The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1912-04-17

auto for Alpine to be absent several
days.
E. S. Hartman and F. M. Wight
man attended the Reno Democratic
love feast Saturday.
A. w. LIGHTHOUSE and w. W. San
ford were among the local Democrats
who visited Reno Saturday.
Misses Cecyl Allen and Gertrude Pike,
of the public school faculty spent Sat
urday in Reno visiting friends.
County Treasurer j. w. Richards
made the trip to Reno the last of the
week to be present at the Democratic
conclave.
W. E. Berney stopped over in Fallon
the last of the week on his way to
Lakeyiew from a several month s visit
at his old home in Tennessee.
Chief Agriculturalist C. S. Knight
of the Nevada Sugar Company, left
Monday for Reno and Carson valley
points in the interest of his work.
Hon. r. l.. Douglass, who Is prom
inently mentioned as probable candi-
date for lieutenant-goyernor conferred
with the state Democrats in Reno Sat
urday.
C. E. Hammond, recent arrival
from Marietta, Iowa, filed on the Edw.
Cahill homestead two miles west OF
town Thursday, having purchased Mr..
Cahill's improvements.
N. R. Fitzpatrick, a member of the
State Democratic central committee,
journeyed to Reno Saturday and at
tended the committee meeting at that
place on the same day.
Will Rose, formerly of Globe, Ari-
zona, but now of Fallon, arrived yes
terday and is on brief visit to William
Walker. Mr.. Rose was called to Ari-
zona by news of his mothers illness.
He reached there too late. He return
ed Immediately after the funeral
Reno Gazette.
Running down wild mustangs withan
auto may be new thing, but it IS be-
ing done very successfully by Frank
Hoy in the eastern part of the county.
Mr.. Hoy speeds up the Pierce-Arrow
and circling about keeps the horses run
ming in the direction to suit his whim,
with the result that they are soon wind
ed and easy to capture.
Edw. Cahill sold his so acre tract,
lying one and one-half miles west of
town to c. E. Hammond, the deal be-
ing completed Thursday. Mr.. Hammond
is late arrival from Mariette, Iowa.
Mr.. Cahill has moved his family to
town and will shortly make business
trip to Seattle, WASH, after which he
will look about for another location in
this valley.
The Fallon band boys have in rehear-
sal rousing comedy which they intend
staging in the near future. The band
has taken in some new members In the
way of old time musicians and by the
time the summers political and other
festivities are ripe, will give a good ac-
count of themselves musically. An
nouncement of the date of the play
will be made later.
For the fiscal year 19l0-1911 the
Southern Pacific Company expended for
postage $43, DAT. The average freight
rate per ton per mile is 1.2Sl cents. On
commercial freight the average distance
hauled is 22615 miles. Using the above
figures 33, OBJ, 900 tons of freight would
have to be carried a distance of one
mile in order to earn for the company
the $43,047.
The following members were elected
Sunday as delegates to the Nevada
Sierra Baptist Convention which meets
with the Baptist church in our city from
Wednesday to Friday of this week: G..
c. Spoon, c. P. Whitney, E. Fosberg;
Mrs. L. L. Downs, Mrs j. B. Conally,
and Mrs. 7. j. Hudson were elected as
alternates. The first services of the
convention will be Wednesday evening
at 7:30.
General Manager Fred Hinze, of the
Nevada Sugar Company, left Monday
morning for Lovelock, where he is su-
perintending the work of placing 500
acres of his Big Five ranch in sugar
beets. Water conditions on the Hum
boldt are not so bad as many have fore
casted for the growing season now on,
and the late storms seem to have re-
vivified the Humboldt agriculturalists
and spurred them to seasonal exertions
for time abandoned.
Under the provisions of bill intro
duced in the United States Senate last
Friday the apex will be repealed. If
enacted, no locator in effect in the min
ing regions and would have the right
to follow any vein, lode, ledge or other
deposits outside the limits of the sur
face boundries of his claim. But even
at that it is a question whether the
proposed law would be more objection
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