The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-12-05
CONDENSED NEWS OF THE STATE

ELKo. Following the death of an
other laborer brought in from the West.
ern Pacific construction camp, the local
Authorities are taking steps to have all
"grog' shops in the construction
camps abolished. There have been an
unusually large number of mysterious
deaths of late and the ~grog-shop keep
ers are blamed, it being claimed that
they sell doped whiskey to laborers in
order to rob them, and that in many
cases the Knockout drops are so strong
that the victims fail to recover.
RENO. Following the snowstorm
Nevada at present is experiencing the
coolest weather of the year. AT Carlin,
in the central part of the state, the
thermometer stood below zero, while in
other places it averaged about s de-
grees above. The low temperature at
this time of the year is unusual.
RENO. That the Wells Fargo Elk.
press company is indebted to the state
of Nevada to an amount exceeding SIS,
900 for failure to pay its tax as a com
mon carrier for twenty-seven years in
three counties Of the state, Churchill
Douglass and White Pine, is the state
ment of the newly appointed state Bul
lion and Tax Collector, J. F. Haley, who
has just returned from a license-ex
animation tour of the state.
Haley, claiming that a debt to the
state never outlaws, has ordered Sheriff
Davis of White Pine to bring suit mex
Monday against Wells Fargo for back
taxes. Similar action will be taken in
the other counties following the result
of the suit in White Pine.
RENO. One of the finest equipped
special trains that ever passed through
this section pulled into Reno. The spe-
cial was composed of a dynamo car,
diner, three Pullmans and an observa-
tion car, all of which were electric
lighted and will run through to Chicago
without any change, running on sched-
ule of the time of Overland Limited
No. 9.
Guests upon this palatial equipment
are special Chinese Ambassador Tang
Shao vi, Prince Tsai Flu and his suite,
numbering about fifty secretaries and
Chinese students, all bound for Wash
ington.
RENO. H. A. Evans, the former bust
ness man of this place who was brought
back from Rock Springs, Wyoming,
some time ago by order of Sheriff Fer
rel on a charge of obtaining money by
false pretenses sworn to by Rolla E.
Clapp, was dismissed by Judge Bell.
The defendant to the criminal com
plant was dismissed on motion of AS
~sistant District Attorney Ayers after
the preliminary examination as the evil
dence was very weak against Clapp and
would never have held before a grand
jury.
RENO. Somewhere in the Sierra Ne
vada mountains above Virginia, Assem-
blyman Fitzpatrick and a party of
mining friends are stranded in an auto
mobile. The party left Fallon, Church
i'll county, headed for Mono county to
examine some oil lands. They We're
overtaken by a snowstorm in the high
mountains. the roads were blocked and
| almost before they realized it their ma
chine was stranded. A prospector
brought news of their plight to Virginia
and a relief party has gone to the aid of
the travellers.
TONOPAH. TIL e officials of the
Tonopah and Goldfeld railway are hav-
ing the engines Of that road converted
into oil burners. There are at present
four of the engines in the machine
shops at Las Vegas, where they are be-
ing transformed, and the first with the
oil consuming apparatus installed
should arrive in Tonopah inside of a
week.
WINNEMUCCA. Upon a warrant
charging him with assault with intent
to kill, Constable p. H. Wolf of Love
lock was arrested at that place Wednes-
day morning. The complaint was sworn
to before Justice c. +. Robins of Winnie
mucca by S. Reighley, recently from
Chafey. The arrest was made by Con-
stable LaVoy of Winnemucca, who
brought Wolf to Winnemucca. Justice
Robins fixed VOLTS bonds at $1,000,
which he furnished, with two citizens of
Lovelock as sureties. The preliminary
hearing of the Lovelock constable s
case was set for December 9TH.
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