The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-10-16

Nlcnoiae, state Enkihccfs tof oo'otn~''
Howard Pepper. q saloon keeper. was
shot and killed at Atlanta, Lincoln
County. Nevada. Monday night. BY his
wife in q domestic quarrel. Pepper was
q member Of the Roosevelt Rough Riders
in the Spanish American war.
w. H. Edwards, q prominent mining
man Of Reno, has commenced . suit
against Julian Little and the Nixon Ma
tional Bank for $4,000 due him, he
claims, on q mining deal made some
months ago. Shares Of the Goldeo Gate
Mining Company and valuable mining
property in the West Walker river are
involved.
Steve Lunter, an Austrian, WA shot
10 the head and leg during . fght in the
Austrian quarter at Magill. near Ely.
Thursday morning. He was removed to
the county hospital, where the wounds
were dressed by DIR. Abbott. The man
will recover. The fight was the result OF
a drunken brawl, in which . number Of
his countrymsn took part
Angered because Of being put off the
cars, q hobo singled out ]. NJ. Heaton,
freight and ticket agent at Las Vegas
Tuesday and stabbed him in the abdo-
men. The fellow then ran down TO the
creek aud attempted to end his " life
by first slashing his throat aud then
jumping into the creek. Heaton. whose
condition is critical was hurried to Los
Angeles for treatment.
Fred Skinner who was sentenced to
life imprisonment at the State peniten-
tiary for the murder Of Elizabeth Heskitt.
alias Mona Bell, ct Rhyollte, has been
granted q new trial by the State Supreme
Court. 1t was claimed Judge O'Brien
erred in his instructions to the jury and
therefore the case was remanded back
| for a new trial. The former case Of the
| State versus Skinner cost Nye County
| about s14. 900 and considerable amount
of time.
p. Watts, the miner who fell down the
shaft of the Fitchett property at Gold
field more than q week ago. died of his
injuries. Watt was not only q miner,
but a mine owner, and was at n time
quite wealthy. He was riding in q
bucket, being lifted to the top Of the shalt,
when something went wrong and he was
thrown to the bottom Of the shalt. His
friends expected to find him dead, but
after being taken to the hospital he re-
gained consciousness and for a time II
was thought that he would live.
A Gold6eld dispatch says the Goldfeld
Consolidated Mines Company will i'm.
mediately begin the installation Of seven
Chilean ~six-foot mills within the biz
building Of the company's reduction
works. This will tend to increase the
output of the Consolidated mill from CSC
to 900 tons per day. The value Of thu
ore handled will be increased at leas
81 500 900 per year. With the addition
: of these Chilean mills the Gold6eld Con
solidated mill will become the creates
producing mill in the world.
Word from Las Vegas. tn
county seat Of the newly organized count!
Of Clark. in the lower part OF this State
that Reno is likely to have there
worthy competition for the divorce bust
ness now coming to Nevada from othe
States. 1t is related that at the first Sos
sion of the new county's District Cour
there were Is divorce cases fled. Man.
Of these are said to be of outside couple
, who. finding Las Vegas will give then
less notoriety, stop there. the town beinl
easy Of access by rail.
A special train carrying more than s.
business men and prospective home
seekers Of Tonopah left that city Satur
day en- route to Las Vegas. where the,
intend to take up land for agriculturs
purposes. Recently Q number of we'll
have been bored in the vicinity Of Dealt
Valley junction and . large flow Q
artssian water has been struck. This |
irrigating hundreds of acres Of fertil
land, and it is believed that the deser
will sool be turned into productive fsrma
; More wells are nov being bored.
n John Ryan, general manager Of th'
Tonopah and Tidewster Railroad. wa
, the victim Of serious accident Monday
whereby he sustained two compoun'
fractures OF the arm aud one Of the leg
by falling from . train en- route to Oak
land. California. from Ludlow. Rya
was a member Of q party composed Of +
NJ. Smith, the "Borsx King" Mrs
Smith and their children, who were re
farming from their Summer home q
Shelter island. His condition 10 serious
The injuries are, however. confined t
the fractures and. unless complication
ensue, the patient has every chance 10
q complete recovery.
Every day sees increased activity an
new finds on the Oomstock, and it is no,
believed that the old camp. which one
!, !, was the banner camp Of the world. vii
soon be again ct the head OF all minin|
cities. The wonderful new strike on tn
2,300-foot level Of the Mexican continue
to increase In value, and Q new vein o