The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-11-27

menced after . number OF postpone
ments.
Churn drill exploration has been start
cd on the Carson City reservoir site for
the purpose Of determining the location
Of substantial formation for dam building.
Mike Timmons suffered . dislocated
should er and W.. p. Mclean bad bruises
and cuts when . bucket dropped so feet
with them to the bottom Of Q 90-foot
shaft Of the Seven Troughs Coalition.
A. F. Cresson, . teamster. with both
legs broken by . fall from his wagon,
crawled to the latter and remounted
Twice after he was obliged to get down
to attend to his team 10 the course OF al
ten-hour drive to S~earchlight.
The grand Lodge Of Good Templers
was in session ct Starr valley, Elko
County. last week with . full representa-
tion from every lodge in the State. The
lodges Of Utah we're put in the jurisdic'
ton Of this Grand Lodge. The outlook
for the coming year is said to be very
promising.
The body Of w. NJ. Matt. who with
Evan Reese and William Bertsch was
killed several months ago by the caving
in Of the Hampton stope in the Comb
nation mine at GoldHeld, was recovered
last Wednesday night by the searchers,
who have been ct work continually since
the day Of the accident. The remains
were not IS badly mutilated as expected.
The Government has abandoned the
Walker river reclamation scheme and
the land withheld from entry will again
be thrown open to settlement. This will
probably mean the continuation OF the
work on the Alkali Lake scheme OF
Thomas Hickey in Antelope valley, which
was stopped by the Government a couple
OF years ago - interfering with its plans.
AT the quarterly meeting Of the di-
rectors of the Gold6eld Consolidated
Mines Company on November IS, besides
the regular quarterly dividend Of 80 cents
share, due January 1, 1910, an extra
dividend Of 20 cents q share was declar-
cd, due January 81. 1910. J. H. Mac
kenzie resigned as general manager. M.
r. Findley was elected his successor.
At . dance in Virginia City q few nights
& 6ve couples danced q twostep called
the Marathon" for six hours and q hall
without stopping for rest. AT l0:l5.
when the dance was called. ten or fifteen
couples started. but only five lasted un-
til A As In the morning. Several OF the
women dancers succumbed to exhaus-
fion, and it required " hours to fully
revive one fair dancer.
Fortunate Torsitano has been found
guilty by . jury Of murder in the second
degree. He will receive . sentence oil
life imprisonment. Torsitano had been
on trial several days at Reno on . charge
Of numbering Marie Favs, 9 waitress
with whom he was said to have been in
fatuated. He claimed he meant his bull
let for the cook in an Italian hotel in
that city, where the waitress worked.
William Kinder. Q miner employed In
lease OF Union No. 2 mine. fell down q
25O-foot shaft ct Manhattan November
IS and received fatal injuries. Within
ten minutes of the accident Andrew Paro'
vich. another miner. ignited severa
dynamite caps in his cabin by touching
them with q lighted candle, and received
wounds in the exslosion that followed
from which he cannot recover.
Minnie Hicks, a full blooded Indiai
girl, . graduate Of Carlisle Universit.
and employed Is . domestic in the hom'
of w. E. Lennon Of Reno. died yer,
suddenly Tuesday night and the physi
clans are unable to find vhat caused he
death. They performed an autopsy. bu
found al Of her organs in . normal con
dition. She was paralyzed from tn
waist down. The day before she hs
been treated for rheumatism.
While doing the annual work on hi
claims adjoining the Bingham Ely an
the Ely Calumet property on the mort
side Of the range near Ely. J. T. Pope
vich has encountered some ~strinRers Q
very good coal. The veins are not
sufficient width at the present time to b
considered - . paying proposition. bu
with depth it 10 probable that they wi
come together, forming . vein Of sui
ficient width u make it . proftabl
source of income.
Charles Barr. who killed Deputy Sheril
Larkin Of Humboldt County last year
has been located in the Colorado Stat
prison at Canyon City. He is serving
term Of from one to Is years for holdin
up . street car at Pueblo. 1t will be re
membered that Larkin had . warrant 70
the arrest Of Barr. and Barr shot him
Barr then mounted . horse and rod
away 1t is not known at this writin
whether Barr will be brought back 70
trial or not.
w. d. Sloane, Q brakesman in the EN-
ploy Of the Southern Pacific, was 30 80
verely injured near Winnemuccs las
week that he succumbed to his wounds
Sloane slipped on the track and his LEFT