The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-06-20
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

pect to sail for the Orient on June 81.
Hon. II. F. Bartine will deliver the
Fourth Of July address at Virginia City.
Frank Naramore, a Humboldt pioneer,
died at San Jose, Cal, early in the week.
Eugene Galland was taken into Winnie
mucca a few days ago, suffering with
spotted fever.
John Hays Hammond has resigned as
Consulting Engineer OF the Tonopah Min
ing Company.
The Elko postofhce has been increas-
ed 800 and Postmaster Jones' salary is
now 81, 600 a year.
The Reno command OF Spanish War
Veterans has been mustered in with
Charles Stoddard for Captain.
Fourteen Western Pacific Railroad sur
veyors are at Elko. They will surveys
route through Moleen canyon.
Miller & Lux shipped 1000 head of
horses a few DAYS ago. 1t took a train
of forty-one cars to transport them.
Major William NJ. Longfeld answered
the last call at Reno on June IL. He was
a prominent G. A. r. and was a Past
Commander.
A. B. Stoddard of Virginia City has
been elected for the fifteenth time Grand
Keeper Of Records and Seal OF the
Knights of Pythias.
Richard Kirman, the well-known young
banker OF western Nevada, is said to be
one OF the purchasers OF the rich La Gran
Central copper mines OF Sonora, Mexico.
The Government is calling for bids for
the construction OF the Truckee River
canal. 1t is to be constructed under the
provisions of the National Irrigation Law.
During the progress of DIR. Scott's trial
in the Justice Court at Elko last week
Attorneys Harrington and Wilson passed
the lie," came to blows and we're fined
$40 each.
I'll. E. Randall, who has served six
consecutive years as Principal OF the
Battle Mountain School has accepted a
position at the sanitarium in st. Helena,
California.
t. A. Read, n OF the oldest pioneers
OF Washoe county, died at Reno June II.
During the Civil War, when Washoe's
seat OF government was at Washoe City,
Mr.. Read was Sheriff.
Superintendent Allen, who has been in
charge OF the Carson Indian School for
four years, has been transferred to Albu-
querque, New Mexico. Calvin Asbury OF
the Western Shoshone School succeeds
him.
A represen tative OF j. l.. Butler OF To-
nopah, visited and inspected the mines
at Mountain City last week, and it is sur
missed that the founder of Tonopah will
invest in Elko county mining property.
Free Press.
w. lrelan ,ex-State Mineralogist OF Cali
%fornia. III. j. Thompson and Attorney
George w. Baker are investigating a
nickel mine, twenty miles from Lovelock.
MIR. Thompson has a bond on the mine,
which it is claimed assays 81 900 a ton.
A work train in charge OF Conductor
I'll. T. Ebert was wrecked last Saturday
evening at Herrin station on the new
line, a short distance east OF Golconda.
Engineer @. o. Weber and Fireman
0. A. Anderson we're injured, the former
seriously.
Miss Lille Richards has been elected
Queen Virginia l. to reign during the
Comstock Carnival. She received ~, 1854
votes. When one of the ballot boxes
was opened Monday night it contained
an envelope with $500 enclosed for lO,O 0
votes for Miss Richards.
The directors OF Virginia & Truckee
railroad last week elected D. o. Mills,
president; H. NJ. Yerington, vice presi-
dent and general superintendent; E. B.
ferington, secretary and general freight
and passenger agent; Bank Of California,
treasurer; A. NJ. Ardery, master of trans
portation.
Work on the new shaft OF the Inter
mountain Metal Mining Company's mine
in Winnemucca mountain is now well
under way. This is the first work ever
attempted in this county to prove a mine
at depth and will be watched with inter-
est as its success means much to the
town OF Winnemucca.-Standard