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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE January 8, 1899

THE SENATORIAL FIGHT IN NEVADA.

Newlands and Stewart Are Arrayed Against Each Other -- Plug-Uglies Imported as Workers.

RENO, January 6. -- The nineteenth session of the Nevada Legislature is set to commence on the 16th-a week from next Monday-and as the time approaches public interest intensifies, the more especially from the fact that no third candidate in the fight has yet been definitely agreed upon or announced. Cleveland, Leete, Z. Pierce, Colonel Maxon, Judge Cheney and T. B. Rickey are in the field or spoken of, and William McMillan would be a leading proposition were he not handicapped by his contest for the Governorship.

The chief gladiators are already encamped on the Carson battlefield, Stewart's headquarters being at the Ormsby House and Newlands' at the Arlington, and each is busily studying and figuring out the problem with enough henchmen around to assist and keep them company. Stewart says Newlands is a political acrobat and has no moral or political right to throw aside his Congressional success and try to rob him of the fruits of his Senatorial battle that he wants too much and shan't have it. Newlands looks smiling. but exceedingly confident and resolute.

And now the Carson News, Republican, sounds a note of alarm to the effect that Colonel Jack Chinn, a noted political warrior from Kentucky, and Dave Nagle, who killed Judge Terry, have been summoned to lobby the Legislature for Stewart, and nobody knows but what Buffalo Bill and Black Bart may appear in behalf of Newlands. The formation of a vigilance committee is recommended to keep or drive out all such turbulent lobbyists and enforce home rule and the purity of elections law in its strictest literal sense.

But Governor Sadler has been sworn in and smiles confidently as he refers to the famous Fitz-Corbett fight of nearly two years ago, when all the noted roughs of the country came to Carson.

"We handled and regulated them all without any trouble," says Sadler, "and the same Governor and same Sheriff are here yet. Moreover, we have the same big fighting arena, and if the State House isn't big enough for the Senatorial fight they can fight it out in the arena."

It is stated that McMillan has engaged counsel and will proceed to contest Sadler's election as Governor as soon as practicable.

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Charles M. Sain, publisher of the Lovelock Tribune, is said to have been selected to conduct the Silver Knight Watchman since the retirement of Senator Stewart as publisher.

Dan Stuart, who promoted the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, is a physical wreck. He is a victim of Bright's disease, before he lost his health he weighed 280 pounds since then he has lost eighty pounds.

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VIRGINIA CHRONICLE January 6, 1899

RISDON HYDRAULIC PLANT.

First Carload of Material for Its Installment Delivered.

The first carload of material for the installment of the Risdon hydraulic water lifting plant on the Sutro tunnel level of the Consolidated California & Virginia mine was delivered here by the V.&T. local train last evening. The consignment includes 29 lengths of steel tubing, averaging about 21 1/2 feet each in length and representing a total length of 623 feet.

The tubes or columns are constructed of steel an inch and three-quarters in thickness. The ends of each joint or column are fitted with iron collars four inches thick grooved and flanged to fit snugly when bolted together. The tubes have an inside diameter of about twelve inches, each length or column weighing about 1,400 pounds, which will convey an ides of their massiveness and ability to withstand any hydraulic pressure desired. The tubing was manufactured at Middletown, Pennsylvania, by the American Tubing Company and was shipped from there December 19, having been eighteen days on the road.

The part of the plant manufactured by the Risdon Iron Works company is daily expected here when its immediate installment on the Sutro tunnel level of the C.&C. shaft will begin where the preparations for its reception are completed.

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VIRGINIA CHRONICLE January 6, 1899

Yellow Jacket Stock Dividend.

Many years have elapsed since the Yellow Jacket Mining Company of Gold Hill, Nev., paid a dividend, but one has just been declared by the directors. The present dividend, however, is not in coin, but consists of a distribution of the stock accumulated in the company's treasury for non-payment of assessments by stockholders who forfeited their shares. The dividend is at the rate of 35 shares for each 100 shares of stock now outstanding, and it will be paid on and after January 12.-S. F. Report.

