The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-31
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada

stored in his Reno warehouse.
A carload of sample wool from Ne
vada has been sent to Boston, where
it will be placed on exhibition.
= Jerry Ahern, who was transferred
| from the state prison to the asylum,
has been cured and returned TO ne
pen.
| Bert Mcdonald of Salt Lake and
Herb Conway of the Oberon, Reno,
will give a gloce contest at Truckee
November IL. Articles were signed
yesterday The contest will be for a
purse of $500.
During the past week the Montana
Tonopah company marketed three
cars of ore, which netted the company,
after all shipping and treatment
charges had been paid, over s22,00O.-
Salt Lake Herald.
Charles H. Kelley has taken pre-
liminary action in bringing suit for
$4,000 against the Truckee River
General Electric company for the
death of his son, killed in that COM
panys employ last April in Carson.
The East Reno paper will start pub
| lication December 1. 1t will be known
as the East Reno Headlight Messrs.
Stewart & McPhail will conduct the
publication. 1t will be republican in
politics. The office building is now
being erected.
A. NJ. DAILY, Philadelphia lawyer,
arrived in Gardnerville last Monday
for the purpose of investigating the
Delaware Gold Mining company prop
osition in the interest of Philadelphia
and Wilmington, Del, clients, who
wish to invest in this property if they
receive a favorable report from Mr..
DAILY.
A strange disease is causing the
death of sheep in the southern coun-
try. Harry Powell, one of the large
wool growers of Antelope valley,
Mono county, has been in Reno for a
day or two awaiting the result of the
analysis of the stomach of a sheep
brought with him. The university
professors are still at work on it. Mr..
Powell has already lost 800 sheep and
other. owners in his vicinity find their
fiocks similarly affected.
"A lively rush is predicted the day
| the Frenchman who lately discovered
| the rich quartz In Pine Nut makes the
place of his discovery known. The
| Appeal says the ore in question is the
/ richest that has been placed on view
in many years, and those who have
taken a good view of it are of the
opinion that it comes from a ledge,
and not a pocket, as it is firmer va
riety and of a different character from
any yet shown here, or that has been
\ found in the Pine Nut range.
The route of the Western Pacific
/ through Nevada, it is being claimed,
will traverse part of Elko, Lander,
Humboldt and other Nevada counties.
crossing Reese river at Jacobvilie,
thence to Austin, crossing the South
err Pacific near Wadsworth, thence
| through Beckwith pass at an eleva-
tion of 5191 feet, thence westward, fol-
lowing the Feather river. Tne total
length of the road will be about SOU
miles and it will be built as nearly
on an air line as practicable.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ca, says;
Senator Stewart, who married MIS-
Cone here Monday, went to his wed
ding from a heated conversation with
an elevator boy, who had passed MIN
several times before stopping Tne
delay had actually been two ana a
half minutes, but the senator declared
that it was twenty, and expressed ms
opinion of the young man in no sof'
language. At the wedding supper, to
which Senator Steward, his bride and
ex-senator Norwood of Georgia sal
: down Immediately after the ceremony
, the piece de resistance was fried pa
J con.
: At the present time twenty-five
mines are in active operation on the
. Comstock exclusive of those interested
in the drainage of the Ward shdit
The Bullion, Alpha, Julia and Elk
chequer are included in the number
! defraying the expense of recovering
) the lower levels by that method. Ihs
Davis drill on the Brunswick and th'
Buffers company are not included II
the above figures. The latter concern
employs a very large number of mel mel
. and indirectly furnishes employment
to many more. The coming wintel
and spring will witness the best tlme'
seen here in a great many years