The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-07-16
NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
New da

Miss Ebe Mallett met with painful
accident the other evening. She was
at Russell's ranch with her 22-rifie
and in some manner, while she was
arising from a seat, the gun went off,
sending a bullet through the fieshy
part of the inside of her left foot. She
will be laid up for a couple of weeks.
Free Press.
A crew of men went up to work at
improving the state water reservoir
this morning. The state institutions
are already short of water because of
the penny WISE policy of misguid-
ed legislature which declined to pur
chase for a small sum water rights
that would have grown more and more
valuable each succeeding year.-Car-
son News.
The Virginia gun club will go to
Reno next Sunday to shoot against
the Reno club. 4.e Reno Journal says
che boys are confident of success this
time and =. the Reno cluD does what
It wants to Virginia City will receive
blow Sunday that will cause all the
vcmstock mines to cave in and Con
Ahern to kick his plug hat over the
at Davidson fiagstaff.
A great deal of difficulty is being
experienced at drill hole NO. 4 on tne
brunswick lode. The hole is over 500
leet in depth, 500 feet of which is in
oIay. The hoe had to be cased, but
low the ground swells so rapidly tnat
ne hole closes up to the last seetloL
Il casing before another section eau
oe pat uown and the drill pant Will
oe moved back about fifty teet and d
lew nIne-lnch hole will be started.
A little before o'clock yesterday
| afternoon q. Z. Thomas, an empioy e
u the Nevada-Canfornia-O egon rdIl-
way company in its car shops, met
WITH an accIaent that resulted in the
-oss OF four fingers and part of tue
palm of the lett hand. He was feed
.ng a planer and accidentally thrust
ais lefl hand in to the jaws of the
.nachlne. A moment later the membe.
was horribly mangied.-Reno Journal.
Five or six days ago the camp tendel
for Jones and Garcia was sent to the
summit between North Fork and Tus-
oal ora to take charge of a band O..
~neep that was being herded by Juan
4zalnae. he found The camp and sheep
Al rlght, but Izainae was missing. A
search was made for the missing
Aerder, but no trace of him was found
4ntIi yesterday, when he was founu
lead in a small creek near the camp.
Al is not known how he came to his
aeath. The dead man has two broth
ers working in Lamoille valley.-ln-
~ependent.
Sheriff Bennen of Great Falls, Mont,
arrived last night after H. B. McFar-
lent, arrested last week at Tecoma by
constable Mccoy. He stopped off to
sec II McFane en- was the man he was
Alter and tlnding that he was, the
sheriff went to carson on No. after
.equisition papers. Last September
.acr arren purchased a carload of val
liable horses at Great Falls, which he
shipped to himself at Memphis, Tenn,
and for which he forgot to remit the
purchase price. Sheriff Bennen has
been after him ever since and has
cracked him $500 miles. He found
out through the postmaster at Mem
phis that McFarren's mail was being
sent to Cherry Creek, White Pine
county, Nevada. He telegraphed the
sheriff of White Pine county. and was
informed that McFarren had ordered
mis- mail forwarded to Wells. He then
Celegraphed Sheriff Clark and Con-
stable Mccoy did the rest. McFarren
IS wiling to return without requi-
sition, but Sheriff Bennen does not
propose TO take any chances with his
man.-Independent