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The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
To Antonio Montigari

10 AfltOftto WCtit5Ash-
You are hereby notified that / have
expended $4,000 in labor and i'm
provements upon the Nevada Mining
claim, situated in Clipper Mining
District, County of Lander, State of
Nevada, as will appear by the location
certificate of which is found on record
in the Office of the Recorder of said
county and district. The expendi-
ture of said amount being necessary
in order to hold said claim under the
provisions of Section 1924 OF the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States
and the amendment thereto, approved
January 22d, 1880, concerning annual
labor upon mining claims, being the
amount required to hold the same for
the year ending December 3lst, 1908.
And if within ninety days from the
service of this notice, or within ninety
days after this notice by publication
you fail or refuse to contribute yoGr
proportion of such expenditure as a
co-owner, your interest In said claim
will become the property of the SUBJ
scriber under said Section 1924.
ANTONIO MERIALDO.
May 10Th, 1904.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
Arrivals From Austin.

John II. Spencer, wife and little SOD,
and Mrs. Sarah Spencer left on No. G
last Sunday for Iowa on a visit to Iowa.
They expect to b. absent several months
and will take in the Fair before they re.
turn.
Charles Kearns, night Waterman oil
the Austin mill, passed through Sunday
on his way to San Francisco to receive
medical treatment for his left hand
which has been giving him much trouble
and pain Of late.
Oscar J. Clifford paid Sparks a visit
this week on business connected with
his building which hc intend to erect al
that place.
j. A. Cresceuzo, Jr.. accompanied by
Miss Mabel Thorpe. were passengers fol
the city Sunday.
j. b. Jones and wife took Sunday
evenings's No. 3 bound for San Fran
cisco.
Bob Hogan, the Austin merchant, went
up TO Elko Sunday. He returned tc
Austin Tuesday.
Miss Nellie Kearn came over the N.
c. yeste day on her way to San Fran
cisco
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
Severe On Nevada.

A cartoon by McCuteheon, Nevada
at the Worlds Fair" appears in a re-
cent number OF the Chicago Tribune,
which has been received by Agent w. T.
Onyon. The artist applies a caustic pen
and pictures a crowd of excited Nevadans
g shing in to see the educated horse
ignoring entirely the scientific exhibit
Several citizens are shown to be on the
verge of collapse after noting the high
charges at the fair while another bunch
10 prince alberts and tiles are labeled
as the Nevada Office holders who live IN
Washington. An excited crowd shoot
ing off guns is said to be discussing the
gold standard while a silver nugget form
erly worth s98,560, is labeled To- al
50.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
Met With an Accident.

Monday Mrs lohn Hider and daugh-
ter and Mrs. II. Paulson went to the
river fishing. On returning home. cross
ing the last bridge which spans one of
the sloughs leading from Blossoms ranch
the horses became frightened and began
backing off, breaking the rail
ing on one side of the bridge and
before the horses could be checked had
the wagon partly off he bridge, when
the women jumped from the wagon.
Mrs. Hider and daughter escaped with
out sustaining any injuries. Mrs. Paul
son received a few bruises about the
head and face. The wagon needed some
few repairs. 1t vas h lucky thing they
we're not seriously injured.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
New Locomotives Pass Through.

During the past few days a numbcr OF
the finest locomotives ever built have
passed through Battle Mountain on
their way west. These engines are OF
the Atlantic type, oil burners, with Van
derbilt style of tank for oil and water.
The driving wheels are 6 feet, 10 inches
10 diameter, with direct connections
The engines were built by the American
Locomotive works Of New York, and are
the highest type OF passenger machines
ever constructed. During tests they
have developed a speed Of over 100 miles
an hour. They will run on the South.
ern Pacific from Sacramento to Oak
land.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
VIM. Thomas:

10 WITH bnofftdos
You are hereby notified that we have
expended during the year 1908 more
than $4,000 for labor and improve
ments upon the Defender and Copper
Glance claims, situated in Battle
Mountain Mining District, County of
Lander, State of Nevada, the location
certificate of which is found on record
in the office of the Recorder OF said
county. The expenditure OF said
amount being necessary in order to
hold said claim under the provisions
of Section 1924 of the Revised Stat
utes of the United States and the
amendment thereto, approved Janu-
airy 22d, 1880, concerning annual la
Dor upon mining claims. Your pro-
portion of such expenditure amounts
to $37 ~ for the work upon SAID
claims for the year 1908, and If with
in 80 days after the publication here
of you fail or refuse to contribute
your proportion of such expenditure
rs above stated, your interest in said
claims will become the property OF
the subscribers, your c~o-owners, who
has made the required expenditure
by the terms of said Section.
II. Il. LEMAIRE,
M. J. MURPHY.
rattle Mountain, April 20, '04.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
THE COMING RACES.
Everything Working Satisfac-
tory for the Coming Meet.


