The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-12
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
Late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada

/ Inc snow Is Stlll SIX IeSt ueep ou
| the Glenbrook summit and the drifts
are hard packed.
Coed progress is geing made with
the new depot building at Elko. 1t
Will be completed in a week or two.
Two carloads of gypsum a day are
now being shipped from the quarry at
Mound House to the reduction plan,
/ in California.
| An effort is being made to settle the
4 Miller & Lux water suit against .ne
farmers of the Walker river and Mas.
on valley country
/ Officer Berry has been suspended for
| twenty days from the Reno police
| force for conduct unbecoming an Of
! fer in handling prisoner.
Yesterday was the thirty-sixth ami
/ yersary of the founding of the City
of Reno 1t was thirty-six years ago
that the first town lots were sold.
| The authorities in Truckee are deter
mined to deal stcrnly with :.amps, and
| hereafter any of the genus hobo ar
rested are to be given stiff sentences.
/ B. H. Remers, a prominent stock
| man and rancher of Yerington, Will.
| leave for Europe in few days. His
two daughters accompany him on the
! tour.
Within the next six MONTHS said
one of the owners of the Goldfield
mines, This camp will have startling
news and think that it will outrival
even Tonopah."
Messrs. Donnels & Steinmetz and
| Moffat & Dromias will commence Work
at once on a joint brick building at
Sierra and Second streets in Reno. 1t
will cost at least $4,000.
In Reno yesterday, John Reed, who
shot Frank Donahue. a helpless con-
sumptive. while travelling with him in
a box car couple of months ago. was
found guilty. He will be sentenced
Saturday.
The annual inspection of the battal-
4 ion of cadets at the state univefs sity
will take place at o'clock May goth.
I
Winn of the Twelfth Infantry. former
ly commandant of cadets at the Uni
versity of California.
The Carr & Elliott baseball team
of Reno has received handsome new
uniforms. They will be used in the
game next Sunday afternoon for the
list time. The club has received
number of challenges and the indi-
cations are for a rattling good sea-
son.
John Davidson, a member of Vir-
ginia Lodge. l. o. o. F., died at St
Luke's Hospital. San Francisco Mon
day of miners consumption. Mr.. Dav-
idson was a resident of Virginia for
many years and followed the occupa-
tion of miner. He was about SIS years
of age and previous to his last illness
was employed as night wtchman at
the Windsor Hotel. San Francisco.
Paul T. Wilkes and E. Lane have ar
rived in Reno from Tonopah. They
are on business Conaoa'ed wan q lu
ing deal of considerable proportio'
which will be comsummated in a day
or two. Mr.. Wilkes speaks In terms of
highest praise of the camp and he is |
no less enthusiastic than Mr.. Lane. |
The latter has been superintendent of
several of the largest pI operties in Me- |
vada and his experience in mining |
camps makes him a thorough Judge of |
q mine.
The State Board OF Pharmacy held |
its semi-annual meeting in Reno We'd
nesday. The meeting was at the Riv-
rs.de hotel and pharmacists from all |
sections of Nevada were In attendance.
President J. Hodgkinson called the
meeting to order. Among the members
present were William Brown of Win
nemucca. j. NJ. TABOR of Elko and f.
j. Steinmetz of Carson. Considerable
business of an important nature was
discussed and acted Ipon ard a,
conclusion of their work the pharma-
cists adjourned to the Riverside BAN
quet rooms where delightful dinner
was served.
President Griffiths of the Reno Street
Railway Company has gone to San
Francisco. where he will spend week
in the interests of the company. He
said to a Gazette representative that
Z would require from four to six
r~nths for the last of the material
for the railroad to arrive. He visited
Steamboat Springs yesterday and when
asked whether or not line would be
built out to that resort he replied: I'VE
will certainly plan an outside line for
recI cation. Whether it will be to
Steamboat or not. do not care to say.
1t Is my opinion. however. that Steam