The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-07-25
a NEWS ITEMS.

Senator wills Brougher will build a
$40. 600 residence in Carson.
Grasshoppers are growing large and
fat on Lincoln county alfalfa.
An extra clerk at a salary of 5000 has
been granted the Tonopah postoffice.
The Reno Telegram lived its brief al
lotted span and is now peacefully de-
missed.
The old brick court house in Aurora
has been purchased for a general mer-
chandise store.
An army of worms is feasting IN the
corn and vegetables of the Hot Creek
section of Nye county.
Eight head of Hereford cattle have
been shipped from Halleck, Elko county,
to Governor Sparks at Reno.
The Journal says there are all kinds.
of talk regarding the building of a
street railway system i'll Reno.
The Indian harvest hands of EIko
county-Shoshone Union, No. 1-struck
last week for $3.50 a day from 81.
The Central Nevadan says: DIR. W. II
Hood has sold out his practice in Battle
Mountain and will probably locate in
Reno.
Alfalfa over six feet in height, grown
seven miles south of Reno, is exhibited
at the Chamber of Commerce of the
Riverside town.
The Comstock Carnival Committee
donated S25 to the orphans at the Car
son Home, aud a ''big eat" is being
prepared for tomorrow.
Frank Folsom has been succeeded as
engineer of the Insane Asylum at Reno
by Edward Smith, who has been in the
employ of the N. @. o. Railroad.
T. @. P~lunkett, ST.. has resigned from
the editors chair of the Tuscarora
Times-Review. His son, w. d. Plum
kett, again yields the pencil and scis-
sors.
The Indians travelling from Battle
Mountain to Austin, on the Nevada
Central Railroad, must pay. Special
rates apply on the Indian Car" run
once a week.
Fred Massie was recently caught in a
cave.in in a mine at Cananea, Mexico,
and killed. Mr.. Massie was a pioneer
of Tonopah and his little girl was the
first white child born there.
Harry Hodge has gone to Keystone,
near Cortez in Eureka county, to act as
foreman in the mines for a Salt Lake
Company, which purchased the prop
erty from E. Walti.-Austin Reveille.
The Washoe County Bank purchased
at par the 5000 worth of 5 per cent 10
year bonds authorized by Churchill
county to bear the expense of moving
the county seat from Saltwater to Fail
lon.
Wadsworth had a S., 900 fire on July
II. No insurance. The insurance COM
panies cancelled their risks in Wads-
worth when the news was given out
that the shops would be removed to
Reno.
Guy Hines, a native of West Virginia,
aged 81 years, and an honorably dis
charged Spanish War veteran, was run
down by a switch engine at Winnie
mucca a few days ago and instantly
killed.
Aurora, Esmeralda county, was one of
the famous mining camps of the West,
and those familiar with it say that it
will again become so, under good man.
agement and with modern methods
applied.
The Appeal is informed that a deal
is now pending that involves but a
trifie less than $35, 900. If something
especially good is in store for Carson
City. some Of our citizens would like to
get in ON the ground floor
The telephone line to Paradise is COM
pleted and the valley town is now in
communication with the outside world.
Mr.. Butler has received requests to
connect seventeen ranches along the
line.-Winnemucca Standard.
H. O. Cullom Jr., Special Land Agent
of the Interior Department. is investigat.
ing a case in which it is alleged that a
cattle company has illegally fenced in a
large tract Of Government land about
seventy miles north of Austin in Ian
der county.
The huge new structures of the Ne
vada Engineering Company are near
ing completion. The ponderous ma.
chinery has been mounted on the mas.
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