The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-07-30
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
late News NOieS Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada

eight hundred and eleven dollars for -four
days racing in Oc ber.
The Reno postoffice has received a new
stamp cancelling machine that cancels
5000 stamps an hour, d ing the work of
four men.
One of the features of the parade at
Tonopah on railroad day was twenty
eight mule team hauling $4,000 worth of
Tonopah ore.
The new town of GoldEeld will soon
have a reduction plant. consisting of ten
stamps, amalgamatng plates, grinding
pans, concentrators and cyanide tanks.
A movement is on foot among the
friends and graduates of the Reno Min
ing sch oil to secure the election of
practical mining man on the board OF
regents who would know the actual re-
quirements of the graduates In the min
ing field and could recommend a course
of study which would better fit them for
the conditions they would meet in prac-
tice.-Chronicle.
1 4. K. Stewart, who is one of the owners
of the Black Butte Mining Company. OPP
Grating fourteen miles south of Tonopah.
has brought in a sample taken ,,ci rs
about three feet of their vein, which
says si5 per ton in gold and few ounces
in silver. This property is owned almos.
entirely by Reno parties and there i.
every evidence that they possess vaina
BILE mine. Active development work viii
commence as so n as the parapherhaiia
of their camp arrives.-Gazette.
J. w. O'Brien, an operator in the train
dispatchers offices, has been appointed
school trustee in the place of Trustee
Kurnow, who resigned day ago
/ Mr.. O'Brien was clerk cf the Board OF
! Trustees at Wadsworth for long time
and took a great interest in school mat
ters. The securing of a $4,000 school
ouild ng at Wadsworth was largely 1ue
/ to the untiring efforts of Mr.. O'Brien and
is appointment the Sparks school
board is entirely satisfactory to the
Wadsworth reople-now Sparks people,
Journal.
Jim Butler had a procession of his owl
at Tonopah Wednesday. He had all the
/ Indians from surrounding towns brought
N and. heading the crowd of bucks
| 5quaws and children, marched through
he principal streets of the tcwn. He
then made speech and was followed
by two spell binders from the Indian
! tribe. who pronounced Jim a heap good
elbow, and Butler brought the attain
to a close by loading the red men d wn
With about ton of provisions and send
ing them home The procession made al
most as big hit as tie one held Tues
day.
Thursday Hon. ii. f. Bartine. who has
for some time held the office of state tax
examiner for the revenue board, handed
his resignation to the board to take ef-
tect August /. He gave as his reas ms
that he was about entering upon his cam
paign for supreme judge and desired to
be free from all other office. 1ne board
expressed regret at his acton. and in ac-
eepting his resignation rendered a vote
of thanks for his conscientious and eff
cient services On behalf of state revenue.
The work of Mr.. Bartine has been of
great value to the state and the data he
has collected and compiled has brought
a substantial return to the state treas
ury.
The Republicans of Ormsby county held
a mass meeting in the county court
house Thursday evening, and the attend
ance promises much the party in this
county during the coming campaign. Dir.
5. L. Lee. as chairman called the meet
ing TO order and L. Z. Roberts acted as
secretary. After some discussion eleven
names We're selected to be voted for at
The primaries Saturday afternoon, and
w. w. Virgins was appointed delegate
from Empire. The eleven selected were
Wallace Evans. c. ii. Ashbury, George
T. NJ lis, f. B. Yer!ngton, +, r. Hofer
IL. A. Lennon. Samuel Platt. p. A.
Doyle. z. It. Wilcox and George H. Mey-
ersr.
At a gathering of the push" of the
Silver panty. held here the other day 1t
was decided that Ex-Governor Reinhold
Sadler shall be the choice of the Silver
party convention for United States sena-
tor FIR m Nevada. The situation was
thoroughly canvassed and the qualihca-
tions of the various candidates discussed
at great length. 1t was thoroughly un-