White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-01-01
LOCAL NEWS

!, as to C. d. McNeill to pro-
tect their interest in the Lake Erie
No. l and No. 2 claims at Ward. In
addition to the title sought the plain
tiffs ask for judgment in the sum of
1886 for monies spent for plats and
surveys, and $1,000 attorneys fees.
Evening worship will be held at
the parlor of Wlson-Bates store on
Aultman Street, in Ely, on Sunday
night at 7:45 o'clock, and the Rev.
! Geo. Buckle, d. D., will preach.
Everybody is welcome.
H. w. Fletcher has completed his
assessment work on the Lulu Nos. l
adm 2 and the Lost Knife claim in
the Robinson district and proof of
labor has been filed in the re-
corder's Office by Jap Taylor.
The Ely public schools will open
Tuesday, January 3, after a vacation
of one week, while the East Ely
and McGill schools will not open In
til Monday, January 8, the pupils be-
Ing permitted to enjoy a two weeks
vacation.
Sam Cocroft, who has been di-
reeting the work on the Chairman
mill, vas In town during the week
on business. Mr.. Cocroft recently
slipped on the lee covered steps of
his Office building and broke his arm
above the elbow.
H. E. Stebbins has opened up a
first class saloon in the Nunnelly
block in East Ely, formerly occupied
by the Cascade Bar. Mr.. Stebbins is
we'll known in the distict, will carry
a fine line of wines, liquors and
cigars and invites the public to give
him a call.
Taylor Watson, of McGill, and
Miss Lulu Willis were married by
Justice of the Peace Cartwright this
week in the court house. Only a few
intimate acquaintance of the con-
tracing parties witnessed the cere-
mony, after which the newly married
couple departed for McGill, where
they will make their future home.
Lawton Camp No. 5, Spanish War
Veterans. have elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: Robert
Baird, camp commander; A. A. Mar
shall, senior vice commander; Aug
ust Munter, junior vice commender;
Win Fulmer, officer of the day; w.
F. McManus, officer of the guard.
The new officers will be installed at
a meeting on January 26th.
Col. lobe Weaver of the operating
department of the Nevada Northern,
has been under the weather for a
number of days past, due to a severe
cold, which settled on his lungs and
which for a time looked as though 1t
would result in pneumonia. The
many friends of the colonel were
considerably alarmed over his con
dition, but as a result of the best
medical attention, and the fact that
the veteran railroader took the very
best possible care of himself, he Is
now on the road to rapid recovery
and If there is no relapse, he will
again take over his run during the
early part of the week.
Happy" Harris. the nan who was
nearly always singing. will rest his
voice for a time confined to a sick
bed. On Friday afternoon he and a
mate were at work In the main shaft
of the Giroux Consolidated Mines Co.
when he fell some ~forty-five feet
from the scaffolding on which he and
his mate were fitting pipe for the
conducting of steam. The man fell
and severely bruised his body, in
juring his arm and breaking his leg
at the hip. The men were working
from a platform below the ground
and the companion of Harris had
notified him that he would ascend
and get more pipe. AS the cage pass
ed Harris, he found himself in the
passage way of the cages progress
and was knocked down to some bulk
heads or a small platform on which
rested a ladder used by the men,
about forty-five feet below. A slight
divergence from the line in which
Harris fell would have hurled the
man to his death some two hundred
feet below the planking on which his
body happened to strike.
A petition has been filled in the
district court asking that the will oil
the late Nyron B. Bird who died in
San Francisco last February be ad-
mitted to record and that letters OF
| administration issue to Charles r
| Reeves as public administrator. The
will was admitted to probate in Oak.
] land. Cal. F. j. Bird and p. M