The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-03-15
TEN YEARS AGO

The criminal term of the district
court convened at 10 o'clock this
morning with Hon. E. A. Quicker
presiding judge; ]. w. Davey, clerk;
u. A. Callahan, prosecuting at
torney, Sheriff s. G.. Lamb, baliff.
Mrs. A. R. Shewalter was sworn
in as temporary reporter.
The roll Of the jury panel was
called when it was found that sew
eral had not been served and the
court then gave an opportunity to
those who had excuses to present
them. Chris Diehl. ST., claimed
the age exemption and was excused
for the term. L. D. Brady, Julian
Liotard, w. C. Pitt, S. R. Thornton,
C. A. Van Zandt, D. F. Abel, A.
Seeliger, A. L. Bachrodt and T. D.
Brown were excused for time
ranging from the 18th to the full
term.
Senator Heffernan's bill amend
ing the anti-gambling law by per-
hitting draw poker and keno to
be played and to allow a Paris
mutual to be conducted on horse
races when the percentage does not
exceed 2h per cent, was taken up
on special order yesterday and
passed by a vote of IL to 10.
Senator Tannahill moved to amend
it by eliminating stud poker and
Senator Bell moved to amend by
making the law prohibit percentage
nokor and tho anau Ivnouk nu--:~L
Senator Heffernan explained the
bill by saying it would make draw
proker and Paris mutual legal.
F. B. Stewart of the State Engi-
neer's Office came in yesterday from
Paradise Valley and will leave to-
night for Carson City. For the
past year Mr.. Stawart has been
gathering data and making maps Of
water rights on the Little Humboldt
and its tributaries. This will now
be turned in to State Engineer
Kearney, who will at once take up
the matter of adjudication.
Shearing began at Jungo the first
OF the week and will be continued
for several weeks to come. Today
G.. w. Callahan, Koshland's repre-
sentative, and w. C. Donald, buyer
for Eisemann Bros, arrived in town
and will take q run out to Junpo
to look over the clips, with q view
to buying, although it is probable
that the wool will not begin to
move before next month. At the
present time the market is said to
be in an unsettled condition which
will. no doubt continue until the
wool tariff has been settled by the
coming session of congress.
j. j. Williams came in from Sum-
shine last evening accompanied BY
W. s. O'Brien, ''father of the
camp" The vein on the Silver Boy
has been cut for a distance of four
and a half feet, with no sign of the
footwall. The. middle Of the weeh
when the vein had been cut for 3
distance of three feet, samples were
brought in to the Winnemucca as.
say office. Last evening Assaye,
Hubbard issued a certificate show.
ing values Of $62.46 silver and 50
gold. These samples were taken
across the entire three feet, The
loot and half that has since been
cut shows much richer looking ore,
which will be assayed the first of
the week. Charles Olmstead, prin-
cipal owner of the Silver Bow,
states that mill will be placed on
the property in the near future.
Yesterday Frank Krenkel and
Vic Giroux visited Sunshine .nd
were SO favorably impressed with
what they saw that they purchased
from w. S. O'Brien an interest in
one OF his gold properties. Mi
hrenkel states that he picked up a
piece OF rock and panned it, getting
string OF colors four inches long
The warm weather of the first of
the week brought out the hoboes in
swarms. Wednesday there were so
OF the gentry scattered about the
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