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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-02-06
TELEPHONE SYSTEM TO
SUCCEED THE TELEGRAPH
Southern Pacific Will Equip Its
Coast Division Lines With
New System

San Francisco, February lie. L.
Calvin, vice. president aud general
manager Of the Southern Pacific, re-
oeived authority yesterday from Julius
Kruttschnitt, director of maintenance
and operation Of the Hartman lines.
to install on the line between Salinas
and Santa Barbara, CAL. q telephone
instead Of q telegraphic service.
Material has been gathered here In
anticipation Of the appropriation being
granted, and work is to be commenced
at once upon installing the service
which will be the most complete of any
railroad 10 the country. and after the
line between Salinas aud Santa Barbara
is finished the rest Of the system will
be equipped with telephone lines.
j. H. Young. general superintendent,
in speaking Of the work. said:
There is everything to be said In its
favor. We shall spare no expense in
putting in . SYSTEM which is thorough
IN every particular. There Is no in.
tention of reducing any salary, and yet
al the same time. it will give the COM
pany a freer hand in the selection Of
agents. as heretofore we have been
compelled to take men who were tele-
graphers.
1.-THE dispatcher's office will be
equipped with o head aud breast in
strument. and in addition will have a
~selector, by which the dispatcher will
be able to call up any number Of officers
by keeping a gong going until he re.
ceives an answer. which will be loud
enough to be heard all over the station
grounds.
''This selector is 50 arranged that the
dispatcher can tell whether the bell has
sounded in the office he is ringing up,
and also whether the telegraph train
order signal board has been placed q,
the stop position. The telephone ID
worked in the same way as the tele.
graph. Another advantage over the
telegraph 10 that the telephone Is moi
affected by fogs.
"In addition to regular telephone Of
fees all conductors will carry tele'
phones which will enable them to com
municate with any office by attaching
the phone to a dispatcher's wire. which
can be done by means of a staff"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-02-06
News Notes From Ruby Hill

The Ruby Hill Mercantile Company
has Just received two carloads Of coal.
The best coasting this Winter is now
being enjoyed by the young folks. and
the track is thronged nightly.
Miss Meister and her brother Of New.
ark Valley were visiting their brother.
Herman, who is employed here. last
Sunday.
The heavy winds Of the past few
days blew down some Of our old out
houses. 1t was the heaviest wind ex.
perienced this year..
Miss Jeanette McNaughton enter.
timed Thursday night, and Miss Annie
Flavin Saturday night, in honor OF
Miss Evelina Matson, who is visiting
here.
A sleighride party. followed by q
sumptuoas spread. was given Friday
night in honor Of the Misses Eve and
Estella Mayberry. who are visiting
here.
Harry Richards has purchased the
Callahan house down in the canyon.
1t is being painted and papered. aud
Mr.. Richards will move into it as soon
as the work is finished.
The Richmond. Eureka Co. has gone
back to it's Summer schedule again.
which means an hour of at moo in
stead Of half an hour. This brings the
quitting time to 8 o'clock. The change
is due to the fact that the days are now
longer.
The e. & p. ore trains had two acci
dents last week. Friday night as tn,
train was coming mp to Ruby Hill thu
engine ran of the track, and mer
worked all night and part of the mex
morning getting it back. Saturday Of
ternoon the heavy wind blew one Of tn,
snow fences down on the track, and Al
an ore train was coming up it ran into
the fence and knocked one of the carr
off the track. 1t took the greater par
Of the night to get it back.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-02-06
In Interest Of Wage Farmers

