The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-08-01
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this Office.
Lawyer Turner was over from Genoa
Wednesday,
The Carson river is very low at the
Boyd bridge.
Henry Alderman has fine position
in the depot at Sodaville.
John Whitmer of Placerville is
guest at the home of Lawrence Frey
in Genoa.
Sam Platt of Carson and Mr.. Man.
ming of Reno were in Gardnerville
Wednesday.
Mrs. A. Jensen is spending a few
days with Mrs. Hans Nelson at Cradle
baugh's bridge.
The remains of Frank Hall were
taken through here Tuesday night to
Smith Valley for interment.
Newspaper men never pay any at
tention to anonymous letters. When
you send news to paper always sign
your name.
Commencing Sunday, August 10th,
the Gardnerville drug stores will be
closed every Sunday afternoon from
II O'Clock until $50.
T. Q. Bamert of Hope Valley brought
his mother to Gardnerville, Tuesday.
She has very sore hand, having been
bitten by an insect
The Louis Cameron place, about two
miles up the canyon from Woodfords
on the Blue Lakes road, was sold to
Ernest scossa, Monday, for $3.50.
The Burkham stage pulled off the
Markleeville road Monday, Mr.. Burk-
ham and Mr.. Brockliss having come to
an understanding in regard to road
matters.
E. Christensen, Peter Nelson, Harry
and Russell Jensen and Herman Luhrs
will start on camping trip about
Aug. 10th. They intend to go into
Humboldt Co., Cal.
Theo. Tillman was in town yester-
day with petition asking the Board
of Commissioners to recind their order
allowing q. Anderson to run a traction
engine in Douglas county.
Mrs. Carrie Wilson of Hawthorne is
here visiting her sisters, Mrs. Aller-
man and Mrs. Anna Hansen. Mrs.
Wilson desires to send two of her chill
dren to the Gardnerville school.
Rice & Neddenriep have opened up
their new saloon and solicit share of
the public patronage. Mr.. Rice will
conduct the business and Mr.. Nedden-
REP will continue riding broncos.
Johnny Dickson was bitten on the
hand by a rattlesnake in Mono county
last week and was a very sick man
when he reached physician in Bridge
port. He was reported as getting
along nicely yesterday.
Tuesday horse belonging to Mr..
Spinney, the insurance agent, ran from
the Court House at Genoa down the
Boyd lane and into wire fence. The
animal was cut by the wires and two
wheels and the shafts of the buggy
were broken.
While cleaning pistol at Bridgeport
last Monday Chas. Day, prominent
sheep owner, accidentally shot himself
/. in the abdomen. The ball passed
through his body, coming outwithin
an inch of the backbone and lodged
between his shirts. Word was tele-
graphed to brother in San Francisco
who came UP with two physicians and
trained nurse. The party passed
through here Tuesday noon, and ex-
pected to reach Bridgeport in eight
hours, arrangements having been made
for relay of six teams between Car
son and Bridgeport.
The Rice hotel in Genoa, now the
property of DR.. Fournier, was built in
1864, and Nose Catlin, the well known
Carson carpenter, built the counter for
the bar room. Recently this counter
was sold to DR. Sinclair and moved to
Gardnerville, and Mr. Catlin was en-
ployed to put it in place. Nose recog-
nized the counter at once and said he
sold the first drink of whisky over it
in 1864. The editor of the COURIER
landed in Genoa from Illinois in Feb
ruary, 1870. One minute after his ar
rival he inspected this counter in COM
pany with Peter Van Sickle. Peter
had just returned from visit to his
parents in Illinois and brought four
teen-year-old boy out with him named
George Smith.