by committing sui
eide Tuesday forenoon.
That the deed was deliberately plan
ned was made manifest by a message
left in an envelope addressed to L.
Scherginzer, fellow member of the
Eagles lodge of this city;a 45-calibre
revolver with one empty chamber,
and the finding Of the remains,wi
blood and brain oozing from two
ghastly wounds in the victims head,
told the rest of the story. The bullet,
af.er entering the skull just above
the right temple, plowed it's way
through emeging about three inches
above the left ear, death coming In
stantly.
The report of the gun was herd by
the occupants of the saloon and ThasN
or was found lying face downward
/. III d small room adjacent to his place
Of business; which was used as a
place for the storage of coal. Coro-
nor Alfred Perkins and Deputy Sher-
if Fitzgerald were notified the for
nier proceeding with an inquisition al
ter impaneling jury consisting Of ].
Brown, foreman; Dan Mehedy, 0. S
Reeder, o. ]. Jordan, James LIE
moine, and w. ]. Campbell; the latter
returning a verdict of self destruction
by In, ans Of a gunshot.
Besides the one addressed to Mr.
Scherginzer, was another envelop
bearing the address of s. H. Thayer
a son of the deceased, who resides a
Cody, Wyoming, and containing tn
gold watch and chain formerly wor
by the dead man. There were tw
ether letters, both pertaining to bus
ness, which Thayer had asked Da
Mehedy to write for him earlier /
the day; neither containg anything
Indicate that the man contemplate
ending his own life. Mr.. Mehedy sal
after the tragedy that Thayer seer
ed cheerful; Ee had no idea ths
anything of such tragic nature We
abOu. TO occur when Thayer reques
ed him to write the business letter
It is claimed that Thayer was on,
we'll TO do rancher in WyomiI
and that domestic unpleasantri
were at the bottom of his undoing.
In the r,eEsage he left toMr. Sche
ginzer Thayer wrote:
II am about to take step that W
look bad; but ] cannot go throu
with this life 1t Is - night al
day. There is about $50 in the 81
Give me as decent burial
you can. Turn everything over to \
NY interest will cover all my deb
Give the madam all there is in I
house. There is no need to sendwt
to anyone. / have boy and girl
Cody. Notify them after 1t is all
err Bury me down near where Il
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27
PIocHE COMET READY
TO INCREASE FORCE

The Phoebe Comet Mining company
is getting ready to increase its work
ing force, the management having an
nounced that the names of mum
Der of additional men will be put on
the pay rolls soon after the first
of next month. This property has
one of the largest showings of man
ganese in the Comet district and in
some places the vein crops boldly
with dikes extending is to 20 feet
above the surface. II is in one o.
these blow-outs that one of the re
cent important strikes was made.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27
WORK PROGRESSING
ON cOLFAx PROPERTY
Values Continue to lmprve as Depth
Is Attained-GoId Streak on Mis-.
souri, Girl Claims Showing Up Well
Maggie Murphy Group to Be De-
veloped In the Near Future.

Work is progressing with undated
vigor on the Colfax, Missouri Girl,
Black Wonder and Maggie Murphy
groups, controlled by Ed F. Freu-
denthal and associates, in the High
land district. The Colfax, Mr.. Freu-
denthal states. continues to improve
with depth and what pleases him
most is the increasing gold values
contained in the ore. At the surface,
the rock showed an average of about
81 ton, while the latest assays
have been running from from $50
to $50 a ton in the metal which meas
ures the standard of value in the
monetary world The manganese fol
lowing the hanging wall of the shaft
contains frGn. 1870 to 200 ounces in
silver and the ore now being taken
out Is beiug sacked for shipment.
On the Missouri Girl, the golt
streak encountered sometime ago, ha
improved in sinking from a trac,
at the surface to $40, which is tn,
result of assays taken during TIN
past week. The Missouri Girl ore i
similar In character to that found II
!, the Colfax group; while the Blacl
Wonder is more of quartz propos
ton, carrying from 80 to 40 per cen
: lead with additional values in silver
The Maggie Murphy group consists
} entirely Of virgin ground upon whic
: only little development work has bee
{. done. However, surface opening ha,
Q demonstrated that the Colfax vel
& cuts through it and ore taken frol
s these holes has returned better tina
$50 in gold, silver and lead.
: On account of the heavy fall
snow and which has not y
II entirely disappeared, the dev,
h opment Of the foregoing named pro
d critics has not progressed as ra
Re idly as would have been the ca
IS had climatic conditions been mo
lie favorable. Mr.. Prudential stat,
8. however, that the force will be mat
lie tally increased soon after the fiji
d Of April. and with the coming
at good weather work win be pushed
" all these groups more vigorously tn
~ ever.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27
NEW BUSINESS BLOCK
SoOre 70 be ERECTED.