An enthusiastic meeting OF the Battle
Mountain Jockey Club was held last
Thursday night to make arrangements
for the races TO be held here this Fall
1t was decided to hold the races on the
10Th, 10th and 21st of October, or i'm
mediately after the Austin meet.
Mike firt was given the contract to
erect a grard stand and seats, and the
track will be put in the very best ccndi
ton.
The Soliciting Committee reports fav-
orable and says that they will be able to
raise n sufficient amount to carry off the
races.
An order has been sent by the Club
for the posters which will be- the same as
the Austin poster and should be here III
side Of ten days.
Sealed bids for the privileges of gamb-
ling, bar, pools and fruit stand will be
received by the Secretary. For in
structions governing same see the ad.
on second page.
A great deal of interest is being mani
tested by our people over the races and
it is an assured fact that they will be a
grand success.
The Club will give a dance on Octo-
Der 18th.
Some very fine horses will be at the
aces. The Reveille has been Informed
that Lew Bradley Of Elko, will be in
Austin with four running horses. Lem
Allen with seven, Mr.. Kennedy, who is
now in California with Mr.. Allen, with
Ave, Waiter Magee with two, Frank
Balbi with one, perhaps two, j. r. Will
son with six, Patrick Walsh with two,
and the prospects very encouraging for
a number from the Reno track after the
meet closes at the latter place.
All the horses that take part 10 the
Austin races will be brought to the Bat
tie Mountain track as they will be taken
to the Elko meet after the races are CON-
cluded here.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01

A boy tramp named Harrison Bar
dine, OF Chicago. was run over and killed
at Gerald Monday.
On account OF meeting Of the knights
Templar and the Sovereign Grand Lodge
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Southern Pacific Company will sell tick.
cts to San Francisco and return, al
s25 Sc for the round trip from Battle
Mountain.
1t Is reported that the syndicate to
purchase the Free Press has succeeded
in raising the necessary amount OF
money, stated at $1,000. and they will
take possession on the first OF september.
George b. Russell, the manager is left
for San Francisco to purchase material
for the plant.-independent.
Mrs. Prisk and son., Miss Jory and
Mr.. and Mrs. Hitchins arrived in Battle
Mountain Saturday on No. 3 direct from
England. The first two mentioned ladies
are sisters Of the Jory Brothers OF Willow
Creek. They departed for the ranch
Sunday accompanied by their brothers
at which place they expect to make their
home.
Tom Cook, who left here about a year
ago for his old home in England, suffer
ing from miners consumption, is con
fined to his bed, unable to help himself,
and has q nurse by his bedside attend
ing to his wants. Tommie's many
friends IN Battle Mountain will be pain
ed to hear that he is SO near the point OF
death.
r. W. Klock and wife paid our town
a visit last Sunday after an absence of
several years. Mr.. Klock was formerly
an operator at this station, and he and
his wife (nee Hattie Coale) are veil
known to our people. Their short visit
was an enjoyable one as they had the
pleasure OF meeting their many friends.
Mr.. Klock Is agent at Carlin
Harry Diggs, a well known CONNER
cial traveller, is in a critical condition at
Cloverdale, Cal. He is a Knight Temp
lar and was riding a horse so as to he
familiar with the saddle in the conclave
parade when the animal reared up and
threw him over backwards. The acct.
dent happened a week ago Wednesday
and he had not regained consciousness
up to last Friday.
A land deal involving all the big
ranches in White zine valley, Eureka
county is being made with the Pine
Valley Land and Stock Company Of
Utah, which is eaid to be an incorporat-
I'd company. As vet little is known OF
the company, for its papers have not
been filed 10 Eureka. They are expect
ed daily, aud many inqueries about them
have been received in Eureka from in
terested parties Ii is said to be the in
tention of the company To make Pine
valley a Mormon settlement Eureka
Sentinel.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
Republican Meeting.

