Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1901-09-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

IN Ionapah.
The Lyon County Assessor fixed the
Southern Pacific's main track assess
ment at $40, 900 per mile.
Matrimonial infelicity is becoming
chronic on the Comstock. There are
no less than six divorce suits under
way or in contemplation at present.
George 0leson was probably fatally
injured through falling from freight
wagon in Esmeralda county last week.
His spine was fractured and one leg
broken.
The land sales for the first two days
of this week at the State Land Office
amounted to 8, 900 acres. The land is
situated principally in Elko and Lin
coin county.
The Silver State says that Martin
Kline, the engineer on passenger
train No. 6, fell from his engine a few
miles west of Lovelock about noon
Wednesday, and was seriously injured.
Papers Of incorporation of the Ore
gon Potash Company have been filed
with the Secretary Of State. The
company is capitalized at 10000 and
the principal place OF business Is Reno.
Under orders from E. HI. Hartman,
the regular passenger trains over the
Southern Pacific will be entirely vesti-
buled within sixty days. Within the
same period fifty chair cars will be put
into service.
Judge r. r. Bigelow, who has been
very i'll in San Francisco for several
months. is much improved and will
soon be all right. The Judge has moved
with bis family from San Francisco to
Slatonis, Shasta county.
Jake Browning, a single man of 35
died at DeLamar at 5 o'clock Thurs
day morning as the result OF a large
dose OF morphine taken the previous
evening with suicidal intent. The
cause of the deed is not clear.
A water storage reservoir is 10 be
constructed with capacity to irrigate
10000 acres OF land on Madeline
Plains north of Reno. The grading of
the Nevada, California and Oregon
railroad has been completed to the
Plains.
A season OF unprecedented travel is
on with the Southern Pacific Company.
Trains bound in either direction are
invariably crowded and travellers often
experience considerable trouble in
securing comfortable seat for their
journey.
Independent: Report says that
Elko is on the verge Of one of the larg-
est marriage booms in its history.
The names OF the young men and
their fair maidens have been given us,
but we refrain from publishing them
at this time.
The Reno Journal says the Southern
Pacific offers to let the assessment
stand at s6, 750.000 on basis of $15,-
900 mile for main track and 5000
for sidings. The Central Pacific runs
through six counties in Nevada and all
of them save Lyon county have agreed
to the compromise.
General Manager Kruttschnitt of the
Southern Pacific Company, who has
Just returned from an extended inspec.
tion trip over the line from San Fran
cisco to New Orleans, has announced
that all the company's locomotives
will be equipped for the burning of oil
as expeditiously as possible.
Wells Herald, Sept. 10; H. A. Tar
bet, the millionaire Salt Lake mining
operator, and Chas. Cowan, another
millionaire copper operator from Butte
City. arrived Wednesday and went
out to Contact yesterday in company
with G. B. Wiseman. Contact is fast
attracting the attention of leading cop
per promoters OF the world.
The Reno Carson love feast seems
to be over and the old rivalry is to be
resumed with its accompanying Bit
terness and jealousy. The break
grew out of a challenge issued by the
Carsonites for relay bicycle race.
The Reno club sarcastically replied,
telling the Carsonites to "get repu-
tation" first, and the war is on.
Wild geese are said TO be making an
early appearance at Humboldt Lake.
This is looked upon by old inhabit-
ants as sign of hard winter. Should
there be bountiful harvest of pine
nuts this fall there will be no need for