The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-09-17
STATE NEWS.

The Elko High School starts of this
rear with 66 young men aud women in
attendance. This is about 20 more than
entered at the beginning Of last year.
Several haystacks and a barn, valued
at about 5000. were destroyed by fire
at the Flanagan ranch at Constantine,
six miles from Doyle, on the N. q. y.
road, last week.
Doc Reinhart and Emma Robinson.
who are charged with the murder of
Dennis Maher at Reno, have been held
to await the action of the Washoe
County Grand Jury.
G. p. Porter, claiming to represent
the Union Mutual Insurance Company
of Denver, Col, has been arrested In
Reno on a charge of obtaining money
under false p~retenses.
Charles B. Henderson, the present
District Attorney of Exc County, an
nounces himself as q candidate for the
Assembly before the Democratic Con-
vention of that county.
Mrs. Q. Strump of Fallon. Churchill
County, committed suicide last week
by swallowing carbolic acid. Sickness
and domestic troubles are supposed to
have caused the rash act.
The owners of the Bowes aud Ker-
nick lease al Goldfeld have notified the
men employed by them of IN increase
in wages, aud the men working in the
shaft will now receive s. per day.
An S0-horse power combined harvest
$500 $l-oCh,py tnonhtnn hos haop 70.
ceived at the Big Five ranch ear Love-
lock, Humboldt County. The machine
weighs 81 tons and has a capacity of so
acres a day in average grain.
The bee owners of Nevada met at
Hazen, Churchill County, last week and
organized a State Association. The pur-
poses Of the organization will be to
bring the peculiar merits of Nevada
honey to the attention of the world.
A woman, a stranger in camp. entered
the gambling joints at Goldfield one
! night last week, and attracted great
crowds. She bucked the games success
fully for awhile, then she tackled faro
and lost over $500 in a very short time.
Col. J. B. Overton, Superintendent of
the Virginia & Gold Hill Water Com
pany, has resigned his position on ac-
count of i'll health. and after a great
many years spent on the Comstock will
seek a change of climate, hoping to i'm
prove it.
Luther Buffers stable in Lamoille
Valley, Elko County, was burned
Thursday of last week with all
it's contents. He lost all his harness
aud about 20 tons of hay. The fire is
supposed to have been srarted by the
children playing with matches.
Snowshed fires ON the Southern
Pacific delayed Secretary Shaw of the
United States Treasury 10 hours getting
to Reno Friday of last week. He was
engaged 20 speak at Denver Monday
night and continued on to Colorado
without making a speech at Reno.
Some sportsman around Carson, Ia
boring under the impression that the
season is now open for hunting cows,
filed a cows side full of birdshot re-
Gently on the Holstein ranch. Sam P.
Davis advertises that he will pay $25
for information leading to the identifi-
cation of the guilty party.
The press dispatches do not tell of
people tumbling over themselves in an
effort to secure land in Churchill County
for settlement However, there is a
small, but steady stream of people
drifting this way and settling. 1t is
rathes psc.ligr, too, that most of these
! people display considerable means
| Churchill Standard.
The longest spell Of hot weather
Fresno County and the San Joaquin
Valley, Cal, have ever had TO go
through is on, Since July IS the Their
mometer 50 days AVERAGED 1903 degrees.
The hottest day was the middle Of Au.
gust, when the mercury reached 1925.
Last week was the warmest September
week for years. The average was los
degrees, and on three of the days the
thermometer gent to 108 degrees.