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Devoted to the Interests of the State of Nevada in General, and of Humboldt County and]Winnemucca in Particular. VOL. LXVI-NO. 142 WINNEMUCCA. NEVADA FRIDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBEK 15. 1905 PRICE 5 CENTS PLAYS IN LUCK Inherits Small Fortune From Wife’s Relative—Fruit Farm in Sonoma County. Through a three line advertisement ir serte! in a newspaper J. H. Cavan augh, a Mono gambler, has become ad vised of the faut that he has fallen heir to twenty acres of vaiuab e fruit land me and a half miles from Santa Rosa, •in the IV noma valley. The land Is worth at.)where from $500 to $1,000 per acre or from $10,000 to $-0 000. Mr. Cavanaugh, like many of his pro l|s fesslon, has drifted from one part of it he country to another and had aim at forgotten the existence of his wife's | uncle. 8. J. Webb, who resided for many years In Missouri and ater went to Cal Iifornla and engaged in fruit raising He was not aware that the the line* was dead until he received a return from I his answer asking for Information as to his whereabouts. Several weeks ago .Mr. Cavanaugh no ticed in a newspaper an advertisem nt I asking for any Information that w> u d j lead to the location of the whereabouts of J. H. Cavanaugh, formerly of Red ding, Cal., and announcing that Cav anaugh could learn something of b n eHt to him by applying to a given ad- I dress. This Mr. Cavanaugh d d and 1 later he received a letter from a well j known San Francisco law Arm, stat ng 1 that he was one of a number of heirs ^ to a large estate in Sonoma county. After establishing his identity the es- | tate was probated and Mr. Cavanaugh j Wednesday received the necessary doc uments which v«st in h'm the title to the twenty acres of about th emost val uable horticultural land In the world. GET YOU A PAIR OF GLASSES H. H. Hamlin, the Reno optician, is ; at the Diehl lodging house nnd w II fi any one to glasses that calls on him C< tween this and next week at this time ||i J. * Ml-tf TRAINS RUNNING TO GOLDFIELD. The Tonopah-Go dfle'd railroad c< m menced running tra'ns through to Gold Held Wednesday night, the regu ar dal y passenger leaving Tonopah for Go.dile d as soon after its arrival at 9:40 p. m. as the express can be unloaded. For the present there is n<> regu ar sch1 du e time. Owing to the Increase In trade, Hess bread reduced to two 'oaves for lie at Diehl's City Bakery. l-»-tf LICENSE REDUCED. The City Trustees of Carson have re duced the license on slot machines from $2.50 per day to $20 per month. The Car sonites wl.l now have an opportunity to a play, with small slakes. New high grade cundles—best In towi —at Diehl's. j-io tf POWER LINE NEAR COMPLETION. The Bishop Creek power line into *o nopah expects to be delivering electricity to the mines by the 1st of October. OPEN SEASON. The season for shooting ducks, quail, geese and sn^ie opened th'a morn'rg and It 1b lawful to kill them now. Duck are said to be quite plentiful up th river from Wlnnemucca. Sago hen are also p'entlful all through the hll's wher ^ ever there 1h water. Paradise Valley is ^gjrthe place for quail. The idltor of the Silver State saw more quail in the val ley during a recent visit than ho ,tw In any other part of the county, and he has traveled all of the territory. WANDERED ABOUT WITH POCKET FULL OF MONEY Information having reached the o»a cera that a seemingly demented man was wandering about the coutry near ('arson. Sheriff Kinney and Cons-ab e Grant drove out that way yesterday af ternoon and found him, says the New* lie had been picked up by Archie Maher, who met the officers and they brought him to the Sheriff's office. When his pockets were searched he was found to have $600 and papers evi dencing that his name is Frank Ltuffee and that he is from Tonopah, but re cently visited Keno, having a return ticket from that city. it was the opinion of the physician who was called in that I>uffee was suf fering from the effects of a protracted spree. A GOLCONDA BANQUET IN HONOR OF CHARLES KENT The Golconda Cattle Co. gave a ban quet to the President of the company, Charles Kent, at the Golconda hotel Wednesday evening. There were pres ent: President Kent. Vice President and General Manager W. C. Savage, Direc tor John Slbbaid. former Foreman 8. G. Lamb of Winnemucca. F. M. Lee of the First National Bank of Winnemucca; J. A. Gomes, a merchant at Go*conda and a representative of the Western Meat Co. of San Francisco. It was an elaborate game dinner the guests sat down to at 7:30 and It was nearly mid night when the banquet was over. Pres ident Kent was formerly from Ch cag > and at one time was a member of the Board of Aldermen of that city. He now lives in San Rafael and Is a man of the business world and is very popu 'ar wherever known. He was once a great Chicago politician and has kept along with the times so that he under stands the game from A to Z yet. The banquet Is an annual function of the Golconda Cattle Co. and the last one was very enjoyable. HOUSE WANTED. A furnished house with at least three bed rooms is wanted by a good tenant on November 1st. Apply at the Silver State office. *-7-lw ■■■ ——i^ — HE CAME HOME. The homing pigeon Mr. Bragg took to the Evans Willow Point ranch and turn ed loose Sunday, July 16th wa» found this morn'ng In his old home In the loft at S. J. Anderson's premises In Winne mucca. Where the bird has been for the past two months Mr. Anderson -o«« not know, but his coming home after two months "in Ihe