The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1907-10-19
Nevada State News

DIR. George A. Turner of Gold
field was recently elected Presi-
dent of the Nevada State Medical
Society. The medico is only %
years of age.
The Virginia Chronicle says
Sparks is to have a big gambling
house, where railroad employees
can deposit their earnings and
collect interest on resurrection
day.
One thousand dollars has al
ready been subscribed toward
building a new Methodist church
in Lovelock. 1t is expected that
when the building is completed
it will have cost $4,000.
Announcement has been made
that freight rates from San Fran
cisco and also other points to
Fallon, Churchill County, have
been reduced from 10 to 20 per
cent. That section is rejoicing.
As a result of dropping a light
ed match into a bottle of powder,
12-year old Homer Overstreet of
Humboldt, Washoe County, may
never see daylight again. The
explosion which followed his rash
act entirely destroyed one eye
ball, and the other is still sight
less.
Loyalton, a small town in ST.
ezra valley, Cal, close to the west
ern border line of Nevada, has
been closed for years. Now
comes the startling announcement
that saloons will be permitted to
run there and in other ways the
little village will be "wide open"
Owing to the fact that mistakes
were made in the forms of the
bonds to be issued by Lincoln
County to take up the indebted
ness of the county, all the bonds
have been Withdrawn and return
ed to the printer. The mistake
was evidently made by the clerk
of the county.
Twenty-Five students of the
Elko County High School, who
refused to obey an order of Prin-
cipal Howard, f~orbidding them
from attending the recent ace
at Elko, have been suspended for
six weeks. The students will re-
main at Elko and study, but will
not be allowed to attend class
recitations.
The suit of Mrs. Sardis Sum-
merfield against her husband for
divorce has been dismissed in the
district court at Reno by an
agreement of the parties. The
defendant made a formal answer
to the complaint and almost i'm
mediately thereafter the parties
held a conference and the salt
was dismissed.
Rawhide, in the district of Re-
gent, has sprung into a camp Of
l25 people in three weeka. There
are five saloons, a hotel a gam
bling outfit, and eight leases from
which ore is being sacked for
shipping. 1t lies from 16 to 20
miles east of Schurz, Schurz be-
ing located at the north end of
Walker lake and within the Indian
reservation.
Dick Forester, a travelling man,
has sued the Southern Pacific for
$50, 900 damages. Forester says
he was elected from a train at
Montello about September q,
the railroad agent claiming that
his ticket was no good, and that
he had 'swiped it or procured il
from a scalper." He says he was
i'll, and that being left in a town
without hotel or restaurant ag-
gravated his sickness.
There are 80 prisoners in the
Elko County Jail and a wholesale
delivery was prevented several
days ago by Deputy Sheriff Har-
ris and Jailer Gilmore. The mel
had been allowed in the Jail cor.
ridor during the day and had
sawed the bars of the windows al.
most entirely through with an ole
case knife, concealing their work
with charcoal. All the prisoners
are now kept locked in their cells
Archibald Mcdonnell, 70 years
old, a w~ell-known mining man
died suddenly in Virginia City
while seated at his desk in the