The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-05-07

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To hunt up things to yex
No wonder he is so careless then,
As to where he leaves his specks,
DR.. Pope of Michigan, is spending a
few days in Battle Mountain looking
around. The DR.. is a very pleasant
gentleman and he may make up his
mind to locate here.
Ed. Bilkey and family have moved in
the A~ddington house formerly occupied
by d. Davy and family. The Davy fam
lily hsve moved in the house where the
Bilkey family were residing.
Peter Laux and Miss Ella Hayden were
married last Tuesday evening in Winnie
mucca by Judge J. s. Bonnifeld. They
passed through Friday morning on their
way to their home in Pleasant Valley.
Willis Green is prepared to paint
fences and headboards at the cemetery.
Those wishing work done In this line
will do well to call on Green and have
him do the work before Decoration Day.
Bonner Lake, the historic gem Of the
Sierrae, is still entirely covered with ice
and snow. This is the second time this
has happened in 36 years; since 1S47, the
year the Bonner party persisted there.
The Walker Lake Bulletin says an
eighty-story hotel is the latest improve
ment projected in Tonopah. the board
ers to be Weakened with the firing of a
big gun from the top of the structure.
E. f. Bilkey wishes to inform the
public that hereafter he will keep at his
shop all kinds Of fruits and vegetables
which he will receive daily. Orders
from the outside will receive prompt
and careful attention.
John II. Craycroft is a very sick man
in Austin and the Reveille says that it is
only 4 matter of days before he will be
called to his fathers. Old age, he being
So, and general debility, with a dropsical
afiiction is Mr.. Craycroft's complaint.
Thomas AGREE, commissary at the
State Prison under Warden Henderson.
died at Tonopah last Thursday Of pneu-
monia. His remains were brought to
Austin for interment. He leaves a wife
and five children in Austin to mourn his
loss.
The Standard says a report has gtined
circulation in Winnemucca that the
boiler-makers and machinists on the
Southern Pacific railroad will go on a
strike on the 9Th. The cause of their
action is their sympathy for their fellow
workmen on the Union Pacific.
There has been quite a shakeup in the
Bank of Nevada at Reno. Judge G. E.
Mack, Harry NJ. German. j. B. Overton,
Richard Kirman, Mrs. Mccormick ard
]. N. Evans have sold their stock to
Daniel NEVER Of San Francisco at q
high premium. The annual meeting OF
the stockholders was held Tuesday and
the usual dividend declared. 1t is re-
ported that tue dissatisfied stockholders
will either start new bauk 10 Reno or
Carson or join forces with the Farmers
and Merchants Bank of Reno.
Nineteen hundred and three promises
to DO a pnnner year in Nevada. Tono-
pah has called the attention OF the min
ing world to the State. More capital
than was ever before interested is now
coming to the front. The National I'M
migration movement has called atten-
ton to the agricultural possibilities OF
the State, while the wet season and
equally distributed precipitation of the
past year has given the stock interests
Of the State ar impetus. Taken all in
all. Nevada will find the year 1903 one OF
the most prosperous in twenty years.
Review.