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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
NEW IRRIGATION SYSTEM
Reconnaissance of Humboldt
Valley Begins Sept. l.
Over 100000 Acres of Land
Will Be Reclaimed in Hum
boldt and Elko Counties.

The first step toward outlining the
great Humboldt Valley reclamation
project, in which many millions will be
spent and over 500. 900 acres Of land
reclaimed. will be taken on Sept. l
when Engineer Taylor will place .
corps Of engineers in the field to make .
reconnaissance Of the entire valley and
determine the best manner in which to
lay out comprehensive irrigation sys-
tenn. The work Of this party will be
passei upon some time next year and
later large force of engineers will be
put in the field to spend several years
of studying the problems that must be
solved and the mapping of the country.
The active construction is expected to
follow this.
The Humboldt Valley irrigation
ever come to the attention of the Inter-
ior Department. There are approxi-
mately three million acres of agricult-
ural lands along the stream but on ac.
count of the lack of water only about
half of this can be irrigated. At pres
ent there is sufficient water in the river
to supply many hundred thousand acres
more than it now supplies but owing to
its Unequal division and improper stor-
age methods much of it is wasted.
The laEds, affected reach from the
western part of Humboldt County -
the central part of Elko. distance Of
over three hundred miles.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
Ranehers Looking Sideways.

A Cheyenne. Wyo.. dispatch Of Aug.
l6 says: Residents of this section are
on the anxious seat as a result Of the
mysterious visit of special agent Of
the Interior Department. One ranch
man volunteered the information. "he's
looking up land frauds and illegal fenc-
ing of Government land. and some-
things going to drop mighty sudden. !"
And this is about all that can be
learned. The inspector may be on an
entirely different mission to this Sec
tion, but the guilty will naturally be on
the uneasy seat until some time has
elapsed after his departure. 1t is said
that probably 80 per cent of the ranch
men of Wyoming are violators of the
law in that they have fenced Govern
ment land to which they have no right
or title.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
Every real scepter of power comes
from some suffering in the past.
A Touching Story

Is the saving from death, of the baby
girl of Geo. A. Eyler. Cumberland, Md.
He writes: EAT the age of III months,
our little girl was in declining health,
with serious Throat Trouble, and two
physicians gave her up. We were al
most in despair, when we resolved to try
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds. The first bottle
gave relief; after taking four bottles she
was cured, and is now in perfect health"
Never fails to relieve and cure q cough or
cold. At Mrs. II. M. Schneider & Cos.
drug store; SOC and $l.00 guaranteed.
Trial bottle free.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26

as he was unable to come to terms with
the people who crowded in ami took up
the debris lands aud held them at ex.
orbitant prices. A few years ago Mr..
Lane went into the Tonopah country
but did not take hold Of any property
in that section. 1t was reported that
Silver Peak was his objective point and
that he endeavored to get hold Of the
Blair group Of mines. but failed. He
then renewed his attention to his In.
terests ia Alaska.
Paul q. Lane, who owned the Brad
ley ranch In Pine Valley, Eureka
County. where he made his home for
several years. is a son of Charles d.
Lane. The former disposed Of his in
terests here in the early Summer and
with his family went to San Francisco.
There they joined Mr.. and Mrs Lane
and with them went to Nome.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
Experimental Station.

The people Of Logan aud Overton in
the Muddy River Valley, Lincoln
County. have decided to the State of
Nevada so acres Of suitable land for the
Stlte Agricultural Experimental Sta.
ton Ten thousand dollars Will be ex-
pbnded at this station during the next
two years. The elevation is about 1900
and the climate is semi.tropical. Crops
will be raised by irrigation. At pres
ent the farmers in the neighborhood of
the Experimental Station site raise
great crops of alfalfa. vegetables, canta-
loupes and all kinds of fruits.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
MAKES SENSATIONAL CHARGE.
Wife of Milwaukee Man Lays Claim
10 Fortune Made i'm Nevada.

