Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-02-29
FROM over NEVADA
Items of Interest Culled
From Exchanges and Com
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The Rawhide Times has absorbed the
Press of that place.
Third degree Odd Fellows residing at
FalIon are to organize an Encampment
there.
George w. Maxwell, veteran of the
Mexican and Civil wars, died at Fallon
last week.
Rawhide has been connected with the
outside world by telegraph via Hazen
and Fairview.
w. c. Black has sold the Churchill
Standard to A. P. Bettersworth, former
" of the Fallon Eagle.
The Nevada Calumet company is pre-
pairing to resume work on its property
in the Buckskiu district.
Golconda, Humboldt county, is expe-
riencing mining boom, owing to the
influx of outside capital.
The Adams gypsum plant at Mound
House has been taken over by the Uni
ted States Gypsum company.
John M. Fulton has been appointed
Southern Pacific agent at Reno, from
which position he resigned two years
ago.
An Indian named Frank is in Jail at
Tonopah on suspicion of being the MUIR
derer of his wife, who was recently foully
dealt with.
A brick worth in the neighborhood OF
$4,000 was the result of fifteen days
cleanup in the zinc boxes at the Silver
Peak valcalda.
There is nine feet of packed snow on
the summit of the Sierra Nevada, some
thing less than the depth there at this
date last season.
The tax rate in White Pine county for
the current year has been set at $40 on
the 500 valuation. This is 81 less than
the rate of last year.
Five Austrians working on the West
ern Pacific railroad at Beckwith were
instantly killed last Friday week by the
premature explosion of blast.
Tom Argentos. Nevada bad man, ="
has been sentenced to life imprisonment
from Inyo county, CAL, for the murder
of John Pavloich, former resident of
Goldfieid.
John Craise, one of Nevada's oldest
printers, died at Virginia City Thursday
week last. At the time of his death he
was one of the lessees of the Territorial
Enterprise.
Mrs. Louisa Sadler, widow of the late
Governor Sadler, has attached the State
Bank and Trust company for $4,000,
the amount she had on deposit in that
Business men of all classes are warned
by the government to watch for post
Office money orders from 1856 to 49,
600, inclusive. They were stolen with a
money order stamp in Chicago last De-
cember.
w. E. Pruitt, superintendent of the
public schools of Reno, has received sew
eral threatening letters warning him to
leave the State. Pruitt is recent ar
rival from Colorado, and says he is being
by the Western Federation of
The forestry department of the gov
eminent has issued orders that all wood
cutting must cease on the Grapevine
south of Rhyolite. In some
intances tie slopes of the hills have been
denuded of trees by woodchoppers who
sold the wood to nearby camps.
Another order has been made by the
department of the interior which affects
all who get water for irrigation purposes
on the Truckee-Carson project. The
substance of the order is that all charges
due for operation and maintenance must
be paid for all the irrigable land included
in any water right application on or be-
fore April l of each year, in default of
which no water will be furnished for the
irrigation of the lands.