Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1903-09-18
Callente 7nc the Line.

business
John Sller from Delamar is put
TIM mp a drug store which is badly
needed IN our City.
Mrs Oulverwell is putting up i
lodging house near the old home
place. Our best wishes for success
Several big poker games were
played during the week and several
hundred dollars changed hands
Pete Delmue and Chas Culverwell
Jr. have opened up butcher shop,
and are doing a good business.
Henry Eilers and the Editor oil
the RECORD, paid our metropolitan
City visit Saturday.
A Justice of the Peace office is
opened, but 50 far no offenders have
been brought before his Honor.
The Utah Construction Company
have established headquarters here
from which supplies will be shipped
to camps along the line.
Mrs G. G. Ronnow after spend
ing a week visiting with friends de-
parted for her home in Panaca Mon
day.
Jos and Chas Ronnow have con-
tract to furnish the Railroad Co
with seven foot cedar posts which are
to be used for fencing purposes
along the line of the railroad.
Caliente at present has 10 saloons.
FIVE eating houses, four barber shops
three Mdse stores, two blacksmith
shops, one livery stable, one butcher
shop and one bathing resort.
Seventy-fve carloads of all kinds
of material and supplies have been
received the past week by the Utah
Construction Company at this place
use in the construction work on
the line.
Our genial Postmaster is kept
busy these days. He seriously con-
templates taking course of study
in Greek, Austrian, Italian and
Finland so as to be able to decipher
the heterogeneous mass of letters that
arrive at his office daily
The main track is being put down
to keep pace with the graders and
side tracks are being put in the
material yard so that the trains can
unload the ties aud rails which will
soon commence to arrive.
Dan McKinnon died Saturday
afternoon about 5 o'clock of pneu-
monia. He had been on pretracted
spree for some time and was taken
down with pneumonia. He did not
go to bed but kept up and Saturday
afternoon was found in the brush
close to the road dead. He had
been dead but short while when
found as he was seen about a half
hour before. He was buried Sunday.
He leaves sister in Oregon.
Already quite force of men and
teams are at work between here and
the Pockets a distance OF forty five
miles. Cory Brother have a sub
contract of IL miles at the Pockets
and employ about 200 men. Camps
have been established at Kiernan's
Bradshaws, The Narrows, Caldwells
Carsons, Pippin Il Dula, Conaways
& Ryans ranches are about 800 men
at work. Every days the train
brings in more men and by the time
the IS miles is covered there will be
not less than 1900 men at work.
The Postmaster Genaral has direct
ed that railroad train not earring
mail cars be allowed to carry news
papers to dealers along the route ana
that such packages be handle by the
baggagemen and be considered as
United States mail and subject to all
the protection that goes therewltn,
This will not only enable the readers
of the great dailies to receive thelr
papers much earlier than formerely
in many cases, but will also place
every train in the country under the
protection of the United States
government, as being mail trains
stri oers are forbidden to moIest OF
interfere with their transit IN any
way under penalty of the fedora
law. 1t will be great boom to the
10 the railroad sempaniss.