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ni.s ATSO THAT. uocal Kewt nnl (tern* of a General Mature. The town is very dull anti news very scarce. Good apples ure in demand in the Elko market. There are 10 feet of snow at .Sum mit on the other side of Truckee. Most everybody in town have had their pictures taken during the past week, Lee Crum came down from Battle Mountain Saturday and returned yes terday. Miss Allie Minor arrived from Gol conda Saturday and returned yester day on No. 3. A Salvation army in Winnemucca might accomplish a great deal of good 0 hut we are not sun*. The Southern Pacific paycar passed yesterday, paying the rail mad em ployes their monthly wages. Only one week remains in which to pay your taxes. The Isaaks close at 0 o’clock next Saturday evening. The many friends of Charles Mc Bride will be bleased to learn that lie is up and around after a siege of ty phoid fever. The me'cury registered 10 degree* above zero this •nooning, Yesterday one below and on Saturday four be low, the eoldest it has been this sea son. The engine of freight train No. 7 broke down between here and (iol cond* yesterday afternoon but was soon replaced by an engine sent out from here. By the looks of the mountain tops at present we have no doubt that a snow storm as heavy us the one that has fallen on the hills will soon visit ns here below. It would lie a good thing if the boys of Nevada devoted more time in learning how to euro a living at some manly trade than they do at foot and baseball playing. The different stores in town are bo ginning to receive thi^r holiday goods and it will not be many days l>efore the show windows will appear re splendent with beautiful things. The Schubert madolin and guitar club will render some very bewitching selection* upon three mandolins, two guitars, violin ami cello at the Schu bert concert on the lltli of next month. Mason Knoll (colored), formerly of Winnemucca is a candidate for porter of the assembly at the coming session of the legislature. Mason is a silver Democrat and was an enthusiastic supporter of VV. J. Bryan at the re cent election. Thoma« J. Hildebrandt, who with his family formerly lived in Winne mucca, was arrested Saturday after noon at Carson on suspicion of being the incendiary who has made several attempts to fye the public school building of Carson. The jury in the Hartley-Foley case in the United States court at Carson came in court Saturday after being out since 3:30 Friday and reported that they were unable to agree upon a verdict and were discharged. It is understood the jury stood eight for recognising Vernon Hartley as an heir to the estate and four against it. The recent cold snap has frozen the major part of the river at this point and in consequenceover 20 peo ple of both sexes were out skating yesterday afternoon and evening. A number of new skaters, as they grace fully sat down on the iee with a thud and with faces turned heavenward, positively state that they not only saw stars but an airship resembling that one seen by “Friday” a few days ago. To all those friends and acquain tances who so kindly assisted us in using up the Silver State coal we extend our grateful thanks, knowing full well that they never will again be able to supply themselves with the luxury, unless our “devil,” whose memory has become somewhat impaired since lie got on the tele graphic peanut line, leaves the lid of our “new coal box” unlocked some of these cold nights. Foster’s Forecast. Foster’s lust bulletin gave forecasts of the storm wave to cross the conti nent from the 28th to December 2d and the next will reach the Pacific coast about the 3d, cross the west of tlje Rockies country by the close of the -4th, the great central valleys the 5th to 7th and the East tern states the 8th. The warm wave will cross the west of Rockies coun try about December 3d, great central valleys the 5th, and the Eastern states the 7th. This disturbance comes in the high temperature period, and if were not that a reversal is due about that time very high temperature would be ex pected. .Should the regular order of temper atures change a warm wave will pass eastward from the 2d to 8th of De cember and a cool wave with a bliz zard from 6th to 10th. But if the reversal comes during the first week in December the cold wave and warm wave will exactly change places. The second disturbance of Decem ber will reach the Pacific coast about the 9th, cross the west of Rockies country by the close of the 10th, the great central valleys the 11th to 13th and the Eastern states the 14th. Reno Football Game. The Nevada university football team met the second eleven of the university of California Saturday on , the gridiron at Reno. The result was ' a score of 40 to 0 in favor of Berkeley, hut this score does not indicate in any degree the sturdy game put up by the Nevada men. There is a great deal the Nevada boys don’t know about | football. The Californians were heav j ier and showed the advantage of the long and competent coaching which , they have enjoyed. But for sturdy grit and tenacity of purpose it would have been hard to excel that exhib ited by the Nevada men. The game was a most gentlemanly exhibition of ' football. There were no slugging matches and no one was hurt to amount to anything. Berkeley won , the Loss, kicked to Nevada, who lo9t the ball. Berkeley then commenced pushing the pigskin steadily toward their goal and kept it up. Ralph Bender of Carson acted as captain for the Berkeley team and did the kick ing. He missed but two goals out of eight tried. Nevada made two bril liant runs around Berkeley’s right, hut it was of no avail. About 600 people were on the ground. But for the threatening weather an immense crowd would