Mrs. Frank g. Curtis, wife Of a
Milwaukee automobile dealer. in SUBJ
sanitation Of a claim to a share in a
Al 500. 900 estate. tells a strange story,
in which conspiracy figures. involving
several multi millionaires. She claims
that her father. John Murphy. who
was a poor prospector in Nevada in the
early sos, amasssd "A fortune aud was
later killed from ambush near Carson
Ci,y. Some time before his death he
had deserted his wife and two
dauRht RS, leaving them in Chicago.
They we're ignorant Of the fact that he
died possessed of considerable property
until it was revealed to them by papers
found in strong box in possession of a
former body guard Of Murphy. Among
the papers. tits said. is will bequeath-
ing the estate to ths two daughters. 1t
is charged that a number of interested
PARTIES, some Of whom are known
nationally. have kept the facts from
becoming public.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
Puhlic Is ArOused.

The public is aroused to knowledge
of the curative merits OF that great med
icinal tonic. Electric Bitters, for sick
stomach, liver and kidneys. Mary H..
Walters, OF SAG st. Clair Ave., Columbus,
O., writes: "For several months. | was
given up to die. had fever and ague.
my nerves were wrecked; | could not
sleep, and my stomach was SO weak,
from useless doctors drugs. that could
not eat. Soon alter beginning to take
Electric Bitters, obtained relief. and in
short time | was entirely cured" /"
Guaranteed at the Schneider drug store !;
price soc.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26

Charles ID. Lane is well known in
Nevada, having at different times been
interested in various enterprises in this
State. In early days he freighted with
a bull team from the Southern Pacific
into and out of Eureka and to White
Pine. About six years ago he bonded
the Chairman mine at Ely, White Pine
County, aud after building a fine mill
and expending $3.50. 900 IN improvements
he abandoned the project. 1t was he who
at that time built the telephone line from
Eureka to Ely, which at the present
time is the only wire communication
between the two places. He also
bonded the Pinenut plac.rs near Carson
City but was obliged to give them mp
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
STAGE LINE QUITS.
Ben Miller's Short Line to Bullfr0g
Was Short Lived.

The Las Vegas Age says: The Utah
Nevada Express Company, B. F. Miller.
manager, has discontinued its stage
line from Las Vegas to Beatty. The
company expended considerable money
bnilding a chart red toll road. which
has been abandoned.
For time negotiations for the taking
over of the road were pending with the
Nevada Rapid Transit Company. but
the latter company decided the road to
be impracticable for auto purposes. aud
it is now deserted.
Iran editorial entitled Mushroom
Stage-Line Promoters" the Bullfrog
Miner Of Aug. ls says In part The
running schedule OF stage lines. auto
lines, etc.. in Bullfrog has been some-
what Of nightmare in the past. One
outfit in big advertisement in this
paper has been telling the public about
its short line to Las Vegas, to which
point its stages ran from Bullfrog every
Monday. Wednesday and Friday. The
facts are that the company ran one
stage out of camp and then quit.
The news that Ben Miller's company
has quit its stage line over it's toll road
in Southern Nevada will be learned
with regret by the law makers of Ne
vada who were given passes for free
ride over the road last Winter when the
law relating to toll roads in this State
was amended to meet the wishes Of the
promoters of the short line from the
Vegas to Bullfrog.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
CHAS. D. LANE GOES BLIND.
Misfortune 0vertakes Well
Known Mining Man.
He Developed the Utica Mine
That Turned Out to Be One of
Best Dividend Payers in West

A Seattle. Wash. dispatch Of Aug. IS
says: In letter to a friend in this
city received yesterday. the wife Of
Charles ID. Lane writes that her
husband. one Of the best known mining
men on the Pacific Colst, and who, as
President Of the Wild Goose Mining
Company. has done more than any one
man towards the development of the
Nome region, is totally blind.
Mrs Lane will bring her husband out
on the next trip of the Oregon. Mr..
Lane last Spring disposed of his inter.
ests in the Wild Goose Company to San
Francisco interests and returned to
Nome for the purpose of developing
some of his individual properties. He
has been in failing health for more
than year and complained greatly of
his eyes when in this city in June en-
route north.
Mr.. Lane is best known on the Pacific
Coast through his development of the
famous Utica mine at Angeles Camp.
Calaveras County, Cal, which for years
was one of tine larg st dividend payers
in the West.
His undertakings in Nome were of a
colossal nature and almost always uni.
formly successful. He had endeared
himself to hundreds of miners and
prospectors in the North by his many
acts of generosity. and it is said that no
man in the Territory ever appealed to
him in vain for aid to either get out Of
the country or for assistance in eking
out an existence inside.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
Peculiar Disappearance.

