Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1900-12-15

Inere are elRnty-uNc ihfnAs A~se
lock valley.
A contest over the District Attor-
neyship has been commenced In
Ormsby county.
The Carson News claims that the
ensus OF Ormsby county Is nearly
1000 short OF what il ough to be.
r. r. Crawford, editor of the Reno
Ledger, is mentioned az Q candidate
for Sergeant-at-Arms Of the Assem-
bly,.
The White Pine News says a land
scape photographer named Gardner
victimized q number of the people OF
Ely.
The two Indian boys who wrecked
the train at Winnemucca the other
day have been taken TO Carson and
placed in the Indian School.
The hogs that mutilsted the body oil
Mrs. L. w. Compton, who was burned
to death in Nye county some time ago,
were shot and dragged away for the
coyotes to eat at the request oil Mr..
Compton.
Elko Independent: Considerable
real estate is changing hands in Elko
and throughout the county. The pur-
chase price in every instance makes
the assessed valuation of the property
look very small.
The miners at De Lamar have draft
ed a resolution asking that the Legis-
lature pass an eight-hour law. The
resolution will be presented by the
members elected from Lincoln county
to the Legislature.
The ~fve-year-old o Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Belmain died at Wadsworth n
day last week OF diphtheria. The
school trustees were notified, and the
necessary precautions taken to prevent
the spread Of the disease.
The body of a female infant was
found in the brush on the river bank
at Reno one day last week enclosed in
q pasteboard box. 1t was removed to
the morgue and afterward buried, and
no trace of its ~parentage has been dis
covered.
Leslie Douglas has been convicted OF
stealing cattle in Churchill county and
sentenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary. Douglas ran q butcher shop in
Dayton and drew his supply of beef
cattle from the herds of Churchill
county ranchers.
The Wasboe county Grand Jury re-
ports that Reno saloons are kept open
after IL O'Clock, midnight, and calls
upon the officers of the county and
town to enforce the law in that p%artic-
ular, and compel all saloons to cease
doing business after IL o'clock.
A. P. Johnson promised the people
of Nye county that il he were elected
Assemblymsn he would treat them to
dance and turkey supper. He was
elected by thirteen votes, and, true to
his promise, gave them a big time on
Thanksgiving night.
The Carson News says that f. S.
Hendricks has applied for q pardon.
Hendricks was sent to the ~penitentiary
for life from Elko county about twelve
years ago for the brutal murder OF
Otto Hugo in Lsmoille Valley. Ken
bricks can do no harm where he is,
says the Elko Independent.
Reno Journal: The surface OF the
Truckee river is fecked with foam.
The water has taken on the tint OF
ginger ale. This condition never ex.
listed until the paper mill wal built.
When the stream lowers next season
it Is questionable II Reno's water sup
ply will not become unhealthful.
A dispatch from Victoria, B. c.,
says that Hume Yerington, who
served q number Of terms as Mayor of
Carson City, Nevada, was arrested
there on December 8, charged with
stealing a pair of field glasses from a
saloon. The glasses were traced to a
pawnshop, the proprietor of which
testified he had loaned Yerington s.
on them.
A Carson Valley mahala, according
to the Record, has a five months old
baby that weighs one and one-half
pounds. The child measures 6H
inches in length. In attending the
concert Sunday the mahala had the
baby wrapped up in q common pocket
handkerchief, and held it at ease in
one hand during the entire evening.
To- DATE tbo nIiap Dho IsI1od Will