The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-03-15
IN YEARS GONE BY
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Randall Sage of McDermitt is i

Randall Sage of McDermitt is in
town.
Storey county's tax rate for this
year has been fixed at $4.55.
Sam Davis denies that he is to
be boxing instructor at the new
Carson athletic club.
The commissioners of Washoe
have fixed the tax levy for 1898
at 1920 on the 500 valuation. In
Reno the tax is one dollar more.
Miss Mary O'Donnell, the genial
Dun Glen school teacher, is in Win
nemucca.
It is reported that the Dun Glen
mines are soon to be opened up by
eastern parties.
The cineograph was again on ex-
hibition at the cycle academy last
night and proved an even better
attraction than the night before.
The following is the report of the
examinations of the Paradise public
school for last month: High school
course-John Case "a, Carl Brad
shaw 90, Hattie Pierce 90, George
Bradshaw 88, Earl Bradshaw 81,
Bessie Purviance 80, Lily Riley, IS,
Irwin Case 80, Frank Kemler 80,
Chas. Johnson 80.
Eighth grade-Edith Schwartz
100, Myrtle Purviance 100, Belle
Bradshaw SO, Dora Lye SO, Emma
Merchant "a, Albert Byrnes 80.
Seventh grade-Edith Burge 100,
May Pierce SO, Harry Lye 95, Julia
Hansen %, Eva Byrnes 50, Frank
Pierce 8S, Ernest Bradshaw 81, Elsie
Case 85, Walter Twist 88, Will
johnson "a: A. M. Latta, Principal.
| Primary department honor roll
Thos Bradshaw, Eli Bradshaw, Elva
Lye, Harry Hayes, May Schwartz,
Bell Freemonth, Lille Byrnes,
Frank Burge, Asberry Hughes, Rex
Pierce, Emma Schwartz, Estella
Denckla, Jarvins Read. Miss N.
Bradshaw, Teacher.
William Stock of Paradise Valley
is in town. Mr.. Stock is about the
only feeder in Paradise who still
has his beef and from the indica-
tions it looks as if he struck il
right in refusing to sell at prices
paid in the past.
An Elko cattleman who has Just
returned from the east says that in
the Kansas City stockyards he saw
ordinary calves selling for SIS q
head, while cows, SO poor that they
could hardly stand, brought the
same price, the purchasers being
butchers. Good steers were bring
ing from 5.45 to cents and were
extremely hard to get. All the
commissionemen stated that they
had never seen the market SO bar.
rem of all kinds of animals.
Mrs. Peter Organ came up from
Mill City yesterday.
j. M. Ugarriza Spanish joel
came in from the Quinn river las,
might.
Yesterday morning Sheriff Nc
Deid left here for Golconda in
quest of Joe Sue, the Indian who
attempt to kill him last Sunda,
night while on his way to arrest
him for drunkenness, and TO,
threatening to clean out the Indian
camp here with a ID caliber Win.
chester rife. At Golconda he could
get no clew as to the Indians where.
abouts and remained but a shor,
while, proceeding on his way te
Battle Mountain, where late yester.
day evening he received a Telegram
from Golconda stating that Joe Sue
had been captured by Constable
Temple and posse, who surrounded
an Indian camp wherein he was hid.
ing and seeing that it was impos.
sible to make his escape had given
himself up. Sheriff McDeid i'm.
mediately left for Golconda, pui
shackles on the prisoner and. ii
company with Deputy Sheriff Rose
arrived this morning with the In.
dian. When captured he had in his
possession his Winchester and !
small sack of cartridges.
The virtuous Carsonites are un
in arms against what is known as
Cheek" dancing of which the
News has this to say: "This dance,
or rather hoodlumism, consists of
touching cheeks while dancing the
waltz, or, for that matter, any other
round dance. 1t originated on the
back streets and its disciples in
some way have found their way
into respectable ball rooms in Car
son and elsewhere. In a general
way there is no objection to young
people advertising their depravity in
public, but, on the other hand, there
are a number of people who find
such an exhibition simply disgust
ing"
M. Reinhart left Saturday for
San Francisco on a business trip.
to be absent week Or ten days.
If the editor is to make a. good
paper you must tell him about
things, and don't be q bit back
ward about it. It is not improper
or forward or wrong to inform him
about your friends visiting or when
you go away on business or pleasure
trips. 1t might be of interest to
somebody. But there are people,
singular to say, who are so in
nately hoggish that they won't give
up anything. Such persons are the
severest as well as the most ieno-
rant critics of a local newspaper.
Young women are still scarce in
Idaho, and bachelors who desire to
change their conditions of single
blessedness are plentiful. As a re-
suit of this condition of affairs
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