The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-10-28
STATE NEWS.

Out of q total of 3343 cases of yellow
fever reported at New Orleans there
were 4S5 deaths.
The Kinney Bros. borax deposit at
Sand Springs, Churchill County, was
sold for $4,000 last week to a st. Louis
capitalist.
Miss Amy Parker of Ely, White Pine
County. fell into the Orr ditch near the
Safe University at Reno Sunday and
narrowly escaped drowning.
Ex-Congressman T. j. Geary. author
of the Chinese Exclusion Act bearing
his name, is to open a law Office in one
of Nevada's Southern mining towns.
The new Indian School at Fort Nc.
Dermitt, Humboldt County, will o
be in commission, as a corps of Eastern
teachers are ell route for that purpose.
Residents of Bullfrog and Rhyolite.
Nye County, are to hold an election to
vote upon the question of which of the
above places will be given the town.
NJ. B. Spiker and James Hawley,
who robbed the San Pedro depot at Las
Vegas. Lincoln County, have been sent
TO the State Prison at Carson, the
former to serve two and the latter three
years.
A. j. Jodoin, who shot and killed
Robert Arnold on Oct. IA at Bullfrog,
was discharged from custody at the
preliminary examination. The evi.
dence showed that Jodin shot in self
defense.
In the District Court at Hawthorne,
Esmeralda County, Monday President
j. B. Young of the defunct Goldfeld
bank was acquitted on the first Of a
number of charges of embezzlement for
which he stands indicted.
The University Of Nevada football
team went down to defeat before the
Stanford University team at Palo Alto,
Cal, last Saturday. Score 81 to 0.
Nevada will play with Berkeley at
Berkeley, Cal. on Nov. 4.
A. B. Millett Il Co. sheep men of
Smoky Valley, Lander County, last
week sold 1900 head of wethers at "a per
head to Watt e. McCourt and the
latter sold them again the same day to
the Tonopah Meat Company at a good
profit.
A two-story brick building at Sparks.
Washoe County, owned by George
Robinson wa destroyed by fire Sunday
morning. Loss $25. 900; small insu.
rance. A cigarette dropped among a
| pile Of rubbish in a dressing-room on
the second floor is said to have started
the blaze,
Claude Piper. a young Ia of Vir-
ginia City. shot himself through the
breast Sunday. He had been i'll for
several months and his mind is said to
have been d~eranged. He was a brother
of Ed. Piper, manager of the Reno-Car-
OF -Virginia theatrical circuit.
The merchants of Carson threaten to
boycott the Virginia & Truckee if it
runs any more special shopping" trains
to Reno, at the request of the merchants
of the latter city. Manager Fl. NJ. Yer.
ington, before whom the complaint was
lodged, says he can not refuse to charter
trains as his road is a common carrier.
The famous Reilly lease on the
Florence mine at Goldfeld has expired
after running for one year. The leasers
took out an eve half million in ore
during the life of the lease and quit in
a large ore body which they were work.
ing with a large force of men. The
lease was held by B. j. Reilly, John
McKane and Jack Campbell.
Last Saturday Mrs. M. M. Garwood,
secretary Of the Nevada Chamber of
Commerce entered suit against aud
placed an attachment ON the Reno
Chamber Of Commerce for S5O5, alleged
to be due her for getting out a publica-
ton called "Greater Nevada" A few
days previous Frank Goldeni placed an
attachment on the Chamber in order TO
collect 800 due him as rent.
Mrs. Theodore Planz overturned an
automobile she was driving at San
Francisco last Sunday. Her neck was
broken and she died in a few moments.
Her mother-in-law was seriously in.
jnred. while her husband and his two
nieces escaped with slight bruises.
Mrs. Planz was formerly Miss Ida
Schultz aud she was born and raised in
Virginia City. She was 80 years Of