The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-07-18
A NEWS ITEMS.

The Commercial hotel at Eiko was
recently sold to L l. Bradley and har-
~ Dunn for $4,000.
At Reno on July 10, 10000 pounds
of wool were sold to the Western
Wooden Mills for 70 cents
Wells will be driven on the Salt Lake
road below Calientes, Lincoln county,
to increase the water supply.
The Reno Chamber OF Commerce Is
exhibiting nectarines grown at Haw-
thorne, Esmeralda county.
The big cattle deal in which Cover
nor Sparks range interests were dis
posed Of has been closed.
The assessed value of Washoe county
property this year is expected 10 exceed
by one million that of last.
The Southern Pacific Company pro-
poses to reconstruct nearly the whole
roadway between Truckee and Reno.
Bids for the construction of a stone
building at the State Orphans Home,
Carson City, will be opened July "A.
Richard Kirman is authority for the
statement that he and associates viii
start a new bank in this city.-Carson
News
Three Elko stores were broken into
-
one night last week. Two burglars
were caught in the act OF robbing Win
t~ermantel's store.
Reno taxes every business carried on
in the city except practicing law. This,
the Journal says, is because a lawyer
drew the ordinance.
Charley Blue, who killed a Chinese
cook at Carson, has been bound oyer to
answer to a charge of manslaughter,
with bonds fixed at 500.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria have
again broken out in Reno. Precautions
are being taken TO prevent the spread
Of the malignant diseases.
C~alifornians have filed on 1l4,6OS
acres in the fertile Vegas Valley, III the
southern part of Lincoln county, along
the line of the Salt Lake & San Pedro
railroad.
p. L. Flanagan of Reno has sold 1OO,-
900 head of lambs and wethers to j..
A. johnson, a California buyer. This
is one Of the largest sales of sheep ever
made in this State.
The first tunnel on the new railroad
west of Osino, Exc county. has been
completed. 1t is 5000 feet long. and
the survey did not vary an inch at the
point of connection.
The ffty-mile relay bicycle race be-
tween the Reno and the Garden City
Wheelmen of San Jose, Cal, took
place in Reno Sunday, and the Nevada
riders won by over two miles.
The Nevada State Agricultural Soci.
ETY. has granted to Dolph Shane n
associates permission to carry on a Jockey
club meet at the fair grounds m
mediately after the Sacramento FAR.
It Ia said that the Government
photographic Survey has made loca-
ton for a storage reservoir on the Gar
son river in Churchill county, at a place
known as Red Hills. The plans involve
the construction of a dam 100 feet high
and 200 feet wide at the top.
w. D. Phillips and Harry Butts nave
been indicted by the Washoe Grand Ju-
ry for grand larceny. Phillips was the
Southern Pacific ticket agent in Reno,
and it is alleged that he and Butts were
implicated in the robbery OF the office
several months ago, when $l,1o0 in coin
was taken.
G. L. Lemon, who returned to Tono-
pah last week from Philadelphia, re-
ports that the necessary funds for he
construction of the railroad from
Rhodes to Tonopah have been subscrlb-
ed, and intimates that the whistle OF
the locomotive will be heard IN Iono-
pah before Christmas. Miner.
The Walker River Reservation, III
Esmeralda county, will shortly be
thrown open to entry. 1t contains S2o,-
600 ceres and IL, 300 acres will be re-
served for the Indians. There are 400
p;ntas On tho reservation, and each will
be given a farm anc $500 to start NE as
farmers. The reservation is thought 10
contain valuable mineral lane,
{ John O'Kane of Lovelock, shipped
his wool to Philadelphia to be sold. A
day or two ago he received word that
all Of the shipment had been sold Tor
high prices, and that his lambs wool
sold for 20 cents a pound. This is SO
cents a pound higher than has been
<.~,o <hio oaao0n for wool OF