The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-05-28
STATE NEWS.

Trenmor Coffin, Jr., of Carson City
has received the appointment of cade
at the Annapolis Military Academy.
Sing Sing officials arrived in Reno las
week and took Joseph Pankuk back tc
that institution, from which he escaped
over nineteen years ago.
Frank Golden will soon have one oi
the handsomest residences in Reno
The building will be a reproduction Of
the residence of the Governor of South
Carolina.
The Tonopah mill, after being shut
down nearly nine weeks for repairs, has
started up again. 1t is said the mil
will have all the work it can do by
working day and night.
Mrs. Charles Olinghouse died at
Wadsworth last week from injuries re.
ceived from a fall from saddle horse.
Decedent was wife of the man after
whom the mining district in Washoe
County is named.
The election for Mining Recorder Of
the Tonopah district was held in Tono-
pah on May 20. A total of 1874 votes
were cast, of which were thrown out
as invalid. The count resulted: w. j.
Landers, 700; Tom Fleming, 1871.
Sheriff Quirk of Storey County last
week visited the four camps ON the irri'
CATION canal and collected Salts for
poll taxes and s393.75 personal property
tax. By September. he expects to re-
ceived between $500 and $1,000 from the
same source.
Mr.. Gill, a resident of Fallon, states
that the jumping of land, supposed &c
contain oil is becoming a popular thing
in Fallon. Churchill County, and that
every property owner in the town has to
watch his holdings closely to keep land
grabbers away.
The Southern Pacific Company has
made a special standing rate of one-half
fare for the season to all baseball mines
desiring to visit other towns for a
game. This only applies to members of
the mines and when there are at least ten
members in the team.
Carl Stoddard, mining enginee of
Tonopah. while en- route from that place
to Reno by private conveyance last
week, being unfamiliar with the road
got lost in the desert and for two days
wandered about without food or shelter.
He was found by sheepherder. who
put him on the right road.
Salt Lake capitalists are inquiring in
to the feasibility of building a railroad
from Wabuska, Esmeralda County, a
station ON the Carson & Colorado, to a
point ON the Central Pacific about so
miles east of Reno. The Salt Lakers
say that such road would shorten the
run from Tonopah to Utah over 100
miles.
Stanford Weathers, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. w. Weathers of Starr Valley,
Elko County, and former member of
the '06 class of the University Of Ne
vada, has returned from San Francisco,
where he successfully passed exami-
nations admitting him to West Point
Military Academy. He intends to en-.
ter the United States military school
the first of June.
The Carson River placer companies,
which have fourished for year or
so pending cleanup, under the man.
agement Of Frank Everett, have COL
lapsed, says the Carson News. A run
$500 or $500 tons of gravel yielded about
IS in gold, Probably 500. COO or more
was expended in the schemes, and Eve.
rett succeeded in getting Eastern people
to put up the money.
The purchasers of the iron mining
claims of Professor Frank E. Fielding
and Nicholas M. Hanson, eighteen miles
northeast of the Comstock, are Merritt
and Smith of Minnesota. who are to pay
$24. 900 for three claims, $4,000 of which
was spot cash, the other $4,000 to be
paid when the purchasers obtain a
United States patent ON the ground, ap-
plication for which will be soon as the
required $500 worth of development
work has been performed ON each of the
three claims.