The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-11-13

Mrs. w. +. Pierce and two children Sc
verely hurt.
University Of Nevada professors are
making q dairy survey Of the Carson val
ley for the purpose Of compiling statistics
on Its milk and butter production.
Leslie Peterson, the 11-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. X. S. Peterson. died at the
Miners Union Hospital at Tonopsh last
Tuesday evening from the effects OF an
operation for appendicitis.
Elko County's assessment roll amounts
to $lI 1925, 1858 this year as against SILL
051 ITO last year. q gain Of $774.253. The
county taxes foot up sl19. 467. Is and $7l.-
1883 will 90 to the State.
AL Talbot. the Reno sport who was
shot by his wife on October %. died Sun
day afternoon from pleuro pneumonia.
Mrs. Talbot has been in jail since the
shooting. She swooned on hearing oil
his death. A charge of murder has been
placed against her.
The United States Mining Company lie
again negotiating for the Lucky Boy and
Mountain King group of mines at Lucky
Boy, Esmerslda County. Manager OF
Mines Of the company, G. E. Allen, and
their expert, ]. Fewson Smith. r now
engaged In making a second examination
Of the properties.
The Carson News in referring to the
instructions given consulting Engineer
Leon NJ. Hall to lower the water in the
& C shaft to the 1850 station or the bot
tom Of the vertical shaft, says in conclud-
ing: "This means that the ore in the
lower workings is to be taken out and
means better times for the Comstock."
Judge Langan, Of the District Court in
Carson City, Saturday ordered Receiver
Hall, of the Nye & Ormsby County Bank,
to prepare his final report and submit
his resignation to the Court by November
Is. Hall appeared in court without at.
torneys and seemed pleased when in
formed that his resignation had been ac-
copied.
The jury in the Mobiles murder case, in
Las Vegas. Clark County. returned a
verdict Of guilty in the first degree. with
penalty fixed at life imprisonment.
James B. Noble shot and killed Arthur
Dow and badly wounded a man by the
name Of Orr on April 16 last in the
Searchlight district. Mobiles is 27 years
Of age and a native Of Tennessee.
Prof. George ]. Young, head Of the
Mackay School Of Mines at the Uni
versity Of Nevada. accompanied by Prof.
F~randsen. left Saturday evening for the
East, to be gone about ten months. They
will visit Eastern technical schools and
colleges, and then sail for Europe. where
they will make q tour Of similar institu-
tions Of the old world.
Mrs. Rosamond Lannon, 80 years Of
age. shot herself through the head Satur'
day morning at the ranch house Of Mrs.
Walker. neal Reno, where she was nurs-
ing. She used q 80 calibre revolver and
| the shot caused death. The woman left
a note for her husband who is an at
tendant at the Nevada Asylum. The
cause of her suicide is rot known.
W. N. McGill, J. W. Adams, Frank
F. Nevin and L. M. Jackson have filed
articles Of Incorporation OF the Ely Pack
ing Company with a capital of S250.000
The shares have q par value of 800 each
and the incorporators have subscribed
for 100 of them. The company is to dc
q general business in raising. preparing
and supplying meat products for the
White Pine markets.
Work Is soon to commence on large
power plants in Mono County to supply
power for an electric railroad from Coal
dale to Bodie, to connect with the Tono'
pah & Goldfeld Railroad, and also t.
furnish power for the mining camps o
Southern Nevada and California. The
water for the power plants will be taker
from Silver Lake. and will have a droE
OF 1900 feet. 1t will furnish about 49,,
600 horse power.
Green water and Furnace Creek, once
famous mining camps Of Death Valley
are inhabited now only by coyotes, ther'
being scarcely q mining man to be iount
in the entire District. 1t is considered
doubtful If the Schwab interests will evel
reopen the Greenwater, which was onc'
considered a bonanza. At 1900 fee
there is no encouragement to 60 deeper
Thousands were spent on these prop
critics and many thousands were taker
out.
After spending several months earn
ings in gambling and drinking. A. F
Kettles, q miner of Ely. secured a room
at the home of John Magnuson inthat cit,
and after going to bed, swallowed al
ounce Of ~strychnine. He was heart
struggling and gsspins in his death
agony by Msgnuson, who called:a physi
clan, but the man died before the doctor
arrived. He was Q young man and il
believed to have q brother residing in
Colorado.