The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1907-08-31
Nevada State News

w. G. Black denies the report
that the Fallon Standard is to be
placed in the hands of a receiver.
Mrs. Sorenson, a trained nurse
of Goldfeld, died Thursday from
an overdose of headache powders.
Arthur g. Raycraft has resign
ed as cashier of the Nye and
Ormsby County Bank and is sue
ceeded by George Cowing.
ID. c. Greeley, a Goldfeld capt.
%talist, has married Miss Maggie
Jefferson of Carson, who nursed
him through a serious illness
Hansen's farm of 100 acres
near Gardnerville Douglas County
sold last week for $4,000. The
property was purchased six years
ago for s10,0 600.
Ticket sales at the Reno Office
of the Southern Pacific Company
are reported to amount to $780,
900 a month. The freight re-
ceipts are 1000 tons a day.
The dread anthrax has made
its appearance in Mason Valley.
Farmers report the loss of many
head of cattle. Efforts are I'M
der way to check the disease in
its ravages.
The Government has cancelled
the illegal entries made in the
Truckee-C Carson river irrigation
district, and by this action TO-
900 acres of the best land is now
open for homesteaders.
A. J. Harrell Of the Sparks
Harrell Land and Cattle Com
pany, one of Elko County's larg-
est taxpayers, died in San Fran
cisco Aug. 25 after a short illness.
He was 46 years of age.
The old lead and silver mines
of Frieburg r again being oper-
ated. The Frieburg range of
mountains lie about 125 miles
easterly from Tonopah and just
across the line in Lincoln County.
Sheriff Ingalls, of Esmeralda
County has announced that here
after ali boxing contestants and
pugs in general must pay the
State license of $1,000, if they
want to pull a match off in Es-
meralda.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kinkead, widow
of the late Governor Kinkead of
Nevada, died in Carson City Mon
day evening. She was a native
of Ohio and was born in 1887.
Governor Kinkead died August
Is, 1904.
w. d. Rodebohm, a bus driver
at Goldfeld fell over the dash
board of the vehicle Sunday and
his coat catching on the s~ingletree,
was dragged over a mile He died
in the arms of Fred Hansen, who
stopped the runaway horses.
AT Manhattan Saturday James
McCarriek, a miner, fell from
staging into a shaft about eight
feet deep. and was so badly in
iured that he died in a few mo-
ments. He struck on his head in
the bottom of the shaft and his
skull was fractured.
Leaving a wife and three child
rem in destitute circumstances,
after he had played and lost his
last cent in gambling games at
Lovelack, G. H. Poulson hanged
himself from the limb of a tree
on one of the principal streets OF
that town early Sunday morning.
Fred W. Fairbanks, editor and
proprietor of the Lyon County
Times for the past 26 years, has
sold the paper to the Yerington
Herald Printing and Publishing
Company, of which Leslie W.
SMALL is the manager. Mr., Fair
banks will visit his home in the
East, after which he will return
to Nevada.
A reduction in the price of
coal from SIS to So t. o. b. the
mines in Wyoming, announced by
circular letters sent to the deal
ers in Reno, has started addition
al inquiries by consumers into
the situation. But the result OF
the orders placed with the coal
operators is the reply that ship
ments cannot be made unless the
buyers are willing to wait their