The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-04-01
FROM STATE EXCHANGES

Nineteen death occurred at Tonopah
from March is to the 22d, mostly from
pneumonia
Several plate glass windows In Car
son have been marred by some one
with q diamond.
Lou Bradley recently purchased
in California four fine horses for his
breeding farm near Exc.
K. @. Davis of Ely, White Pine
County, has applied for a patent on q
drill press and bolt cutting machine.
r. T. Evans of Willow Point. Hum
boldt County. has just received from
Illinois two psdigreed, 2-year-old,
Percheon stations.
George Howard. an employe of the
Flanagan warehouse at Reno, is under
arrest for stealing 100 empty sacks,
which he sold for "a.
Steve Andrews who was arrested for
assaulting q young squaw at Bodie.
Cal. who died of ~peritonitis as a result.
has been charged with murder.
A company has been Incorporated in
Reno to mine for copper in Esmeralda
County, near Goldfeld, where he
metal is said to exist in paying guam
tity.
NJ. B. Garaghan. John Verzan and
Neil Munro OF Ely have sold the jose
phine mine to the Nevada Consolidated
Copper Company, the purchase price
being 5000.
Mining men from Colorado, Idaho.
Montana aud Utah are interesting
themselves in the old mining districts
of Lincoln County, which have been
idle for years.
A. Newbert, who broke into q car at
Sodaville last January and stole a lot of
goods, pleaded guilty at Hawthorne
and was sentenced to serve two years
in the State Prison.
The Humphrey Supply Company of
Reno has received four carloads of corn.
fed hogs from Omaha, which will be
slaughtered and shipped to Goldield
for the retail market.
Another National bank is to be or
ganized in Reno, with a capital stock
of $780, 600. Frank Golden is n Of
the principal stockholders. This will
make five banks in Reno.
Johnny Nip. the Indian shot by
Sheriff Lamb of Humboldt County on
March II, died at the Pyamid Reserva-
ton last week. He was drunk and try
ing to escape arrest when shot.
The general merchandise store of j.
H. Lynd in Virginia City was des-
troyed by fire last week. The loss is
estimated at $4,000; no insurance.
The origin Of the fire is unknown.
To avoid exorbitant express charges
and get goods in on time a large mum.
Der Of the merchants of Southern Nye
County are having their supplies for
warded by the way of Austin and
thence by team to their destination.
Fred Wilson, a former resident of
Tuscarora, is making arrangements to
establish a freighting business between
Tonopah and Goldfield. He has con-
tracted to haul 0 1000 tons Of ore from
the January mine to railroad connec.
tions.
The teachers of the Reno and Sparks
schools have formed an institute for
the promotion of school work and to
establish a more uniform course of
study for the State schools and to Sc
cure changes that are needed. At a re-
cent meeting the vertical system of
penmanship was denounced.
The Western Ore Purchasing Com
pany is said to have completed arrange
ments for the erection of an immense
modern smelter at Tonopah. Work on
the plant is to begin at once and the
cost will not be under 800, 600. The
erection of a plant at Tonopah would
result in great output from the low
grade ores of that section.
O. V. Logan was found dead in an
Indian camp at Ida. nea Goldield.
last week. He and a man named Joe
Usher are said to have been drinking
and gambling. and later went to the
Indian camp together, where they had
a quarrel with q squaw. Usher is held
for the murder, but says he left Logan
asleep in the tepee and returned to
Ida. He says the squaw's husband ia
guilty. Logan was a Denver mining
1880 nud so;l - zx.oI.I-