Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1900-08-25


at Elko on Thursday, August %.
Mrs. s. j. Edmondson Of Lovelock
died Sunday night ct San Francisco.
J. G. Wilson of EIko was last week
declared insane and committed 10 the
State Asylum.
Maurice Heitrich has been appointed
assayer Of the Government Assay
Office ct Carson.
The Indians have begun harvesting
the pine-nut crop. which 10 said to be
unusually large this year.
Carson home talent presented "The
Rival Queens" at the Opera House
there last Saturday night.
Miss Annie Larsen of Empire has
been engaged to teach the school at
Signal, Elko county, the coming term.
U. s. Marshal Emmitt has returned
to Carson from San Francisco, where
he was operated upon for appendi-
citis.
The ore yield Of the Con. Cal. & Va.
mine last week was valued at s.. 80 as
against s7,67s.55 for the week pre-
vious.
T. A. Brandon OF Reno has been
employed ~ principal OF the Genoa
school and Miss Mabel Ritchfosd as
assistant.
The Lovelock school will open Sep
tsmber . with Professor Victor Dorm
berger ~ principal, and Miss Lane
primary teacher.
Otto Williams, who has had charge
of the Starr Valley school for some
time past, has been offered . position
in the Reno school.
Prof. j. A. Brandon has been elected
to the principalship of two schools
one ct Wells and the other at Genoa.
He viii accept the latter position.
Miss Helen O'Neil, q young lady
born and raised on the Comstock,
captured the prize as the most popu-
lar young lady in q voting contest al
Butte, Montana.
Messrs. Chadbourne and Snider
have purchased something over 100
head of horses at Reno for the u. s.
cavalry service. Prices ranged from
$50 to $40 per head.
Charles Thrall, q Wadsworth boy,
has been appointed to q position in
the postal service in Honolulu and
will leave San Francisco for the island
some time this month.
Charley Stanley of Ely came in
Tuesday evening from the North.
Mr. Stanley has quite . stock Of
goods which he is peddling. He de-
parted last evening on his return tc
White Pine county. - Tuscarora
Times Review.
The G. & G. railroad reports its
earnings the last fiscal year to have
been $l53. 73l. 10: expenses, $129. 256
net earnings, $24,475. In the previous
year the earnings were $150,179; ex.
penses, $124,404; net earnings, $25,-
775.-Hawthorne Bulletin.
DR.. c. E. Wilbur, who q few years
ago practiced his profession at Ely
left Eureka, Utah, very unceremoni-
ously recently, leaving q number o.
creditors TO mourn to the tune oil
$500. So says the Salt Lake Herald
but the doctor may return and make
q satisfactory explanation later.
1. v. Button, the Paradise Valley
horse raiser, made Q sale of 100 head
of horses to w. s. johnson of Chi
cago. We understand that the price
paid was s26 per head on the ranch.
Mr.. johnson left yesterday for the
valley to get the horses and will ship
them from Winnemucca.-Silver State.
Il il estimated that wei 5000 wild
horses have been killed for the hides,
names and tails on Nevada ranges
since the act legalizing their destruc-
ton raj passed. These horses at
present price would sell for $3.50, 900,
whereas the amount received for their
hides and hair did not exceed $685.
600.
The Huntoon mine in Huntoon Val.
ley, 40 miles south Of Hawthorne, was
recently bonded for $12O. 900 and pros
pscting work began. A few days ago
q rich ledge was uncovered and the
sale will now be contaminated, but
the owners would just as SOC have
the bond lapse. A big boom will re-
snlt for the new district.
This morning in the United States
District Court E. d. Vanderlieth re-