The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-30
Late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada
ABOUT WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
Accidents and Incidents Told In
Our Exehsnses--Notes on
the States Growth.

Piute Indians will hold a pow-wow
and ghost dances at Wadsworth next
week.
Two small children of section fore
man Norton. are said to be down with
d~yptheria at Lakeview.
The Journal states that per cent
ages were higher at the University
this zeal than ever before.
A Carson paper suggests that the
numerous convictions of Reno male
factors will soon necessitate an en-
largment of the state prison.
Several thousand dollars were paid
out here this week by the New York
& Nevada mining company, causing a
general feeling of confidence among
our business men as to the financial
standing and business management
of that company's affairs.-White Pine
News.
Experts are at work at Belmont,
Nye county, examining into the man
ner in which several of the county
offices have been conducted the past
four years. The last grand jury or
dered the investigation and it was
strongly limited that the county af-
fairs were in a bad shape.
The new line of the Southern Paci-
fc company throws into Storey and
Churchill counties a number of miles
of track that were formerly in Washoe
county, states the Enterprise. 1t was
believed that this would cause a loss
to Washoe county this season, but
owing to delays the Washoe track is
still being used n will be assessed
there.
A detachment of cavalry from the
regular army passed through this city
Sunday for Big Pine, Inyo county.
They are going down to persuade the
s~heepherders to keep off the govern
ment reserves, the local authorities
having been unable to do so The
men were accompanied by their
nOrses.-Carson News.
The thirty-first annual convention of
the grand lodge, Knights of Pythias
of Nevada. will meet in Reno on
Thursday, June 18th. The Southern
Pacific will give a rate of one and one
fifth regular fare, IN the receipt GER
tifcate plan. from all points on its
road in Nevada to Reno and return.
One full fare must be paid on going
and one-ffth for returning to starting
point.
Thirty per cent will not more than
cover the losses Of sheep in this sec
ton during the heavy snow and rain
storms of the past few days, the
White Pine News states. These
storms coming as they did right in
The midst of the lambing season, have
caused death to thousands Of the new
born. In this immediate vicinity Nc
Gill & Adams have suffered frightful
losses. and the same condition proba-
bly, prevails all over the county.
in the elaboate accounts of the Pres
ident's visit to Carson we nave failed
to see where the little incident when
the President had his carriage stopped
while he accepted a bunch of flowers
from a colored lady, who was stand
ing in the crowd, has been mentioned.
This small bunch of purple flowers
seemed to afford the President much
pleasure and he had them in one hand
and his hat in the other as he bowed
farewell to Carson. If this had hap
pened in San Francisco the press
would have been full of it. Carson
papers, however, entirely ignored 1t.
or more likely uIu not know that it
occurred.-Virginia Chronicle.
D. r. Hawkins and the Raycraft
brothers both claim the Mammoth
mine. Mr.. Hawkins, it is said, To-
Gated it years ago, and afterwards the
R%aycrafts jumped it. Now Mr.. Haw-
kins claims that the Raycrafts did not
do the assessment work in 1902, and
he has jumped it, and recently filed
three location notices with the county
recorder. Mr.. Hawkins and a prom
inent mining man from Colorado Wis
tied the mine Wednesday. 1t was
Mr.. Hawkins intention to put three
men to work on the mine. The Ray
crafts claim they did the assessment
work in 1902 and that they are still
the rightful owners of the claim
Gardnerville Courier.