The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-20
STATE NOTES.

STATE NOTES.
J. H. Gordon, head detective for
the Southern Pacific in. Nevada, was in
town the last of the week. The pur-
pose of his visit is not divulged, but
it is probable that he will spend a
little ingenuity in an endeavor to dis
cover the perpetrators in the recent
mail sack robbery.-Sparks Forum.
Thursday afternoon Mrs. II. b.
Van Etten went to the cabin occu-
pied by Charles Paffgen, an old resi-
dent of Carson, where he has worked
in the butcher shops for many years,
being more Familiarity known as "Old
Charlie" to see if anything was
wrong with the old man, he not hav-
ing been seen since Tuesday. She
found the man lying on his bed, and
upon examination found that he was
dead-Carson Appeal.
After George Wingfeld met Mer-
rill l.. league, associated with George
Graham Rice in the publication of
the Nevada Mining News at Reno,
and whipped him, he declared that
he also would whip Rice. 1t is stated
that Rice Immediately left town, and
remained away until Wednesday
when he returned with man named
Kaufman, who, according to report,
is acting as Rice's bodyguard. He is
always at Rice's side when the latter
is on the street Wingfield is now
in the southern part of the state
The contest for the possession OF
100 acres of land fifteen miles from
| Goldfied between the GOldfield Con-
solidated Water company and Mar
| Gus ID. Hyde ended yesterday before
Register Cohn and Receiver fremont,
of the local land office, the case being
submitted for a finding. The land In
dispute is very valuable because on
it are the wells which now supply
Goldfield with water. The water
company located the ground under
| placer location and later when the
| water was found, made application to
! the state engineer for the rights to
the water. After the water company
has spent considerable money on the
property and had located and drilled
| the wells, Hyde filed a homestead on
the tract, attempting to buy it with
| scriD.-CarsOn Appeal.
A United States grand jury has
been called for December 2, and II
is claimed that there will be some
sensational matters brought before
the body touching upon the fencing
of government lands in Nevada. Sc
cret agents have been at work for
months, and it is claimed they have
found a number of violations OF the
law and criminal prosecutions will
result. The principal offenses are
claimed to be the fencing of govern
ment land illegally and without au-
thority, and the cases are confined
mostly to the grazing regions of the
state. Special agents spent some
time investigating the condition in
Churchill and other counties in that
section, and it was reported they
found a number of cases there which
will be considered by the jury
Carson Appeal.
Judge Langan this afternoon fiXec
November 25 at 10 n. m. as the time
for the beginning of the second tria
of George Gibson on a charge of MUIR
dering Richard Maunsell. Notice
was given that the court and the
clerk of the court at 5 O'Clock this
afternoon-it appearing that there
are not enough names in the panel tC
complete a jury in the case-would
draw 175 names from the jury box
and that a venire, holding the same
would be issued to Sheriff ingalls,
returnable on November %. A
strong effort was made by the de-
Tense to have the second trial be-
come a part of the proceedings of the
next term of court, but without avail
The Gibson trial will be the last
criminal case to be heard before
Judge Langan prior to his departure
from Goldfield to preside in other
sections of his distrct.-Goldfield
Chronicle.
Correspondence is now going on
between James II. Keelyn of the Lit
tie Florence Mining company of
Goldfield and Hon. Frank A. Leech,
director of the mint, at Washington,
ID. c., relative to the fact that the
smelters will not take the Goldfield
ore for reduction unless given 40 to
so days to settle for the same, there
by tying up a million dollars of
money of the mining companies for
ore sent to them during this period
they are obliged to wait for their
cash returns. Keelyn has taken the
matter up with the director of t e
mint, Treasurer Cortelyou and Presi-
dent Roosevelt. They in turn have
informed him that they will consider
the matter at an early date, and If
they can MT upon remedy for tn.
nravailinp conditions and one which