The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-10-15

At Winnemucca last Saturday /. V
Buttons horse, scorpion" failed to run
a mile in w minutes, making the mile
In 2044. Considerable money changed
hands and a number Of races will follow
In an interview In Washington Chiei
photographer Newell predicted thai
within a few years Nevada will have q
population Of half q million az a result
Of the irrigation work now under way.
A Dear Young Thing who lives here
and who is so thin that her friends say
she would not make a good book mark,
answered ar advertisement that offered
to tell How to get Fat for s.. She sent
the money and received word to buy II
at the butchers.
F. A. Limbaugh arrived Monday
morning from southern California where
he has been for the past three months in
the employ Of the 8. P. Co. Frank
looks the same as usual-hale and
hearty. He will probably remain about
a month before returning.
T. H. Weber, superintendent Of the
Grayson ranch, was 10 town yesterday
accompanying one Of bis workmen here
to be attended by DIR. Pope for injuries
he received by being kicked by q horse
in the face. The gentlemen returned
last evening on No. 8.
Jackson, Lang, Bradshaw and Sinks
have been held to appear before the Nye
county grand jury to answer to the charge
OF murder, growing out Of the raid upon
the Chinese OF Tonopah. Cushman,
Felter, Maxwell, Wease, Breusing, Bill
lings and Zunstein we're discharged.
The examination Of Wilson was in pro-
gress when the Miners report closed.
The Reno Gazette, so long and ably
edited by Allen G. Bragg, has changed
hands and will hereafter be conducted
under the editorial management oil
Charles A. Norcross. Mr.. Bragg in re-
firing from the Gazette takes with him
The best wishes OF the press Of the State
for his future success. The NEvADAN
bids good-by to Mr.. Bragg and extends
a hearty welcome to Mr.. Norcross.
The Reno Gazette says that through
the efforts Of j. NJ. Fulton, division
freight and passenger agent, the 8. P.
company has commenced to realize that
Reno is not provided for as we'll as could
be desired and NV there is a movement
90 foot to have the eastern connections
so arranged at Ogden to bring No. 3 into
Reno an hour and a half earlier.
II this change in time takes place No
8 will pass through Battle Mountain
about 100 p. m. instead Of 3'O2 as now.
People who have been talking Of the
old Comstock as a dead town and al
being worked out must 60 way back te
the back door and back out, comments
the Report. The payday for last month
was the largest in twelve years, amount
ing to over $4,000. And the amount Ii
likely to be increased, as the develop
ment work now under way assumes
shape. There is not a boom on in the
old town-pot one Of those skyrocket at
fairs-but a steady, healthy growth
which has come to stay, and which will
put the greatest mining town Of them al
again in the front row OF producers.
Frank Duffy arrived from Salmon
City. Idaho, yesterday and will spend 9
few days renewing old acquaintance
Frank is an old A~ustinite where he re-
sided for many years. He held the po'
sition of fireman on the "Mule's Relief
which ran from Clifton depot up to the
town OF Austin for some years and was
on the engine at the tins it turned oveI
coming down the grade, killing engineer
Wright.
1t is fourteen years ago since Frank
left Austin and says it feels like home to
him to be SO zeal his old stamping
grounds and be able to meet a number
~ his old time friends.