The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-07
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada

The Gardnerville Record Courier is
installing a new gasoline engine in Its
office.
Actual work began yesterday on the
construction Of the Hunter Creek Wa
ter company's reservoir.
The snow blockade on the Truckee &
Tahoe railroad has been raised and
trains a now running regularly.
A tramp was killed at Wells the
other day by the cars. His body was
badly mangled. No particulars are
given.
State Senator Williams predicts that
Churchill will be the leading county in
the state in population in the next five
years.
An eighteen-inch vein of silver-1ead
ore assaying 5000 per ton was struck
in the Last Chance mine near Phoebe
last week.
The Washoe County Traction COM
pany. besides building an electric road
from Reno to Sparks City. announces
that it will build line f.om Reno to
Lake Tahoe.
Good progress is being made with the
new depot at Elko. The sides and ends
are enclosed and the rafters are In
place. The building will be completei
in a week or so.
Elkos public hall proposition has
taken on new life and the prospects
are frightening. A large pat of the
money necessary has been subscribed
and more is in sight.
The Southern Pacific will run an ex-
cursion from Reno Sunday. May 22. to
the government canal. The train will
leave Reno at 3 O'Clock in the morning
and will traverse the cutoff above
Wadsworth. returning through that
| town. Dinner will be served at Buck
mans camp and plenty of time given
10 see the great work that the govern
ment is carrying on.
| Miss Beulah George was one of the
members on the program of the Twen-
tiath Century Music club in San Fran
cisco last Friday evening. OF her rem
dition of the solo. Sweet Bird" Town
Talk has this to say: Miss George
has a high soprano voice of wonderful
fexibilty. She has been well trained
and. although very young. is already
one Of our best singers.
Robert Hosan's store in Austin was
broken into and robbed Wednesday
night of last week. The door was locked
by a nioht-latch and the main lock.
| The glass near the night Latch was
broken out and that lock opened. Not
having kev for the other lock the
-heves pulled the moulding away from
he panel of the door. pushed the panel
IN and coened the catch at the bottom.
.hus being able to spring the doors
apart.
Reno suffered from three daring rob-
Neries Thursday night. They occurred
within an hours time. one following
-love upon the other. Though the off,
1ers have made eve~v effort to capture
he desperate thugs who committed
he crimes. thus far they have been un-
,hIe to locate them.
The first robbery was resorted about
o'clock and occurred on Virginia
-treat between Fifth and Sixth. AM
Drew Peterson ard !. C. Bu~ess We're
Neld ~ later ard robbed of amounts
angling from sS5 to s45.
w. c. Williams. the father of Oling-
souse" has resumed development on
''s Addia C. Nine at White Horse. A
team hoist is tein~ installed and the
--e'n will be followed TO g-aat depth.
fits run and ore stopped. The ledge Is
sour or five feet wide ard carries val
res sveragin~ $40 S0 The LEDGE carries
20 silver o. base metals. 1t Is one Of
he most promising mines ever deve'-
,red in that neighhorhood At danth
II ninety feet II is firmly walled In
svenite ard holds its surface values,
although the vein has widened.
There viii be quite a difference In the
-tatus OF the Carson carnival midway
shows this vear as compared with the
previous effort in that line. Three
wears ago Carson City paid the Mid
vav 1920 to come there and exhibit. re-
"e'ving In return some $500 in percent
ages, leaving the committee out clean
5000. The present executive committee
has profited by the experiences of
the ones that have gone before and will
give the Midway people no bonus. In
stead, the Midway people will pay for
the privilege OF showing. and thus this
feature will be a source OF revenue.
RESSMAKTNG-I will do all kinds