The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-02-13
Winnemucca Is Years Ago Today
From The Daily Silver State

o The Virginia G Truckee mail train az held up by a lone robber Q
o about a mile from Carson. Friday night The express-car door was .
Q smashed in, and a box containing the money to pay the January wages y
" to section hands along the road between Carson m Keno as demanded y
o of Jack Paige, Wells. Fargo & Co.'s express messenger, at the point of @
. a shotgun. 1t is customary to pay off the men on the tenth of the :"
. month, and George T. Mills, the paymaser Of the road, boarded tn I"
o train at the Carson depot with a tin box containing money to the amount "
o of OF much over $1,000 though the exact amount could no be learned .
o The train moves slowly going out of town, and 1t is evident that tn :"
o robber got aboard the train when nearing the outskirts, getting on be- .
o tween the mail and express cars. When about a mile out of town the :"
Q manded the tin box of money, which he knew to be in the a The 2
o robber then took hold of the bellcord and gave the engineer the signal .
o tt stop the train, which was done IS as possible. After securing Q
o the box the robber jumped from the train. heading for Carson. ne Y
o train was Immediately backed down to Carson and Paymaster Mills Q
Q informed the sheriff of the robbery. A posse as organized with the 2
0 intention Of tracking the robber through the snow. Messenger Paige .
o describes the mar as of ordinary height, weighing about 100 pounds Q
o He had a cap drawn down over his head in such a manner al to make "
. him unrecognzabe. The general opinion is that the robber is now I'm .
0 hiding in town. 1t is generally believed that the robbery was committed Q
o by a la familiar with the situation and rules II the road A at y
. accounts there vas n o clue to the identity of the robber. and the officers Q
o are working blndly. 1t is not probable that he will be caught =
o Close O the heels oft the Candearia meteor story comes the following
. in regard to an active volcano which burst out a few days ago near 2
Q Virginia City, as told by the Enterprise: Last Thursday a column OF =
. smoke a observed east of town, which raj supposed to be frm a =
. burning haysack. The distance from this place to the point of supposed .
o connagraton was estimated at twenyfour miles. The atmosphere was =
. unusually clear and the smoke arising from the flames assembled Ito a =
. great height. Jerome Garadell, a rancher whose place is situated 30 =
. niles east of the Comstock. says that the smoke arose from the eruption =
. of a volcano about eight mi1esn north OF his ranch. II VISITED M locai
o il after the eruption, and say that the hilklope where the eruption .
. occurred a covered with lava The country in that region is COM =
o posed principally of trachyte, Or volcanic rock, and Garadeli is confident 8
. that the smoke arose from n eruption in that vicinity, a the lava on tn :
. hilslope al too war; for him to grasp the float rock expelled. :
o A correspondent of the Carson Tribune says that the people If 81 {
. Dorado county, California, will subscribe $780, 900 toward the project OF {
. Walter Chedic to build a direct line of railroad from Carson to San $
. Francisco. :
. A snow storm prevailed nearly all day yesterday. 1t looks al though (
Q we will have all the snow W want before the weather clears up again.