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Newspaper
The Pioche Weekly Record
Location
Pioche, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1899
Page
4
The clipping lists assorted notes from a frontier town: Christmas arrivals and departures, mine developments, weather, and travel plans. It mentions residents from Eagle Valley Round Valley and Deerlodge, ice at Condor Canyon, mine work by McGee at Copper King, and travel fares by U P Railroad with holiday tickets. Local crime and legal quirks are also touched on.
Alton A Carman returns to Pioche after four years away in the west. He attended the University and worked on the railroad, earning praise as a key football team member. Christmas day is described as mild with a lively town dance at Thompsons Hall, lasting into the early hours. The item also mentions auctions for a piano raffle, labor trends in Pennsylvania housing workers in tents, and various notes on locomotives, road types, and a Turkey sale in Columbia Missouri.
A varied Nevada page notes a carload of government horses shipped from Battle Mountain and a San Francisco buyer purchasing horses and mules in Reno. It also reports mining progress at Olinghouse and Ely, with ore values and placer yields given, plus local social news, a planned criminal libel case, and a teachers institute in Lincoln County for January 1900.
A California soldier recounts a cross cultural link between a Yereto chief badly wounded in Manila and a Cherokee speaking comrade. The two men, meeting in a Luzon hospital, exchanged Cherokee phrases and formed a surprising friendship, offering ethnology interest.
By order of the Fourth Judicial District Court of Nevada in Lincoln County a sheriff sale is set for January 4, 1900 at noon. The property includes the Veaugiur Lode Mining Claim four hundred feet from the May Flower Mine and the Yanko Spake Lode Mining Claim, both in the Bristol Mining District. The sale, at the Lincoln County Court House, is for debt plus costs, with the high bidder to pay cash.
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