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Show NEVADA NOTES. The population of the stato of Nevada Is 44,397. The Reno Gazette gives the bloody shirt a gentle wave. ' The Salt river steamer Watorloo is on the dry docks, prepratory to a cruise. , A letter from the Cerro Gordo reports mining matters In a flourishing condition at that camp. A new postofflce has been established nt Morton, Elko county, with Win. H. Gilmer as postmaster. Harry Campbell, under indictment for perjury for the past year in White Pine county, has been tried and acquitted. Virginia Enterprise: Joseph R. Ryan the newly elected superintendent ofAke Andes mine, arrived from San Francisco yelterday. Washoe county has 1827 registered voters, with Pyramid and Salt Marsh precincts pre-cincts to hear from. The total will be close onto 1990. Messrs. Tomilson and Adams, prominent promi-nent mining experts representing eastern capital, cap-ital, have been looking up mining properties In Esmeralda county. Tuscarora Times-Review: The Union mill shlppnl yesterday 18 bars of bullion, valued val-ued at 197,763.86. the product of North Belle Isle and Commonwealth. J. G. Ford of Eureka, Inst week shipped ship-ped five carloads of young mules and one car of horses to California market, all of which were raised in Eureka county. Elko Independent: There is about as much resemblance between the Reno Gazette's Ga-zette's picture of H. K. Colcord and the gentle-' man himself, as there Is batwesn the Jack of spades and the queen of the Cannibal lslrnds Nevada City Herald: "Geneial" Scott, an old resident of Columbia Hill, was brought to town today by bis wife, who will take him to the asylum. The old gentleman Is a Mexican vote-ran. He has not been right In his mind for years. The Conlidence mine in the Gillis range, Esmeralda county, Nevada, belonging to Knapp & Laws of Hawthorne, Is a very valuable val-uable property. Recent results from ore worked at the Mount Diablo mill ran 86 per cent copper and from 700 to SOOounces In silver per ton. The property paid four dividends during the summer months. Tho Territorial Enterprise thus describes de-scribes Captain James W. E. Townsend, editor ed-itor of the Homer Index, "One of the grandest souls that ever abided In the frame of man. who Is now breathing the purest air that surrounds sur-rounds the earth, eating the most delicious flsh In the waters all midst the grandest scenery ever beheld by the eyes of mortals." A special train consisting of 21 cars containing 810 head of 8 and 4-year-old steers, sold by Col. Hardesty to L. Brooks, left Wells Tuesday. The Independent says It was the largest train of cattle ever shipped from Flko county. The cattle will b3 unloaded at Wads- worth, from which place they will be driven south 40 miles south to Mason valley, where they will be fattened on alfalfa for the spring market, Silver State: Yesterday J. W. (Pete) French shipped 81 carloads ot fi cattle from this station to Jamah & Smith, San Francisco. The steers were in prime condition, as tiere is more f jed than cattle this year. Ordinarily from lf'.OOO to an.CXW head of fat cattle have been Shipped from here In a season, but this year the shipments will not exceed a few thousand head as the cattle are not In the country, Only dried carcansss and skeletons are now seen where fat steers ought to be seen on the range. Silver State: A Chinaman who is snld to be a store keeper at Battle Mountain, has been here for several days gambling. -Late Monday night, he ran across Bridge street to the sidewalk near the Palace saloon, where he fell. He was bleeding profusely from a wound in the forehead. Officer Hadluy ascertained by following the blood Btalns and tracks, that the Chinaman had bren assaulted In the rear of Centennial hall, near Chinatown, but they were unable to get a clue. Elko Independent: The Austin Reveille Re-veille Is very much mlstakon in the character of the ladies of Elko. It looks to see our candidates can-didates tor superintendent of schools "uncorking "un-corking a rial of old bourbon, and trvlng to buy a vote with a drink of whiskey." The men who penned that article writes himself down an ass of ths lowest order of inteli: gtmce. The squib might be taken for a joke were It not for the last sentence, which says: "The sooner that law Is abolished the more ladles there will be len undlBgraced." Go to, thou fool. |