The SENTINEL has received from
Richard Busted, an attorney OF Search
light, Lincoln County. o copy OF a blu
which he says he believes should d
made into law by the present Legisla'
ture ON behalf the wage carriers oil the
State. The bill follows:
Section 1. In all actions hereafter
brought in any Of the justice courts OF
the State Of Nevada by an employe Tor
the recovery of wages claimed to be
due. il the plaintiff in such action shall
Judgment he shall be entitled
Co and shall recover, in adcs.ion to the
amount for which he shall obtain judg-
ment, an attorney fee Of $40. provided
that he is represented in such action by
an attorney-at-law admitted to practice
in the courts Of record ofthe State oil
Nevada.
Section 2. In addition to such attor.
ney fee, the plaintiff in such actions
shall be entitled to and recover as
damages against the defendant II
addition to any judgment he may re.
cover against the defendant. a sum to
b. fixed by the justice before whom the
action Is tried, not to exceed four
dollars per diem for each and every day.
inclusive, from the day such action is
commenced until Judgment is rendered.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-02-06
Data For the Year 1909

The following data about the new
year will be read with interest by
many:
The year 1909 Numbers 1855 days. and
comprises the latter part of the 1880
and the beginning of the l34th year OF
American independence. 1t corre-
spends to the year 1922 Of the Julian
period and the year $500 5670 Of the
Jewish era.
During the year 1909 there will be
four eclipses-two of the sun and two
Of the moon. There will be a total
eclipse of the moon June 3. visible to
only a portion of this continent; a total
eclipse of the sun June IL, visible to
nearly all of North America; a total
eclipse of the moon November 81, visi-
BILE to North America; a partial eclipse
of the sun December IL 10, invisible to
the United States.
W~ashington's birthday falls on Mon
day; Memorial day and Independence
day fall on Sunday. Labor day will be
celebrated September 6. Thanksgiving
falls on November %.
Shrove Sunday comes February 2l;
Ash Wednesday, February "a; first
Sunday in Lent, February %; Palm
Sunday. April 4; Good Friday. April 0;
Easter Sunday. April II; Low Su nday,
May 16, Rogation Sunday. May IS;
Ascension day. May 20; Pentecost.
Whit Sunday. May 30; Trinity Sunday.
June s.; First Sunday in Advent, No.
vember 2S; Christmas, Saturday. De-
csmber %.
Spring begins March 81. Summer be-
gins June 81, Autumn begins Septem.
Der 90. Winter begins December 20.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-02-06
STOCK BROKERS
WORST GAMBLERS
Ole Elliot Says if Faro Goes So
Will Nevada Mining Stock
Manipulators

San Francisco Chronicle. February /:
An idea Of the possible campaign
which will be wsged by the gambling
element of Nevada against the proposed
bill to close the gambling houses was
given out last night by Ole Elliot Of
Goldfeld at the Hotel Stanford. where
he is making a short stay. Elliot Is
one of the biggest gambling men Of the
State, as well as a prominent mine
owner, and he is rated at several times
a millionaire. He was formerly a
mariner of Tex Richard in the Northern
of Goldfeld, and in other properties in
Ely and different camps Of the State.
s.If any such bill as that goes through,
we will do what we can to close every
brokerage house in the State" declared
Elliot. There are no worse gambling
houses in the country than some OF the
mining exchanges. OF course, we
won't have anything to do with them,
but we'll close out all the brokers in
Nevada if we are able to do so. II
their bill doesn't cover the proposition
thoroughly enough, well introduce
another that will.
"Froelich sold $4,000 shares Of Rick
ard Ely in Reno at 80. when there were
only $4,000 shares out. l bought him
NJ and sold at more than go. He could
deliver me only 5000 shares. He closed
up his business and went to New York.
If q gambling house had tried any such
shady work as that everybody con.
nected with IL would be breaking rocks
now.
"What do you think would happen If
you went into my gambling house and
won a few thousand, and l said, III
owe that to your / know what would
happen; you'd shoot me full of holes.
The b~rokerages and bucket shops are
the only places in Nevada where that
sort of high-handed business can go on.
Why doesn't somebody talk about a
bill to close them out? Do those buck
ct shops do any good? They rob a lot
of poor people, that's what they do"
Elliot was a defeated candidate for
the Senate at the last election. He lost
out in Goldfeld by a very small vote,
and still has a large following. Iu the
event of a fight at Carson over the clos
ing of the gambling houses, he will be
one of the men to whom the gamblers
will look for advice and support.
Nevada is now the only State in the
Union where all forms of gambling
are licensed. There is an organized
movement against the gamblers going
on, under the name Of the Anti Gam
bling League. The attorney of the
league, Charles r. Levers, has made it
public that a bill will be introduced in
the Legislature providing for the clos
ing of all games of chance in the Sage.
brush State.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-02-06

