Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1900-05-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Drs. Ihoma and Gibson have been
appointed pension examining surgeons
at Reno.
Ex-Congressman Woodburn is said
to contemplate opening law office in
Butte, Montana.
The Bailey slaughter house in the
suburbs Of Reno was destroyed by. fire
April 27. Loss $1,000.
Preachers are in demand in Carson.
The Episcopal and Presbyterian flocks
are without shepherds.
Since the first of the year it is esti.
mated that about 5000 in building
improvements has been made in State
line, Lincoln county.
A postofRce is to be established at
Rowland, Elko county, Nevada, and
there will be a special service from
Gold Creek, distance of 20 miles.
Pete Millich, Carson Valley ranch
er, has skipped out leaving numerous
creditors to mourn his departure. Sem
ator Livingston mourns to the tune of
5000.
William Newton, a passenger con-
ductor on the run between Sacramento
and Wadsworth for many months past,
died of heart failure in Sacramento on
April 26.
The Wells Herald of April 27 says
that Mrs. DIR. Ascher of Cherry Creek
passed through there last week en-
route to Virginia City to undergo an
operation for appendicitis.
Dispatch For the boys who 90 to
see them but never take them any
where the Wadsworth girls have a new
name in clubbing them fireside COM
panions. II is the initiatory step in
rebellion.
Mrs. Mary Allen has brought suit in
the District Court OF Lincoln county
against the DeLamar Mining Company
for s25 900 damages for her son, mi
nor, who lost an arm through alleged
negligence Of that company.
The members Of the committee who
had the work in hand OF preparing
medals for Nevada volunteers, Of which
Allen G. Bragg was the originator,
were recently presented with silver
medals in acknowledgment OF their
services.
A. Winters, former resident OF
southern Nye county, died in Inyo
county, Cal, on January Z. Mr.. Win
ters. while on his way to Belmont in
1884 to pay his taxes, was compelled
to kill a robber at San Antonio.-Bel-
mont Courier.
A correspondent OF the Elko Free
Press says that from Sprucemont
mines, forty miles south of Wells,
carload OF ore q week is the regulation
shipment from that point. Manager
Robert Hartley assesses the average
net value OF a carload at a round 81 900.
Ernest McDeid. the son OF the sher-
iff OF Humboldt county, who shot him
self in the head at Winnemucca with
suicidal intent short time ago, died
on Wednesday Of last week from the
effects OF the wound. He was native
OF Winnemucca and aged about twenty
years.
The men who visited Reno, Carson
and Virginia City with the alleged OBJ
ject of starting q liquor dealers pro-
tective association, and collected $40
per head from majority OF saloon
proprietors in the towns mentioned as
membership fees, are pronounced bilks
by a Carson exchange.
The Lander county case of the Ota-
hite Mining Company vs. w. f. Dean
has been taken under advisement by
Judge Hawley OF Carson. The COM
pany contends that Dean in bis use OF
the water renders ii unfit for use in the
mill lower down the creek, and he is
sued to prevent such action.
John G. Taylor OF Lovelock has San
Francisco parties at that important
farming center trying to enlist their
energy and capital in the construction
OF big dam about forty miles above
Lovelock on the Humboldt river. the
water to be diverted into a natural
cachement, and then run through a
canal to Lovelock and vicinity.
Charles Zichfeld committed suicide
at Carson City last week. Zich6eld
was sent from Reno to the State peni-
tentiary for bigamy about four years
back. He was discharged about two
years ago, and has since run bakery