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John W. Mackay an Invalid.

The arrival of the new year was not attended with the pleasant experiences that John W. Mackay had looked for. Since his return several weeks ago from Arizona, the millionaire mining man has been a very sick man at the Palace. His troubles are mainly due to a severe attack of the gout, which has caused him many hours of pain and a great deal of anxiety to his friends. A few days ago he improved somewhat, but this morning he was reported to be much worse, and, as a result, he has refused to see any one at his appartments except his most intimate friends. -- S. F. Post.

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE December 28, 1898

SADLER MAY LOSE HIS JOB.

VOTES THROWN OUT IN EUREKA COUNTY

HAS ALREADY RECEIVED HIS CERTIFICATE AS GOVERNOR OF NEVADA.

Says the Same Irregularities Exist in Other Districts, and Threatens in Event of a Contest to Call an Election.

Special Dispatch to the "Chronicle."

RENO (Nev.), December 26. -- The Gubernatorial contest now eclipses the Senatorial in the estimation of the people of Nevada. Last Monday the State Board of Canvassers at Carson canvassed the returns from the recent state election. They were found to tally all right with the official returns already published in the newspapers, showing Reinhold Sadler to be elected Governor by a plurality of 22 votes over William McMillan. Certificates of election were accordingly issued to Sadler and all other state officers-elect, and a proclamation to that effect has been published.

Since then confirmed news comes from Eureka that District Judge Fitzgerald has thrown out 171 ballots in that county as being lilegal in a contest between Gregovich and Powell for the office of County Assessor. The ballots thus discarded stand about 2 to 1 in favor of Sadler as against McMillan, apparently making the latter Governor in place of Sadler by a plurality of over 30 votes.

Quo warranto proceedings will be instituted and the case laid before the Supreme Court for decision.

Meanwhile Sadler stands the regularly elected and accredited Governor, and will so remain unless some one else can prove a better right to the coveted position. He says the same ground of illegality exists in other counties, and if it is held good in this case he will abrogate the whole thing and call a new state election.

There is nothing new in the Senatorial contest. Stewart boldly declares that he has a sure thing on being elected, but the friends of Newlands express an equally positive conviction to the contrary. Both gentlemen are Silver party candidates, and that party is in a minority of one on joint ballot, which stands 22 Silver, 14 Republicans, 4 Democrats and 5 independents; total 45. Stewart will get neither Republicans nor Democrats, and as it looks now he and Newlands will have the field pretty much to themselves, and the "longest pole knocks the persimmon."

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VIRGINIA CHRONICLE January 9, 1899

EXEMPT FIREMEN'S ELECTION

Result and Roster of Present Members of the Association.

The annual meeting of members of the Exempt Firemen's Association was held at their hall on North C yesterday and the following officers were elected: President. G. I. Lammon; Vice President, C. M. Brown; Treasurer, Wm. Pennison; Secretary, F. D. Plunkett.

The usual festivities including a banquet and address heretofore supplementary to the annual election of the association were omitted, death having been busy in thinning the ranks during the past year which have been reduced from a membership of 150, when the Association was organized in 1876, down to only 18 at the present date. During last month the membership was reduced by the deaths of Captain Armbrust, B. L. Higbee and Spiro Vucovich.

Following is the roster of the Association as it stands today: C. M. Brown, Tom Buckner, C. C. Bowman, F. Fredericks, Tom Gracey, I. Goodfriend, L. B. Hastings, Joe Josephs, S. L. Jones, T. Kelly, G. I. Lammon, Wm. Pennison, Fred D. Plunkett, H. Rosenbroek, J. W. Shields, L. P. Wardle, Wm. Woodburn, Chas. Zeigler, Sr.

DAILY EVENING REPORT VIRGINIA CITY, NEVADA. WEDNESDAY...JANUARY 11. 1899

INTERESTING FIGURES.