have attended. Another Man Missinj. A nmn who arrived at Virginia City three days ago from Mason valley with a large load of hogs has myste riously disappeared, leaving his team at Godfrey’s stable,'says Saturday’s EnUrprite. As the rancher had a con siderable amount of money with him it is thought possible that he may have become the victim of foul play. The missing rancher’s name could not be learned last evening, but it is known that he came from Neagle’s | ranch, which is situated sixteen miles ' the other side of Wabusku, and it is probable that the man, gaining possession of more money than he bad probably seen for some time through the s^Ie of his employer’s hogs, skipped with it to some pros pect more inviting than the drive bark to Wabnska in the teeth of a blinding snowstorm. The missing rancher sold his porkers to John ffohm, receiving for the load. He stated about tow n that he intended to immediately return to Ncagle’s ranch. That was three days ago, but he has not yet returned for the team. --. Woman Suffrage. A Genoa correspondent of the Reno Journal says that Douglas.county has Llit* only equal suffrage league in the state, and the establishment of the work on this broad basis has been a success from its inception. Mrs. K. F Martin, wife of Senator J. H. Mar tin of Douglas, ably supported by wide awake vice presidents in each precinct, has tnnde an efficient presi dent for the past year and an officer of no mean executive ability. Equal suffrage is growing in popu larity and adherents in Douglas county, and if the women of o^her 1 counties do their work as faithfully as those of that county are doing theirs, the sixth amendment will be carried bv a large majority before the close of the coming legislature. DECEMBER WEATHER. ' | we.) Record of the Weather Bureau Coverinic a Period of Seventeen Years IT. 8. I)ept. of Aoricultue, Weather Bureau, Winnkmucca, Nev., Nov. 30, 1806, The following data is compiled from a record of observations for the month of December taken at this station during a period of seventeen years: TEMPER A TUB. Mean or normal temperature, 81 deg. The warmest month was that of 188.8, with an average of 37 deg. The coldest month was that of 1804, with an average ot 25 deg. The highest temperature was 65 deg. on the 3d, 1878. • The lowest temperBture waB 20 deg. below zero on the 24th, 1879. Average date on which first “kill ing” frost occurred iin autumn, Au gust 29th. Average date on which last “kill ing” frost occurred in spring, May 16th. PRECIPITATION (RAIN AND MELTED SNOW.) Average for the month, 1.30 inches. Average number of days with .01 inches or more, 9. The greatest monthly precipitation was 3.40 inches in 1889. The least monthly precipitation was T inches in 1877. The greatest amount of precipita tion recorded in any twenty four con secutive hours was 0.93 inches on the 21st and 22d, 1884. j ne greatest amount oi snowmii re corded in any twenty foureonseculive hours (record extending to winter of 1884-5 only) was 5.0 inches on the 90th, 1891.' CLOUDS AND WEATHER. Average number of clear days, 10. | Partly cloudy days, 11. Cloudy days, 10. WIND. The prevailing winds have been froiy the S. W. The highest velocity of the wind was 00 miles from the S. W. on the , 27th, 1891, and 24th, 1892. Frank R. Beaman, Observer, Weather Bureau. —-♦ - Prof. Stubbs on Nevada Politics. The Cleveland, Ohio, PlaindeaUr contains the following: Professor 1 Joseph Edward Stubbs, president of the Nevada state university at Reno, Nev., arrived in this city HaturdaV and is registered at the Forest City House. Prof. Stubbs was for eight years president of Baldwin university at Berea. He severed his connection ’ with that institution two years ago last August and went to accept the ‘commission with the Nevada univer sity. In speaking of the political situa tion in Nevada he said that while some people in the East are at times disposed to depreciate and ridicule politics in Nevada and its neighbor ing states they are making a serious mistake. He said that Nevada had the purest election laws of any state in the country. Of Senator John P. Jones he said that the people of Ne vada would re-elect him. “Senator Jones is one of the most logical and practical men in the country,” said Prof. Stubbs. Yesterday Prof. Stubbs went to fierea, where he spent the day with President Warner of the Baldwin uni versity. He left his homo in Reno on November 3d, after having cast his ballot, and since then has visited many of the Eastern institutions and also attended a week’s session of the Land Grant College Association in Washington. On Monday lie will leave for Nevada. -* A Remarkable Nevada Wood One of the most remarkable prod ucts of Nevada is a species of wood known us mountain mahogany,which when dry is hard as boxwood, very fine grained, red in color, and of very high specific gravity. It has been used for boxes in shafting, and, in some instances, for slides and dies in quartz batteries. It burns with a blaze as long lasting as ordinary wood hut after going through what ap pears to be a regular combustion is is found to be almost unchanged in form, being converted into a charcoal that lasts about twice us long as ordinary wood, giving out intense heat,greater than coal, all ttie time. Highest of all in Leavening I’cwcr.