The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-09-18

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To maintain White Pine County on q
cash basis. the Commissioners have been
granted permission to borrow 10000.
The assessment roll Of Storey County
year amounts to 81 ,502,4sS.s9. This,
the Virginia Chronicle says, is healthy
increase over last year.
S. NJ. Jamison. one OF Reno's Oldest
residents, and q pioneer Of the State
died September s. He was q native Of
Indiana, Penn. aged "a years.
Mrs. Minnie A. Bertsch. a second cousin
OF President Arthur, has been committed
to the State asylum from Reno, her mind
having become unbalanced i've religion
Mark G. Bradshaw. Q Lucky Boy en-
gineer, has given an aeroplane OF his
own construction successful test, fyine
IL miles along the shore Of Walker
Lake.
Esmeralda County's tax roll for 1905
foots up 81, 487 ,391, . falling off Of $780,.
2S6 from the assessment Of last year
The loss is almost wholly on property IL
Gold6eld.
The Virginia & Truckee Railroad ha,
completed plans for placing a motor cal
on its line, to be used for trips to points
on the road where q steam train would
be too expensive.
Sam G. Durham will soon leave Ely
for New York City where he will become
the editor Of the Mining and Financial
News. vice Merrill A. league, who has
been compelled to relinquish the posi-
ton on account OF his health.
Mrs. Melinda Robinson, a coloree
lady. over a hundred years of age, died
at Winnemucca on the 9th inst. She
was born a slave in Madison County
Kentucky, on August IL, 1900 and wal
thus 100 years OF age at the time of hel
death.
The Commissioners OF Ormsby Count.
have ordered the District Attorney to be-
gin suit against the bondsmen Of County
Clerk Patterson to recover $l9,477 81
county money deposited iu the Nye q
Ormsby County Bank at the time Of it
failure.
BY the accidental overturning OF
lamp, the home of Francis McNulty, 4
prominent lawyer Of Goldfield. was de
stroyed this week and McNulty was SC
badly burned that he Is still confined tc
the hospital. His face and hands wers
horribly burned by the explosion.
Mrs. ]. G. Cash, chief telephone
operator at Reno, is recovering from
poison contained in a bottle of wine sen
her by an unknown man, who signed
himself "Your Admirer." Enough
strychnine was in the bottle to have
killed half q dozen. The police have nc
clue
The Chronicle says that two new
stores opening in Virginia City THU
month and a monthly pay roll Of between
$40. 900 and 100000 show which way
the wind is blowing on the old lode
There is not an old Nevadan who would
not like to see Virginia City take or al
of its old time glory.
George S. Hall, receiver Of the Nyt
and Ormsby County Bank, has presented
his resignation TO Judge Langan in the
Ormsby County District Court. He hal
failed to transact any business and car
not continue in the position. Probably
ex. Governor j. w. Adams will be ap
pointed to take his place.
Grace Earl, the woman tried in Vir
ginia City last week on the charge o
enticing a girl to her Gradnervlile den
was acquitted by the jury. The CIR
swore that she had not been entice'
away from home by the defendant, bu
went to G~ardnerville of her own fire.
will. The case cost Storey Count.
about $1,000.
1t is announced that H. v. Morehous
OF Goldfeld is out for United State
Senator to succeed George s. Nixon
M~orehouse has been mixed up in Cali
fornia politics. with more or less success
and went into Gold6eld on the top wav
OF the boom. 1t is said all effort Is bein|
made to draw George Wingfield into tn
fight against his former partner.
Two car loads Of three and four-year
old horses. weighing from 1900 to 140O
which sold at $40 per head, were shippet
to Omaha the other day from Lovelock
They were Percherons and Clydesdsl'
aud were raised on the old Button rancl
about 70 miles north of Winnemucca
None OF the horses had eve had a haltei
on.
The survey Of the Ely-Goldfield Rail
road has been completed and it is stat
ed by john Ryan Of the Tonopah ant
Ii .ewater Railroad that the work o.
construction will soon commence. Tbt
surveying parties were paid off in Gold
field last week. and it now only remains
for the construction engineers to com
m snce their work.
j. A.. Yerington Of Carson is reported
to have purchased the 250 ton smelteI
that was shipped out from the East q