The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-03-10

George RUSSELL. ST., returned yester-
day from a months. visit to San Fran
cisco.
Mrs. Isabel Watt came down from Sill
yer Creek Tuesday on a visit to her
daughter Mrs. Henry Lemaire.
James Treadwell, representing Haas
& Co, Of San Francisco, was in town
yesterday interviewing the merchants.
Stanley Woolcock, the Bulletin agent,
will call Oh his subscribers on the 18th
and 22nd of this month for the purpose
OF collecting for the Bulletin.
Sunday and Monday several engines
passed through Battle Mountain going
west for the San Pedro, Los Angeles &
Salt Lake Railroad, which will be used
for freight and passeng er service.
Yerington, a little but enterprising vii
lage in Mason valley, has started a good
street movement. The thoroughfares of
the town are being paved with low-grade
copper ore from mines ia the vicinity.
The method has proven a successful one
and soon Yerington will boast of first
class streets.
Some Of the newspapers of this State
are announcing Joseph r. Ryan as a
candidate for United States Senator.
Mr.. Ryan was in Reno this week and
said to a representative of this paper that
he was not a candidate for Senator or
any other Office. This ought to settle
the matter.-Reno Star.
"My darling | love you" said a mask
ed mar to a lady at a masked ball. He
felt sick when she said to him 10 a low
whisper. Don't be a fool, John. | know
you by the wart on your thumb" 1t
was his wife. Married men who attend
the mask ball here on the 18th inst,
should be very careful.
Joe Carroll and William Maxwell of
Elko. have erected a new saloon at
Fallon. Joe remained over here one
train on a short visit to his mother last
Saturday on his way back to Eiko. He
speaks in glowing terms Of Fallon's flu
ture, and says it is the making Of a great
and prosperous town.
Robert G. Blossom of Battle Noun
tain came in from the eastern part of
the State Wednesday with several cars
Of beef cattle, sold to Poly, Hilburn &
| Co. Of San Francisco. Mr.. Blossom re-
ports the Humboldt Valley as wet as wet
can be, and says the prospects were
never better for a good business year.
Reno Observer.
David P. BARLEY, one of the fortunate
owners Of the Ruth mine at Ely, was
married in Elko last night to Miss Belle
Butler OF Elko. The groom Is a SOD Of
Rev. BARLEY, formerly pastor Of the M.
Il. Church at this place. The young
man paid Battle Mountain a visit a year
ago last Christmas and is quite well
known to a large number of our people.
George j. Gould, the railroad magnate
T., T. Jeffries, president of the Rio
Grande system, and WI. Shotwell, gen.
eral passenger agent OF the Gould sys-
TENS, passed through Battle Mountain
last Saturday morning en route from
San Francisco to st. Louis. The trip
was presumably one Of inspection, and
ii was reported that an Investigation OF
the Western Pacific road is in progress.
Mitchell Mitchell came in town Sunday
from Antelope Valley where he has been
all Winter with his sheep. He tells us
that HE sheep wintered fine and his
flocks are IN fine condition. Mitchell
says that he will begin to shear his sheep
at the Lemaire ~corrals on or about the
25th Of this month. 1t is said there will
be about 10000 or $4,000 sheep shorn at
the above corrals during the next month.
March LIST, was the first day of Spring
according to the official almanacs, but in
this section we will not look for Spring
weather for at least five or six weeks,
although we have had some very fine
days during the past two weeks. Tn.
settled weather may be expected for sew
eral weeks yet, as this is the e%luinoctial
month. and the sun crosses the equator
on the Dist inst.
1t is but a few days ago that every one
was looking forward to Christmas now 1T
is the 10th day Of March, 1904. Mid
summer will soon be here and before the
people fully realize it Christmas of 1904
will be here with all its joys and sorrows.
Time waits for no man and as each year
slips by almost unnotieed brings each
one OF us that much nearer the end of
this life. As one grows Older evolution
is an interesting study.
Hon. Fl. G. Cutting, formerly Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, arrived in
Reno from Tonopah last week and in
conversation with the Journal reporter
said that he was a candidate for United
States Senator, and that he was going to
Galiforpia FOR N short timn IN hecoma ~