Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-04-14
NEWS OF
THE WEEK
Some Short Items of Interest
from Various Sections Of the
Country.

Senator Newlands says the Walker
Lake Indian reservation will not be
opened until next fall.
Senator R. A. Alger Of Michigan has
announced that he will not be a candi-
date to succeed himself when the legis-
lature meets next January.
George C. Easton was hanged at the
Folsom, Calf. State prison last Friday
for the murder of Charles Harigan at
Dixon, Solano county, November 2,
1904.
A dispatch from Oakland, Calf, says:
Mrs. C. T. Mills, president of Mills
College, has been seriously i'll. Mrs.
Mills age $50 years. has been a serious
consideration in this severe illness.
Within the past few months Goldield
and Goldfeld district have paid into the
treasury of Esmeralda county some
thing over 500, 900, nearly 80 per cent
Of the amount paid in by the whole
county.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission announces that the clerk carrier
examination announced to be held on
April 7th, 1906, for the post office SER
vice at Reno, Nevada, has been post
poned to April %.
Notwithstanding that the stage road
between Eureka & Ely, a distance of
80 miles, was a week ago covered with
from one to four feet of now and the
stage was having the greatest difficulty
in making the run, every stage leaving
Eureka is loaded to it's full capacity,
and many passengers are waiting their
turn.
1t is reported in Salt Lake that Rich
ard w. Young will be appointed and
sustained as an Apostle of the Mormon
church to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of the late Mariner w. Mer-
rill. Matthias F. Crowley and John w.
Taylor are to be dropped from the
council of apostles, the reason being
their prolonged absence and %non-atten-
ton to the duties of these positions.
Wilson Miner, the eccentric young
mar from California who married Mrs.
Yerks a few months ago, has been
arrested in New York on a charge of
assault and battery. 1t is alleged that
when a young law clerk called at his
room in a hotel to serve a m in
a suit for SAG, Miner jumped out of
bed and administered a severe beating
to him. Miner gave bail and was re-
leased.
AT a meeting of the directors of the
Continental Life Insurance and invest
ment company in Salt Lake last Satur-
day, lasting through three sessions,
Hiram Tyree was removed from the
Office of president of the company and
Thomas R. Cutler elevated to the posi-
tion thus made vacant. This action
was the result of a long period Of in.
ternal strife and pickering, which haC
produced in the directorate a condition
which is said to have threatened its dis
ruption and to have seriously menanceC
the very existence of the corporation
Many Nevadans are insured in the com
pany.
The body of an Indian child, that hat
been dead presumably for severa
weeks, was found a few weeks ago b.
Ben Cardinal, who is attached to
party Of %goveonment surveyors nov
making a geological survey of damon
Valley, Alpine County, Cal. The bod
when found presented a gruesome spec
tacle. 1t was still tied in the basket
which Indian mothers use, and wa
lying face downward in a clump of wi
lows on the trail leading from WOOD
ford into Diamond valley. Mortiicatio
had set in and the stencil which aros
when the basket was turned owe
almost sickened Cardinal, The at
thorities have not been notified.