The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-06-23
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
late News NOteS Gathered
from Many Places in
Nevada

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to serve thi.ty days in jail for cary
ing concealed weapons.
Robert Brooks, was arrested yester-
day afternoon by Sheriff Hayes OF
Reno on suspicion of being the man
who lobbed Austin .& Mcpherson
store in Sparks. Several other sus-
poets have been arrested by the police
but they amounted TO nothing and il
appears that Shell iff Hayes has caught |
the guilty man.
city Engineer Harry Stewart and d
corps of engineers s are busily engaged |
in surveying the grounds fof the new
government building which will soon
be erected in Reno. When the slT-
/ vey is completed a print viii be made
and the people may have the priv
/ iege of viewing 1t and ascertaining
/ the position of the new build ng.
! A number of uncut turquoise from
/ the property of the Quincy Mining
! Company, west of Tonopah, have been
resolved in this city and have excited
much comment says the Salt Lake
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value of the gems, as experts pro-
nounce them to be of superior quaiy
One is now heinw cut and polished b.
a local jeweler.
The reports of the riches OF Cold
field stagger the imagination and, were
they rot supported by mill returns
and positive evidence, what we heai
of that marvellous camp would sur
pass credulity. 1t is z. owing every
day mo apparent that While Tono-
pah was the wonder of yesterday
Goldfield is almost certain TO prove the
greater find OF the two.
w !. Luke. a graduate Of lile min
ing cour-e os tse Nevada Stete Up!-
ve sity, viii soon depart for the sold
fields Of Costa Rica, where he hos ac-
copied a position with the Boston Min
ing Company. He is the fifth U.lv al-
sity nan to 60 to that mining coun
try and his many friends wish nam
success in his k. The o.aer Ne
vada r-en in Costa Rica a .;us Sic
laff. Dan Ferguson. Frank Smith and
Waite. Tregalis. who is well-known
i'm this city, sold a ranch at Glendale
eeently an thoo2ht TIE lest way 10
enjoy pat of the money was to visit
lis old home in England. He ac-
coldingly star ted East. and at Chicago
stopped 10 see the sights, and was
quickly spotted by bunco men, who re-
n1ver hln ot d sum OF money amouni-
ing to between $500 and $1,000. Mr..
n egalis teleg aphed TO relatives in
Reno for funds with which TO get
home and he. eafler VIII not wander
from his own fires de. Enterprise.
The fraternal organizations a.e not
altogether forgetting spa. ks duriis
The latter's loom. Tie Masons q.
talking NOW of instituting Iouse thei
and tne chatter of the Wan sworn
lodge may be transferred to SpNrSs
as most of the Wadswo. tn Masons
are now residing in the shop tawn.
The natter is now under conS.dsra-
ton and will likely lie decided soon.
Tie odd Fellows and the kitigntS ot
Pylhias are also in favor of es-.lD-
nsnng lodges at Spa ks. Thcy have
many members mong the sJusaern
Pacific employees au6 both .. d1.s Le-
deve that the little city w.ll - able
to support strong Organizations :
Journal.
Wednesday a number of United
states prisoners were brought up faom
ca n, the offenders belns sen eno,
- r.tit us terms for selling NnlsAy =.
LID .,ne Included in the cr,v. ts
Torn Lee, who was ar As.;'d II. Ills
city a.. plead guilty AID AS ~s.n-
fenced to serve five months Walter
Markell got three months; Patrick
DO an, nine months: All Tie. FIVE
months: c. w. Hall. Eve months Ed
.. Marr, nine months: c. ID. Scott.
even months: T. Hauiet. five months:
e, A. Lowe. sixty davs; John Walls.
eight months. George Wallace, se+eh
nonths; Charles House. twelve
months. In addition to Imprisonment
all the prisoners were sentenred 10
pay fine os 800 each.
The Grand Lodge of odd Fellows.
now in sess on al Reno has elected
the following officers; r. c. Leeper Of
Reno. Grand Master; Jacob Eggers of
Elko, Deputy G and Master: e. IL.
WhitacIe OF Dayton. Grand Warden;
William Sutherland of Virginia City.
Grand Seer etary: c. Novaoovich OF
Reno. Grand T easurer: JOAN Lothrop
of Dayton. Grand Reoi esentative;