Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-03-17
NEWS OF
THE WEEK
Officials of Western Federation
Of Miners Indicted J. Okla
homa Will be New State.

eliminate all reference TO Arizona anu
New Mexico, has passed the Senate.
The motion to strike out the provisions
relating to those territories was car
ried by a vote Of SO to 35. AS amended
bv the Senate, the bill provides for the
creation of the State of Oklahoma out
Of oklahoma Territory and Indian Ter
ritory upon the adoption of a constitu-
ton. The State is allowed the usual
quota of executive, judicial and legisla-
tive officers, two United States Sena-
tors and five members of the National
House of Representatives.
There is a keen demand for Nevada
beef this year and the outlook is that
the market will be strong with an
inward tendency for some time.
Last year California had a surplus
of grass cattle and the heavy market
ings forced the prices down to the
lowest point for years. But this
year conditions are greatly changed,
principally owing to the drouth in
California, and that state has COM
paratively few cattle to market.
In fact, Nevada cattle have already
been bought and shipped as far south
as Los Angeles.
A niue catastrophe Of inealculable
horror and magnitude has stricken
the coal center of northern France.
An explosion of fire damp at Z o'clock
last Saturday morning carried death
and destruction throughout a net
work of coal mines conferred at Cour-
riers. Fire followed the explosion,
making the work Of rescue difficult
and almost impossible. Twelve hun
dred and nineteen men were known
to be imprisoned in the burning pits
aud at least half of them met almost
instant death.
The House Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries decided to re.
port ~favorably an omnibus fish hatch.
cry bill, including all the proposed
Government hatcheries agreed upon
as presented in separate bills, and
involving an aggregate cost OF about
$500, 600. The bill carries appfOpri
ations Of $25, 600 for each of the fol
lowing states: Nevada, Wyoming.
New Mexico, Idaho and Utah.
Modern rifles and 10, 900 rounds o
ammunition were seized in the quart
ers Of the Chinese crew on th,
Pacific Mail Steamer Manchuria be
fore it sailed for the Orient last Sat
urday, 1t was learned later tina
the engineer bought the guns anC
smuggled them aboard.
1t is announced at Richmond, Va.
by one Of her family that Mrs. Rob
ert Shaw, nee Langhorne, sister 0
Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, is engaged
to be married to Waldorf Astor, sol
OF William Waldorf Astor of London
The Navy department has received
a %cablegram from Yokohoma stating
that the battleship Oregon haC
sailed from Honolulu for the UniteC
States, where she Will be exteusivel.
o%verhauled and m%odernized.
Miss Rene Shaw, the youngest daugh
ter of Col. II. G. Shaw, formerly edito
Of the Virginia City Enterprise and
niece of Controller Davis, was Marie
in San Francisco a few days ago t
August Mehrtens, a well-known drug
gist Of that city.
Charles Meyer, w. d. Haywood an
George A. ~Pettibone, have been il
dicted by the grand jury at Caldwell
Idaho, for the murder Of former Cover
nor S~tunenberg in that city on the nigf
Of December Both last.
Wilfred b. Hoggatt has been al
pointed Governor of Alaska by Pres
dent Roosevelt. Mr.. Hoggatt is
resident OF Juneau and will succee
John G. Brady, recently resigned.
The international waterways con
mission has reached an agreemer
regarding Niagara Falls, by whic
both countries will take all precal
tons to save its scenic beauty.
The Bank of Nevada has taken ov,
the banking business of r. l.. Douglas
Of Fallon. The new bank will |
known as the Churchill County BAN
and will be capitalized at 500, 900.
Ohio coal operators have decide
not to concede the demands of tt
miners for an increase in wages.
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