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Newspaper
Weekly Nevada State Journal
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1884
Page
3
Prominent Reno items show Chassey Close near readiness for business while several locals head to conferences and fairs. Mentions of Rev L Ewing, Rev G W De Le Matyr, Capt Mathewson, Dr Hogan, and Governor Kinkead accompany market, tax, and travel notes. Nevada internal revenue receipts for fiscal year ending June 30 reach 8827, with local politics, proposed ball rooms, and merchant concerns shaping daily Reno life.
The county jail is nearly depopulated. A. EK. Lamb leaves for mains in slow days. Totamy Freebill from Comstock. Brockine under the weather yesterday. Lindley and wife return from California. De Young returns from San Francisco Chronicle. Weather clerk shapes the new moon. Hall leases a large sheep band in Humboldt. 2.&O. team trips to Oneids with news. Connor orchard to yield ten bores of apples each. Bergman in charge at Sammy hospital. Utah Mining Company levies 50 cents per share assessment. Jaquish sails for Surprise Valley with merchandise. Perry heads for the Northern country. Belknap and daughter visit Carson. Elder Luke en route to Conference stops in Reno. Lindsey ships marble work to Genoa cemetery. McClymonds leaves for Illinois. Denning event at Glendale postponed by sickness. No dividend from the Kentucky mine this month. Mrs Dickinson travels to Genoa for M. E. Conference. Leon & Cushman posters at Nevada Theater. Thyes & Co add steel engravings of Blaine and Logan. Smith pleads guilty to drunkenness, jailed twenty days. Harrison transferred Reno-Virginia route, family on West Street. Merrill visits Eagle Lake for Lassen Company affairs. Alta Mining to elect full Board at today’s meeting. Sullivan refuses Telish National League presidency to stump for Blaine. Fletcher returns with sheep near Mill City. Second crop reports mixed. Miss Mott of Carson opens coal hall at Woodford. Nash fished tramps from loaded freight car. released. Summer in mountains urged. avoid care, light heart, and pipe.
Jim Burke, from Sherman, reports the Sherman mine shaft at 76 feet, where new quartz outcrops halted by fast water. He plans pumps and will begin work on the Patnam and General Scott mines joining Sherman to the south, with a 50 foot sink on Patnam already let. The General Scott is owned by Burke of Shellburn, White Pine county.
The article condemns an army of American tramps migrating from the Atlantic to the Pacific each season. It describes their presence at railroad stations tied to burglaries and petty thefts, noting their expertise and low capture rate. It explains the fall westward travel and spring return, with shifts after railroad completions.
A note warns letter writers to use proper postage or risk delays and dead letters. Then Skipped Williams escapes custody after trespassing at Pyramid Indian Reservation, eluding soldiers and vanishing into the mountains, with little likelihood of pursuit.
At a County Central Committee gathering B F Leete clashed with J F Alexander over proxies from Piergon's and Joy's. Leete recalled a spring State Central Committee meeting where a proxy from Humboldt or Churchill counties was used. A Humboldt Queen mine strike near Rye Patch reports rich ore at 125 feet, touted as Sacramento District's most important find, with extent yet unknown.
Thomas Cumings, brother-in-law of Mike Logan, was thrown from a small bridge by a horse at Pleas ant Valley Monday and fell on his head and shoulders, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. Doctors say recovery is impossible. Officer Tester transported three burglars from Truckee to Nevada City for trial for the Van Logan store burglary, with likely trip to San Quentin.
The Virginia Footlight reports on strong authority that Hon. Wan. Woodburn will be the Republican State Convention's choice for Congressman and is expected to secure the nomination unanimously. Rev. G. W. James and family arrived in Reno traveling from Tuscarora in a private conveyance, planning to proceed to Genoa. George Becker and family left for Pyramid Lake for ten days of sport with a full camping outfit. Congressman Cassidy passed through Reno en route to a speaking engagement at Dutch Flat.
