The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-08-03
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada

press messenger, VINO was run down ana
killed by the fiier last Saturday at Reno,
have been shipped to his old home in
oroville Cal
Men were put to work repairing the
| Chollar Norcross Savage Combinati n
down to the Sutro tunnel level to facil-
/ itate important prospecting operations
! A on to be commenced in the middle
/ mines.
! A. C. Pratt, superintendent of the
Monte Cristo mine at Sweetwater, spent
| Sunday night in town. The mill will be
ready to begin operations on the 1st of
i the coming month and it is expected that
| It will be kept running steadily en- ore
from the Monte Cristo-Bridgepor
| Chronicle.
The Republicans helped out their
| friends, the Democrats. in White Pine
! County the other day. The Democrats
held primaries, and numbered thirteen
!
however, and aned them about IS vot-
ers, and now the Democrats are scratch
| ing their heads and looking shade
doubtful-Carson News.
In about ten days the Truckee River
| General Electric Company will begin ex-
,ensive repairs to the fiume conveying
/
water from the Truckee river 20 their
| power plant, and large force of men
will be empl yed. 1t is estimated that
br will be used, and the work contem-
plated will not be completed before fall
/ partment covered itself with glory Mon
day morning when a fire was reported in
! the stables where the Southern Pacific
1 has been keeping its horses. The blaze
/ had headway that soon would have de-
stroyed the building, but the prompt re-
/ sponse CT the department and the ener-
/ getic fight that it made soon ended the
! fire. The loss was not heavy.
The Ophir Mining Company will not
/ pay dividend this month now ending,
| the directors deeming it prudent to keep
4 the large surplus in the treasury, now
| tingencies as the grade of ore has lately
! decreased. The Ophir Company has just
received $6905.50 from the sale of rail-
road carloads of ore, which cleans up
/ all the ore at the Selby Reduction works.
For the first time since the government
was established two Western states
| have been shut out of the civil service
examination to be held this fall for clerks
N the departmental service at Washing
ton. These two states are Nevada and
Wyoming. and the reason for refusing to
4 let residents of these states compete is
that they already have an exceedingly
i large number of appointments in the
civil service at Washington.
| The total number of voters who have
registered in the Reno precinct is 1876
to this date. The registration began on
July 1st and during that month AS per-
sons qualified before Justice Nash. Many
persons are interested in the total num-
ber of persons that will register. as they
believe that it will indicate pretty well
ally believed that the registration will be
about the same that it was two years
ago.-Gazette.
The people of Lone Pine have started
4 movement for the building of road
across the mountains from Keeler to
the new Furnace creek camp. Lone Pin
ers believe that 5000 will pay the cost of
| building the 75-mile road. The money
will be we'll invested, as is every judi
cious expenditure tending TO the develop
ment of the county, and the bringing into
closer relationship al parts of IL and of
The territory which can be made tribu-
| tary in q business way.
Peter c. Weber. of Ely, aged IS years.
enc of the most prominent Democrats in
Nevada, died suddenly at his home in
Ely Monday from heart disease, from
which he had suffered for number of
! years. His death was unexpected, as he
was apparently in good health. having
/ just returned from an extended visit to
j the ST. Louis fair and to other eastern
/ points. Mr.. Weber came to Nevada in
1875 and fer while conducted a hotel at
Carson, but later ne wen, 10 White Pine
+, county where he made his home until his
death A brother. John Weber, and two
/ sisters survive him.
1t is the theory OF the Reno police that