— latest U. S. Gov’t Report Baking Powder ABAC&f.iyi’EPK' E»EJRE THE CALDWELL LETTERS. Sam L’avis Charges That Fair Was Re sponsible for Murder. Sam Davis, the well known writer and editor of the Carson Appeal, has replied to the statements about him in the Caldwell letters of James ii. Fair, and among other things charges that Fair hired an assassin to murder Fred Smith. The Appealot Saturday has the fol lowing article touching upon this matter: The Examiner is publishing the let ters which Senator Fair wrote Jerome Caldwell. In these letters he calls his foes some pet names, such as curs, dirty dogs and scrubs. He pays his respects to the editor of the Appeal in these terms. The Appeal deems it but proper to tell the public why the senator dis liked the Appeal and thought its edi tor a dog. During the political cam paign he sent $1000 to the Appeal to purchase its silence. The Appeal was never silenced, and Fair accused the paper with receiving the money and continuing to assail him. An in vestigation revealed the fact that the man whom he had intrusted with the money and the mission had skipped to uregon. ho much lor that. lie then sent a second emissary to the Appeal who stated that if the Appeal continued to oppose his political am bitions Fair would start a paper in Carson, take all the press dispatches and run the Appeal out of town. The writer sent back word to Fair that any time he wanted a news paper controversy he would welcome him to the limited field of Carson journalism, but promised him that we would publish a full history of the Fred Smith case ami call on the grand jury of Storey county to indict him for the murder of Fred Smith. The message was returned to Fair and he concluded not to start the paper. In 1875 Fair hired a man named John Kosser to kill Fred Smith. Kos ser was a prize fighter and Smith a very small man. He broke the frontal bones of Smith’s skull in by a blow on the nose and Smith died of his injuries within the year Kosser blackmailed Fair for years because of this. Fair finally sent him on a trip to Mazatlan on some pre tense and he was thrown overboard in the night. Fair ottered Prentiss $1000 to kill Smith l>y clubbing him in the dark and pitching him down a shaft. Pren t;ss declined to commit such a cow ardly murder and Kosser was hired. The Appeal has in its possession a copy of Kosser’s statement that he was hired to do the job. The original document, in Kosser’s own handwrit ing and signed by him, can be pro duced in forty eight hours. The Ajtpeal also lias an affidavit corroborating Kosser’s statement. The affidavit is by the late Bishop Patrick Monogue of Sacramento and acknowledged before a notary. It was a knowledge of these facts that made Fair hate the Appeal and its editor. It-was the murder of poor Fred Smith that haunted Fair to his dying day and drove him to his grave, and Smith was not the only man who perished under the hand of Fair’s hired assassins. Caldwell had a position in the mint under Mai >r Dennis, and after he left the mint he was in the nursery busi ness. The Fair letters he locked in a tin Imx and confided to the care of (ieorge McLaughlin, saving he feared that he would lie robbed. They were lying in the mint for over a year in Mr. McLaughlin’s keeping, who merely took eharge of the U>x, not knowing anything oi the nature of the letters. During this time Caldwell was stopped in this city three times at night by masked men who ordered him to throw up his I hands. They searched in his pockets each time for the letters and, not finding them, let him go. They never took any money. Caldwell, fearing his life, went to California. A Big Enterprise. One of the largest undertakings in the lumber business which has been inaugurated in recent years if? now being prosecute! by the Sierra Ne vada wood and lumber company, which is owned by the Hobart estate, under the superintendency of Captain J. B. Overton of Carson. Prepara tions are going forward to clear over 55,(300 acres of virgin timl>er land near Truekee, California. This land comprises the cream, so to speak, of the Sierra Nevada wood and lumber company, a portion of which,situated on the shores of Lake Tahoe, was sold ! to the Tahoe lumber and flume com pany last season. Should the mar ; ket he active in the future, and the demand for lumber continue, it will take 25 years to dispose of the prod uct of these 55,000 acres. —• • • Mrs. E. C. Couch of Reno has been sentenced to the state prison for one year and one day and to pay a fine of $10 for selling whisky to In dians. . — —• •. It is reported that three or four of the players of the football game played at Wadsworth Thursday were seriously hurt. Thanksgiving Delicacies. y Fresh cranberries. Fresh comb honey. Fresh strained honey. Fresh cream cheese. Fresh creamery butter. Fresh ranch eggs. Fresh herrings. Fresh raisins. Fresh currants. Fresh citron, lemon and orange j peel. New dried fruits. New mince meat in glass jars. New olives in glass jars. New plum pudding in cans. Coffees and teas. The best brands. ll-23wl F. C. Robins & Co. -- The Ladies. The pleasant effect and perfect safely with which ladies may use Syrup of Figs, under all conditions, makes it their favorite remedy. To get the true and genuine article, look for the name of the California Fig Syrup Company, printed near the bottom of the package. For sale by all responsible druggists. HOWS THIS! We otter One Hundred Dollars reward loi any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O, We, the undersigned have known F. J Cheney for the last 15years, and believe him perfectly honorable in' all business transac tions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax,Wholesale Druggists,Toledo,O Welding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O, Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists, Taken in time Hood's Sarsaparilla pre | vents serious illness by keeping the blood pure and ail the organs in a healthy con dilion. Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair. ENEL* mm POWDER MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Trse from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant 40 YEARS THE STANDARD.