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Show UIUITAL MUltUKtl RAIL.KOAD ANDUIMHU JiTO. Piocho, 2i. Information was received re-ceived here last night of a brutal murder mur-der committed a few days ago.in Muddy Mud-dy Valley.about forty miles south from here. Two men, named Pleasant and Moon, claiming adjoining ranobes, deputed de-puted about boundary lines, and tho ease was left to. their neighbors for arbitration. arbi-tration. While Moon was making a statement of tho i'aots of the case Pleasant called him a liar. Moon then struck at Plcasant,whcn the latter drew a revolver and tired sovoral shots, one of which penetrated a vital part.killing Moon almost instantly. Pleasant was arrested but escaped while on tho way to Pioche. The officers are! now in pursuit of the murderer. John Goodman, indicted for rape and convietod of assault, on his own confession, nnd fined $360, was committed com-mitted to jail for six months, in default of payment. Reports from Star district, ninety miles northeast of Pioohe, are very encouraging. Machinery is now on tho road from Salt Lake for hoisting works and a twenty stamp mill. The new locomotive for the Pioche and Bullionvillo railroad, which arrived a few days since, being put is running order at Bullionville, will soon be com pleted. The Pico'jc Record, of thiB date, contains an editorial styling J. W. Simonton, tho Associated press agent, as almost the sole (olographic historian of the country, and pronouncing Lib dispatches unreliable and stale, and charging tho Associated press agent with delaying reportB of fires that consume con-sume great petroleum refineries until the monopoly can soour the market and buy up, at existing figures, the stock of oil on hand in tho larger cities distant from the scene of the conflagration, conflagra-tion, and which aro measurably dependent de-pendent on the factories destroyed for their kerosene supplies. News Special. |