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# Nevada State News California and Pennsylvania capital is to be invested in developing the oil fields in White Pine and Lincoln Counties. Joe Lenardi, a miner employed in the first level of the Pittsburg Silver Peak mine, was killed at Blair last Sunday by a cave which occurred in the level in which he was working. Jim Chesley, cashier of the San Francisco Chronicle for 27 years, died in San Francisco Saturday. Chesley resided in Carson a number of years ago, and was captain of the Carson baseball club. The White Pine News says that the Grand Jury is after District Attorney Reeves and will censure him in ite report to Judge Brown, if it does not go further and bring about his impeachment. Goldfield dance halls which have been encroaching on the respectable portion of the city and are located far into the buisness district, will have to move back into the tenderloin and off the main thoroughfare. George Lindsay has been appointed Game Warden of Eiko County, and wil receive a monthly salary of $100 and $25 per month for traveling expenses. The Independent says if enough hunting and fishing licenses are collected to pay the Warden's salary the taxpayers wil have no kick coming. Owing to the constantly growing population at Hawthorne and Lucky Boy, negotiations are under way for the conversion of the old court house at Hawthorne into a first-class hotel. The County Commissioners have decided to rent the old building and it will be thoroughly modernized so as to appeal to the most fastidious. After a spectacular chase lasting seven days and which led the officers and Indian trailers over mountain and desert, Joe Beckley, the murderer, was finally taken last Monday at Toyoc, a small station just across the Colorado river fron Needles. Beckley in a drunken rage shot down an old man at Chloride who attempted to keep him from setting fire to a house. Searchlight Bulletin. The board of commissioners are preparing to issue $50,000 worth of county bonds to pay the indebtedness of Nye County. Nye County had about $66,000 tied up in the Nye and Ormsby County bank at Tonopah, which closed its door as a result of the panic. About $16,000 of the school funds was included in this sum, and the schools at Tonopah, Rhyolite and other places have been compelled to close their terms much earlier than usual as a consequence. After being kicked by a horse, little Cecil Reed, the five-year-old daughter of Stanley Reed, a Forest Ranger of Ely, lived for seventeen hours, although her skull was crushed in and a portion of her brain had escaped. Reed had returned from a trip into the forest reserve and dismounting a short distance from his home kissed his little daughter who had run to meet him. A moment later he missed her and looking back found her lying on the ground, her head crushed.