Some Data Concerning the Temperature of Stations in the C. and C. Shaft.

Since Mr. Gilbert McM. Ross assumed charge of the preparations for the installation of the pumping plant at the C. and C. shaft some valuable data have been collected with reference to the temperature of that shaft from the collar to the 1750 level. Every afternoon about 8 o'clock the foreman records the temperatare of the 1750, 1500, 1000, 500 and 300 levels and at the surface and embodies that record in his daily report. The result is a most interesting table of temperatures, well worthy of perusal and comparison.

The Report is not prepared to give in this article the tabulated statemement [statement] of those temperatures, but some figures will be quoted to indicate what may be gleaned from the completed tables.

For instance, on the 9th of December the temperature on the 500 level was at 32 degress Fahrenheit. The temperature was exactly the same at the 300 level and only a few degrees colder at the surface, and a thin sheet of ice extended from the collar of the shaft to the 500 level on that date. This was the case also on the 10th and 11th of the same month, and Mr. Ross says that it is a condition by no means uncommon in that shaft.

The temperature throughout the rest of the shaft on these dates indicated close uniformity. As before remarked the records show a register of 32 degrees on the 300 and 500 levels on each of those dates. On the 300 level the thermometer stood at 37 degrees above zero on the 9th and 10th and at 88 on the 11th. On the 1500 level the temperature on the 9th and 11th was at 47 and on the 10th at 49. On the 1750 the recorded degree of temperature on the 9th was at 44, on the 10th at 43, and on the 11th at 42. The most rigid precision could hardly exact more uniformity from any personage so erratic as Dame Nature.

It will be observed that while the temperature gradually increases from the surface to the 1500 station, that on the dates mentioned it was from four to six degrees colder on the 1750 level than on the 1500. This condition prevails throughout the year and is doubtless due to the fact that the 1500 station is in a more sheltered location than the 1750.

The most noteworthy fact in connection with the table is the comparatively slight change in temperature encountered in going from the surface to the 1750. The most pronounced change in the month of December was on the 29th, when the temperature rose from 32 on the surface to 49 on the 1750, a difference of only 17 degrees. On the 28th, the day previous, there was no difference whatever between the surface temperature and that of the 1750, the thermometer registering 50 degrees for each. The records for this day given in detail are; Surface 50 degrees, 300 level 41 degrees, 500 level 41 degrees, 1000 level 42 degrees, 1550 level 52 degrees, 1750 level 50 degrees.

On the day previous to the 28th the temperature of the surface and 1750 level varied but one degree, standing at 49 degrees on the surface and 50 degrees on the 1750.

This extraordinary coolness of temperature at such a great depth is due of course to the fact that the C.&C. is a downcast shaft; in other words, one is which the trend of the air current is downward. In an upcast shaft the temperature at the 1450 level would probably range from 100 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit; certainly not below the former figure. Of course the value of this circumstance taken in connection with the proposed drainage of the Con. Virginia mine through the C.&C. shaft cannot fail to impress itself upon even the most casual observer.

RENO LEDGER January 26, 1900

The political pot has commenced to boil. The names of D. C. Wheeler, Oscar J. Smith and Bob Parry are mentioned as good candidates for the State Senatorship on the Republican ticket. It is reported that Frank Norcross will not decline the Republican nomination for District Attorney. Nick Hummel of Wadsworth is spoken of as good Republican timber for the Assembly. Seymour Bryant and Walter Hastings are talked of by Republicans as good men for the Sheriff's office. Rufus Kinney, Wm. Westerfield and Dr. Gibson are mentioned as good men for the State Senatorship on a fusion ticket. This is the talk our reporter hears and we publish it for what it is worth.

CONVENTION DATES.

The Republicans will meet in Philadelphia June 19th, the Populists in Sioux Falls, S. D., May 5th, the Middle of the Road Populists in Cincinnatti on the same day, the Prohibitionists in Chicago June 27th and the Democrats in Kansas City, July 4th. [1900]