The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1914-03-11
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Thursday for watering the product
of his dairy.
The tax rate at Virginia City for
the next year has been set by the
county commissioners at $40. This
rate is a reduction all around of six
cents on the dollar.
According to a telegram from
Washington the following appoint
ments in Nevada were sent to the
Senate for confirmation: Postmaster,
Sparks, John p. Reynolds; Post
master, Gardnerville, r. w. Gale.
The sheep shearing season for Ne
yada will open at Jungo on March
ID, where 10000 head of sheep are
in the Austin corrals. The sheep
throughout Nevada are coming out
of the winter with clean, heavy
fieeces.
President Wilson Tuesday gave
his approval to the proposal to give
irrigators on government projects
20 years instead of ten to repay the
government for their water rights.
embodied in bills now pending In
Congress.
The redlight district of Winnie
mueca will go dry" on April 1st,
the board of commissioners havin =
made an order that no new liquor l.
eenses be issued to the keepers of
houses of ill-fame and saloons in the
present tenderloin.
Senator F. G. Newlands of Me-
vada introduced a bill providing for
the construction of a sanitarium or
hospital for Indians of Nevada. The
bills provides that the institution is
to be located at or near Carson City
and is to cost $4,000.
Attorney-General George Thatch-
er was upheld by the state supreme
court Thursday when that tribunal
decided that the state is entitled to
ask for a revocation of orders fixing
the salaries of the receiver and at
torneys In the State Bank and Trust
matter.
The school house at Halleck was
thought TO have been built above the
high water mark. but such was not
the case, for the rise of the Hum
boldt river several days ago forced
the teacher TO send the children
home. The school house continues
TO occupy partially submerged
island.
At cost of $500 the Nevada
school of mines in Reno has ordeed
seismograph for the recording of
earthquake shocks. Recently there
have been numerous disturbances In
the Reno vicinity and more are ex-
pected. To record their severity and
direction is the purpose of this in
yestment
Herman Strassberger, for six
years general clerk in the office of
J. NJ. Fulton, assistant general
freight and passenger traffic mana
ger of the Southern Pacific company,
with headquarters at Reno, has been
promoted to the position of travel
ing freight and passenger agent of
the company. with headquarters at
Lakeyiew, Oregon.
Judge Taber has issued a tempor-
airy restraining order, forbidding the
sale of bonds for the Wells High
School, The last legislature passed
law providing for the issuance of
county bonds for the building of a
high school, and since then the tax
payers have been fighting against
the bond issue A petition is being
circulated to have the bill submitted
to the people at the next election.
Humboldt Star: In the state of
Nevada there are 55,13S,593 acres
of land good, bad and Indifferent,
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OF this amount 29,395,141 acres are
surveyed and 25.799.452 are unsur-
veyed. Much of this land lies in
Humboldt county. No county In the
state is making such rapid progress
in settlement and 1914 will be the
greatest year in Nevada's history for
homesteaders.
Get together banquets have been
held thus far in the year at Gold
field, Winnemucca and Fellon. These
affairs have been largely attended
and productive of enthusiasm and a
better all around feeling among men
who go to make up the life OF these
communities. Unity of action Is
needed In all centers of population
and especially so when the state is