The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-23
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
Late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada

State Senator VILLAS predicts tnat
Churchill will be the leading county in
the State in population in the next five
years.
Ex-State Senator VIM. Thomson of
Reno, Nevada, died at Petaluma. Cal,
last week from the effects of morphine
poisoning taken with suicidal intent.
The Independent says the owners OF
the Greenback and st. Patrick mine
at Mountain City, Elko county, are re-
alizing an average of 1880 daily from
a rich streak of ore recently developed.
Over $40 has been found in the dirt
uncovered by the taking up of the old
depot platform. A crowd of squaws
scratched the ground over again yes
terday, but got very little-Elko Free
Press.
The funeral of Morris Jacobs. one of
the victims of the Truckee river ac-
was the largest ever held in the city
Over 500 Knights of Phythias, Eagles
and Wheelmen were in line.
Virginia city ought to feel ashamed
of the bum bunch of daily papers
turned out in that burg. They must be
running on cheap plan. for the only
change in them from day to day is
their date lines-white Pine News.
The Arrow Mining Company. with
property in Lincoln county, has filed
articles of Incorporation in Salt Lake
City. The Company is capitalized at
s500.000 and the stock is divided into
100000 shares of the par value of 81
each
The Carson News says Ex-Governor
Sadler has again announced that he
is still in the fight for United States
Senator at the hands of the anti Re-
publicans. Between the two evils
SadIer and Sharon-we think the ex-
Governor the more preferable. Blu,
then that man from Winnemucca is
liable to disappoint them both.-Enter-
prise.
Bennett Symons. who had resided In
at the hospital yesterday. after ling
ering illness. He was a native of
Cornwall. England. aged IS years. He
was a miner by occupation and some
years ago was superintendent of the
mines in Como. He leaves a nephew
Humphrey Symons in Gold Hill. The
body is at Kuhns undertaking parlors
in Gold Hill-virginia Chronicle.
The 5-stamp quartz mill at Nordyke.
owned by E. II. Whitacre, started up
yesterday on a Potion lot of ore from
the Pierce and Sherry claim in Smith
valley. The mill has been thoroughly
overhauled and repaired and win
doubtless do good work. Should this
test run demonstrate that the ore can
be mined and milled at a profit consd-
cradle more ore from the claim will be
worked this summer.-Lyon Times.
The members Of the Student Record
Staff of the University of Nevada held
in Reno their annual banquet at the
Overland Cafe Friday evening and a
successful year of publication was
brought to a fitting close. Sixteen
young writer's were seated around the
festive board and during the progress
of the feast Student Record affairs
were discussed, and matters concern
ing the good of the college paper We're
taken up.
Tuscarora Times-Review: AS a re-
suit of alleged frequent improprieties
toward some of his little girl pupils.
and one specific act Wednesday. in
censed and enraged relatives and the
populace generally. Princapal Potter
was advised" to leave town the fol-
lowing morning. which he did. thus
ending the career in Tuscarora Of the
most incompetent teacher that ever
presided over public schools. Let the
much regretted incident of his sojourn
among us be forgotten.
Reno won in the field day events neld
yesterday In that city. by the State
Academic League. but the honor is
not one to be proud of. The Reno team
-
ber of the Reno High School in several
events, and the Comstockers declined
to enter contests i'm which contestants
were not bona fide members of the
school The Comstock win not grieve
over their defeat In the totals. as H.
Gallagher of this city smashed the
coast record in the mile dash. making
the distance in 4:39 is.
Hank Taylor was down from the
Pine Grove country this week. says the
Lyon Times, where he has been devel-
oping a mining claim for the past
year or more. He brought some sam
Piles of ore with him which he will
send away to have tested. Mr.. Tay-
lor deserves to meet with success. He
has run tunnel a distance of gao feet