The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-12
STATE NEWS
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late News Notes Gathered
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a shortage of feed is reported on
Churchill and Nye county cattle
ranges.
Cliff Bailey and Harry Dole of San
Francisco are visiting in this city for
q Few DAYS.
A forest fire near Kings canyon,
north of Carson, has done considerable
damage to standing timber.
Miss Elsie Gavin Of Empire has been
elected to teach the public school
al Rye Patch. Humboldt county.
The Journal claims that buildings
now under construction in Reno rep
resent an outlay of over one million
dollars.
A Sacramento dispatch says that
Governor Sparks stock from his farm
near Reno captured the first prizes in
their class at the California state fair.
L. H. Taylor, the state photograph
e.. authorizes the Reno Journal to
state positively that there will be no
negroes imported to work on the gov
erAment irrigation canal.
The county commissioners of Elko
held a meeting on Labor Day and
transacted considerable business. As
it was a legal holiday some question
has been thrown upon the legality Of
their acts.
A Washington dispatch says a post
Office has been established at Harri-
man, near Reno. where the S. P. car
Stops are located. The above evidences
that the new suburb of Reno has at
.ast a local habltation and a name.
Il is rumored that Sol Summerield
will be appointed postmaster.
While riding on top of a train load
ed with lumber from Hobart Mills
Monday afternoon, John Nolan, an
elnploye Of the Sierra Nevada Wood
& Lumber company, was struck by a
beam in a snowshed and knocked to
the ground. sustaining injuries from
which he died at IL O'Clock Monday
night.
Last evening John Armour, a car
penter, died in this city. Deceased
came to California in 1S49, and arrived
on the Comstock in 1868, and has
since resided here. Mr.. Armour suf-
feled a stroke of paralysis about elgh-
teea months ago, and his death re-
suited from that affection. He was a
native of Paisley, Scotland, aged 70
years, and leaves a widow to mourn
his loss.-Chronicle.
The assessment roll of Washoe
county was completed Thursday even
ing by Assessor Beard and will be
turned over to the board of county
commissioners, sitting as a board of
equalization, on September 14th. The
roll brings out the information of an
increase of a million and a half dol
lars in the valuation of property, the
total being S7,6S9, $50, willie some per-
sonal property is still out.
A sensational case is about to be
filed in Reno in which j. B. Mcdonald
will sue for divorce from DIR. mrs
Mcdonald, who conducted the Nevada
sanltarIum il Reno. Mr.. Mcdonald
has been employed for some time in
Reno, and it is alleged thai during his
absence DR.. William Jones, who was
tic physician at the sanitarium, be-
came very intimate with Mis-. Melon
al ana recently they left together,
taking with them the baby twins OF
j. b. Mcdonald.
The woman who eloped with DR..
Johnson from Hobart Mills was TIE
widow of the late Charles Calvin, who
was Well known in this city. 1t is
now thought that DIR. Johnson gave
Mr.. Calvin a dose that sent him to
his grave. and it is rumored hat his
body will be exhumed and the stom-
ach analysed. An effort viii be made
TO locate the clippers, and if the sus-
pielons CT Calvin's friends prove true
they will be brought back to face a
charge o. murder. Mrs. Calvin was
formerly Miss Martin of Carson City
Enterprise.