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Newspaper
Weekly Nevada State Journal
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1884
Page
4
The Bevada State Journal records weekly notices and business hours for the rector and office operations. It notes post office hours, library or reading room times, and staffing by Evans and P within a 19th century town setting.
Saturday Daily Journal brief items from town and county cover Steamer Day, local sickness, hospital census, wood trade activity, opera house in Virginia City, Reno visits by Miss Belle Pope and Mrs. Carey, large registry, vagrancy actions, travel notes, and numerous local developments including mills, rail work, political notes, and mining yields. Local officials and residents named.
Lassen county wheat finds a market at Beno flouring mills with 75 cents per hundred to haul. Mrs L Bowers will be in town Monday for a week at Lake House room 15 from 9 to 8 for consultations. G Laffay opens a Winter Mantel Hotel restaurant building a good trade with a fine table at living rates. Grand Prize Mining Company shipped bullion totaling 20000 in September and ore remains for months. Charley Fassett named Eureka Republican candidate for Assembly with high confidence. California and Consolidated Virginia Mining Companies plan consolidation on the 15th with trustees elected and old property transferred. stock apportioned pro rata.
The largest Pacific coast camp meeting closed with about 900 attendees and 800 camped on ground. Three daily services and Bible readings fostered scriptural understanding, with 50 baptized on Monday and Tuesday and 25 returning home for baptism. About $8,000 pledged for education and missions. Closing testimonies totaled 155 in 36 minutes as plans for next autumn formed. G D B Cassiano Cal Oct 1 1884.
On the th day of November Benj F Butler the Greenback candidate for President marks his 66th birthday. The odds suggest he has heard enough of the looming election to make the occasion seem rather gloomy. Roadmaster Atherton of the V T was inspecting the road end yesterday.
Mrs N W Roff and many others are reported ill or visiting, with residents and officials arriving from California Carson and Susanville. The Reno Guard ball draws over a hundred couples. Citizenship grants and political campaigning sweep Lassen and surrounding counties as governors, editors, and merchants move through town and plan county tickets and elector selections.
District Court Judge Boardman yesterday sentenced Indian Bob to three years in the State Prison for assault to kill. The judge noted the offense was serious yet differed from a civilized case and asked for bar input before finalizing punishment. The bar pleaded for the Indian, but the sentence stood at three years. Also reported are the Republican ticket listings for Assessor Nate W. Roff and County Superintendent of Schools Dr. J A Lewis.
The Esmeralda county Republican Convention at Hawthorne praises United States Senator J P Jones as honest competent and a faithful friend of Pacific Coast people and mining interests. They resolve to support his re election to the U S Senate in the upcoming legislative session.
The October 2 issue reports beef cattle shipments from Eastern Nevada to San Francisco are at record highs for this early season. Tuesday’s tally reached sixty six car loads, with twenty two from this station, averaging nineteen cattle per car. At fifty dollars per head this yields about sixty two thousand seven hundred dollars. The Reno Jockey Club plans six days of racing from October 20 to 26, promising good horses and purses. Organizers say it will be a success and urge town support. further details will be published next week.
The Ormsby County Republicans held their convention and nominated the Crawford primary ticket with Dr. F Pierce as Co Superintendent of Schools declining the role, Judge Wright named in his stead. Delegates pledged to support John P Jones for Senator and the platform calls retrenchment reform and consolidation of Storey Ormsby Lyon and Douglas. The Tribune stresses a Republican Congress to protect industrial interests alongside Blaine and Logan with Woodburn for Representative. L J Flint arrives from Hog Canyon California with W B R Chamberlain to inspect a quartz mine. their mill started last Monday, snow at high altitude, and Flint plans to return in about a week.
Senator Marker visits town Ed Bates heads to Truckee A Bourgeois closes his candy store Tommy Freehill returns from the Comstock Prof Young arrives from Carson Mrs L Cordier visits Virginia City The Wine House stock is up for sale Lee's freight from Quincy and more activity fills Reno. Cattlemen gather harvest festival tonight and various travelers and officials pass through town amid mining, surveying, and business notes.
Commissioners finished a day of work on equalization. Stephen Connor’s real property rose from 4000 to 35000 while Steamboat Canal Co. dropped from 5000 to 2500. Other properties stayed as assessed. Bills passed before adjournment. Fred Sharon arrived from Ohio en route to the Comstock.
A written demand was served on Commissioners to include County Assessor and County Superintendent of Schools in the election proclamation to test the constitutionality of the law making the Treasurer ex officio Assessor. The Board is expected to refuse, moving the issue toward a legal ruling. Also notes a grand lodge event by A O U W in Verdi with tickets at $1.50 and music, plus a local candidate for County Recorder, John B. Williams, seeking reelection.
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