The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-03-17
STATE NEWS NOTES.

the Ne'dud university team lost
the debate with Hastings Law College
at San Francisco Friday night.
Fred Wilson has been awarded the
mail contract from Elko to Tuscarora
N for the next four years for 1850 per
# year.
j The general hospital at Reno has
j been opened. 1t is located in the build
ngs of the old Bishop Whittake. SEM
mary.
DR.. II. III. Hogan, the Oldest prac-
tjcing physician in the State, is at the
point of death in Reno from an attack
OF pneumonia.
The Nevada Midland Railroad Com
pany is already making contracts for
horses and wagons to be used in grad
ing for the road from Austin to To-
nopah.
The tax rate for Churchill county
has been fixed by the County Commits
sioners at 81 65 per 500 valuation
S5 cents for the county and 50 cents
for the State.
The Soda Works Company at Keeler
Is making preparations for the imme-
clate construction of sixty acres of
vats They have about 100 acres L..
operation at present. They are spend
ing over $4,000 in adding to aai i'm
p.cving The plant.
A man was killed at Hawthorne
early Saturday morning. Five men
came into the town. Two went on to
Bodie and the other three got into
knife quarrel. One of them grabbed
an axe and killed another of the party.
Names are not known.
man was found dead about seven
niles tlIs side of Browns yesterday
notLing along the railroad track.
There were number of flesh wounds
! on the body and several scalp wounds
on the head. Only cents IN money
was on his person. -Wadsworth Dis
patch.
A drunken Indian who had been
working for Sheriff Randall of Dayton
became involved in a quarrel and In
the fight that followed bit finger off
a man named Esola. The Indian was
arrested and is now in Jail at that
place and will probably be tried for
mayhem.
There are sixteen crews of surveyors
between Vista and Ogden under AS
sistant Engineer Marsh. This is the
largest corps of surveyors ever known
in active service in reconstruction,
and twelve more crews will be put in
the field in few Wadswortn |
Dispatch.
The miners of Ruby Hill are discus |
sing an underground disturbance that
took place In the Eureka Con. mine on
Tuesday of last week. Men working
In the Richmond mine felt distinct
shocks and heard explosions. presum-
ably occurring in some of the old aban-
doned chambers of the Eureka Con.
Some are of the opinion that it was
a shock of earthquake. while Others
think il was the explosion OF accu-
mulated gas in the old chambers
Eureka Sentinel
From Overton, near Truckee, are
received particulars of the thrilling
escape OF Mrs. Donohue from being
buried alive in the snow. She was
just stepping out of the door OF her
house when there came slide OF
snow and ice off the roof. AT the point
where the snow started two roofs
came together, forming trough. she
was buried instantly under six feet OF
snow. Her daughter saw the accident
and at once gave the alarm. she ran
from house to house, calling for help,
and in ten minutes ten menwere on the
spot engaged in shoveling the woman
out. 1t was fully twenty minutes be-
fore they found her and the first thing
the saw was her foot. They then
cleared the snow away to her waist,
p ond .,,ioo . rona around her knees