The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-04
STATE NEWS.

Thieves are operating in towns along
the line of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road.
Elias Jenkins was granted a divorce
from Kathleen Jenkins in Reno last
week.
Miss A. O'Leary of Virginia City has
been appointed teacher at Shelton,
Elko County.
Lot jumping and gun practice are
said to be favorite pastimes in Goldfield
at the present time.
The new mill built by the Grand
Prize Mining Company at Tuscarora,
Elko County, is ready to start opera
tions.
Feeders are paying from 8 oSR cents
a day for feeding cattle on the Big
Meadows near Lovelock, Humboldt
County.
Forty carloads of cattle from Eastern
Nevada were received in Reno last
Saturday. The cattle were consigned
to James Humphrey Of Reno.
Howard N. Riddle and Frank W.
Riddle have sold the Lovelock Argus to
J. R. Hunter, and the paper will be
consolidated with the Lovelock Tribune
Lum SupKee, a Chinese storekeeper
at Hawthorne, Esmeralda County, was
murdered last Saturday by a Chinaman,
named Sing in a quarrel over money
matters.
Miss Richardson of Almont, Mich,
and Miss Porter of Palo Alto, Cal,
have accepted positions in the Elko
High School. The salaries are $50 per
month each.
Edward Anderson of Amargosa, died
suddenly of heart failure at Rhyolite
on Jan. %. He was about 38 years of
age and unmarried. He formerly lived
in Tonopah.
The students of the Nevada Univer-
sity are opposing the measure in con-
temptation by the Regents, which will
compel the students to wear military
uniforms at all times.
w. f. Antilles, for some time sta
toned in the Reno office of the West
ern Union Company, has been promoted
to the Elko office where he is in charge
of the repeating machines in that town.
The project to establish a Public Lii
brary and Boys Club in Tonopah,
which has been under discussion for
several months, has assumed definite
form, and donations of all kinds are be.
ing made to further the enterprise.
Mrs. Melinda Chapman died at Elko
on Jan. 80 after a protracted illness.
She was a native of Washington, N. j.,
and rs years of age. Deceased was the
mother of Mrs. w. w. Booher. wife of
the editor of the Elko Independent,
with whom she made her home for
several years.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com.
pany has transferred its $4,000 ton
coal pile from Truckee to various sta
tions west of Summit, where coaling
stations will hereafter be maintained.
The Truckee coal piles covered several
acres of ground which will now be
used for q switch ward
The California State Library is pre-
pairing to open a free circulating library
of embossed books for the blind of the
State of California. These books will
be distributed to individuals absolutely
free of all expense, just as the travel
ing libraries are nov being sent to
towns without a public library.
The engagement is announced Of
Miss Alice Clark to Barton Pittman,
who is the senior member Of the firm
of Barton Pittman & Company. bankers
and brokers of Tonopah and San Fran
cisco. Miss Clark is the only daughter
of Mr.. aud Mrs. H. H. CLARK of Tono-
pah and graduated recently at the Mills
College, Mr.. Clark is a wealthy min.
ing operator at Tonopah and Bullfrog.
The wedding will take place in March.