The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-10-20
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
| ate News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada

versary of Nevaua's admission into me
Union as state.
Ogden Hiles. formerly of the Comstock,
has been nominated for congress by the
new American party of Utah.
The California State Agricultural. So
ciety has a representative in Nevada VINO
expects to purchase number of cattle
here to be sent to California. The pur-
pose is to raise the stanuaru of Califor-
MIA stock.
Surveys are now being made for the
new power lin. between the Truckee rlv-
er and Virginia City rhe plant will be
located about two miles below Verdi
the state line and in order to make il
as short as possible the wires will be
run on straight line.
r. e. l.. wlndle. who had charge of
the Goldfeld News during the recent va
of that prosperous paper, has purchased
a half in. crest In the plant, and the
business will hereafter be conducted un-
der the firm name of Brien & Windle
Mr. Windle is a journalist of long expe-
rience In this STATE and Utah.
An enthusiastic Truckee man has had
Skipped to him in the mountain town an
orange tree and proposes TO make /, bear
"goiden fruit ana if successful he will
plant more 1t is said ii he does not
make the ,rruckee orange business
success he viii move to oan Diego and
try the experiment of making ice ~
freezing the water in the salt bay of that
city The Observer expects to hear that
he has moved TO San Diego soon.-Ob-
server.
Bernhardt Benson. a Norwegian who
had been work ng on the irrigation ditch
landed in Reno the other day and was
promptly relieved of s55 all his savings
by a footpad. He reported The holdup 10
the police. who arres ed the robbie" ano
returned to Benson sl70. all that remain
ed of the SIS stolen from him. The Nor
wegian concluded to forget it, ano
blowed the s1.70 70. Reno booze. with tn,
result that he became so hilai:ous tnat
ne landed in jail charged with drunken
ness.
Several days ago the San Francisco
board won into it's ranks fourteen of th.'
strongest members OF the Tonorah Aim
ing Exchange. Seven of the latter hao
to pay an initiation fee of $40 each ana
the other seven were admitted free. Once
in the San Francisco board the Tonopan
people were Disseminated against AMI
efforts were made to compel them to deal
in Comstock securities. They resented
this and pe.itioaed the Tonopah exchange
for reinstatement The latter organiza-
ton took them back ard now all is
smooth again.
The new electrical power canal of the
washoe Power and Development COM
pany. which has been in course Of con-
struction for the past two years is nearly
finished and by March lst 1t is anticipat-
ed by the officers of the company that
the power buildings will be completed.
machinery installed and the plant In COM
plete operation. The initial supply of
electrical power to be furnished the two
cities of Reno and Sparks is 1.OoO-horse
power. but this win later be increased to
1900. The voltage will be the same as
that at present furnished by the Nevada
Power. Light and Water company. name
ly 10000 volts. The completion of the new
system will add materially to the cleo
trical resources of the city and prove of
great benefit to manufacturing interests
who operate by electricity.
A triple tragedy was narrowly averted
at the Briggs house. Carson City. Mon
day afternoon. A Mr.. and Mrs. Hamil-
ton have been guests at this house for
some little time. as also was their little
child. girl There had been trouble be.