Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-07-11

HOT Stupn, a. II. OnlltH eIlotiC PAO
duction, threatens to come out every
week instead of monthly.
Fire greatly injured the railroad library
at Sparks Tuesday night. Many books
were burned or injured and the loss is
about $1,000.
John Sunderland was chosen by the
Nevada delegates to the democratic con-
vention at Denver to be national COM
mitteeman for his party in Nevada.
The Humboldt Star states that the
baseball game Sunday was lost by Col
conda at score of AZ to II, and that
the Battle Mountain teams score would
have been higher had not the boys be-
come exhausted from base running.
The Eagles and the Elks of Reno have
agreed to play baseball game for $1,000,
The game is to be played in about three
weeks at Reno. Special trains will be
run, and T. A. Bell, grand president of
the Eagles, who is also an Elk, is to
umpire
Daniel F. Kellar, formerly captain
in the United States army, who was re-
Gently convicted of defrauding the gov
eminent by passing stolen quartermast-
er's checks to the amount of $1,000 at
Reno, has been sentenced to two years
hard labor at the federal prison at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas.
H. J. Humphrey has resigned his po-
sition of internal revenue collector and
will become associated with National
Committeeman Flanagan in the manage
ment of the coming political campaign
for the Republican party. He was sue
ceeded in the position of revenue collect.
or by Ben Blow of ST. Louis.
A letter from Commissioner F. E.
Leupp, of the Department of the In
terror, to the governor states that the
Indian school at Carson City, Nevada, is
an institution which the Government
NAV properly dispense with" and asks
if the state can make use of the build
ings for some public institution.
Most States are proud to have a candi
date for President in their midst" but
Nevada is neither proud nor is the can
didate lin our midst" to any noticeable |
extent He is Morris r. Preston, So |
cialist Labor candidate for President, |
and our penitentiary warden sees that he
ioes not wander over the State. He is
only rs years old, besides other disquali-
ications.
The Socialists nominated full State |
ticket at Sparks on the 5th, as follows
For Presidential electors, Robert Arthur |
Of Sparks, c. William of Rawhide, and
Thomas Minor of Winnemucca; for Con-
yress, c. A. Branch of Sparks; for JUS
ice of the Supreme Court, E. Lorke;
Tor University Regent. c. E. Meyer of
for Surveyor General, l.. Haw-
kins of Carson City.
The Winnemucca Star learns from
reliable source that the San Francisco,
Idaho & Montana railroad will be con-
structed from Caldwell, Idaho, to Win
The road is now completed
to Snake river, 40 miles south of Cald-
we'll. The owners of the road want to
reach Winnemucca, as it is the junction
point of the two great transcontinental
systems, the Southern Pacific and the
Western Pacific.
Sparks is happy over the fact that full
time has been ordered for 400 more men
in the shops and on the railroad there.
The Nevada State Journal says: Some
idea of the meaning of this order in
Sparks may be gained when it is said
that nearly 1000 persons are directly
affected by the increase alone, to say
nothing of those regularly employed