J. ID. Runyan. OF ButIeryille, o.. laid
the peculiar disapt earance of his painful
symtoms, Of indigestion and biiousness.
10 DIR. Kings New Life Pills. lie says
They are perfect remedy, for dizzi-
ness, sour stomach, headache, constips-
ton, ETC." Guaranteed at the Schnei-
der drug store. price 25c.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
Alien officers ON American Ships.

Alien Officers on American Ships.
Reports received at Washington by
Chief Wilkie. of the United States Sec.
ret Service, state that about 20 arrests
have recently been made on the Pacific
Coast of alien officers of American ships
on the charge of having obtained their liz
censes as such officers on naturalization
papers obtained through fraud. The
papers. it is said in the reports, were
obtained by the aid of group of for
eigners who falsely testified before the
Superior Courts that the applicants for
citizenship had been in this country
the required five years.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
Lambs Bring Big Price.

Preston Blair of Marriott. Utah,
closed sheep deal with Bittinger &
Foss last week and received one of the
biggest prices ever paid for grade
lambs. The lambs were Cotswold
grades, less than months old and the
price for the 5000 was $3.50 per head.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
Fiendish Suffering

Is often caused by sores, ulcers and can
GERS, that eat away your skin. WIN. Be.
dell. Of Flat Rock, Mich, says: IL have
used Bucklen's Arnics Salve, fer Ulcers,
Sores and Cancers. 1t is the best heal.
ing dressing ever fonnd." Soothes and
heals cuts, burns and scalds; 25c aI
the Schneider drug store guaranteed.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
Gives Birth to Seven Children.

A Honolulu dispatch of Aug. II. says:
A dispatch by wireless telegrIphy from
HIlo says that Hama. the Chinese wife
of Kailua, Chinese. gave birth to one
child on last Thursday, two on Sunday.
one on Monlay, two on Tuesday morn
ing and one on Thursday night. All
are dead.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26

Even Van Duzer doesn't know any.
thing about Senator New lands turning
Republican, but Van is too busy wild
eating for anything. ng.-Carson News.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26

The Reciprocity Convention called at
Chicago last week to devise means Of
betterinR the trade relations between
the United States aud foreign coun-
tries. adopted the following resolutions
submitted by the Committee on Reso-
lutions:
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
Eureka Lodge No. IS, F. & A. NJ.

The stated communication Of Eureka Lodge
No l6, +. & A. NJ. will be held at Masonic
HALL on the Saturday Of or before the full of
the moon in each month.
ii. G. McTERNRY, w. nj.
JoHs HANCOCK, SR.. Secretary.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26

Mining location blanks for sale at the SEN-
rINEL office.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
diamond Rebtkah Lodge No. 5, lO.O.f.

Meets the Second and Fourth Monday OF
each month at the +. & A. M. and |. o. .. #.
Hall at 7 80 o'clock from April l to -l'tember
80, 1895. All sojourning Sisters and Brothers
are cordially invited to visit
LAURA bale, N. G.
EpyrHz j. SwIcK, Secretary.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-08-26
MINING TAX.

Notice il hereby given that the taxes on the
proceeds Of the mines of Eureka County for
the quarter ending June 80. 1905, are
now due and payable to me at my office IN Eu-
reka and the law in regard to the same will be
strictly enforced. II. G. McTERNEY,
Assessor of Eureka County. Nevada
Yukon Valley news., 1905-07-12

career. He was struggling to make both ends meet in carrying on nursury. A rush order came for twenty thousand prune trees. It would take two years and half to grow them ill the ordinary course of affairs, but he could get the order only by turning them out i'll nine months. He put an army of men to planting 100, ,ooo almond seeds. The almond grows rapidly; in a few months the young bushes were ready, the best were selected and ,ooo prune cuttings were grafted upon them. Today one of the lar gest prune orchards in the world is growing and yielding from these selfsame almond trees.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-07-12
He Was Firm.

