The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-08-05
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
Late News Notes Gathered
from Many Places in
Nevada

at the Worlds Fair Wednesday the two
mile natl nal championship was won by
Burton Downing, the wonderful little rid
er who carried the colors tf the Reno
Wheelmen of Nevada. Oscar Guerke OF
Brooklyn, was second. M L. Hurley fin
ished third The time was 4:47 As.
Thirty-flve thousand tons of coal are
! burning at Truckee belonging to the
uthern Pacific Railway company. For
several days a day crew of seventy mel,
and night crew of sixty men have been
lighting the fire, but so far they have
been unable to extinguish it. The coal
that is on fire is piled alongside the
! tracks and it ranges in depth from fif
teen to thirty feet.
Announcement was made yesterday of
the c ming marriage of John Kline and
Miss Laura Harper. Mr.. Kline departed
last evening for Boston, where Miss Har-
per is attending the New England Con-
servatory of Music, and the marriage will
take place there. AT fer honeymoon tour
10 the st. Louis Exposition the groom VIII
enter upon a musical course at the same
nstitution.-Chronicle.
Judge w. a. Hawthorne, of San Fran
cisco, formerly a prominent citizen OF
Carson, is said to be lying at the point
of death in San Franc SEQ FIR m injuries
lo+ \, l,xvl,
ing struck by mass of building material
that fell on him while he was passing
beneath a building that was being cree ed.
At first it believed that he would
recover, but now his condition is said to
be most serious.
The -Graessler is again an ore
producer. After long peri d devoted to
repairs and betterments the first car of
ore was hoisted to the surface Tuesday
afternoon. The new hoist is in operat on
and is working well. A steam hoist has
been installed in the shaft and the mine
was cleared of water yesterday morning.
lheie is no reason why the mine should
not become steady producer and even;u-
ally a dividend payer.-Enterprise
Alexander Aguayo, Sumner Fosketl,
John Gere and Simon Jelusto, all resi-
dents of Reno. have just returned from
the north country bringing with them
rich samples OF ore, which they claim Les
in district heret fore undiscovered
about 100 miles to the north. They will
have it assayed at once. The men are
guarding the location of their claim with
great secrecy and refuse to discuss 1t
with anyone. Parties who saw their ore
say that it is very rich in gold.-Gazette
The men who are respons. bic for the
assault and robbery of Brakeman Black
at Derby Tuesday night are thought o
have been captured at Wadsworth. They
are two desperate characters and were
taken in charge by Deputy Constable
at Wadsw, rth yesterday morning The
men We're engaged in discharging re,
volvers when taken in custody. They aa-
mitted riding on the same tram the roo
berry occurred on, and 1t is not uni 4.ely
that they are the men who committed the
crime Brakeman Black left Wadsworth
Wednesday and fully identified the two
men.
A dispatch from Goldfeld says that on
Monday niobt aS Iaropoa Nidoyioh CT re
keeper and postmaster at Lids, twenty
five miles south of Goldheld, was about
to retire he was called to the door of
his store by ud knocking. AS he opened
the door he was met by two masked men.
one of whom struck him on the left
temple with heavy revolver. The blow
stunned vidovich temporarily but he
soon rec vered consciousness. He was
then ordered to open the safe. He stag
gered to where he was ordered, both rob-
bers having their guns at his head. He
was compelled to turn over to the roboers
$40 cf his own money and the postoffice
funds
! The banner Shipment OF ore from the
Goldfield district arrived here this week
1t comes direct fr m the main Florence
group and is at the Western Ore com
panys plant. The shipment consists OF
three carloads of ore and the receipt yes
n terday showed that the total value 1:
s56.9l6.7S. From one carl ad values to the
extent of $i752l.25 are returned, while
/. the choice ton of the rock assayec
i s7.35Oi5 This is by far the richest rocl
that has been received in Reno. Th'
property from which it is taken is ownes