The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-06-26
CENTRAL NEVADAN
Local and Personal.

The mosquitoes and gnats are now at
their best.
Sheriff Watt WAS a passenger to Aus
tin this morning.
Reese Jenkins was in town to-day Sc
curing haying hands.
A new Fairbanks scales has been put
in place at the depot.
The weather for the past few days
has been very, very warm.
Haying will begin on some of the river
ranches about July LIST.
II. e. Driscoll returned to San Fran.
cisco last Friday night.
G. B. Ramsdell and mother returned
from Carson last Friday.
Bob Blossom is busy cutting his crop
of alfalfa at the Italian ranch.
Constable Howard McAdams, of Car
lin, was 10 Battle Mountain yesterday.
Pete Chiara was in town to-day. He
has just finished cutting his first crop of
alfalfa.
The little mining town of Berlin in
Nye county will have a 500 Fourth of
July celebration.
sE"The Battle Mountain Improve
ment Association meets tonight. Let
there be n good attendance.
A. X. Holcomb shipped n carload of
ore from his mine situated near Elder
Creek, to Salt Lake this week.
Mrs. Minnie Waters came down from
Austin last Friday aud will sp nd a few
weeks visiting in Battle Mountain.
Fred Jones, who has held the position
of ~baggageman at the depot for some
time past, has been transferred to Wells.
George Schmidt OF Hot Springs, was
in town for a few days this week. lie
will begin cutting his hay crop ir a day
or two.
Miss Isabel Watt came down from
Silver Creek Monday, on her way to
Reno on a visit TO her %eister, Mrs. Harry
Clark.
The Lavelock school board has re-
elected Prof. V. Dornberger and Miss
Matte Mcintyre as teachers for the conl-
ing year.
The eagle will scream in Battle Noun.
tain on July 4th. The people of this
town have decided to celebrate the day
in a glorious manner
The dispatches state that King Ed
ward is a very sick man and the corona-
ton ceremonies have been indefinitely
postponed in consequence.
Now doth the youthful graduate
Require a larger hat.
lie thinks that his diploma makes
OF him a diplomat. Elk.
The new town % Weepah, Nyc coun-
ty, has two saloons, two stores aud a
hay yard. Water ie obtained from
springs and wells in the vicinity.
Charles Grayham went up to Galena
last Friday. lie is working his claim
which he has in that district and is said
to be extracting some go'd ore.
Dick Driscoll was an arrival yesterday
from Austin. Dick has been employed
out at Gold Park and has been absent
from Battle Mountain for several months.
Grasshoppers attacked Il steer Tues
day mig ht in Que OF the slaughter house
yards north OF town and devoured nearly
all the hair off the poor beast.-Va. Re
port.
Chas. S. Vadaer of Salt Lake, has TAX
en- an option on the Gold Note mine at
Kennedy, Humboldt county, on behalf OF
eastern capitalists. Mr.. Vadner leaves
in a day or two for Kennedy.
Against IA pain from hruise or sprain
Trib's the best insuring,
You will regret if you forget
Trib when you go n touring.
The Searchlight is the name OF a new
paper published at the town OF the same
name, Lincoln county, Nevada. Lincoln
is fast coming to the front and the Ne
d wishes the new paper unbound
ed success.
Matt and Henry Schmith are now in
Kansas. They left here about two weeks
ago with several carloads Of horses which
were purchased by George King, an
eastern buyer. They will return on or
about the LIST.
j.. W. Witcher OF Virginia City, for
merly United States District Attorney,
was examined as to his sanity and sent
TO the Storey hospital. On his person
was found a bank book showing $1,000
on deposit.
The ferry boats running between Oak
land and San Francisco, are to he with
out a bar, and no more drinks, soft or
hard, are to be served the alkalied trav-
eler. 1t will be the old story. "Water,