The comptroller of the currency is an autocrat whose decision over rides even that of the chief magis- trate of the nation. Some years refused to sign warran. for money which General Grant thought it proper to expend.
 That is right" the president said. Il admire your hrmness. Where your conscience is concerr ed never permit yourself to be coerced. You may consider yourself clear in this affair, for l shall appoint new controller tomorrow. Exchange.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-07-12

After years of effort he has pro- duced a brilliant crimson poppv from a yellow one. In another in- stance he has developed an enor- nous poppy bloom fully ten inches across, an enormous flower, pre- serving all it's original beauty. In truth the wonders of his creations from the poppy alone are almost endless.
 Among some of the most noted achievements are the fastest-grow- ing tree ill the temperate zones of the world-a walnut which in thir- teen years has grown to six times the size all average walnut would attain ill twenty eight years; the "plumcot "a combination of the wild plum, the Japanese plum and the apricot, producing a fruit un- like either of its ancestors; an anna ryllis ten inches in diameter, main taining the beautiful colors of the choicest small blooms; many varie- ties of plums of rare color and quality as we'll as of great vigor- some with no pits in them; a chest nut tree which bears nuts at eight cen months of age, and which has borne them at six months, bearing when not more than three feet in night; the "pomato, now under way-which produces in abundance delicious fruit upon the potato tops; and vegetables, fruits and flowers in great number to nouIish. sustain and delight the human race.
 With niue-teuths of the things credited to him rejected as iabrica- tiOns, Burbank would still be en- titled to the name of wonder worker in plant life.
 Burbank's mental resources are shown by an incident of hts earlier
Yukon Valley news., 1905-07-12

Some one asked Lincoln how long a mans legs should be. He replied he had not given the subject any thought. but should say they should be long enough to reach from his body to the ground.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-07-12
Burbank, the WOnderWOr
 of the Plant World.

Burbank was virtually unknown to the world. He was held in derisic Il by his relatives, in pity by his friends, iu scorn by his enemies. He was denounced by scientific men as little less than a charlatan, producer of spectacular effects, a seeker for the uncanny and abnor- mal, an enemy to all true scientific progress. misleading, though pow erful, prophet of a new order of things that could never come to pass.
 He once accepted an invitation from a minister to listen to a ser mon on the work he was carrying on, and was treated to all address denouncing him as foe to God and man, one who was interrupting the well-ordered coulse of plant life, destroying forces and functions long established ard sacred, reducing the vegetable life of the world to a con- dition at once unnatural aud ab- normal.
 A little further back in his his tory, at the period at winch he first attempted to carry out the work of his life, he was more than once perilously near starvation ill a land of plenty.
 Today Mir. Burbank is the fore most man in the world i'll the pro- duction of new and interesting forms of fruits. trees, flowers, vege- tables, grasses and nuts. He has carried his investigations far beyond the point that he had reached when the minister assailed him. Last year more than six thousand men, embracing the very pick and flower of the scientific life of two hemis- pheres, made the pilgrimage to his home al Santa Rosa, Cal, to study the lines of his investigations, to see with their own eyes many things which their scientific minds could not accept as truth without visual demonstration, and to learn some details of the supreme results achieved. During the year 3o.ooo letters were received, coming from every quarter of the globe, asking for more light upon his work.
 His recognition was tardy. First came visitors from foreign lands, where his experiments were first appreciated; then seedsmen aud scientists of his own country, many of whoEl came to scoff but stayed tC pray. Later came a certain per functory recognition from his towns men. Now. latest of all. in some measure comes recognition from the people Oi his state and his couatTy,
Yukon Valley news., 1905-07-12