Sacramento Bee: The inestimable value of wireless telegraphy
in emergencies at sea was illustrated strikingly last week in the
case Of the White Star passenger steamship Republic, which went
to the bottom of the Atlantic a $ the result of a collision with the
Florida, another passenger steamship, in a fog off the Massachu-
sets coast BY wireless messages the Republic summoned seven
other steamships to her aid, some of them from a distance of hun
dreds of miles, and also communicated with New York, giving news
of the disaster and the situation from hour to hour. The result
was that all ON board the doomed ship were saved, and the passen-
gers and crew of the crippled Florida, which vessel was in a
dangerous condition, were safely transferred to one Of the inbound
liners. Wireless telegraphy is certainly one of the most wonder
full inventions Of a marvellous age. 1t also is likely to prove one OF
the most useful in a commercial way, as well as for marine pur-
poses.
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prises in Nevada. and to date has had
to consider this investment anything
but q good one. The point is made
that if he can be induced to grant a fiat
rate Of six dollars a ton on ore from
Gold6eld to his Jerome. ARIZONA,
smeltsr. it will mean a haul Of one cent
q mile and furnish his smelter with
silicious ores which he can use to
advantage.
The bill dividing Lincoln County and
creating the new county of Clark has
passed both houses and awaits the
Governors signature. The Governor
will within ten days appoint three
County Commissioners. who will ap.
point county officers. Las Vegas is
named as the county seat. The new
county will have one Senator and two
Assemblymen.
Ia a letter to the public the members
of the Board of Regents deny that the
Board intends to ask for the resignation
Of President j. E. Stubbs of the Univer.
sity of Nevada. as has been repeatedly
reported in the papers of this State. In
this letter, which is signei by Regents
John Sunderland. Frank Williams, A.
A. Codd. O. B. Henderson aud j. j.
Sullivan. the Regents declare that they
- xDan ntNooa6 Nth fhn a1-,tstro
ton of DIR. Stubs In the University of
Nevada and that they intend to carry
out the many recommendations he has
made. They state further that they in
tend to call for a higher standard in the
college. and will ask the Legislature to
make the appropriations recommended
by the Governor and by DR.. Stubs.
One of the most important matters
transporting at Carson this week was
the adoption Of a resolution by the
Assembly on Monday co graduating
the California Legislature for it's stand
against the Japanese, recommending
that California do not recede from its
position aud push through all japanese
so far introduced. and GEN.
sures President Roosevelt for his at
tempt to prohibit the California Legis-
in its action. The bill was re-
ferred to Committee OF the Whole and
was dwelt on at length by Mr.. Gifsn.
Speaker Of the House. who introduced
the resolution. and by Mr.. Dodge. who
Is a strong defender Of President Roose-
welt. IL was plainly evident that MI.
was not satisfied with that part
Of the resolution referring to the Chief
but it was finally agreed to
report it back to the House f~avorably.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-02-06
ISSUED WORTHLESS STOCK
Secretary of Beleher Mining Co. Missing
After Having Robbed Investors

After Having Koooeo tnNestofs
San Francisco, January 30.-Frank
E. Dietz, secretary Of the Belcher Min
ing Company. whose property consists
of one of the old Comstock mines. 10
accused in a statement issued by the
directors to-day of having perpetrated
an extensive fraud whereby many in
vestors will suffer.
Dietz, why left home over q week
ago., is charged with having issued
%, 500 shares Of worthless stock, upon
which he is alleged to have collected
$1,000 monthly in assessments over a
period of several years.
The discovery, according to the re-
ports made public to-day, was made by
a board of directors which recently se-
cured the holdings of Senator New.
lands of Nevada and the Sharon family.
which controlled the property. Dietz
had been secretary of the company for
Is years, and when the transfer was
about to be made Bert Schlessinger, as
attorney for Dietz. notified E. B. Stur-
gis, who had just acquired control of
the mine, that his client had issued the
fraudulent stock. The missing official
is given credit for having made
thousands of dollars through his opera
tons. and criminal proceedings are
threatened by the new management OF
the company.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-02-06
PROTECTS SHEEP FROM COYOTES
Automatic Shotgun IL Is Claimed VIII
Save Sheepmen Many SleepIess Nights