A meeting Of the Republican County
Central Committee was held 10 Austin
last Saturday evening for the purpose
OF setting a time and place for holding
a County Convention and to arrange for
holding Primary Elections in the several
precincts of the county, to elect del
egates thereto. The primaries will be
held on the 18th OF September and the
County Convention will take place 10
Austin on the 9th. The apportionment
OF delegates from each precinct is rs fol-
lows: Austin 20. Battle Mountain II;
Bullion 1; Galena 2; Dean l; Cortez 3.
Total 81.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
Rathbone Sisters Auxiliary.

A communication from the Supreme
Lodge of the Knights of Pythias held in
Louisville, Ky. states that the Rathbone
Sisters have Ecen admitted as an aux
iliary of that popular order. This in
formation was received by A. B. Stod-
dard, who is Grand Keeper of Records
and Seals of the order in Nevada. The
officers Of the Supreme Lodge report a
great increase in the membership and a
healthy financial condition existing in
the treasury. with a bright prospect for
the future 10 all respects.--Va. Enter
prise.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
A lust Man.

Hubby" said the wife of a farmer
living heal Wells, ION August 31st we
shall have been married twenty-five
years. Don't you think that we ought
to kill the fat pig and have a ~feast?"
"Kill that pigf" growled the farmer
II don't see what we want to jump.
onto that pig for. He isn't to blame for
what happened twenty five years ago"
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
To Whom 1t MAY
Concern.
Department of the Interior,
United States Land Office.
(taraon titr Nav .Iuna ~ l004

Carson City. New, juno "A, 1904.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN Central Pacific Railway Company has
fled in this office a list of lands situate,i in the
townships described below, and has appliedtfor
a patent for said lands; that the list Is open to
the public for inspection and n copy thereof by
descriptive subdivisions has been posted in a
convenient place in this Office, for the inspec-
ton OF all persons interested and the public
generally.
Within the next sixty days following the
date of this notice, protests or contests against
the claim of the company to any tract or sub
division within any section or part of section,
described in the list. on the ground that The
same Is more valuable for mineral than for ag-
ricultural purposes. will be received and noted
for report to the General Land Office at Wash
ington, d. C..
Following Is the list:
~ NE 4 and NE y Sc n. Sec. 5, q, n, R
IS Il. All Secs. /, 3, 5, I, 9. IL. Ii, Is, II. IS, Il. Is,
Is, 27, 20, 81, 30 and IS. 7 % N, R IS T., all Of
Mount Diablo Meridian.
To be published for ten consecutive weeks.
o. II. GALLUP, Register.
ID. H. HALL. Receiver.
Date of first publication. June 30. 1904.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
Tough Travelling to Tonopah.

Passengers for Tonopah are having
their troubles these days. The Tono-
pah railroad will not be in operation for
two or three days yet.
In the meantime passengers must take
the stage at Sodasille and spend one
and one-half days on the trip. The fare
one way from Sodaville il $15.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
Low Rate to Exposition and Return.
On September 8. g. 7. and 9Th.
n not.Lo. . Z o.I eth

On oeptemper os U, u anu ON.
On October 3, 4. s, and 9th.
To Chicago aud return over direct
routes $65 80.
To Chicago and return one way
through Kansas City and st. Louis
S68 90.
BY application to Mr.. T. II. Goodman,
General Passenger Agent, San Francisco
j. M. Fulton, Division, Freight and
Passenger Agent, Reno, New, Or to
W. T. Onyon, the agent at this place,
all Information will be given those who
desire to take advantage of this rate.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01

On account Of Labor Day celebration
at Virginia City, the 8. p. Co, will give
a special rate of Sl1 so for the round
trip Battle Mountain to Reno, Nevada.
Sale dates September Bird and 4th. Re-
turn limit Sept. 7th.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
- TIME CARD =
80

The following table gives the arrival and
departure of passenger trains at Battle
Mountain.
wEsTDoUND
ARRIVES DEPARTS
No.3 $50, p. m. 5t3i p. IN.
Nos IL IL. a. m. 12sS, a. m.
EAsTBoUND
No. 5:44. a. m. 5;45. a. m.
No.6 6:26, d. M. 627. d. m.
The Nevada Central Railroad leaves Battle
Mountain Tuesdays and Saturdays at 7 80 A.
NJ. returning Wednesdays aud Sundays at IL 30
W. T. CNYCN, Agu t..
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-09-01
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

Battle Mountain, March 81, '04.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-05-11
CHAPTER WI.

