The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-18
NEVADA.

RENO.-A. 3. Mannheim, the wholesale
and retail candy king of this city is a
very happy man and at the same time
greatly worried. This evening he is to
claim Miss Vern Oliver, a beautiful Ne
braska girl, as his bride but when he
does so he places his life in great dan
ger as Peter Oliver. the aged father of
the charming young woman, has threat
ened TO Kill him on sight if he takes mis-
daughter from him
Mannheim is at present guarded by a
friend, armed with a revolver. and has
been SO guarded for the past week He
has had friends watching every train so
that his prospective father-in-law could
not enter the city unobserved. He is liv-
ing in dread of death and fears that any
moment his father-in-law may fire shot
that Will end his life.
HAZEN.-Rather an interesting play at
the great American game Of draw poker
took place in the club rooms of the Ne
Vada Inn hotel here last evening.
thousands of dollars changed hands
during the evening and there was not as
mGeh noise or disturbance as there usual
ly is at game of whist. Save for the
clinktng Of twenty dollar gold pieces on
the table, an onlOOker would not know
that the stakes were high.
Swift-Water Bill of Alaska fame led
in the betting and gold showered on the
table like white checks in a penny ante
game. There were others equally as
game. Mr.. Mccartney, a prominent min
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wholesale liquor merchant of Covington.
Ky; Mr.. Bray, a young mining engineer
OF much prominence; n representative of
the o. r. T.; a prominent railroad official
of the Oregon Short Line; and a promi-
nent caterer of New York City, occupied
seats around the green covered table and
it was a common sight to see $4,000 in
single pot
RENO.-Fire this afternoon destroyed
three buildings. entailing a loss of about
SIS, 600. The buildings burned We're Ham
montree's livery stable, the fremont hotel
and the Manning building.
.RENO.-Since the discovery of oil at
the base of Peavine mountain, about three
miles north of Reno, there has been a
in the adjoining acreage where the same
good formations exist. Claim jumpers
have been busy and today bloOdshed was
narrowly avoided when two men who
had taken possession of eight claims re-
fused to allow the original locators to sur
vey their property. Guns were drawn and
several shots fired, but no one was in
jured. Those who have secured claims
are now guarding them with guns to pre-
vent jumpers from securing possession.
CARSON.-Ranchers in the vicinity of
Genoa have filed d complaint with State
the government irrigation engineers have
changed the course of the Carson river
near Genoa so that the water of the Car
son is far from their farms, thus destroy
ing their farms They have pettioned
the state engineer to see that the Car
son river is turned back into its natural
channel.
RENO.-'Dusty Roads," a hop head, is
dead He breathed his last while enjoy
ing a ''long draw in his little hut near
the fair grounds at an early hour this
morning. His friend Chic Frost was by
his bedside, but Chic is a morphine fiend
and he did not know that his companion
had passed away until two hours after
life was extinct He then notified FetterS
& Durrett and the body of the young man
now lies on slab in the undertaking par
lors. where it will remain unth it is laid
to rest in an unknown grave in the
pauper's field.