Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-01-26
STATE news

there Sunday evening. Both legs
were cut off, and the young man
died of his injuries next morning.
The Sunset Oil Company of Ba-
kersfeld, Cal, has a representative
in Reno arranging for the installa-
ton of large oil warehouses there.
and intends to Immediately begin a
battle against the Standard Oil Co.
agency in that city.
The Gazette says that Senator
Newlands has purchased three
ranches adjoining Reno which he in
tends to make one of the finest resi-
dence additions to the city. The
purchase price is stated at $4,000
and $4,000 more will be expended
in improvements before the lots are
placed on the market.
A desperate named Dan Burns
and a fellow prisoner escaped from
the Goldield Jail Monday night by
cutting a hole through the roof of
the building.
While working OF a water tank on
the Goldfeld & Bullfrog Railroad
Thursday, J.. H. Jones fell 16 feet
from a scaffolding and struck on his
head, receiving injuries which will
prove fatal.
Sam Davis has resumed the pub
LEGATION and editorial management
of the Carson Appeal.
1t is the opinion of doctors attend
ing f, w. Losee, the engineer who
was injured in the wreck at Montello
Hill, that he will never fully cov
his normal mental condition and
will perhaps for the remainder Of his
life be a hopeless mental wreck.
The Yerington Ironsides Copper
Company, with Fred Flindt manager,
is about ready to begin active de-
velopment work. The only thing
that is holding back the work is the
lack of lumber, but the company ex-
poets a couple Of carloads any day
now.
J.. G. Kaufman has about conclud-
ed to install a small ice plant in
Y%erington in preference to putting
up ice in the old way. There r
seasons in that locality when it is
impossible to secure ice from Ia
lures storehouse and this is very liza
Bile to prove one OF them. The ice
made artiicially would probably
prove purer than that cut from the
ponds or rivers. There Is going to
be a great demand for ice in the
camp next summer and a plant 10
manufacture would be the only sure
source of supply. Besides that It
ought to prove a paying proposition.
The quarantine on the Lafayette
hotel at Winnemucca has been rails
ed, and the people outside of the
family and those in direct contact
with the disease were allowed to go
at liberty. This order was given by
Quarantine Official DR.. Giroux. after
he had received the assurance OF
District Attorney Quicker that such
an order was satisfactory,
Colonel Maxon, clerk of the Reno
school board. has paid off the teach
ers in the Reno public schools for
the month of December, giving them
in all $3.50 for the month. Be
sides this amount Colonel Maxon
paid $1,000 to janitors.
p. b. Warner has recovered from
an attack OF pneumonia, he having
been for three weeks under treat
ment at the Miners Union Hospital
The gentleman is interested in leases
, on the C. 0. d. and Atlanta with the
, Nevada Exploration Company. Mr..
Warner expects to attend to the SUI
perintendency of the properties in q
few days.
I The report of the Goldfeld post
Office for the year ending December
p 81, 1906, shows the vast amount OF
prosperity that has been such a fac.
tor in Goldheld's phenomena
: growth, AS a comparison OF the
d wonderful growth in the number o
1 registered letters handled by thu
q postofnce, 1t is only necessary t
4 glance over the following figures
For the six months ending Deem
Der 81, 1905, there were 6400, 20.
/ the six months ending June 80, 1906
.. 12,209, and for the six months end
: ing December 81, 1906, 20,927
o These figures show the enormous in
. crease OF 14,527 registered letters ii
r a single year
G William Kelley, the young mai
e who was indicted by the grand jur,
for the burglary of the second han
store of Bushel & Ward in Reno las
4 May, plead guilty to the charge an
was sentenced to two years In tn
L State prison at Carson by Judge Orr
1t Is stated in Reno that the Sou
thern Pacific Company Is ~plannini
to reconstruct it's line from Reno Z