Because the lease on the premises
expires ON that date, the Rex cafe
on Main street, popularity known as
Simmons restaurant, will be closed
en- April l.
The owner Of the lot, Joe Pow.
ers. has plans drawn for substan
tial building. which when complet
ed, will be the mostmodern business
block in the city.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27

A. B. 3S-Preventing the receipt of
money under threat
A. B. 16-For maintainence of ex-
perimental farm at Logan.
S. B. 15-Support of sheep commits
sion.
s. B. 9-Providing for appointment
of court bailiffs.
S. B. 14-For relief Of sheep com
mission.
S. B. 13--Appropriation for State
Engineers office.
A. B. 22-Regulating embalming
business.
A. b. 1l-Relating to crimes and
punishments.
A. J. c. r. No. 9-Relating to arid
lands.
A. B. 19-Licensing hunters OF
game birds and fish.
S. E. 4a-Creating Las Vegas schoo
district.
s. b. 29--An act establishing higf
schools.
S. j. G. B. No. Asking for fish
ways in government dams.
| A. j. c. R. ITO exclude alien,
from grazing stock on Nevada lands
Sub. A. B. 118 and 134-Relatini
to county government and taxation.
1 A. j G. r. 6-Memorial to Nevad
congressional delegation and Secrs
airy of the Interior.
A. B. 42-Regulating hours c
labor in plaster mills.
A. D. Si,-Amending city incorpors
. ton act.
A. Il 3D. Preventing interference
3 ami injury to bitches and dams.
A -. "a Relating to union schot
: districts.
A b. 4iReiating to insurane
: companies.
S. y. 3I--Providing for State Aud
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27

If the company carries out its plans
to equip its mines with smelling ia
cilities, he will be able to deliver
the goods.
dent Learnard are now being built.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27
are all buried with their boots on.

are all buried with their boots on
r. L. Thayer.
p. s. The rent is paid UP until
April 1, '0a, and see that you look af-
ter my interests and see that l am
not getting the worst of it.
A telegram from Thayer's son re-
ouested that the remains be shipped
to Wyoming for interment; but local
members of the Eagles fraternity
having already arranged for the fun.
eral, burial took place in the Phoebe
cemetery Thursday afternoon.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27
HAuRAND DIVORCE CASE
ON TRIAL BEFORE eNoWN.

Fred Haurand. IL being herd BY Judeo
Brown this afternoon behind closed doors
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27
HIGH GRADE ORE
FROM THE DAY NINE,

Sample Taken From Workings Be-
tween the 800 and 70o-Foot Levels
Carries Sens ationai values--usual
Shipments to the Shelters Being
Made-The New Ore Bins.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-02-27
PROGRESSION is THE
THEME OF THIS CONCERN.

Las Vegas Promotion Society Files
Articles Of Incorporation With
County CIerk--Citizens Of Down the
Way Are Still Boosting-A Live
Bunch.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-10
"ZAXE AN1''- N0kLEy f7Wc 81 o10z:zc

least of the influences that are Just now at
the revenue cutter service The schedule pay
OF the officers ranges from 81 400 per year. the
salary OF third lieutenant, to $4,000 per an
mum, the salary of captain, but the pay is in
edtenper cent for each five years of service
and the time spent as cadet is figured in
so that the pay of third lieutenant two years
after being commissioned Is $3.50 per year,
and II an officer be 20 years in reaching the
rank of captain he will Immediately upon pro-
motion to that rank, be entitled to a yearly
salary OF $500, with the assurance of three
quarter pay and allowances when he is retired
for age upon reaching Ga years.
The especial desire of the officials of the
revenue cutter service is to secure as cadets
a number of young men who have had some
college training or whose education has pro-
gressed to the point where, in civil life, they
would embark upon profession. Other things
being equal preference is given to the gradu-
ates of technical schools However, competi-
tors will be rated without regard to any con-
sheraton other than the qualifications shown
in their examination papers and incidentally
each prospective cadet is warned that he must
Danish thoughts of matrimony for the next few
years inasmuch as the marriage of a cadet
is considered equivalent to his resignation.
When the civil service each spring and au-
tumn furnishes the revenue cutter officials with
report of its findings with regard to the
young men who are up for examination the
successful applicants are subjected to rigid
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-10

in the cadet system whereby it recruits it's
commissioned officers Strange to say it is
only within the past few years that any great
proposition of the young men of the country
have been aroused to realization of the ad-
vantage of this field of endeavor. AS it has
gradually dawned upon them that the revenue
cutter service requires training rivaling that
provided at the Naval Academy at Annapolis
and opens up career that in interest, variety
and opportunity for travel and adventure is on
a par with the navy itself, there has been
somewhat of stampede to enroll under the
flag of Uncle Sans police of the sea-
The young men who nowadays gain entrance
to the cadet school of the revenue cutter
service have distinct advantage over applf-
cants for West Point and Annapolis in that
they are not required to make a long journey
to take their entrance examinations. The ex-
tensive machinery of the United States civil
service commission conducts these examina-
tions and enables the average youth to make
the test right at home or by journey to the
nearest large city. The examinations are
thorough and comprehensive, but are not of
undue severity and 1t is comfort to give as
surance that they are strictly competitive,
political and social influences being entirely
eliminated. In this respect the revenue cutter
school is decidedly the most democratic insti-
tuition of thefkind under the government
Young men, to gain permission to compete
for the cadetships which are awarded from time
to time must be not less than IS nor more than
Is years of age and not less than five feet
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-10


