The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-12-01

Corbett was knocked out by Nelson
in San Francisco Tuesday night.
Charles Vadner went to Winnemucca
last night and will return this evening.
Edward Clifford, Jr., and Miss Tessie
Dolan were married in Austin on the
2lst inst.
An independent weather forecaster
predicts an exceptionally dry winter for
this section OF Nevada.
Jake Clark drove in town yesterday
with a load of ranch produce from John
Desmond's ranch in Clover Valley.
George s. Nixon is in Goldfeld and
has announced that a bank will be es.
tablishd at Columbia in a few days.
Mrs. Francis, after visiting for some
time in Austin, came down on Sundays
train on her way to her home in Ogden.
Matt and George Schmith came 10
from Hot Springs yesterday with a
bunch of cattle which they sold to John
Sibbald.
The State Board of Canvassers, con
sisting Of the Supreme Judges, will meet
in the Governors Office at Carson on
the third Monday in December to can
vass the State returns.
Hawthorne residents are greatly. wor-
ried these days over a report to the ef-
feet that their city Is to be left off the
line of the G. & g. in the Strengthening
out of that line by the company.
An exchange remarks: About half
the candidates who ran 10 the last cleo
ton are just beginning to believe that
the ancient Israelite who said that "all
men are liars" knew a thing or two about
politics. 3'..t'
Mrs. Frank Martin, mother Of j: j.,
M. w. and T. G. Malloy and Mrs. Annie
Crescenzo, died at her home in Upper
Austin last Friday morning. Her funeral
took place from the Catholic Church 10
Austin, Sunday afternoon.
A man, who was arrested in New York
the other day admitted that he had been
married 'about forty seven times Yet
we keep hearing every little while Of
some fellow who shot himself because
the girl wouldn't have him.
TIL. Treasurer OF White Pine county
gets s58b per mouth and no fees. The
sureties on his official bond must aggre-
gate $4,000. Isn't that Office a plum?
But the office Of County Clerk takes the
cake. That official gets S25 per month
and fees, but the fees seldom amount TO
enough in a month 10 buy a box Of
cigars.
The Parrot mine at Butte has been
shut down to allow the shaft to be re-
:imbered. 1.-TWO hundred feet OF the
lower part of the shaft have to be retim-
bered," said Superintendent II A Gall
wey. .and this necessitated the shutting
down Of the thine, The mine will he
closed about a month. Two hundred
and fifty men have been laid of" Butte
Miner.
The free dance given by the Battle
Mountain Republican Club in L-maire's
Hall Thanksgiving night, proved to he a
pleasant affair. aud was largely attended
by lovers of terpsichore. Tie music by
Martin x Harris and Fred Barron was
arst-class aud no time was lost bet~een
dances Everyone present were well
satisfied with their nights enjoy
ment.
From November 1st to the Goth. Ito
cars of live stock had been shipped
from the Battle Mountain stock yards
10 the San Francisco market. The
sheep shipments has been quite heavy
SO far this Fall. several thousand having
already been Shipped within the past
three weeks both east and west and we
understand the sellers received top
notch prices.
The New York Financier, in taking a
look ahead, remarks: await until the
railways Of this country begin to
straighten their lines and to change
largely from steam to electric power.
The present systems, vast as they are.
will be nothing compared with the state
OF perfection they are to attain in the
future" This is a great country and
the boldest prophet cannot foresee what
the business OF transportation will be 20
years hence.
Unofficial returns from the various
precincts in Nevada point to the re-
election Of Congressman c. d. Van
Duzer by a msjority OF over 200 votes.
The official count may change this from
twenty to thirty votes either way, but
the figures are near enough to the Of
fetal returns to indicate which way the
majority lays.
There is some talk OF establishing a
Populist paper in Reno. II is said that
Judge Mack and Eugene Howell are the
gentlemen ardently devoted in the prin-
ciples of the Peoples Party rs to dig up
for tho p~ropaaation OF its issue. 1t is al