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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1900)
t 4 BOLD BANK ROBBERY First National Bank at Winnemucca, Nevada, Looted in Broad Day Light of $22,000. The First National Bank of Winne mucca was robbed at noon on eptem ber 19th by three desperate men, who entered the front door of the building with loaded revolvers, and made all present throw up their hands. Five people were in the bank at the time, Cashier Nixon, Assistant Cashier Mo Bride, Bookkeeper Hill, Stenographer Calhoun and a horse-buyer named John son. The robbers threatened with in stant death the lirst man who made a show of resistance. (.me robber, at the point of a pistol, made the cashier open the safe and took from it $15,000 in gold. This sum, with all the gold in the office drawer, amounting to$;.(KK)or $8,000, was thrown into an ore sack. The robbers then marched the live men out through the back door of the bank tothe alley, where they hail three horses waiting. The men were kept covered with revolvers until the robbers mount ed their horses and escaped. It only took five minutes to do 1 he work. An alarm was quickly given and several shots were fired at the robbers as they sped through the town. The robbers returned the lire, but nobody wa" hit. Officers and armed citizens started at once in pursuit of the robbers, who took a course up the river. The amount taken by the robbers is supposed to be $22,000." It is thought they cannot escape. BUYING TIHBER LAND Taking Time By the Forelock in An ticipation of Future Railroad Ex tension in Modoc. The Alturas correspondent to the Cedarville Record says: "Indications for the early extension of at least two railroads into Modoc county multiply with even- week. The early extension to Klamath Falls of the branch from near Ashland, Oregon, brings the southern Oregon country nearer to that line than to Termo. Moran, one of the principal owners of the narrow gauge, was in Alturas the last of last week and stated that he was thoroughly disgusted with Termo and that the railroad was going to come on. How far. it is not known, 'out enough was said to prove the extension would be as far as Likely, at least, and thi8 coming spring, too. "Thomas Walker, head of the famous lumber syndicate of Minnesota and now head of the McCloud river railroad, has, it is understood, secured all the land of the White Horse Mill and Lumber Com pany in the west end. He has also secured all timber lands owned by pri vate individuals in that country, and the belief is practically a certainty that that railroad will be running trains into the west end of the county next fall." The Modoc Fair opens next week. It tried hard to snow in Lakeview last Sunday. The funeral of the late N. P. Ton ningsen took place in San Francisco last Thursday. The California & Oregon telegraph line is now being extended from Horse Lake to Termo. A.C. Willey has purchased 100 head of beet cattle in Modoc, paying 5bj lor dry cows and i'a) tor steers. Hobson, the kisser, is again on land. Now, don't get excited, girls ; he has no intention of coming to Lakeview. Kx-Shcriff A. J. Neilon is recovering from a severe cold, which, ten days ago, was a threatened attack of pneumonia. Town Marshal Mauley Whorton ha been seriously ill with pneumonia for ten days p.ist, but is now said to be con valescing. George YV. Mapes has purchased from J.S. Linscott. of Surprise valley, hi entire band of cattle, numbering several hundred, at $25 per head. Linscott will engage in the sheep bu-ine-s. Mrs. Alameda Brown went to Iavis Creek last Monday on the Southern. j The In-fit paying industry that could 'now be established in Lakeview would Ik' a lumK-r, wood, hay and grain deMt combined. Dick Russill is now landlord of the Grand Central Hotel at Alturas, and invites his Lake eounty friends to call on him when they visit Alturas. (ieorge Rogue, iormerlv cf Paisley, and C. II. Moley have Jis-olved part nership in the butchering busbies in Ashland, Mr. P.ogue retiring. The horses and mules driven ImIow recently by ,1. II. irider and A. L. I low el I are now on pasture in Antelojte valley, near Led Bluff. They will U Mld "at auction. The Kid Bintt News says they are god looking young ani mal. The Ashland Record announce" that ieorge W. Stephenson, the well-known horseman of Ashland, w; stricken with paralvsi at that place on the 1Mb inst. w hile conversing with a friend on the -treet. M r. Stephenson wa-f. rim-ly in the liverv business in Lakeview. r. s s ' r. s -N S s. S x s, v X V x X V Chinese Situation Nearing Crisis The general impre-ion in Washington is that the M-ruian note of the ISth instant, demanding t tie punishment of the Chinese r.-sp n-ib!e for the outrage upon the foreigners as a condition precedent to peace negotiations, has brought the Chinese trouble to an acute crii-a- Tir a the United States government is concerned. This conclusion i- based upon tiie belief, i.i olhcial circles, that the Chinese government cani.ot accept the German propo-itioa, s 1 that it is now for the Fnited States government either to w ithdraw it- ton es from China immediately or to join Germany and England, ai d perhaps some other of the allied powers, in a prolonged war with China. Attention was directed in some quarters to the fact that in the very beginning, in the note of July .v.d. .-e.-ivtar y Ilav had notitied the Chines, government that he had expected the guilty parties in connection w it h the outrages would be punished. However, this demand wa" not made a condition precedent to negotiations. Now the belief i growing that if the United States government i- h-md to a sjieedy decision a- to the German proposition, it may resort to direct negotiations with the Chine-e government, and, having sett led its score with that government, w ithdraw from China, giving notice to the allied poweis there of the arrangement in order that that arrangement should remain in full force, and be unaf fected by anv settlement that the allies may make thereafter as to Chit a. v v V V ' X V V V V V V '" ty X V V V N-V The shooting propensities of Modoi-k-ers is not confined to the sterner sex alone. The Cedarville Record reports that a Mrs. II. Jones, of Surprise valley, on the loth inst., fired a shot at Mrs. Tesserand for an alleged insult. Mrs. Jones was arrested and placed under $500 bonds. Bieber, Lassen county, is a town about one-fifth the size of Lakeview. At a meeting held there last week machinery for a creamery was ordered and plans for building sent for. The power plant will be sufficiently large to run ma chinery for 1,000 cows, and ample space will be allowed in the building to add additional machinery when required. Everything selected is up to-date in every respect. The Alturas correspondent to the Cedarville Record say.-: "It is under stood Moran stated in Reno that the railroad would conn to Van Loan's this fall, if the winter was open, and in any event to Alturas next spring." A story is going the rounds that a Baltimore man is suing his wife for a divorce because she goes through his pockets at night. A man who can't hide al! his money except what he is willing his wife should get ought to be clubbed to death. Then he ought to know that 'V) cents thus obtained by the wife in her own sweet way does her more good and makes her feel better than $..70 handed out and presented.to her in the open. The woman ought to get the decree in this case. V. CONN, THE PAISLEY MERCHANT, Complete Stock of Fall and Winter Goods.