Captain Cholnondely was enjoying his
solitary breakfast in his bachelor cham
bers in the Albany. this dali morning
just before festive Christmas. He was
picture, as he sat there--a gooditcm-
pr.e1 smile on his handsome features a
fresh glow on his manly face.
II wonder what she is really like"
he soUloquizes I never knew Maud
SO enthusiastic before. And as brave az
a hnn, She must be rare girl, Well,
l shall see her soon; and very happy
time we shall have Of il. I hope" he
murmurs. From Maud's account, she
must be superlative \ wonder that my
mother has never mentioned ier. except
ia the most casual manner. before her
brave rescue OF my sister. but perhaps
little Maudie IS too enthusiastic
His man has everything packed and
ready. and after a hearty dinner. Ernest
starts for I.eicestershirc, lie is to stay
with the Colonel and Archie till Christ
mas eve, and then To g. on 20 Brighton,
20 spend the festive season with his
mother and sister.
He finds it very pleasant journey.
The stars are out. and very bright they
louk through the car window. aud they
seem % shine for him. this happy young
man: the sky is a deep, dark blue, and
the wind siirs with n gentle murmur
And by and by the stars will have ne
siivcry brightness for him, and the sky
viii be 70 him as heavy as his own ach
ing heart. and the wind win whisper
mournfully TO i'm with a sad and plain
rive wall that shall echo in its cadcuc'
oul> the sigh that is going up 10 beaver
from the bruised heart within has breast
But all this is mercifully hidden from
him Once he sees dark. pretty tat
peeping out Of fur-Coy ed. coquettiSl
little lat. and he "a IS of Maggie nul
+ his sisters description, and wonders il
+ his smiling. happy way il she will realiz
+ his vision Of beauty.
He is at his journeys end ut last, ans
/ is met by smiling faces and hearty word
j of welcome and glad offers OF service.
/ The old Colonel ereets him on tn
/ early morrow morn, aud, rs it is not
hunting day, takes hiEi ott Nith Archi
/ 20 look up the pheasants, and has n
fnuit Is end with the Captains skill
1 aua no regret at having placed ai;u Ii
the waFmest corner.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-05-11
Docs This Fit Your Cow?

If boy should come from the heart
of d city. says the Farmer who had
neither seen nor heard of COW be-
fore, how would he describe it as it is
seen at this time of tha year on many
Of our Minnesota farms? His obser-
vations would lead him 10 say that il
was used as a sort of scavenger to
keep things picked up about the fields
in winter time, to pull the branches off
the corn stalks and trim up and bore
into the straw piles, and while not
at work stands on the leeward side of
the strawstacks or in the fence orner
with its rudder to the wind. 1t has a
hump similar to dromedary, only
more rounding. 1t has hair like most
other animals, except that it stands up
more. and on its TANKS it has not hair
at all. but scales like an alligator. 1t
doesn't seem at all satisfied with life,
but stamps its feet. shakes its head
and acts mad.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-05-11
SECRETARY TAFT'S SPEECH.