A Nevada roundup from Prem Frideys Deity Journal notes local finance (Alta stock up fifty cents), visits by Mrs. Fulmer and Mrs. Pine, and a cold mountain night. It covers church and school events, a dam project at Silver Star, jockey club plans, a prohibition topic, Republican delegates, and a stream of local notices about trains, parishes, and reform efforts.
A concise update from Bernice in Churchill County describes its location on the Glen Alpine range, the tri weekly mail stage to Lovelock, and a growing mining camp with the Golden Crown mill shipping bullion. It details ore yields from Wild Goose, Silver Ridge, Oregon, Utah, Great Western, Alta, and Lime Ridge, plus antimony deposits, ore values per ton, and the district’s potential to attract capital and expand with a ten stamp mill. The note ends with a sign off from Agax.
The article lists named delegates and alternates for the Republican County Convention from Reno including Es D Roles and many others. It notes Wasco county in Oregon faces a fatal blackleg outbreak affecting cattle, with spread feared and Wasco joining Grant near Humboldt. It also reports P Noble and O North moving a 4,000 head cattle herd from Idaho to Clover Valley Humboldt County after purchasing Clover Valley ranch from Evans Brothers Reno.
The Nevada State Board of Education authorizes Swinton's series of readers for public schools from Sept 1, 1884, for four years. It sets exchange and retail prices via San Francisco and New York publishers, with bond posted by Ivison Blakeman Taylor & Co. and a reporting line for deviations.
James Brennan, 33, a former Comstock County Recorder native of Bangor Maine, died at his Gold Hill home after being accidentally shot in a Carson saloon during the circus night incident. Curley Hogan surrendered in Washoe Valley and posted $1000 bond, claiming his pistol discharged on impact as it fell. Authorities pursue further proceedings.
The Washoe Mill and Lumber Company receives costly new equipment for its planing mill and box factory below town. The heaviest machine, a large unit for making doors and window sashes, signals a broader expansion to produce doors, sashes, blinds, boxes and turning work, expected to employ several workers once installed.
An aspirant for political honors paused during a country election tour to press for votes, only to face a blunt, personal inquiry from a voter about crop, wife, and baby. The episode ends with the candidate exiting, while local rail traffic at the depot hints at improving business as trains resume hauling wood and lumber to Oneida. Dr Bergman returns from Red Rock after a professional visit.
Reports from Reno cover a lively week with Welch and his comedy company drawing crowds at the new hotel. Jim Gregory buys the old freight house for four hundred dollars. Adventists announce camp meetings from August 27 to September 8 marking Nevada’s first such gathering. The V and T railroad offers half price passenger rates along its line.
The Comstock mines show gross value 670657 with total costs 684528 90 for the quarter. Yellow Jacket produced bullion valued 208311 16 at cost 245290 27. Hale Norcross 15205 64 at 11928 73. Potosi 58233 03 at 56903 03. Ophir 22030 39 at 22041 76. Crown Point 143466 11 at 137840 55. Belcher 104819 37 at 100756 07. Net-process tax 4040 87. Ore values per ton listed for Belcher, Crown Point, Kentuck, Yellow Jacket, Potosi, Hale Norcross, Ophir.
James Redpath tells the Tribune that Irish defections from the Democratic party this fall will be unparalleled in American Irish history. Disaffection runs deep as Irish will vote Democrat in protest of a candidate not seen as a friend to workers. Nationalists resent Cleveland over Devoy and favor a separate Irish nation and civilized warfare against England, while opposing his pardon. Blaine is favored to win largely via Irish American votes.
The tarpayers of Washoe county favor good government and call on Republicans to choose intelligent and economical county administration. They urge selecting delegates who are representative business men and taxpayers for the County Convention.
The Legislature election should select men of proven fitness to enact retrenchment and reform. Citizens are urged to vote for capable, safe candidates. The Democratic State Convention renominated Governor Ireland and named Barnett Gibbs for Lieutenant Governor, with other party renominations noted in brief.
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