The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-04-21

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the head.
Miss Ollie Wise has been confiu Jed in
the University hospital az Reno for sew.
eral days by illness, but the young lady
has recovered and is attending her
classes once more.
Supt. F. J. Siebert OF the Tonopah
Mining Company. has rendered his RES
ignation to the company. 1t is said he
will henceforth engage in looking after
his individual interests.
Nearly all the straw hats in the United
States are made in Baltimore. By a
close shave the fire failed TO reach them,
otherwise we might have been obliged
to go ~bare-headed this summer.
E. E. Starrett has had his dwelling
at the ranch enlarged by the addition of
two more rooms Paul Cebarri aud wife
have moved out to the ranch where Mr..
Cebarri will look after the property.
A moral wave has swept over Bodie,
and gambling games of all kinds have
been stopped. Minors must keep out
OF saloons and those under l6 years of
age must be off Of the streets by 8 o'clock.
The jury in the case Of DR.. Gordon vs.
Judge Breen at Eureka gave the Judge
a verdict OF 1920, the amount of his
counter claim. The DR.. applied for a
new trial and Justice Cromer refused
il.
The Senate committee on territories
has authorized a favorable report on the
bill to modify the mining laws OF Alaska
the most important change restricting
each person to not more than one claim
on any one creek.
Mrs. E. II. Lemaire and baby took
their departure for Hope, Kansas, SUM-
day where Mrs. Lemaire goes on a visit
to relatives. Ernest accompanied bis
wife and baby as far as Carliu, returning
home Monday morning.
From all over the State come reports
OF arrests for selling whiskey to Indians.
The law defining the punishment ia at
fault. The Indians should be made the
offender. In this way and no other will
the ira fic ever be stopped.
Nightwatchman NJ. p. Booth of Tono-
pah' has been held to appear before the
Nye county grand jury on the charge of
assault with intent TO kill. He took
nine shots at Fred Sweeney the other
night one of which hit Sweeney in the
leg.
The Southern Pacific carpenters were
in town this week putting up a mail
crane at this station. The new crane is
made OF steel and a great improvement
over the old one. The compan, are hav-
ing them put up along at the different
stations.
gentlemen arriving this morning from
the west says; | have travelled from
Chicago to San Francisco and returned
this far, but have yet TO see a place |
would sooner settle 10 than Nevada. You
have a great future here but do not
try to overdo it Silver State.
1t il said four or five hundred Col
orado miners have came to Nevada with.
in the last two months. They are men
with some means, and are looking for
mining claims OF some merit in which
they can invest, Colorado miners gen
orally know their business, and no doubt
will open up some bonanzas within Ne.
vada's borders.
Mrs. J. NJ. Barrett died at Tuscarora
last Sunday. Deceased has been an in
valid the greater portion OF the last
thirty years Of her life, a helpless par
alytic for the past nine years, and a sui
ferer much Of the time with asthma.
She resided here with her daughter Mrs.
Jessie Lewis for some months, some.
thing over a year ago.
Joseph Farron and Otto Stallman are
10 town to-day from Golconda. 1t is ru-
mored that these gentlemen are on thcir
way to Reno to arrange for the building
Of a two-story brick hotel on the lot OPP
posite their mill, and incidentally to
examine the Eagle mining property in
the interest of the Golconda Copper
company.-Morday's Silver State.
Wage reductions are being made
among the railroad employees OF the S. P.
A few days ago some Of the yard men
at Ogden were cut down, and the talk
now is that the cutting will not etop
until all departments have been affected.
In case it reaches the trainmen, engin-
GERS or shop men, it is said that it will
mean a strike, and such a strike, that
would tie up the Hartman lines from
| Chicago to San Francisco.-Wells Her
aid.
A vein OF coal fourteen feet in width
at a depth OF 100 feet has been found in
Esmeralda county along the line OF the
new railroad about thirty miles south
east of Sodavil'e, and about thirty-five
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