The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-04-22
Locals.

Jos. Hill returned from San Francisco
Monday.
Il. Stoker returned from San Fran
cisco Sunday.
There will he May Day party at
Feliz Hall on the first OF May.
w. G. Pitt and ]. H. Thies returned
from San Francisco last Friday.
Robt. Welsh went to Table Mountain
Monday where he will remain for few
| weeks.
Miss Pearl Marker has been quite sick
during the past week but is now gradu-
ally improving.
Chris Beck and family have moved
into S. r. Young's house which Chas.
Briggs formerly occupied.
Francis G. Newlands made telling
speech in behalf of free silver before the
House Ways and Means Committee.
Miss Nellie Williams who has been
visiting friends in Wadsworth the past
month. returned home Sunday evening.
| Miss Maud Rutherford who was COM
PEELED to go to Wadsworth last week to
have her teeth attended to returned
Sunday night.
| Geo. Young returned from Santa Clara
Sunday. He says that California is
really the Garden of the Gods, but no
place for poor man.
J.Stauts, J. Miles, Geo. w. Peltier,
J. T., Reid, Frank Welsh and g. Baker
were summoned to appear in Winnie
mucca Monday to be examined for jury
men.
Eugene Cozzens went to Winnemucca
Sunday 20 testify in the case of Johnnie
Buster the Indian who was charged with
| the murder of Frank Messer and Indian
Frank Jones.
L. L. Downs took load of grain to
Carson Sink where he will SOW it on the
| ranch of his son -in-law, Fred Wightman.
A. Angel accompanied him and will as
sist in sowing the grain
Miss Agnes Reid and Miss Ida Camp
bell went to Wadsworth last Thursday
for the purpose of attending the Leap
Year party. They report having had a
(m--ing) pleasant time.
Last week Geo. Lovelock and MIR. and
Mrs. Reeves returned from San Francis
CO where they have been spending the
winter. Mr.. Lovelock says that there
| will soon be seventy-fve men at White
Cloud.
P. N. Marker has purchased from the
r. X. company that tract of land lying
east of w. C. Pitts home ranch and
south of the school house. Mr.. Marker,
has commenced breaking the brush upon
the land and will build house upon the
same in the near future.
Chas. Stoker, Geo. McCollum, Chas.
Biggs, VIM. Loorz and H. g. Hardesty
are now working on the new county road
which was opened by the County Com
missioners at their last meeting. The
road extends from the large ditch south
of Chas. Stoker's and ex ends to the
nouthern boundary Of Jno. Hardesty's
ranch.
G.. w. Peltier returned from Winnie
mucca Monday Last week Mr.. Peltier
was in Elko and he says there is an abun-
dance of water in the river in that
county and great quantities OF snow in
the mountains. 1t is reported that there
are many new bitches which take water
from the river. II this be 30, would it
not be advisable for the people of Hum
boldt County and others who possess
priority of right serve an injunction on
these trespassers. 1t may be that there
would be q little extra cost but what does
that amount to in comparison to the |
loss OF the entire valley, which will
ultimately follow if there is no action
taken to prevent these usurpers from
establishing right. Would it not Q |
well to have meeting of the citizens ol
this place to investigate the matter to
appoint some one to lay the proposition
before the other districts interested |
1t may be said that the parties who are
taking this wa er are too formidable |
foe to fyht, but this is not true. The
,mount OF profit that these usurpers re-
.eive from the water will not Justify any l