The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
STATE NEWS.

The Fallon. Churchill County. public
schools are closed on account Of a lack
Of funds.
Joe Nelson is reported down with o
slight attack Of smallpox at Tonopah.
He was q~uarantined on April %.
The distance of 80 miles between
Austin and Manhattan is reported to
be covered in tour hours by autos.
The foundation of the new State
library at Carson is completed and
erection Of the structural part begun.
The Postofice Department has just
established a six times a week mail SER
vice from Austin to Belmont. via Man
haitian.
Sheriff Johnson reports having collect
ed 81. 672. 90 ON State Liquor Licenses in
Lincoln County for the quarter ending
March 81.
The father aud a brother of John
Byrne. a Goldfield printer. were crushed
to death in a falling wall at San Fran
cisco last week.
The New York Evening Mail and
Express estimates over eighty millions
has peer invested in Nevada mines by
capitalists Of that city.
George Phillips. in charge of bridge
construction on the Clark railroad, was
killed last Wednesday by falling from
a bridge near Caliente.
According to the Gazette. more
money was deposited in Reno banks
Monday than was drawn out on checks.
There was no run on any of the banks.
The San Pedro. Los Angeles g. Salt
Lake railroad last week p@id into the
Lincoln County Treasury $18. 103. "a,
being the amount of their taxes due on
the second installment for the year
1905.
A special telegram to the Salt Lake
Tribune from Boston states that Mrs.
E. B. Yerington of Carson, Nevada,
sailed for the Mediterranean on April
80 and would visit the Azores. Gibral-
tar, Naples and Genoa on the trip.
Rev. P. f. Ryan. curate at the Ca
thedral in Sacramento. CAL, has been
transferred by Bishop Grace to labor in
the new mining districts Of Nevada.
He will be CHARTERED in Reno until his
district car be properly segregated.
The Carson Appeal says the people
who are contributing so literally to
San Francisco's distress should remem.
Der hat San Jose, Santa Rosa, Fort
Bragg and other towns in California
suffered greatly from earthquake and
are in sore distress.
The Virginia aud Truckee Railway
Company has given orders for the en-.
ployment of Japs to succeed the white
laborers who went on strike several
days ago for higher wages. Agents
of the company were unable to secure
white men to take the places Of the
strikers.
Chief Engineer H. Newell Of the
| Government Reclamation Service last
Monday informed the House Commit
tee on Irrigation that under the
Truckee- Carson project in Nevada
about 10000 acres are to be irrigated
this year. The supply of water will
meet the present demand.
T. F. Ginnis, the young man who
made an unsuccessful attempt to hold
up the Oberon gambling house at Reno
last Winter. was pronounced insane by
a jury in the District Court last Satur-
day. The jury was unanimous in their
verdict. Ginnis was taken to the
asylum Immediately after the verdict.
In a family row at Tonopah early
last Sunday morning, Carl Young was
shot through the chest and seriously
wounded by his brother.in-law, ]. A.
Kessin of San Francisco, who had re-
Gently arrived in Tonopah ON a visit.
At the time of the shooting Young was
out on $4,000 bail for an assault on his
sister-in-law.
United States Senate George ..
Nixon arrived in Nevada last week.
His many interests in Nevada, more
or less affected by the California dis
aster, caused him to make q hurried
trip to the Coast from Washington. In
an interview at Reno the Senator stated
that the Hepburn Rate bill favored by
the President would undoubtedly pass
the Senate, and that he would be back
in Washington in time to vote ON that
measure.
Western Pacific Saves It's Records.