Secretary of War Taft, in his speech
at the opening of the st. Louis worlds
fair, said:
From each of the great expositions
OF the world can be dated the worlds
familiarity with some marvellous inven-
ton so quickly adopted in our life that
the change that it effected has almost
passed from memory. And while the
buildings and the machines and the con-
crosses and the beauty and the glamor
and the pomp of such a celebration and
exposition as this shall pass into mem
DRY, and every material evidence disap-
pear, the measurement that they make
OF progress, noted as it is in the history
of the world, becomes a benefit to man
kind, the value of which cannot be ex-
aggerated.
I'VE have at this, the centenary OF
the purchase of Louisiana, entered upon
another and a different Lind of expan-
sion, which involves the solution OF 9TH
er and different problems from those pre-
scented in the Louisiana Purchase. That
they may not and probably viii not be
solved by comforting statehood upon the
new territory is probable.
"Augurs of i'll and ruin to follow FRONT
the experience and the solution of the
problem are not wanting, but they never
have been wanting in the history of this
country, and they never h"ve been al
lowed TO control the fearle graphing
of new problems by Americans. We have
probably reached a period, in the great
wealth and power which we have achiey
ed as a nation. in which we find our
selves burdeDed with the necessity OF
aiding another people TO stand upon its
feet and take n short cut to the freedom
and the civil liberty which we and our
ancestors have hammered out by the
hardest blows. For the reason that this
centennial of the Louisiana purchase
marks the beginning Of the great Philip
pine problem, the government of the Phil
ippine Islands has felt justified in ex-
pending a very large sum of money to
make the people who come here to com
memOrate the vindicatioI Of one great
effort of American enterprise and expan-
sion under the conditions which surround
the beginning of another.
Those who look forward with dark
fOreboding to the result of this new adj
venture base their prophecies of disas-
ter on what they think is the weakness
of the American people. Those whe
look forward to its success base their
judgment on what has already been ac'
complished in the islands, and on what
they know the American nation can do
when an emergency and an inevitable
assity present themselves. Without
beg blind to the didiculties or the dam
gers. /. gives me the greatest happiness
to know and to say that the President of
the United States, whom | unworthily
represent to-day, is glad to take his stand
among those who believe in the capacity
of the American people who, aroused by
the call of iuty, to solve any problem
of government, however new, which de-
ponds solely on the clear-healedness, the
honesty and the courage. the generosity
and the self-resuaint of the American
people"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-05-11
MYSTERY OF THE BAHAMAS.

American Scientists TO Solve Mach
DIooted Question
To the Johns Hopkins Bahama ex-
petition, which left Baltimore last
June, says the Baltimore American,
is due the credit for the establishment
of the first scientific measurements to
determine whether the Bahama ISL
ands are gradually sinking into the
ocean or rising higher from the sea
level as the result of geologic changes
in that section Of the world
As a striking example of the disin-
terestedness of science, no realization
of knowledge upon the subject can be
made after taking The initial measure
ments for probably twenty-five or
fifty years, depending upon the rapid
ity Of the rise or fall of the island.
The records obtained ON the recording
instrument next June will be put away
for a number of years, when another
set Will be taken and compared with
the first
The work was done for the United
States government by DR.. Oliver l..
Fassig, weather forecast official of the
United States Weather Bureau in Brl-
timore and associate in meteorology
IN the Johns Hopkins University, who
had charge of the Chronological and
magnetic work OF the expedition. 4
set of the records thus gathered will
be presented to the United States gov
eminent and put away in the archives
OF the weather bureau to await th
time for taking the second set OF
| measurements. In this way at least
one department of investigation of the
Bahama expedition will receive a per-
manent place in the national history.
The rise and fall of the Bahama
Islands az regards the sea level has
been a mooted point for some years.
! but no definite steps to ascertain the
matter with scientific surety had ever
been taken u~til the Johns Hopkins
expedition The manner of taking
these records is very interesting, and
visitors to the islands will he able for
many years to see the permanent ap-
paratus which stands through storm
and sunshine a real monument to the
| scientific pr0wess of Baltimore.
The two essential instruments for
| the measurements are the so-called
''bench-marb" and "tlde-gauee." The
| benchmark is n small obelisk of gran
ite three and one-half feet above
ground, with a small brass disk, bear
ing a horizontal mark inserted into
one face OF the stone The bench
mark was sunk about three feet into
! the oral rock or the island on the
| grounds of Flagler's Colonial TIoEel at
| Nassau, the most important hostelry
Of the islands. 1t Is several hundred
yards from the water, but on the
| shore. at the edge of the water, fast
ened to n sea wall is placed the Sda-
gauge, which registers the rise ana
fall of the tide.
This consists of n box high enough
above the water to be protected from
the elements. with a des ending square
box IN which runs n float which rises
and falls with the tide, registering The
movements OF the water on horizon
tai revolving cylinder and describing
a curve.