The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1905-11-23

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contest that has been on for some
time for the Office of U. s. District At
torney in this State has been settled
and that man who would get the
plum was Sam Platt of Carson.
The Southern Pacific Company and
the Oregon Short Line are asking all
employees how much, if any, insurance
each man carries, and in what COM
pany the employee is insured. No ac-
count is taken OF Insurance in frater-
nal societies.
Mrs. Thomas McCourt and Mrs.
George Watt and two children passed
through last Sunday on their way
from Austin to San Francisco to be
with Miss Alice McCourt, who is re-
covering very slowly rom her recent
attack OF typhoid fever.
Mrs. Frank Drake and daughter
Mrs. Jordan, spent a few days in town
last week. They are on their way
from Haley, Idaho, to California.
Mrs. Jordan paid Galena a visit, the
place where she spent her childhood
days, the Drake family having resided
at Galena at n time.
DeLamar is picking up. There are
many new faces on the streets, and
none linger long as they are soon put
to work in the mine, mill, or on the
new plant. And the stores seem to
have anticipated a rush and a big fall
and winter trade, from the fact that
the streets are daily crowded with
four and six horse teams delivering
goods.-Lode.
Since the execution of Welch's MUIR
derers it has developed that ali ex-
cept Roberts were ex-convicts, having
served terms in p~enitentiaries, and
jails for crimes in various parts of the
United States. Roberts was arrested
in Tonopah for petty larceny and in
Reno for vngrancy. Germans career
was the most criminal OF the quartette
so far as known.
II. r. Lemaire left yesterday for his
ming property at Mound Springs at
which place he has three men at work,
in doing development work. From a
number OF assays he has had made
from the property he is more than en-
thusiastic over the results and thinks
he has the making of a very COED
property. No doubt Hen" will soon
find himself on easy street.
The P~ostofice Department has adj
opted a new style of postal money
order bank TO prevent raising" by
criminals. In the left-hand margin
OF the order is a strip of figures rep
resenting dollars from 81 % $40 10y
leaps OF iives, and from $40 to 800 by
leaps Of tens. All numbers above the
sums named in the order are cut out
by the postmaster issuing the same.
A. Wise has arrived home from
Tonopah. He returned sooner than
he expected on account of being quite
sick, being threatened with pneu-
monia, but since arriving home has
got TO feel all right. He tells us that
the Cash Boy mine ut Tonopah in
which he is interested, is looking
good, and that work is being pushed
as fast as possible on the property.
The shaft is now to a depth that they
expect to cut the ledge Mt most any
time.
An examination OF the remains OF
the four men executed at Carson
Friday showed that all their necks
were broken and that death was in
Simultaneous. Rev. b. J.. Darneille
and Father Gleason conducted the
funeral services Saturday morning.
All were buried in the prison grave
yard. Headstones to their graves
will be erected as soon as the ground
settles SO that their relatives will be
able to identify them should they
want to remove the remains.