The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-07-21
An assault and battery case was tried
in the Justice Court this morning.

An assault and battery case was tried
in the Justice Court this morning.
George Russell, ST., returned to Elko
Monday night from st. Louis where he
was a delegate to the Democratic Ma
tional Committee.
Miss Cordelia Hays has been appoint
ed principal of the Bridgeport school.
and Miss Eloise Elliot will have charge
OF the primary department.
NOTICE There win be a meeting OF
the Battle Mountain Jockey Club held
tomorrow night, July 22d. Let every
n attend. Remember the date.
Miss Elizabeth Stock, daughter of
Mrs. W. Stock OF Paradise, died Mon
day in a sanitarium in Santa Clara
County, Cal. She died OF consump-
ton.
The season at Tahoe promises to be a
profitless one for many of the resorts
there. The blame for this state o:
affairs is divided between the st. Louis
Fair and the ~lateness OF the s,ason.
Tonopah mining men complain of ore
thiefts from the freight wagons plying
between their camps and the railroad
Out of a carload one shipper had lost 81
sacks, weighing 5000 pounds, last week.
The first excursion train that will ar
rive in Tonopah on Railroad Day will
be brought in with coal mined by the
Nevada Fuel & Manufacturing Com
pany, owing a tract Of coal land at Coal
dale.
Misses Hettie and Beatrice Woolcock
departed Sunday night on No. 5 for
Napa, Cal where they will spend some
time visiting in the golden state. They
will spend a few weeks visiting relatives
at Virginia City before returning home.
B. r. Wilson and son are busily engag-
ed in putting up their hay crop on their
ranch situated 10 the valley, some miles
distant from their ranch in Galena can
yon. Dudley was in town last week and
secured the services Of five hay hands.
The strike situation in Chicago and
other packing centers is growing more
intense. Neither side seems disposed to
yield. In st. Paul the situation is be-
yond the control Of the sheriff and he
has aske | the Governor to call out the
militia.
1t is noteworthy and unprecedented
fact that both Presidential candidates
this year are from New York, for never
before have both nominees been from
any other state and never before have
the Republicans nominated a New York
or Tor President.
Joe Mcdonald, a young miner, q
years of age, was tiken out Of the Union
shaft at Virginia City yesterday, dead,
overcome by gas. Four other miners
were with Mcdonald at the time but
only two Of them were overcome by the
gas and the doctors arrived in time to
save their lives.
Winnemucca can well be termed the
city of conventions Of Nevada. At "A
meeting of the State Central Committee
of the Republican party, held at Carson
last Friday, it was decided to hold a
State convention to meet here on Mon
day, August 9Th. Primaries to elect
delegates will be held on the Both OF this
month. The Democrats and Silver
forces will meet here on August %.
They hold their primaries on July %
Silver State.
G. II. Elliott, the Tonopah broker, on
his recent visit, announced that he and
G. w. Kinney, the borax king, would
soon put in a new telegraph and tele-
phone line to connect with the Western
| Union. The promoters that
the present rates will be cut in half aud
that press dispatches will be sent free,
as they believe the advertising such dis
patches will give to the district will
more than repay them in increased
business.-Goldfeld News.