brush" is quite re markable. The bird was very young— being less than two months old—but It shows good blood by returning home at any time. Mr. Bragg turned one loose at Willow Point station, but that one has not yet showed up. The way pigeons fly ordinarily It woud have tak en the bird about an hour to have found Its way back. WILL HE GUESTS OF MR. AND MRS. F. M. LEE. Mrs. Cora Hall and Miss Mae Cornow of Reno arrived this evening on No. 6 and will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Lee for a few days. They are en route to Italy, where they go to study music. Mrs. Hall will sing at the Mr. and Mrs. Lee reception given tomorrow evening in honor of Senator and Mrs. Nixon. Miss Cornow will ac company her on the piano. Mrs. Hail has a most wonderful voice, clear as a bell nnd particularly strong in the high er notes. Her singing at the Lee recep tion tomorrow evening will be a treat se'dom enjoyed by the people of Win ncmucca. WHAT NEW HLOOD WILL DO. Three years ago In Manila there was a street car line eight mles in lengta drawn by mules. Today there are 100 doub e track electric cars In service miles of doub'e track electric care in service and more will be added. PERSONAL MENTION OF YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS John Cull is down from Willow Point and la registered at the Wlnnemuccn. John Sibbald of Golconoa is In town today. F. J. Leonard of Hawthorne Is regis tered at the Busch. Mr. Leonard is a ralroad conductor on the old C. & C. Mrs. Ed. White left for San Francisco last night to be gone two or three weeks. Senator George S. Nixon Is expected back from Salt Lake on No. 3 this evening. On Tuesday he will leave for Tonopah W. T. (Red) Moore is back from a 60 days' visit to Kansas City. He enjoyed his eastern visit well and returns to his run between Carlin and Sparks tonight. Miss Laveaga and Miss Aldrich left last evening on No. 5 for San Francisco, on a business and pleasure trip com bined. They will be absent a week or ten days. Miss Laura Leonard is In charge of the Sanitarium during the.r absence. C. E. Haviland goes to Reno this evening to be present at the laying ot the corner stone of the Masonic temple at that place tomorrow. Mr. HavHand wl.l remain in Reno until Tuesday night and be present at the organization of the Grand Chapter of the Order of East ern 8tar on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. McColley of Wil low Creek came down with their little grandson. Howard Coulter of Reno, who has been visiting his grandparents f ;r several months. He will return to Reno this evening to his mother. Mr. and Mrs. McCo-ley will return to their norm erti home probably Sunday. AN ENGINEERING FEAT. Quicksands, through which it became necessary to sink, have been hardened by injecting hydraulic cement into the bed of sand. This has been successfully accomplished by driving pipes into the quicksand at varying distances of 4 to 8 feet and attaching a pump to each alternate pipe, leaving the remaining pipes open. When pumping began a cir culation was established between all the pipes of the series. When sufficient sand had been removed, a cement grout was pumped in for some time and tne open pipes were capped and the pump ing continued, which forced the grout into the sand. The pipes were drawn a foot or more and the operation repeated. The cement sets, causing the ground to become hard enough to be mined out. Flows of water may also be retarded in ditch work or other excavations in wet materials. This scheme can only be op erated under favorable conditions. Special sale of Bex Stationery at Diehl's in Up-to-Date building. Smoke damaged, »t lfa. 8-lK-tf NEW SUITINGS. Following J. P. Grandel from San Francisco is a fine stock of men's su't ings. Mr. Grandel was unpacking the goods this morning. The line is very complete and some beautiful patterns are shown. Any one needing a suit can get it In any style they want. We have four dinner sets left. They will be sold very cheap at The People’? Store. 9-7-lw OPERATION SUCCESSFUL. F. N. Muller, who is at the German hospital In San Francisco, sent a postal card this morning written by himself that the operation performed was suc cessful and that he was getting along well, but yet very sore. Try a pair of those Gent'a Comfort Shoes If your feet hurt you—at the Peo ple’s Store. 9-7-lw THE NEWSPAPER MAIL. Papers from the western part of the State miss tire every few days. Some times It Is one, again another. The Reno Gazette has failed to come on time three times already this week. — Silver Stats ads pay. I VIRGINIA AND TRUCKEE WILL MAKE CONNECTIONS Order Is coming out of the change occasioned by the Hasen cut-off and in a few days the V. & T. express w..l ■ make regular connection with the even i .ng train between Mound House and Churchill. The train at Mound House will wait ten minutes longer or until 10 o'clock and the V. & T. will hurry the transfer of baggage and express at Reno, and will leave that point fifteen minutes earlier than at present. An effort will also be made by the N. & C. to cover the twenty-six miles from Churchill to Mound House In the even ing in better time than an hour and a half. When the schedule goes into ef fect the express train will arrive an hour earlier than at present. AN ORPHAN DIS COVERS HER MOTHER Goldfield has a romance that is seldom equaled in the chronicles of human in terest stories. The Tonopah Sun aaya: The mother of a litt e girl strays into paths of waywardness and fails to re turn home. The child is