first classman Moreover, the fresh recruit
Immediately dons white sailor working clothes
and forthwith pitches into the work of very
busy Institutional routine that prescrlbes
crowded intervals of study and recitation and
physical exercise during the fall and winter
months and an instructive practice cruise
during the spring and summer when the en-
bryO officer familiariZe himself with the mys-
teries of seamanship by practical work before
the mast.
The academic year extends from October Is
to May Is. During this time the cadets live
on board the training ship, but pursue their
studies in recitation halls on shore. In drill
hall all sorts of military evolutions are prac-
t1ced together with athletic sports of various
kinds. In his schooling the cadet elaborates
on the subjects embraced in the competitive
examination by means of which he gained en-
trance to the school and also takes up such
subjects as seamanship, navigation, ordnance
and gunnery, law, engineering, etc. The meth
cd of instruction and the administration of dis
cipline are similar to those practiced at Un-
Gle Sans other great national academies at
West Point and Annapolis. high standard
of academic work is rigidly maintained and
failure in single subject of the course-that
Is any mark below 70 out of possible 100-is
followed by request for the resignation of
the cadet.
During his three years work at the cadet
school each young man receives pay of $500
per year and a ration of 30 cents per day. The
sum OF S1O however, is withheld from his pay
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-10
All the World Relieved by Her Demise
and That Of the Spearman.

The medicine man, did you ever
stop to think how grateful the public
ought to be these days? Why? Sim
ply because the chorus man who car
ried the spear has gone into the dust
box Of oblivion. Do you remember
him: He used to look like a profess
sional mourner. and you could count
the pads he used to help out nature
or himself.
And then, too, there's the happy
passing away of the "show girl" What
relief! You remember that you
always wondered what in the world
was the reason for that third one from
the end anyway. And they would al
ways walk to the footlights and look
at the audience as though it hurt them,
their noses tilted as though some over
ripe Camambert were within hailing
distance, and then they would all nod
In, unison and look marvelously use
less. They were marvels. and how
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-10
Teleqrapher's Cramp.

An Interesting feature of the telegrapher's
cramp IL that certain letters are nearly always
the stumbling block The most frequent are
c and Y-that u.s. the code signals used for
these letters. When sender begins to be
conscious" about so common letter as c
his case soon becomes hopeless.
Another form of cramp attacks the receiver
of the message. 1t takes the form Of inability
to write fxst enough to take down message
quickly Transmitted. This is easily understood
when it is remembered that receiver often
has to write continuously to code dictation so
to speak, for hours at time. The strain in
volved is enormous and leads fairly commonly
to what is practically nervous break down.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-10
6AX0XE-T lRNL BY C4Qk7sS

clal lored for admission, knowing that, within,
the members of the foreign legations, fortified.
in t3eir turn, against the Chinese, were a>lt-
the with breathless anxiety the arrival of the
friendly armies.
BIT the gates could not be rushed.
Suddenly three or four soldiers, in the Jap"
ene* e uniform, dashed forward, up to the gates.
shower of bullets greeted them. They fell.
But their work done. The hand grenades
which they had hurled against the gates had
exploded, battering them down.
fekin had fallen.
Very recently at Faversham England, the
representatives of II governments watched the
testing of new grenade invented by an Eng
lishn-an, Mr.. Marten Hale.
With this weapon, as demonstrations salts
factc!ily proved, the sacrifice of the lives Of
those heroic Japs before Pekin would have
been wholly unnecessary.
Mr. Hale's grenade may be fired from rife
These advantages are therefore secured: Pow.
er, distance and range, and safety for the user.
1t IS a]aptable to the service rife of the various
nations, and is propelled with ordinary cart
ridges
Ii My be fired from the shoulder or with the
butt eud Of the rifle resting on the ground. The
fire OF the grenade does not in any way injure
nor dnes it interfere with firing ball cartridges,
nor In the use of the bayonet 1t is capable of
ing "a rectangular pieces of steel with
jagged edges in all directions with great We
locity. The concussion of the explosion would
kill or stun any life within wide radius. The
grenad.,s themselves weigh one pound six
ounces. and six or eight may be carried on
waist belt without any Inconvenience. The
Japanese made good use Of the hand grenades
before Port Arthur:-From Grenade Fired
from Rihe,' in Technical World Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-10

each month In order that up
on graduation he may have
to his credit a sum of money
sufficient for the purchase of
the uniform and outfit of a
commissioned officer. The
cadets are required to pur-
chase their uniforms and
text books and to pay their
mess expenses, but on the
allowance above mentioned
are enabieG to have a small
sum each Earth for pocket
money. The >f:lats at the
revenue cutter svi.ool have
stated periods of liberty and
some social life, but the Of
ficers in charge do not favor
so extensive a program of
hops and ether festivities
for the benefit CT fair friends
as prevail at West Point an3
Annapolis. Moreover, the
revenue cutter cadet has
little time to lose in play.
In two or three years aft
er graduation he will prcb.
ably be navigating officer
of q gcod-sized steamer,
and expected to act as kis