The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-07-31
STATE
NEWS

Senator wills Brougher will build a
$40, 900 residence in Carson.
Grasshoppers are growing large and
fat on Lincoln county alfalfa.
From sixty to eighty tons of fruit
are received each day at Truekee, and
300 tons of ice are used.
Reno will witness a grand Labor
Day celebration on September 8. 1t
will be big event.
The Eureka Sentinel says criekets
are destroying crops in Diamond val
ley.
The Argus says the hay crop in Love
lock valley is the finest in quality and
quantity ever harvested there.
The Journal says there are all kinds
sf talk regarding the building of a
street railway system in Reno.
In Colorado last year sugar beets
grown on irrigated land averaged $50
AN acre and ON nonrrigated land only
Sl6 an acre.
Frank Folsom, who has been cleo
trical engineer AT the Insane Asylum
for several years, has opened black
smith shop at Reno.
The News complains that the little
town of Empire has had two marriages
to every one occurring in Carson City
during the past year.
The L. 5. Surveyor Generals office
AT Reno has averaged 800 a day since
July lst of receipts on application for
mining patents.
II is understood that [. b. Hickey
has purchased the interests of Frank
Golden and Dave Ryan in the state
Bank and Trust Company of Carson.
Two bathers were nearly drowned at
Tahoe, near the Tavern, Saturday,
They were rescued at about the last
moment when rescue could be effect
ed.
A grass snake, three feet IN length,
was killed on G street III front OF
Hatch's store last EVENING" relic OF
the carnival left behind 'by the Esau
outfit.
The Appeal says the earthquake
shock reported at the lake was nothing
more serious than "A tumble taken by
a guest at the Tahoe tavern when pre-
sented with his bill.
The Tonopah Water Company j.
now in n position, il Is stated, to de
liver ,000, 900 gallons daily To the town.
Water will have TO be piped from Rye
Patch Springs to supply this amount.
Bert Dandy, who attempted erimi-
nal assault on Miss Callahan near
Washoe City some time age, aud who
plead guilty To the charge was Thurs
dev sentenced by Judge Murphy in
the District Court at Reno 10 serve
fourteen years in the State Prison.
7. {. Plunkett, Sr., has thrown up
the Job of editor of the Tuseorora
! Tlmes-Review. He says that the ma
iorily of the business men of that town
do not realize the Importance OF keep
ing upa local paper.
The dispatches state that the govern
ment is trying to divide up the work
/ on the big canal from the Trnekee to
/ Carson sink. This would hasten the
work. Many inquiries are being re-
ceived about taking up land under this
canal.
Since Bowers mansion in Washoe
valley has been remodeled into n ther-
NAL springs resort, the story oil It's
doors with solid silver hinges and
knobs with the eccentricites of the
late Sandy Bowers, are being reprinted
in the State exchanges, which is an
cient history to the present generation
Feline Clstina committed suicide at
the Martin Mason ranch on South
Fork, Elko county, last Tuesday by
jumping from high bluff. The body
was horribly crushed ON the rocks
Cistina was So years old aud II native
of Switzerland. He had threatened
several times to kill himself. He leaves
widow and four children.
The Pacific Coast Miner recently pub
lished an article about mining locations
at Tonopah claiming that many OF
them are Illegal on the ground that
very many of the locations are made
without any previous discovery OF u
ledge, the miners simply sinking down
in the hope of finding ore Mt the depth
of 400 to 600 feet.