The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-10-30

Washoe County's assessment roh ioi
1909 foots up s15. s59.675. an increase Of
s272, $50 over last year.
Mrs. George B. Thatcher was seriously
injured at Tonopah Tuesday By being
thrown from a horse which suddenly
bolted with her.
The assessment roll Of Humboldt
County as passed by the Board oil Equal
,zation foots up 1882. 2s5. gain oil
$500, O4O over the 1908 roll.
f. W. Clapp. district freight and PAS
senger agent Of the Southern Pacific at
Reno has been promoted and will leave
the first OF the month for Fresno. Cali
fornis.
Humboldt County criminal cases have
been postponed two weeks. until a new
grand Jury can act, the legality oil the
first having been annuled by faulty
drawing.
The FIRST new post Office to be establish
ed on the Western Pacific Railroad in
washoe County is to be located at Ger
ZACH. the division terminal 100 miles west
OF Winnemucca.
Nick Cerkos. aged 10, drowned in a
hot spring st Gerlacb. Washoe County,
last week. He did not know its depth OF
80 feet when he jumped in, and being
unable to swim wentdown.
Reno's mayor has vetoed an ordinance
recently passed raising saloon licenses
and making various restrictions, on the
Qrorpd that he does not believe it had
sufficient consideration before adopted.
Mrs. Ellen Raycraft. who has run a
hotel in Genoa, Nevada, for half a CEN
fury, was 81 years old last week and pre-
pared q dinner for IL people, just to show
her daughter that she is still on the sun
ny side Of life.
Frank Webb. who was convicted at
Reno OF robbing A. L. Hammontree and
M. Victor, and Who was accused oil shoot
ing Jack Monroe, has been sentenced by
Judge Pike to serve 25 years in the Me-
vada penitentiary.
At Reno Saturday the University OF
Nevada defeated the Barbarians club OF
San Francisco by a score Of Is to 5 in the
hardest fought Rugby game ever seen on
the local campus. Nevada's passing and
rushes Offset the superiority in weight Of
the visitors. Nevada's back, Harry
Fletcher, suffered q broken hip.
James Shea, q ~wel.-known mining
man of Tonopah, was found Thursday
afternoon wandering on the desert in a
demented condition and nearly exhaust
ed. He bad started to walk from Tono-
pah to Milller's, and was intoxicated at
the time. It is believed that in this con-
dition he wandered out on to the desert
and became lost.
Eighteen sacks Of concentrates from
the Victor mill at Rawhide we're stolen
Saturday night from the freight wagon
which was to convey them to Fallonl
where they we're to have been transferred
to the railway en- route to the smelter
The concentrates we're mixed with a ship
ment of lower grade ore from the Bethe
mia property. The loss is estimated a
5000.
A. d. Meyers, who returned a few day
ago from a prolonged absence in New
York, confirms the newspaper reports o
the sale by himself and associates Of the
holding Of the Richard Ely Mining Com
pany's property at Ely. The purchaser
were the Cole Ryan syndicate, which haI
been making heavy investments in TIL
Ely field. The price paid wal $S4 900
and it was cash.
A Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, dispatcl
says that a man whom the police alleg'
is former Congressman q. Van Duzer o
Nevada, is a prisoner there. He was ar
rested at q local hotel where he stoppe'
under the name Of P. II. Harris Of Chi
cago. Three years ago Van Duzer wa
there selling mining stock. 1t is allege'
that the mining stock is worthless, an
It is also alleged that he owes a hotel bi
there which he contracted on his forme
visit.
Senator Newlands visited Carson tn
past week and was in close consultatio
with II. NJ. Yerington. the veteran supel
intendent OF the Virginia and Trucke
railroad, in which the former is interest
ed. After the conference, it was give
out that there is a strong probability {
the road being extended on south frol
Minden in Carson valley to accommo
date the rich farming section in Smit
valley, Antelope valley and other part
of Lyon and Mono Counties.
Thomas Dale, an old pioneer Of tn
State, Thursday afternoon killed him
self at his home at Caliente Springs. II
had been in Goldfeld negotiating for tn
purchase OF a saloon, and had bee
drinking some. On his return to hi
home he secured q revolver and blew hi
brains out. He left no note giving
reason for his death, but it is believe
that he lost 9 great deal of money an
was respondent. He had many prom
nent friends in the Socth, and q a