already accomplished he has nev work under way more wonderful than anything he has yet hieved and more fruitful of good for th' race, while the work he has pro jected and begun, but which ma, not even be referred to, Il ever greater possibilities.
 One of the most marvellous of Mir Burbank's accomplishments is the transformation of the cactus. Fol a period of over ten years he ha. worked with the utmost persistence and skill until at last he has devel oped cactus plant which will con vert the desert into a garden He has made the cactus thornless, taking from its leaves the hard woody substance, the spicules, SC dangerous to animal life. More than this, he has made 1t adaptable to any climate. It will thrive on the hot desert, but 1t will grow with marvellous fecundity when irrigated or planted in richer soil. It has been made so hardy that 1t will en- dure the coldest climates; 1t may be grown from the equator to the pole, or as far north as any vegetation can be produced. The new plants preserve their type also, never re- verting, but always persisting.
 One of the more highly developed plants, grown to gigantic stature in three years. has over Goo pounds of nutritious food for man and beast upon it, and as you look upon this one plant and think of the vast multiplication of it now possible, you begin to see something of what is to come to pass i'll the reclamation of the waste places of the earth.
 The plant also bears a delicious fruit, with a combination of fiavors suggesting to some a pineapple, to some a melon, to some a peach, to some an apricot, but still wholly without definition or identification It is full of nutrients, too; in fact, it has been found that the natives of some southern climes virtually live upon the fruit of one of the crude, partly developed cacti, and maintain a truly Japanese vigor.
 Roses, blackberries, raspberries and gooseberries can also be made as free from thorns as strawberries or apples are, by education and in- dividual selection. Out oi thousands of plants he has selected and bred until now he has a blackberry with. out thorus.
 Certain fruits. as the peach. nee. tarine and plum. he has bred to fiji a irost-troubled climate. and has
Yukon Valley news., 1905-07-12

This year has fii,y.,hree Sundays.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-05-23
MINOR MATTERS.

A local telephone system is being ru
in at Robert Lee, Tex.
Frank Wilson, shot in his place O.
business at Dallas, died.
Snyder. Okla, relief committee ha:
made an appeal for aid.
BY an earthquake at Colina. Mex.
two persons were killed.
Worms are damaging tobacco in vi
cinity of Hallettsville, Tex.
In electrical storm at Anadarko
Okla, some stock was killed.
A little girl named Lula Johnson feI
dead in a field near Tyler, Tex.
A colt kicked Mrs. F. r. Dolson o
Lawton, Okla, and she died in an hour
Hon. w. J. Bryan is to make tou1
Of the world and study municipal own
ership. s~ s
One woman and three men were
crushed to death in a New York eIe.
vator.
Socialists and police clashed al
Buenos Ayres Two were killed and
forty wounded.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-05-23
WISDOM IS JUSTIFIED OF HER
CHILDREN.

' A public school teacher in Baltimore
tells of district trustee in town not
far from the Monumental City who is
very much interested in the disciplin-
airy methods to be used in case of fire
in a school building.
Whenever he, in company with the
examining board, made the rounds of
the various schools, he would invariably
put many questions to the pupils as to
what they would do in case of fire. In
many instances the teachers forestalled
him by coaching their pupils as to the
proper replies to such questions. In one
school particularly the children had
been carefully prepared in this respect.
One day, however, the trustee varied
his usual programme, and instead of
propounding the usual questions, decid-
ed to address the children on other
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-05-23
RIVER RISING
A Warning to Move Stock and People
to the High Lanl.

As the river is rising and there is a
threatened overflow of all land unpro-
tected by lcvees, the people living and
having stock on low lands arc advised
to move to high land.
At Arthur City the river is 2o.2 feet
below the danger line,
At Fulton the river is one foot above
the danger line and is rising The rise
at Fulton is expected to reach 81 feet
during the next four days.
At Spring Bank the river is 20 feet
above the danger line and is rising.
At Shreveport the river is 10 feet
below the danger line and rising. It is
expected the gauge of 30 feet will BIZ
reached at Shreveport in the next ter
days.
All low places unprotected by lcvcc:
are flooded.