The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1908-05-25
State News Taken From Our Exchanges

evldentiy Deen a~cciuentahy
Becsuse the Nat q. Goodwin Com
paDy, by whom she was employed q
stenographer. would not provide for heI
a typewriter chair low enough for her
feet to rest upon the floor. Miss Kath-
eryn A. Collins. a typist. has sued the
firm for s5125. She claims that her
health suffered and she was compelled
to have two surgical operations per-
formed, all because her chair was tee
high.
Elko Independent: The Carson de-
positors of the State Bank and Trust
Company are to choose an attorney &c
look after their interests. Receiver
Wildes has employed Judge Mack as
his attorney. The settlement of the af-
fairs of this company will be a fine
PLAN for the lawyers. but where will
the depositors land. They will be in
the soup when the final settlement lie
made.
Nevada will soon have a smelter on
the banks Of the Carson river which
will operate entirely independent oil the
trust. 1t will be constructed by the
Western Smeltsr Corporation. which
was incorporated on April 6. The plant
will be locatsd five and s half miles
northeast of Carson, on the banks of the
Carson river and on the old site of the
Merrimac and Brunswick plant. which
was operated there 40 years ago.
Reports from Winnemucca state that
the stockmen of that part Of Nevada
and of adjacent portions of the Oregon
aud Idaho have consulted and have
about decided to deal out frontier jus
tice to cattle ''rustlers" who frequently
steal from the stockmen. The recent
shooting of James Edison, a stockman
of Humboldt County, by a cattle rustler
named James Taylor Of southern Ore.
gon. has p~recipitated the matter and Q
reward of $1,000 is posted for the cap
ture of James Taylor.
An additional unit of so stamps is to
be placed in the Pittsburg Silver Peak
property owing to the excellent show
ings and the prospects for years OF
heavy work. The present plant is OF
100 stamps. with a daily capacity of 500
tons. The average net product is about
$4,000 a day, or approximately 5 ,5O0.OO0
per year. Seventy men are steadily at
work in the mine, in addition to those
employed in the mill. There is said to
be sufficient ore to keep the mill in
steady operation for fully two years.
Austin Reveille: Senator Easton, who
is a delegate to the Republican national
convention to be held in Chicago next
month, has informed the Reveille that
he favored Taft for president above all
the candidates so far mentioned, and
that he would give the big stateman
his support. George Russell Of Elko,
Hugh Brown of Tonopah, and J. F.
Douglass of Goldfield. also favor Taft.
which makes four votes put of the six
from this State for that gentleman.
Senator Nixon and p. L. Flanagan, the
other two delegates, are yet to be heard
from.
"Not because the court believes the
bank to be insolvent. but because it il
unsafe for the institution to continue
business, a receiver will be appointed
With these significant words Judge
Langan Monday in the District Courl
at Carson authorized the appointing Of
q receiver for the State Bank and Trust
Company and Immediately appointed
Frank L. Wildes, deputy State Treas
urer, a 8 such receiver. The clerk wal
also ordered to see that Mr.. Wildei
qualified and gave a bond to the amount
of 81 LOCO, 900 for the faithful perform
ance of his duties as such receiver.
William Inman, a well known min
ing man of Goldfeld, takes great pleas
ure in shooting wild horses. His is thu
! pleasure of revenge. He claims that h
would now own most of the rich CAM
| Of Bovard had ID not been for a band o
| wild horses that lured his horses ava,
while he was prospecting a claim tina
is now one of the best at Bovard. Will
his horses zone he could not carry
water to the claim and was forced tt
seek the nearest camp. He could no
venture out again until Spring. wher
he found others had relocated hi
claims and had struck rich pay streak
after a few days prospecting.
Suit has been brought by Stampe Jen
sen and Henry Anderson against Mar
tin Pradere. a prominent sheepraise
Of Humboldt County. asking for dam
ages in the sum of sss. OO0. The plain
tiffs allege they leased land from tn
Southern Pacific Railroad and Will,
they were in possession Of such lant
Pradere trespassed on it with his shee]
thereby destroying the pasture an'
rendering it wholly unfit for grazing 70
their cattle. The suit is important a
it marks a revival of the old trouble be
tween the sheep and cattle men of tn
State. There has been considerabl
feeling between them for some time an
this is one Of the results.