The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-10-31
STATE NEWS.

The entire grain yield of the Truckee
meadows this year is estimated at 600
tons.
A turnip weighing 10 pounds, grown
in Humboldt County, is on exhibition
at Winnemucca.
Governor Sparks Of Nevada is said to
be one of a company organized to build
a large packing house in Kansas City.
Leopold Stern of Carson has been APP
pointed deputy U. S. Marshal to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of James
Holbrook.
Emigrants are exploring the lands in
Nevada that are embraced in the Ma
tional irrigation scheme. They travel
by wagon.
A suit involving mining property in
Tuscarora, between George ". Grayson
and Robert Z. Moore, is set for trial at
Elko November %.
Phillip Emery, a draughtsman in the
U. 8. Surveyor-G Generals Office at Reno,
has been appointed inspector Of Nevada
Government surveys.
Reno physicians have secured an OPP
ton on the grounds formerly occupied
by Whittaker's school and may estab-
lish o sanitarium there.
A survey is being made of the route
from Mono Lake to Tonopah, with the
object of transmitting electric power.
The distance is lis miles.
Reno has a record of thirty.three con-
victions out of thirty-fve criminal
trials in the District Court in ten
months, the sentences imposed aggregat-
ing 160 years.
Several Piutes from this vicinity have
quit the Indian school at Carson, giving
as a reason that the food served there is
not equal to the backdoor handouts on
the Comstock.-Virginia Report.
JEFF Lowry and Dick Rogers, n a
half breed and the other a full blooded
Indian, fought a knife and revolver
duel at DeLamar with the result that
Lowry may die from knife wounds.
Worlds Fair Commissioner Yering-
ton has had photographs taken of the
old log house in Genoa, the first build
ing erected in the State of Nevada, for
the exhibition at the st. Louis Fair.
The Carson and Colorado Railroad
Company will discontinue a daily
through train service to Sodaville on
November l, and passengers for Tono-
pah will be compelled to remain over
night at Hawthorne.
Tt is alleged that Cinnamon in the
various parts of the State are being as
sessed to raise a fund for the prosecu-
tion of those responsible for the death
of n of their countrymen, killed in
the Tonopah eviction.
Major Spriggs and Frank H. Norcross
have been appointed by the respective
parties in interest to adjust the DAM
ages which the Southern Pacific Com
pany shall pay to the Piute tribe ON ac-
count of the new right of way of the
railroad crossing the r~eservatson.
There has been no school in Yering-
ton this week, owing to the fact that
Prof. Brandon resigned after having a
little mix-up with the trustees. The
trustees held a meeting Thursday night
and have engaged Miss French of Reno
as principal, and school will open again
Monday.-Yerington Times.
Frank E. Golden of Carson City filed
suit Saturday in San Francisco for $4O,.
600 damages against o. A. Turner, a
promoter of Tonopah mines. He bases
his suit on alleged breach of contract
on the part of Turner, alleging that the
latter in failing to keep his promise to
sell him stock in the Tonopah Mining
Company caused him to suffer a loss Of
the amount sued for.