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| and Will install an electric power
plant there to furnish power for
mining purposes in Masonic and
Bodie, and will also run a power
/ line into Tonopah and Goldfeld.
1t is now stated on pretty good
authority that "Borax" Smith will
extend the railroad from his borax
marshes on up into Bullfrog, and
possibly further north. When
work begins on such a project it
will be time enough to believe the
report.
Diamondfeld Jack Davis ran a
couple of prospectors named Frey
and Southworth off claim in the
Bullfrog district one day last week
at the point of a six shooter. The
men had located the claim and
were doing work on it. They
will have Davis arrested. =
According to the Reno Journal
all three of the gambling ordi-
nances for Reno were defeated in
the city election held Tuesday,
Mayor Turrittin was defeated by
ID. w. O'Connor by a small ma
jority, and Chief of Police Leeper,
as consequence, will lose his job.
The Hunter Creek Water Com
pany has agreed to give the city
of Reno free water for fire pur-
poses and street sprinklipg in re-
turn for a franchise. The laying
of mains will begin in about two
weeks and Reno will get a drink
of pure water before many
months.
Assistant Attorney General
Campbell has given decision that
the Interior Department is with
out power to stop the traffic in
whisky on lands upon which
government irrigation work is be-
ing done, so the saloons along the
canal route will remain as long as
they have patrons.
The United States Topographic
cal Engineering Corps has defnit-
ly determined that the floor of
Death Valley--desert is 45o' feet
below the sea level. This level
was ascertained for the purpose of
making typographical charts of
that region. This is the lowest
point on the continent.
The Eureka Sentinel says that
in all probability gasoline motor
car will soon be placed on the
Eureka & Palisade railroad.
These cars can be run at a speed
of 40 miles an hour; they cost
very little for power, and are be-
ing used in Nebraska on lines that
feed the Union Pacific main line.
Captain DeLamar is said to have
forfeited the $4,000 paid on his
100000 bond on the Kane
Wonder mine in the Funeral
range on the advice of his experts.
Guggenheims, it is reported, will
take the property May I. 1t was
DeLamar's expert Cohen, who
turned down the Mizpah in the
earliest days of this camp.-Tono-
pah Bonanza.
The Rocky Mountain Securities
Company of Denver, has brought
a libel suit against the Minis
Sutro broker firm, Frisbie & Law
son, The Goldfield Sun, the Tono-
pah Miner. the Tonopah Sun and
W. ]. Shelton & Co., for alleged
lihelous statements regarding some
of the properties the Securities
Company has been promoting in
the southern country.
The case against Steve An
drews, who was charged with as
saulting young squaw in Bodie
some weeks ago, from the effects
of which she died, has been dis
missed, as there was not sufficient
evidence to convict. Andrews
was arrested again on a charge of
assault and fined $500, which he
paid. He left the country for fear
the Indians would take his case
into their own hands.
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