The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-09-19
HAPPENINGS IN CUR
OWN STATE
| ldte News NOLeS Gathered
from Many Places in
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The tax list of Douglas county foots
rate is ten cents lower.
They are talking of organizing an old
fashioned debating society in Sparks
with which to while away the coming
long winter evenings.
All telegraphic and telephone commu-
n.cation with lonopah is again cut or
and rumors are current of ano. her dis
astrous storm and flood which cau@eu
damage to the Tonopah railroad.
Friday afternoon the North Star min
ing suit was submitted to Judge Haw-
ley, who now has it under consideration.
The North Star people applied for
the cause of the action.
An aged woman, whose name is I'M
known. crazed by the stories of the gold
discoveries in the Tonorah district. start
ed for Goldfield last week penniless, was
put 4Ou Nut tram tdtci lOolu iOohi-
ing about the desert rav.ng maniac.
The winnemucca quartette visited
Sparks Friday and favored a few, who
happened to hear them. with few se-
lections. Those in the quar- ette are
E. w Riddle and Cecil Browning.-Head-
light.
The first number of the Elko Daily
Free Press has made it's apr earance. Ii
is five-column folio. typograph cally
diction of the friends of the new man
agement that the paper will prove to be
success. 1t is valuable addition to
pewspaperdom.
Perscns passing in front of the River
side hotel few evenings ago noticed a
queer combination in the stree. Gov
ernor Sparks. candidate for the United,
States senate, was seated in his buggy,
and on one side of him was Senator New
lands. while on the other stood George
S. Nixon, another senatorial candidate.
Passersby could not help noting the
strange picture.-Gazette.
What might easily have been a terribly
catastrophe occurred at McnissicK
opera house at Reno Saturday afternoon
The house was crowded with women and
children when some one shouted "Fher
Instantly there was a rush for the ex
its by the frenzied audience mum
ber made their escape from the build
natey no one was killed. 1t proved te
be false alarm, as there was no fire
in the buildn ng.
The Goldheld Verde Mining company
has recently been organized, the claims
consisting of the Toledo. Pembertay and
Aeaa. They are situated about 5.40o feel
south by east of the Black Butte and oi-
amondleld Gold Mining company ana
join the Whip oor-Nil i'll No. on .he
north. There are lodges showing
porphry contact and heavily mineral. .zed
with iron on the property. surface as
says showing values of $2.40. Work mas
already started on the property.
A committee representing the local
union of the western Federation of Min-
ers at Goldfe.d last week aroused con-
siderable feeling against the union by
notifying two Cripple Creek. Col. min
ing men who had gone there to invest
in and develop mines. that their pres
ence was not desired in Goldheld, ana
ordering them 10 leave camp within one
hour. This action has resulted in strong
talk of the formation of a Citizens Al
lance to prevent further deportations or
acts of violence.
were captured last Friday night by
sophomores and taken to the cattle cor
raj, where they were bound and placed
under guard for the night. The victims
wese Lou Kline and Jay Skinner. Skin
ner managed TO make his escape, but
Kline was detained until after the cane
rush, which took place be .ween the
freshman and sophomore classes Satur-
day morning. The casualties re-ul,ing
from the rush consisted of few black
eyes and numerous bruises. No bones
were broken. The Sophomores won.