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Newspaper
The Pioche Weekly Record
Location
Pioche, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1877
Page
2
In the Beaverton area reports claim wide veins and rich ore beds with gold values from twenty to twenty five dollars per ton. Forty workers now operate, producing about five hundred tons monthly worth forty dollars per ton. Mines are described as potentially inexhaustible as veins dip below the surface.
Raw notes recount brutal Mormon Church enforcement during the Utah reform era. It details killings and renditions ordered by Church leaders, including the murder of William Laney and the Anderson and Adultery cases. The narrative ties these acts to Bishop Dame and the High Council, describing confessions, rebaptisms, and executions aimed at enforcing covenant obedience.
An OCR narrative recounts the early March 1789 New York session of the First Congress with no quorum until April, noting seated members from New Jersey and Delaware, then Virginia, and the presidential vote results led by George Washington. The piece shifts to a sensational local incident where Mrs Warner presents two dead doves to a city office, her husband’s temper, and a threatened shooting, ending with remarks about Bergh and a town’s gold discovery report from Siskiyou.
A 14 year old girl Anita Barton was found asleep atop a roof near High and Sixth in Detroit after a nocturnal excursion. Captured by Captain Starkweather and others, she moved along roofs before finally being escorted to the nearby station with her relatives. The incident is described as another case of somnambulism among local youths.
In four weeks a list of detainees will be sent to the Dead Letter Office. The notice names Captain G oy Christo Ht Balad M ale Dewngard Kine Solleft Sitar A Saou G Thompean Thomas tt Wallace Lilley T weecerHUED Lerten Harton OP Palleu Py Cuiatou and others. The advert requests recipients to respond if their letters reach them.
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