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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
3
Local brief notes list arrivals and departures. Mrs C Sage heads to Carlin, James Sloan returns from San Francisco with letters, and multiple guests stay at the Lafayette and Busch hotels. A double wedding at Mrs Choate’s on Third Street unites Jesse Bradshaw with Hattie Filey and Edward Lye with Cyrtha Bradshaw, all local Paradise Valley residents.
The Gazette Advocates using prisoners from Washoe County Jail to clean Reno streets and similar action in Winnemucca. A chain gang would address filthy streets and reduce jail numbers by employing tramps arrested for vagrancy, deterring further idle trespass.
Walter T. Cook and Miss Lottie J. Kershner were married last night at the bride’s sister Mrs. M A DeLong’s home on Second Street. Rev George King performed the ceremony in a quiet gathering of relatives and a few friends. The bride, visiting her sister, has made many friends in town during her stay. The groom recently arrived from Ogden and is a well known young business man of that city.
Governor Sadler and Attorney General Wood travel to Lincoln County to consult officials on the seventy miles of railroad grade contested by Senator Clark and the Oregon Short Line. Taxed at about 70,000 for taxes and interest, the grade is valued at roughly 600,000 today, with both sides eager to buy, while officials seek the correct legal course before selling for fair value.
Tonapah mining notes report higher than ever assays from lower mine levels with ongoing sinking along the line. Ore quality improves as work descends, leaving stopes for future efforts. Eugene Bass wins a bet on ore value from his ledge. Assays by Gilbert show gold at 17,520 and silver at 60 cents per ounce totaling 18,080. Driver assays commonly yield 1,000 to 2,000 ounces with gold from 360 to 600. Workers ship six to seven thousand sacks of ore despite limited mining days.
Advices from Baker City Oregon indicate strong interest in building a railroad from Baker City to Burns. If completed it would create a through line from Burns to California via connections north from the Central Pacific in Nevada. The project targets a timber and mining region, promising cheap transportation to spur eastern Oregon mining development.
The Nevada State case State of Nevada v Nevada Central Railroad Co. ended Monday evening with a jury verdict for the plaintiff for 9295 64. Yesterday the defense sought time to appeal until July 1 and until July 10 to file a motion for a new trial. execution was waived during the period without bond.
The French-Glenn Live Stock Company of the Stein mountain country Oregon plans a large drainage and irrigation scheme. A canal will drain 2 000 acres of swamp land to create pasture and hay land. Water will be redirected onto sagebrush farther down the Blitzen River to raise land value. Practical certainty of cure is cited for Trib a as a remedy from Nevada.
State notes report thieves robbed three Reno saloons, stealing a sizeable sum after targeting cash registers. Carson resident William Crisler, once sheriff of Ormsby County, died in Carson yesterday. A Lander sheepman exhibited a 200 pound Rambouillet wool fleece at Austin. Counterfeit 50 cent pieces circulate in Reno from a circus group visited recently. Carson street fair drew 1400 dollars on opening day, carnival queen to be elected by state vote. Ed Robler, charged with selling whiskey to Indians, was bound over to grand jury. Robler, a California Indian, claimed rights as an Indian to sell whiskey.
Notice to the Public warns all persons not to dump garbage on lands owned by the I O O F or Masonic cemeteries. The eighty acre parcel lies along the Humboldt river north west of town, about a half mile above and a quarter mile below the bridge. Violators will be prosecuted by the authorities. Signed by CHRIS WOLF Secretary Winnemucca Lodge No 19 F A M and GEO H KENYON N G Humboldt Lodge No 16 I0OF.
Rev Father Burns will conduct daily Mass at 8 A M and a Sunday Mass at 10 30 A M with an evening service at 7 30 P M at St Paul church.
First class dental work offered by Dr. H A MacMillan with office on Bridge Street. Bridge work is a specialty and the provider states they are here to stay.
Dr W S Porter stays in Winnemucca at Lafayette hotel for a few days to perform dental work with up to date methods and equipment. Dr H B McDonald plans to visit Winnemucca for about two weeks. Lane's Medicine advertised as a gentle daily laxative from herbs costing 25 cents. DeWitt's Little Early Risers promoted to improve liver and bowels. New wrapppers from F C Robins & Co offered in wide sizes at prices from 1 to 125. Brown Bros druggists listed as seller.
Marriages published in Winnemucca Nevada on May 15 1901 include Edward C. Lye and Cyltha Bradshaw both of Paradise Valley. Jesse H. Bradshaw and Hattie Riley of Paradise. Walter T. Cook and Lottie J. Kershner, all couples proclaimed by Rev. Geo. C. King.
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