Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-03-14
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The State police have taken up thei
headquarters at Goldfeld.
w. B. Jenness, formerly of Elk
county, died in California last week.
Mrs. NJ. c. Sundstrom, for many year!
a resident of the Comstock, died ther,
last Monday.
The Western Pacific has ordered fifty
per cent of the forces to work half time
Work will begin at once.
l.. w. Adams, mining man from
Rawhide, was found dead in a lodging
house at Winnemucca last week.
James Lochhead, Wells-Fargo agent
at Vernon, Humboldt county, has beer
arrested for embezzling funds from that
company.
By joint survey between Churchill
and Esmeralda counties it has been de-
termined that Rawhide is located in the
latter county.
A man named Pat Burns was struck
by V. & T. train near Reno last Mon
day and will probably die from the in
juries received.
Steps are being taken at the Univer-
the University high school from a three
year to four-year course.
Dove, the man arrested for the muir
der of G. Bean at Gold Circle, Humboldt
county, last week, has admitted his
guilt, claiming self-defense.
The two companies of the Twenty
second regiment, which have been sta
toned at Goldfeld for the past two
months, have returned to the Preside,
California.
Federal Judge harrington handed down
a decision this week at Carson forbidding
the Miners Union at Goldfeld from in
terfering in any way with the working of
the mines at that place
The Southern Pacific company will at
once commence the boring of a tunnel
through the mountains in the vicinity of
Truckee. This will be done to shorten
the line and avoid snow.
Captain {. II. Clarke, travelling man
for San Francisco house, and well
known throughout Nevada, was found
dead in his room at Reno last Sunday,
death resulting from heart failure.
The Nevada Fish Commission has ar
ranged for the placing of 1000 black bass
in the streams of the State. These fish
will be used to exterminate the German
carp, which have become a menace to
the trout
The Southern Pacific has announced
that it will make rate of one and one
third fare from all points in Nevada
those desiring to go to San Francisco to
witness the coming of the United States
warships.
Since the Cleveland, Ohio, school
house disaster, whereby $50 children
were burned to death, several Nevada
cities are seeing to it that their school
buildings are properly equipped with
fire escapes.
c. T. Bender, G. w. Mapes, George
IL. Meyers, p. II. Petersen and +. d
VANDERBILT have been indicted by the
Ormsby county grand jury for embezzle
ment III connection with the State Bank
an Trust company.
Constable Peterson of Reno is under
arrest, being charged with extortion.
Mrs. Walter Howe claims that he com
PEELED her husband to pay s.. so before
permitting them to remove their things
from house they were occupying.
Vim. Wadrope, claiming Cherry Greek
as his home, was found last Thursday
morning violently insane near Currie,
seventy-fve miles north of Ely. He
was brought to Currie after hard strug
gle and became quiet for short time
After sitting in saloon awhile he
suddenly rushed behind the bar, secured
a revolver and shot himself in the head
He will probably die.