Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-01-06
OUTSIDE THE
LOCAL CIRCLE

striving for the prize.
The annual report Of the Southern
Pacific Railroad company for 1903
shows gains in receipts OF more than
s.. 800, 900 over 1904.
tttt
Possibly the oldest cigar in existence
in the state is one that was given to-
iav by Ed. Patterson to Joe Josephs,
who will take it to Virginia City II
present it to Con Ahern. The cigar
presented to Mr.. Patterson :
father. Robert Patterson, as a Christ
mas gift by VIM. Echoff in 1876
Carson News.
ssts
An Eastern paper puts it thus: So
many woman teachers have recently
married in Nevada that the educational
of that state is seriously threat
eBcd. Most Of the teachers are from
Tie East, and as a rule they are young
and pretty. Nevada has always had a
snrplace Of men, SO it surprises few
that alter a few months the young
woman succumbs to ardent wooers
tttt
Two daring burglaries, including the
blowing open OF a safe with n%itro-gly-
eerinc occurred in Goldfeld last week.
In the Monte Carlo saloon where the
safe was robbed the burglars obtained
about $500. and in the Hoffman saloon,
scarcely more than a block farther up
on Main street, they broke open the
cash register and secured $40 in small
change.
II is announced from New York that
all Trunk Line Association Railroads
have agreed to abolish all free trans
portation after Jan. /, 1905. This is
the natural sequence of involvement
made by the Pennsylvania, New York
Central and Reading systems that they
will no longer give passes. 1t Is re-
ported that the Western roads will
follow suit.
In a shooting scrape at luning Sat
urday night Archie Mccormick, a
miner at Luning was shot and instant
ly killed by J. A. Tracy, a mining pro-
moter Of the same place. 1t seems
that Mccormick had threatened to
kill Tracey. and had invited him to
fight, and that Tracey shot him at
sight. The coroner's jury eXonerated
finding that he had kill Nc
Cormick in self defense.
+Ntt
Old Phoebe Is looking brighter than
it has for many years. The big Nevada
Utah company is commencing opera
tions in \ No. l shape and before six
months rolls by the monthly payroll of
that company is expected to reach in
the neighborhood OF 10000. With
the other numerous companies around
about which,will employ no less than
40 men Phoebe will be leading camp
in The county, both in population and
etes.-Record.
tttt
In order 10 more effectively battle
tie box car robbers who work along
the line Of its road the Southern Pacific
company will soon place in use a new
style of ear seal. The new seal will be
50 constructed that after it has once
been broken or tempered with it can
MT be restored so as to pass the seal
inspectors who are stationed at
different points along the road. The
new seal is nov being perfected and
viii soon 90 into general use.
Frank Backus, a colored man OF
Reno, is lbs years old. lie is yet able
t. 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 offal from
various kitchens. He was born in the
lOO0's lived all through the nineteeth
century, and has started on the
twentieth. Mr.. Backus is still in
possession Of all his faculties and APP
parently has many years before him
yet.
444I
That Lincoln will be the banner
county Of the State OF Nevada in point
Of mileage before another year is out
goes without saying for at present t he
san Pedro Los Angeles & Salt Lake
railroad has 2lO miles of main track;
the Las Vegas and Tonopah will have
30 miles in Lincoln county. The
Northern and S%earchlight have %
miles, the Phoebe Pacific which has
commeneed TO build will hayelS miles
while the branch line from c aliente to
Phoebe will add thirty two miles more
making a grand total of 334 miles and
all of this is assured before another
six months rolls away. 1t will not be
long before Lincoln county will be one
OF the formost in Nevada.