The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-12-29

Sboshone bucks and squaw- Of Elko
county the delights of the waltz and
the two-step. and soon the ghost
dance and the war dance will be
things of the past among that tribe.
The new sampling works of the
Western ore Purchasing Co. at Mil
lers. on the Tonopah railroad, three
miles northeast of Goldfield junction,
started up last wee k.
Repeated complaints against the
conduct at the postof1ice at Tonopah
have been made To Washington, and
Postmaster Bradley is slated for re-
moyal
Congressman Van Duzer is said To
be on his way to Nevada. Dispatches
say he has announced that he will
not again he candidate for congress
but that he might accept the nomina-
ton for governor.
President Roosevelt has signed the
bill passed by congress appropriat-
ING sl1. 600, 900 for the Panama canal
This is the first new law created by
the present session of congress
The government has refused TO ac
cept the bids for carrying the mail be
tween Wells and Ely. The reason
given for this action is that the bids
were too high New bids will be adj
yertised for.
Last Sunday blast in the big cut
sent 30 pound rock crashing through
the roof of the Ruby Hill school
house, II fell on two desks and
smashed them to kinaling wood and
did not spend its force until il hit
the ground after going through the
floor Two of the men working I'M
der the building Just escaped the
falling rock. Eureka Sentinel.
new lodge of Odd Fellows will
be organized in Reno next month,
and two days viii probably lac deyot-
ed 10 the institution. The first degree
will be conferred by Reno lodge tho
second degree by the Carson lodge
the third by Virginia lodge and the
initiatory degree 10y the Grand Lodge
of Nevada.
After serving fourteen yeas in the
state prison for crime of which he
was innocent, + W. Kelley, better
known as "Washoen, walked out last
Thursday a free man through the me-
dium of pardon 10y governor Pardee.
The murder for which Kelly was serv
ing life sentence was committed in
Fresno i'll 1901, when man entered
the Railroad Circle Bar saloon and
plunged knife i'll the neck of the
bartender.
In these days of many divorces
nan should be careful about whom
he marries-at least careful enough
to see that he dosen't marry a woman
from whom be has been divorced
That happened to man III Montana
recently. He fell in love, proposed
and was accepted by a woman from
whom he had been divorced % years
before, but did not know it until after
the wedding
Frank Baelxus. a colored man of
Reno, is 115 years old He is yet able
to make his own living He drives a
swill wagon about town and may be
seen any morning behind his faithful
old horse gathering up the oifal from
the various kitchens. He was born
in the zoos, lived all through the
nineteenth century, and has started
in on the twentieth. Mr.. Baekus Is
still in possession of all his faculties
and apparently has years before him
yet
Over one hundred beatings from the
wife of his heart in less than eight
years is the unhappy lot that has be
fallen Geo. Wood of Sparks, who has
entered suit for divorce against his
wife, Mrs. s. Wood Truly Wood
caught tarter when he was married
back in the old peaceful town of
Westerlield, Mass, if his long list of
suierings, enumerated in his COM
plant filed in the district court in
Reno, are true.