The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-06-07
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
ate News Notes Gathered
from Many Places in
Nevada

w. r. Towne Las arrived from San
Francisco and assumed charge of the
| accounting department Of the Tono-
pah railrosd.-Bonanza.
Three old pfospectors from Silve
CITY, Idaho, on their way to Califo d
by team loaded their belongings into
a freight car Morday afte noon and
will go the rest of the way in the car7
They are sll over eighty years of age
-Elko Independent
P oeessor Henry Thu tell. Dean cf tbs
Nevada university faculty, ard CHI
| Instructor in mathematics In that in
stitution, left Sunday evening for the
northern part of Elko county. He WI
go to the Thousand Spring ranch
which is about fifty miles northeast
| of Elko and his mission is to survey
some of the valuable public lands OF
that section. Professor Thurtell VIII
employ his assistants upon avrivine
there. and expects to be gone seve a
weeks. Gazette.
The hllsides and plains of Wasnoc
county would never be pronounced as
desert If viewed at the present tire
| The whole expanse OF country is car
neted with wild flowers. They are o.
/ all colors, although the yellows anc
/ purples p edominate. Nevada viii
! towers possess a charm that the Cal
/ TO mia highly colored wild flora do no
/ possess, namely odor There is an in
cense arising now from the sweep O.
/ he wild lands that breathes of Arab.
| the Blest.-Gazette.
The day the last spike of the Tano
/ pah railroad is driven and the iror
| horse sno ts into the depot of the rich
est baty camp In the West. will be
lay to talk of to your grandchildren. II
twill be ra Dad day and amongst thost
who win Law shly bestow hospita .ity wi
be the Tonopah Aerie of Eagles. VIII.
| viii welcome the Aeries from Rem.
/ Carson. Virginia City and probabi
! Winnemucca that Will come on a spec
al train-nothing less. The Tonopa
Eagles will be ready.-Bonanza.
An individual giving the name q
/ Frank Webb was brought into tow
late Satu day evening suffering from
an overdose of morphine. All throug'
the night he struggled to owe come th.
deadly drug. but death had fastened II;
/ grip upon his frame and he died at {
o'clock Sunday morning. Webb Il
company with a man named Jane,
Mullen. and an Indian. were fishing o
/ an Island near the county hospita
Mullen had morphine with him and
Frank Webbs request a dose was givei
..im.-Gazette
The prosperity of the Truckee mea-
dows IS dependent upon the water sup
| ply. This being the case, the sum
ne- of 1904 should be record breaker
The river is flowing bank full at a
time when sll the bitches are also run
ming at their full capacity. The waite
in the stream has also cleared and is
clear blue. evdencing that it's sou c.
of supply is the overflow of the noun.
tain lakes and springs, rather than
the ssolution of the snow banks
The earth is thoroughly saturated witt
moisture and the Truckee will carry a.
abundance desp te the fea. expressed
last winte.'. The condition of the snow
banks in the high Sic. ras IS such tina,
there will be a bountiful supply re-
ma ming over tn prevent the possibil.t,
of drought next year.
Preparations are nearly completed to
entertain many members of the
knights of Pythias and Rathbone sis
ters who e expected In Reno next
Thu. sday. 1t WI be the thirty second
annual convention OF the Grand Lodge
of the Domain of Nevada and promises
to be full of interest. In addition the
ID amatic o. der. Knights of Khorassan.
will hold its annual festivities. The.
work Of rounding up the tyros is now
in prog ess and ind cations are that the
event will be one long to be remember
ed. The rail Dad companies are CO.
opei ating with the knights in making
the convention success. The Virgin
& Truckee Railroad. the Carson & Col
o4ado railroad and the Southe n Pacific
Company, nave MADE spec al rate or
one and one-fifth fare for the round trip
f. ON any point In Nevada.-Journal.
Mary. the little daughter of Mr.. and
Nj s. Robertini, died at the home ranch
two m les southwest of this city yeste
day afte noon. after severe siege of
whooping cough and pneumonia. The
little one was three years. four months
and fifteen days old and was born at
Amadee, Lassen county. California.
Mary Robertini was the third child of
the family that has died With ten days
of the dread disease and the sorrow
stricken parents are living in fear that
the grim reaper will cali upon them sor