brought to be lieve that her mother is dead. Seventeen years pass and the girl, now full grown, finds herself in a mining camp in the fai west, disappointed in love and with a heart yearning for excitement. She attires herself in man's clothing ani goes down to a dance hall to vary the monotony of life with a disguise in a forbidden quarter. There she meets and pays jesting court to a woman and dis covers that the woman is her mother. ! A pathetic scene follows in which the daughter pleads for a mother's 'ove, asking her to marry the man who has led her astray and to give up the life of e the under-world. What an opportunity for a grand finale —a marriage, reunited love of a mother and a daughter, a little home far from the region of red lights and wickedness, peace and happiness. DIED ON THE TRAIN. Raymond Randolph, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Randolph died yesterday morning on the train while being brought to Reno for treat ment. The child had been 111 for soup days and its condition became so serious that the parents decided to take it ta Keno to give it the proper medical at tention. Mr. Randolph was formerly a resident of Oakland and is now in the employ ot the Southern Pacific as an engineer out of Mina, the new division point. THE WATCH WAS ON HIM. • Sheriff Lamb has been working on a case of theft that occurred In Winne mucca two or three weeks ago. Dorothy Davenport, a woman of the night, lost several articles of jewelry from her rooms in the midnight quarter, and among them a watch. Ed. Spencer, a piano player in the house where she was stopping, was suspected of the then, and yesterday he left Winnemucca for Reno. Sheriff Lamb wired Constable Wil son of Reno to look out for him and this morning the Sheriff received a wire from the Reno Constable that Spenoer had been arrested and the missing watch found on his person. Mr. Lamb went to Reno this morning and will return to morrow morning with his prisoner, who has been charged with grand larceny. QUITE ILL. Surveyor General E. D. Kelley is re ported as quite ill at his home at Car son. FURNISHED ROOM. Two furnished rooms for light house keeping. Address X, care Silver State. 9-15-1w MORE EAGLES. An Aerie of Eagles was organised in Carlin the other evening. The order Is j growing and becoming very popular. THE TRAINS. No. 3 this evening ia reported on time, but No. 9 is reported due at 7:35. M OF WOMAN FOUND Remains Discovered on Side of Mount Brougher—Indica tions of Horrible Crime. t-aris or me r.orriDiy mutilated remains of a woman were found by A. A.. Bass Monday afternoon on the west side of Mount Brougher at the foot of the mountain, says the Tonopah Sun. The head and arms of the body were miss ing and have not been found. For some unaccountable reason the officers have kept the find a secret,, although. Mr. Bass at once reported his discovery. So far the officers have not succeeded in finding out the identity of the corpse and the affair is a complete mystery. A rude attempt at burial of the re mains had been made. A shallow de pression had been scooped in the earth and the corpse, minus the head and arms, placed in the depression and cov ered with a few inches of earth. In passing, Mr. Bass, through curiosity, scraped away the shallow covering and the ghastly contents of the hastily dug grave were revealed. . The spot at which the corpse was found is a lonely one, although but a short way outside the city limits. It is off the roads of travsl and in a place not likely to have been visited. The condition of the remains when discov ered indicated that they had been placed where found at a recent date. So far as learned there has been no woman re ported as missing in this city. Several theories have been offered in regard to the finding of the remains, but as yet no facts have been unearthed that would furnish grounds for a plaus b e explanation, or at least if the officers know aught of the affair they are main taining a silence strange and unusual. NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS. Commencing July 24th and until fur ther notice, water will be shut off from all mains from 10 p. m. until 6 a. m., xr d from Second, Third aac Frui t* streets fro m!2 noon until < p in. W. Li. AKIN. 7-24-tf Supt. W. W A B Co. STATE LIBRARY SITE. The State Board of Capitol Commis sioners, at their meeting held a day or two ago, definitely determined upon the east side of the State house as the p ace for erecting the new State Lmrary building. This is the most selcuded place they could find. Ostrich and turkey feather dusters. Throw away the dust rag and buy a duster, at The People's Store. 9-7-lw MEN LAID OFF. The V. & T. has laid off nine men in all on account of the changes resulting from the completion of the Hazen cut off and through trains to Tonopah over the Southern Pacific. Medium weight underwear that you can wear well up into the Fall; $1.50 per suit, at The People's Store. 9-7-lw HARR/Y BROWN VERY ILL. H. P. Brown, one of the oldest police officers of western Nevada, is in a uying condition at his home in Reno. He has been in falling health for severar months, but his end has been hastened by an injury received several weeks ago when he was kicked in the face by a drunken scoundrel whom he had placed under arrest for disorderly conduct. The man’s heel struck him full in ths face ts he was assisting him to arise, and ever since he has been confined to his bed. Several months ago Mr. Brown was added to the police force and given a residence beat.