Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1901-01-05

Wadsworth and several points IN
Churchill county are to be connected
with the Sunset telephone system.
Peter North, who was recently ar
rested in White Pine county on the
charge oil cattle stealing, has been
cleared.
Martin F. Hickey has been APP
pointed postmaster at Contact, Eiko
county, Nevada, vice A. V. Carpenter,
removed.
The citizens Of Tuscarora have
formed a safety committee to see that
all cases of smallpox are properly
quarantined.
A.. J.. Maestretti, District Attorney
OF Lander county. and Miss Marie
Steiner were married in Austin on
Christmas night.
First Lieutenant r. M. Brambilla,
Fourteenth Infantry, a Nevada boy,
has been appointed superintendent OF
police at Picking. China.
Not a fifth Of the mining locations
made in Lincoln county during the
past two years are legal, and trouble
is now being experienced in obtaining
patents.
The stock OF the Johnnie Gold Mine
near Stateline has been listed on the
Salt Lake Stock Exchange. The
capital stock Of the company is divided
into 300 900 shares of a par value Of
$1.O0 each.
On q motion to strike out and retax
costs in the case OF Mcmillan va. Sad
Ter the Nevada Supreme Court has
modified its former decision by strik-
ing out items for typewriting aggre-
gating. $131.50.
The railroad company has made a
rate of one fare for the round trip from
all points in Nevada for all who wish
to attend the National Livestock As
ISOLATION, which meets at Salt Lake
City on January Is.
The Supreme Court Of Nevada has
rendered q decision in the case OF the
Southern Development Company VS..
the Commissioners Of Esmeralda
county, which in effect will make the
road between Hawthorne and Bodie
a free highway.
Reno Gazette: M. G. Lake has
sold what is known as the Lake ranch,
four miles south OF Reno, to ID. Y.
Wheeler and s. Summerfield; consid-
Grafton, $45 900. The Lake ranch is a
principality in itself, and n OF the
best pieces Of property in the valley.
A special election was held in Car
son last week to determine whether
the city should issue its bonds to pur-
chase the water works. Out Of l7S
votes cast 143 were against the issu-
ance of the bonds and rs for it. Ten
votes were thrown out, being illegible.
Short courses in Agriculture and
Dairying at the Nevada State Univer-
sity will be given all desiring to enter
beginning February / and ending
March 80, 1901. For information re-
garding these courses address Joseph
f. Stubbs, President State University,
Reno.
Shortly after the opening of the
Spring semester, says the Reno Jour
nal, the short course in assaying will
commence at the State University.
This is a popular course, intended
principally for prospectors who wish
to test their samples on the ground as
they find them. No tuition fee will
be charged.
John Lee, q Wadsworth man and a
bachelor, is the originator Of an ad-
vertising scheme, which will not only
be profitable to him in q business way,
but will at the same time have a
tendency to increase the population OF
his town. He offers to give q pair OF
fine shoes to every baby born in Wads-
worth during the year 1901.
The arrival of the new President
of the Southern Pacific lines is being
awaited with interest by all the emf
ployes Of the company. Considerable
changing is expected in both motive
power and roadbed after the first of
the year, but at the present time all
improvements are at a standstill,
awaiting the sanction OF the incoming
management.