The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-01-16
STATE NEWS.

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Tonopah.
Reno physicians report a number of
cases of typhoid fever in that city.
Carson City is agitating carnival
and street fair for the next Fourth of
July.
Twin daughters were born to the
wife of Benjamin Rogers in Reno on
Jan. s.
Citizens of Elko have subscribed
s25, 900 for the purpose of organizing an
electric light company.
Irwin Able of Carson has been sem
fenced to six months in Jail in San
Francisco for beating his mother.
| There are more miners on the pay
rolls of the Comstock to-day than there
have been before for many months.
B. B. Bird of Ely, White Pine
County, lost a sister and brother-in-
law in the Iroquois theater fire at
Chicago.
The Carson Appeal says the case of
Miller g. Lux VS.. the Carson Valley
farmers will be in the courts for the
next five years.
Two hundred men are employed at
the soda works at Keeler and it will
take about three months longer to
gather the soda crop.
Pat Boyle of Halleck was taken to
the Elko County Hospital last week
with his throat gashed and his wind
pipe severed. He has since died.
Cattle and sheep on the ranges north
of Reno will not come in as Spring beef
and mutton. In fact, it now looks as if
some of them would not come in at all.
Douglass County is one of the choice
sections of Nevada. The farms are
prolific, the farmers well-to-do and
the climate equals that of Sunny Italy.
State Treasurer Ryan has announced
that at the expiration of his present
term he will retire from politics and
devote his time to business. ss.-Virginia
Enterprise.
Captain James Powning, we'll
known Nevada pioneer, who made and
lost fortune during the Comstock
boom, died at Grass Valley. California.
January 8.
Fire at Ely last week destroyed the
residence and contents of Mrs. BERTHE
Fox, sister of w. J. Stewart, editor of
the White Pine News. Cause, a de-
fective stovepipe.
The Tonopah Bonanza says the
1902" claim, formerly owned by Joe
Stetson and w. B. Solander was
plastered with six location notices at
midnight on January /.
Frank Francis, who was formerly
editor of the Battle Mountain Nevadan,
has launched a new paper at Ogden,
named the Ogden Examiner, OF which
paper he is editor and manager.
The theater disaster of Chicago has
evidently frightened the City Council OF
Reno, as it has investigated the Mckis-
sick opera house in that city and is
likely to condemn the structure.
The Miner states that the new mill
near Tonopah has been started up ON
run of ore from the Tamblyn brothers
lease. The entire ten stamps are drop
ping and the results are reported as be-
ing in every way satisfactory.
The Reno Observer says that the
Federal office holders in Nevada have
abandoned Senator Stewart and are
pinning their faith to George s. Nixon
of Winnemucca. who it is said, will be
in the Senatorial race this Fall.
The Tonopah Company has posted
notices requesting all of the miners. so
recently laid off. to hold themselves in
readiness to resume work Immediately.
1t is more than likely that they will be
employed in railroad construction.
r. s. Cottrell of Reno and Miss Sadie
Sweetland of Carson were married in
Mohawk Valley, Plumas County, CAL, !,
about three months ago, but for busl-
ness and personal reasons the event
was kept secret until the present time.
Assays on samples Of ore from the
new strike in the properties OF the
Glasgow and Western Exploration Com
pany out of Golconda told of the pres
ence of l3 per cent copper and SO
ounces silver, with $4.20 gold per ton.
Announcement is being made by
those who profess to know, that w. Z.
Sharon of Oakland, California, has re-
considered his intentions of running in
the race for United States Senator OF
Nevada. and is permanently out OF the
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