The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-12

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the trip in two hours. We expect to see
Bill strike town one OF these days with a
bike OF his own make.
1t is said the Sheriff of Mendocino
county left the door OF the Jail open re-
Gently, hoping that the hobos would es-
cape. 1t was not long before he was
surprised by a hobo asking him to close
the door and lock it, SO the jail would
not he overcrowded.
Sixteen 10 one Dleans that ratio which
the same in value as sixteen ounces or
sixteen grains OF silver. For instance,
the STANDARD gold in the gold dollar is
25.8 grains the STANFORD silver in IA sill
yer dollar is Ape grains.
Assemblyman Flanagan is circula-
ting a petition to the Postotiice Depart
ment to establish IA weekly mail line
from Reno to Deep Hole by way OF Pyr-
amid, with IA ~postotfice at Willows and
one at Salt Marsh. About one hundred
people would be benefited by such a
line.
They are Eaking a great fuss about
John Hayes Hammond. Ii a man with
five thousand dollars a month can't
afford to conform to the laws Of the
country he sucks his fat salary out of,
he ought to sweat in Jail until he picks
up a little sense. He may be a cool en-
gineer, but he is a poor itizen.-Bodie
Index.
Fred Wilder, a Carson man, has COM
pleted a bicycle that is strictly home
made. The tubing is made OF gas pipe
and the bicycle has no tires but runs on
the pipe. The wheels are "a inch and
have spokes of iron screwed into the
rim. The seat is carved out of wood and
the handles are covered with it. The
wheel has no bearings and weighs 30
pounds.-Corsop Weekly.
Congressman Newlands has the right
to appoint any boy that he sees fit, to
the Annapolis Cadetship without hold
ing a complete examination, but it has
been the custom in late years TO hold
such an examination and select the
brightest applicant for the position,
which is certainly the only fair way to
do. That does away with all favoritism
and gives every boy, whether rich or
poor, a chance to compete, and, ii sue
c%essfu1, receive the appointment. The
State examination will be held sometime
during the next three months.
Geo. W. Mapes was injured Friday
while at his ranch at Glendale, known
as the old Savage ranch. 1t seems that
he attempted to pass through or over a
barbed wire fence and in some manner
caught his foot or stumbled and fell
headiong into the fence. Being a large
man and only having one arm he could
not save himself, and that he was not
more seriously injured is indeed a mira
Gle. As it is, however, he had Il narrow
escape and may be marked for life. a
barb wire fence caught him near the
lower part of the nose on the left side OF
the face and tore tn. flesh upwards to
near the inside corner OF the eye, then
outward, just below the eye, nearly two
inches, the full length OF the wound be-
ing over three inches, and most OF the
way cut clear to the bone.-Reno Jour
mai.
There is a case, involving the right to
charge more for a short haul than IA long
haul, o before the Supreme Court of
the United States. Commenting there
on the Carson Appeal hits the nail on
the head concerning this State when it
says: The long and short haul question
is the great source OF difficulty between
the Central Pacific Railroad Company
and the people OF Nevada. If that was
settled so that the people Of this State
could get freight from the East at the
same rate that is charged to Sacramento
there would be no reasonable cause Tor
complaint against tie railroad. As it is
Nevada merchants are charged about
three times as much ior IA carload Of
freight from Chicago as the Sacramento
merchant, though the Sacramento
freight has to be hauled through Nevada
and over the Sierra Nevada, l54 mics
farther west. The injustice OF this is APP
parent to everybody and is u subject ol
universal comment.
The Desert Mines.