Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1905-12-09

A rumor is floating around Carson to
the effect that a wooden mill and a
starch factory will be established on the
Dangberg tract at the terminus of the
V. < T. extension.
The Lovelock Tribune estimates the
alfalfa crop in the Big Meadows at
$250,000 this year. About $1,000 head
OF cattle and 10000 sheep are being
wintered on the Meadows.
The Nevada Historical Society has
2 failed to raise the necessary amount to
purchase the log cabin of Genoa, and
Nevada's first house still remains the
property of 7. n. Hansen.
The Beatty Miner says that the fact
that the Clarks are compelled to build
the branch from Las Vegas to Bullfrog
Independent of the Salt Lake Railroad
proves that Hartman controls the
main line.
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An attempt is to be made to organize
a bank at Truckee. During the lum-
boring season the payroll amounts to
$4,000, a large portion of which is
spent in Reno, where the men go to
cash their checks.
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Carson will have a building and loan
a,,.a,,A,A, ,,..1- 4. A. D.. D..lI
ing and Loan Company. Judge Nor
cross and Professor Thurtell have been
urging such an organization and the
City Improvement Association will take
it up.
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Farmer DAILY, one of the best
known sports and gambling men in the
West was found dead in a small tent in
Las Vegas a few days ago. At one
time he was one of the richest men in
Arizona, but at the time of his death
he was poverty stricken.
Mrs. Belle Dormer has secured a
diverse from John NJ. Dormer. Johnny
Dormer was formerly editor OF the Old
Candelaria True Fissure and later
Secretary of State of Nevada. Mrs.
Dormer was at one time considered the
best-looking woman in the State.
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p. B. Sawser, who was arrested in
North Dakota ON a charge of robbing
the S. p. Company OF merchandise
valued at $1,000 while agent at Palisade,
and who escaped from the officers at
Ogden while being brought back, was
recaptured at Malad City, Idaho.
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-Four small girls attending the In
dian school at Carson ran away Tuesday
and were found sleeping on Lakeview
summit yesterday by an Indian trailer,
who followed them. They were sleep
ing in the open, with their shoes under
their heads and the thermometer stand
ing at three degrees above zero.
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On account OF the increase in the
number of prisoners at the state
penitentiary, a contract will be let
o o for the construction of fifty adj
ditional cells. Nevada probably has
fewer conyicts than any other State in
the Union. Three years ago there
were fifty-two convicts in confinement
there are now l21.
Frank Frey Of Reno has entered a suit
against the San FRANCISCO Construction
Company to recover $6S9.60, which he
company which was engaged on the If
rigation canal. The company leased
from him a large number of teams but
failed, SO he says, to pay him in full.
lie also says the company failed to re-
turn to him two mules and ten sets of
double harness. Cook & Ayres are his
attorneys.
The Southern Pacific last week in
augurated a news bulletin service on
all through trains. For some time the
company has been posting on over
land trains quotations from the New
York stock market. Now the service
has been amplifed to embrace tidings
ON important events. Eventually all
first-class trains will be equipped with
wireless telegraph apparatus so that
news can be wired to a train while
speeding across the continent at go
miles an hour.-Sparks Dispatch.
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Little Dorothy's papa had beer very
IN with ~annendicitis and had lain for