The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-01-15
STATE NEWS NOTES..

smelter.
Indians on the Walker river reser-
walton are being v~accinated.
A new mining class has been organ
tied in Virginia City, under the uni
versity extension plan.
The Carpenters Union at Reno is to
be provided with a charter by the Pa
cifc coast organization.
1t is estimated that the vote polled
by Nevada at the election this fall will
be one-third larger than in 1900.
Sheriff Campbell of Elko county col
lected several thousand dollars in IL
censes from Utah and Idaho sheepmen
last year.
United States Marshal Emmitt was
the victim, it is said, of a snipe-hunting
expedition near Yerington last week,
as stakeholder.
J.. l.. W%edekind and Miss Lillian Bal
ley were married Sunday in Virginia
City. The groom is one of the owners
of the Wedekind mine near Reno.
The case of e. S. Hendricks of Elko.
sentenced to State prison for life for
a murder committed several years ago,
is again before the board of pardons.
T. III. Jewell, who has held the posi-
ton Of express agent and postmaster
at Palisade for a number OF years. has
resigned. AS yet no one has been APP
pointed to fill the vacancy.
Luzerne county, Pa, boasts that it's
Sheriff is strong enough to pick up a
horse. Out in Churchill county they
string up a man who picks up a horse.
remarks the Virginia Report.
Rev. Robert G. Pike. stationed ut
Carson City as missionary among the
Piutes. has been spending the week in
Y~erington, and also visiting the reserva-
tion. Mr.. Pike was formerly among
the Oneidas and Chippewas. in Wiscon-
sin.
The Independent says: One Of Elko's
citizens remarked to the reporter the
other evening that the town was full
Of tin-horn gamblers and tina they
were running the young men. If this
be true the authorities should notify all
men of that class to pack what baggage
they nave and move on.
Attorney Bartlett. who returned from
Tonopah last Tuesday, says that the
many reports now going the rounds of
the State press relative to the new
camp having gone to pieces are grossly
exaggerated and by no means support
ed by the conditions now existing in
Tonopah.-Eureka Sentinel.
Most fiattering news comes from
White Pine county. 1t is a county that
is rapidly forging to the front in a min
ing way. and 1t begins to look as If Ely
will be a big mining town n the CEN
ter of a big mining industry. There is
much railroad talk and if roads are
putlt toHueCtiHS WHITE Iiut Will Tie
outside world it will be one of the rich
est and most %populous counties in Ne
vada.
About SIX weeks ago Otto Schroeder.
a saloon-keeper. and Bert Cassinelli got
into a fight at Dayton, during which
the latter got the formers finger and
thumb in his mouth n chewed them
considerably before Schroeder could get
away. Schroeder did not pay much at
tention to the injured memoirs at the
time and dressed them himself; but in
a few days his injured hand caused him
much pain. He came to this city and
Fridav DIR. Pickard amputated the
thumb. The trouble was caused by Cas-
SMELL calling upon his wife. from whom
he was divorced a short time ago, and
who went to live in a house owned by
Schroeder. The latter ordered Cas-
SMELL away from the premises and a
fight ensued.-Virginia Enterprise.