The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-09
Late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada
ABOUT WELL Known PEOPLE
Accidents and Incidents Told in
Our Exchanges--Notes on
the States Growth.

Truckee Meadow onions are selling
for s19 per ton.
Senator Newlands is expected to ar
rive in Reno on or about May 10th.
The first crop of alfalfa and barley
is ready for the reaper in Lincoln
county.
The bullion tax for Tonopah for the
last quarter will add $4,000 to the
| county treasury.
The freighting for Tonopah requires
over 1000 head of stock and the stag
ing about 120 head.
The record for a mile run III
University of Nevada is four minutes
and forty-five seconds.
Superintendent Allen of the Carson
Indian school will be transferred to
the Albuquerque school shortly.
The town of Bishop by decisive
vote at an election the other day. de-
cided to incorporate and run local
government.
The Hammond ranch of 100 acres in
Lamoille valley, Elko county, with
LOO head of cattle. was sold for $24,-
900 recently.
William Loss was sent to Jail for
sixty. days in Elko for pounding to
a poultice the face OF a man who re-
fused to loan him money
George Hadley, who was arrested
in Reno on charge of enticing
young girls in the opera house for
criminal purposes, was released yes
terday for lack of evidence.
The colored porter who had the
smallpox and was quarantined in the
Pullman car at Golconda some two
weeks ago, has fully recovered and
was strutting around town today
Central Nevadan.
Ex-Secretary of State Eugene How
ell leaves for White Pine county In
a day or two, where he has large
mining interests, says the Carson
News. 1t is understood that he has
accepted an offer of a quarter of a
million for them.
The Virginia City Report says that
should the county finances not admit
of street sprinkling there is a strong
probability that an epidemic of sur
face miners consumption will ensue
from swallowing tons of fine quartz
dust with which the air is filled dur
ing windy periods.
The Carson News says Joe Raycraft
is showing some great specimens of
gold taken from Pine Nut. 1t is in
the form of grain gold and was wash
ed from a lot of decomposed quartz
from the Monarch mine. The ledge
is several feet wide and carries val
ues which will insure good profits
for milling.
The government is surveying the
Indian lands in Pine Nut and is is
expected that the work will occupy
about a month. The surveyors are
camped at the Double Springs and
Sam Rice has been installed as cook.
Four hundred and forty members of
the Washoe tribe have been allotted
from 12O to 160 acres each.
Another sink occurred in the Ogden
Lucin cutoff last Saturday afternoon.
This time it was ON the east end of
the permanent trestle work. Six cars
were thrown into the fill-in. -Four of
them were easily put back and the
other two were recovered by the
wrecking crew. No one was hurt and
the work on the cutoff was not de-
layed.
A New York paper rates the ori-
ginal fortune of ex-senator j. p
Jones at SIS, 1000, 600; says he employs
/ 100 men at his mine in Costa Riea
and invested $4,000 600 in his Santa
Monica property. The original for
tune of Senator Jones did not exceed
s. 900 600, his Santa Monica property
did not cost $500. 900 and he does not
employ over 100 men in his Costa
Rica mine.-Exchange
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