The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-06-20
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
Late News NOleS Gathered
from Many Places in
Nevada

Robert Douglass Of Fallon has re-
ulned from an extended visit to the
Worlds Fair.
The travel to Goldfield has become
so great that three daily stages have
been put on the route. All seem to
have as many passengers as they can
accommodate comfortably.
The citizens of Sparks are holding
a 81 and celeDia alton today. In the
forenoon a baseball game and g. and
band concert were the fetures. and
this evening there will be magnifi-
cent display of fl 4eworks.
Negro Frank Backus. the old negro
who took shot at George Burns,
Thu sday evening in Reno. was
cha. ged with insanity Satu. day and
will in all probabilities be tried on
the charge today. He is reported to
oe 126 years old.
Joseph l.. LaVala, a mechanic OF
the Nevada Planning Mills. met with
an accident Sturdy afternoon which
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working on a joiner in the mill when
the board he was holding slipped and
he got his hand caught in the cut
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made Friday at the Jumbo m4ne Ore
yielding $4,000 ton was taken out
and the greatest excitement followed.
Town property is soaring and big
boom is on. A rush of prospectors
to this place is expected. The mines
Shipping over 600 sacks of ore daily.
Friday the January mine sounded the
fist steam whistle in the new camp.
Kenneth Donnellan of the firm of
pah and Goldfield says that the Jumbo
mine is, according to reports the
g. eatest mine in the world today In
point OF development. Since the dis
coveiy of the mine the richest kind
of ore had been taken out and not a
The Jumbo and other mines in Cold
field promise to make Nevada the lead
ing mining country of the world
Goldfield News.
B. j. Burns, who has just sold for b
goodly sum his interest In leases on
the Jumbo. has gone to Tuscarora.
Mr.. Burns says that If he can make
arrangements for a water supply he
VIII bring a mill fiom Tuscaroia and
nave it IN running order here within
six weeks. AS nothing Is needed more
badly in this camp than a mill to Il eat
custom ores, it is to be profoundly
hoped that the lucky lessee will be
able to make satisfactory arrange
ments with those who have water de-
veloped. -Goldfeld News.
Fl. B. Lind. who went to Goldfield q
couple of months ago. and with a man
named Fleming and half-bseed In
dian, jumped a mining claim that
Harry Ramsey had located and done
the work on many many months ago.
came to grief on the main street of
that town the other day. Harry RAM
sey after pulling Own the stakes that
Lind had put upon his (Ramsey's)
claim. met Lind and pulled his nose.
1t is safe to say that Attorney Lind
and his mining partners will let other
peoples property alone from now on.
More than $4,000 in stock has been
subscribed by Reno citizens for the
of street railway sys-
tenn that will cover this city. and con-
meet it with Sparks. This splendid
sum. raised in two days time,- to-
gether with subsci sptions that will be
as soon as the committee
Is proof positive that the construction
of the railway will soon be an accom-
plished fact. The amounts subscribed
thus far by individual citizens has
been most liberal. ranging in amount
from $500 to s2000.-Journal.
The remains of a women have been
found by the sheriff of Nye county
about one-mile from Quinns old ranch
in Quinn Canyon. Lincoln county. on
the road from De Lamar to Tonopah.
The body was showed under a large
cliff of rocks. then built uo of rocks
on the outside and was doubled up In
such a position that the feet touched
the head Only a few remnants OF
clothing were LEFT on the body ana on
the clothing were several spots that
had the resemblance of blood. A set
of false teeth were found near the
body. Everything goes to show that
the woman was murde- ed.