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Show A CHEERFl'L VIEW OF PIOCHE ! A corrospoiiJeut residing at Tioche drawd tlie i'ollnwing -engaging picture of society in that calm retreat. He cut.s it a little thick, but the account is nevertheless rvadahlc : Pinche is the county seat of Lincoln county, a mining camp a year old. It's on the treat American deport, and situated between bare mountains, looking over a bare, dry plain. Water : has to be brought eiht miles by j wagon, and is fiold at six cents a gal-: gal-: Ion. There are about 1,200 people , here, the hall' of whom have been in : the State pri.-on, and the other half ought to be. Our graveyard has forty-one forty-one graves, ol" which but two are filled by death iVoiu natural causes. The reat all died with their bootd on. Shot i , mostly; some eut. One shooting I scrape took place in the tank, ' in which Mike Casey killed Tom Gos-sin, Gos-sin, after receiving (Jossin's lire. There , is no law. Any one feeling aa- grieved Eecks redress generally with his pistol. It's been a olose game for . nie several times; I got cuL in the leg once, but I aui here yet. I sleep with n big bull-dog, a llciny rifle and i a six-shooter. The mines (silver) cm- ! ploy COO men; about iUO are in btiM- nos, and the rest arc blackguards of '. the worst kind cattle thieves, rene-' rene-' gude Mormons, and men who are ban-j ban-j ishod i'rom society for their crimes, I and ready for anything. It ifl 330 miles to railroad or telegraph; we have three stages a week and one mail. I , hare done well here and would have i made some money, but two of my partners in a claim were killed, and I , can't go on alone. My Hie has been i ntlempted twice, by the party who ; killed my partners. I don't allow any ; man in the world to scare me if I oan j have a show; but when it gets down i to cases where you dare not sit by a window or an open door after dark, ' it's time to jump the game. Ifl ever : get back to California, I think I'll stay there anyway I have got enough nf j this kind of living. 1 am tired of I packing a six-shooter around night and day. But it isn't an hopeless as : it seems the future of this placid little ! village for in a few weeks all the natives na-tives will be disposed of, and virtuous new settlers can begin the settlement again. Eureka Sentinel. |