The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1908-05-18
State News Taken From Our Exchanges

/ completed and the contractors hope to
have the steel laid into Rawhide from q
point on the Nevada-C California Rail.
road within the next 80 days They
stats that the work of constructing the
roadbed viii progress at the rate OF
nearly a mile a day, as the worst part
Of the grade has already been COM
pleted.
According to the Reno Journal there
are at work in Ravhide $50 members
of the Miners Union. These are the
actual figures given out by j. Nj.
O'Brien, secretary of the Union. OF
the number. 200 are on the pay roll and
the remaining $50 are working on leases
in which they have an interest. Apart
from these. there are several hundred
more men working on leases who are
not members of the Union.
Elko independent: District Attorney
Game on behalf Of Attorney General
Stoddard filed an information in the
district court Tuesday. praying that the
estate of the late Hiram Chase escheat
to the State Of Nevada. Judge Brown
issued a citation directing all parties
interested in the estate to appear before
him at 10 O'Clock a. m. on the I day
of December and show cause if any they
have why the said estate should not
escheat and vest in the State Of Ne
vada.
The invitations are out for the com.
mencement exercises of the University
of Nevada, the chief feature of which
will be the unveiling of the statue OF
John William Mackay by his son.
Clarence Hungerford Mackay. and the
dedication of the Mackay mining build
ing. These events take place on
Wednesday, June 10. The commence.
ment address will be delivered by
Colonel George Harvey. editor of Har-
per's Weekly and the North American
Review.
Wells Herald: There is some talk of
nominating Judge Talbot for Supreme
Justice in the Democratic convention to
be held at Carson June 1 and have the
other State convention that is to be
held al Tonopah August 20 next to
endorse him, thus taking the Judiciary
out of politics. This works all right as
far as Judge Talbot is concerned, but
with any other man now on the Su-
preme bench. or liable to be a candidate
for the Supreme bench, there is a ques-
ton whether that programme would be
followed.
Bonanza: A meeting of the Grand
Lodge of the Domain of Nevada.
Knights of Pythias. will be held in
Tonopah ON June IL, IL and 10, and
will be attended by delegates from all
over the State. The D. o. X. ks will
bring their drill team from Reno and
will install a class of about 80 into the
mysteries of their order. The Pythian
Sisters will be in attendance also. This
is the first time the Grand Lodge has
met in Tonopah and it is the intention
of the local lodge to provide a first-class
time for the visitors.
The Journal of Commerce says the
strike of the immense gold bearing
ledge on the Gold Pen claim by Thrail.
kill. Knapp and Dedman, that gives
assays as high as $81 900, has excited
the mining world 30 such an extent
that over 1000 people are encamped at
the new town of Bovard, Nye County.
Eighteen inches of this ore gives an
average assay of $4,000 to the ton. and
the famous mineral expert, DIR. Fred
erick Bass. has determined. after Q
thorough examination, that the ledge
extends for over q mile On the surface.