The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-05-13
STATE News.

inc iirst lbbue O1 tn6 0OluHelu NoWS
has appeared with James O'Brien as
editor and proprietor.
The snow blockade ON the Truckee
and Tahoe railroad has been raised
and trains are now running regularly.
A company has been organized to
put up a telephone in Mason and
Smith valley.
Misses Eva Short, Kate Schulz,
Hazel Crisler, Lena Mara and Ida
Brougher are aspirants for queen of
the Carson carnival.
At an entertainment in Boston re-
Gently Miss Mabel steinway of Reno
sang twenty songs and held thousands
of people in ecstacies.
State Senator Williams predicts
that Churchill will be the leading
county in the state in population in
the next five years.
Lovelock is becoming great bee
town. Several carloads of the busy
little workers have been lately ship
ped to that prosperous section.
Humboldt commissioners have pas
sed an ordinance levying tax of 81
head on all dogs within the limits
of Winnemucca.
Nevada's crop of lambs will be very
large this spring. This is the sheep
owners busy season, for upon the
number of lambs depends the money
bag later in the season.
State Senator Warren Williams OF
Churchill sold his wool clip of 355, ,0OC
pounds for l3 5-s per pound. He will
build a S10,00 business house at Fal.
Ion.
DIR. ID. Z. Bruton has been appoint
ed county physician of Lander county
at salary of S15 a month. This
medico must be a cuti-rate artist and
dear at any price.
A new hotel, to cost $3.50 is to be
built at Boca. 1t turns out that the
only things saved when the old hotel
burned was two slot machines and a
piano.
The survey of the preliminary line
for the railroad between Massie and
Fallon has been completed and shows
the distance between the two points
to be fifteen and one quarter miles.
Robert L. Douglass has contracted
for the erection of a $4,000 brick
building at Fallon, Churchill county,
where he will establish a national
bank.
A company is being organized in
Mason valley to take over the hold
inss of Miller and Lux, who own 90
600 acres of land, which they are
willing to sell for Sl6s,000 on five
years time.
The work of constructing dam for
"a water storage reservoir on Hunter
creek wa- begun by Governor spark 5
company today. The company will
supply 5000, 900 gallons daily to Reno.
Reinhold Sadler, grand master of
Odd Fellows of Nevada, has issued a
Memorial day proclamation, designa-
ting May 30 as day to be observed
by members of the order of this state
in 'perpetuating the memory of de.
ceased brethren.
The infant daughter of Arthur Wal
ters narrowly escaped death at the
Huntoon ranch near Bridgeport, CAL,
Thursday. The child had fallen 80
that her neck became tightly held be,
tween the iron work of the bedstead.
When discovered the little one was
almost choked to death.
The old depot building at Wads-
worth is being torn down, preparatory
to moving il to Sparks This is the
beginning of the work of actually
transferring the division point to
that place. 1t will be rushed and in
all probability Sparks will be the di-
vision point before the end of the
month.
\ country editor, who claimed to be
an authority on la grippe, told his
feet dry that as long as they kept their
readers that they would not have the
disease. The next day he got conn.,
munication from subscriber claiming
that he had two wooden legs and yet
had suffered from lthe grip for five
successive years.