Automatic Shotgun IL Is Claimed Will
Save ~Sheepmen Many ~Sleepless Nights
The Utah Coyote Automatic shotgun
was recently on exhibition in the office
Of the Overland hotel, says the Reno
Gazette. Its name is fairly indicative
Of its nature, although its function is
merely to brighten, not to kill. the pes
tiferous varmints that q the sheep
man many o sleepless night.
The gun" which was exhibited by
p. J. O'Carroll of the Salt Lake Hard
ware Company. looks more like an old
fashioned lantern than it does like Its
own name. But it fires a 12-gauge
shotgun shell. blank, every hour for IL
hours, the shells being fred one after
the other by q clockwork mechanism.
The idea of the gun, as worked out
by its practical use among the sheer
men Of Utah and Idaho, is to hang mp,
say, four Of them on the four sides Of
Landing camp and set them 10 minute,
apart. Then the herder drops of
peacefully to sleep and the camp be
comes the center of a circle Of large
automatic noises for the rest Of the
night-the shots following u another
in rot ,tion around the circle. TIT
large. black powder shells make a bril-
liant flash in the darkness; aud any
one familiar with the ways of the
"outcast of the ranges" will know tina
he will avoid demonstrations Of tina
sort religiously.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-02-06
MINE FRACTION HUNTERS
. Glass Who Are a Decided
Menace and Injure Any
Mining Community


thing of the past. This refers literally
to that class of men who defaced To-
cation notices. shifted monuments and
staked out claims where others had
prior and legal rights. The practice
has to a great extent passed into OBJ.
livion for the reason that it too fire.
quently led to the choice of a neck-tie
party or a hike over the desert without
any possibility of a return ticket.
Too frequently. and wrongfully, the
men who relocate claims after midnight
ON December 81 are referred to as claim
jumpers. although they are acting
clearly within their legal rights.
The law allows an entire year for the
performance Of 800 worth of assess
ment work. which neal 20 days labor
for the locator of a claim. This he can
do himself or hire some one else to do
it, at the prevalent scale.
It's a pretty poor sort of a ~prospector
who is unable in the course of a years
time to grubstake himself for 20 days
labor a grubstake-an ample one at
that-would not amount to more than
$50, and in a pinch could be brought
considerably below that figure.
But the wheel, the faro layout, the
crap or twenty-one game. or perhaps
red eye, holds too many destinations
and the few paltry dollars needed for
the grubstake is frittered away, so
when December 81 rolls around the
assessment work remains undone and
under the operation of the law the
claim reverts to the Government. This
neglect on the part of the original To-
Gator amounts to abandonment and any
one is clearly within their rights in re.
locating and should not in any sense be
classed as claim jumpers.
But there is a class whose numbers
are constantly increasing and who are
a decided menace to any new mining
community. These are the fraction
hunters. They ''toil not, neither do
they spin" They simply wait until q
strike has been made, claims staked
out. development work progressing and
the work Of interesting capital under
way. Then along they come with
square. compass and tripod hunting
out fractions. so small as to scarce at.
ford room for sinking a shaft. In fact,
it would appear that the smaller the
fraction the better it suits these hun.
tiers. They have not the slightest pur-
pose of development, even if the frac.
ton afforded room for the work.
They stick up their monuments, dig a
hole in the ground and then sit back
and await the development Of the
district.
Under the operation Of existing laws
they stand on secure legal ground and
cannot be disturbed. Sometimes, when
these hunters are lucky, these fractions
are at the very mouth of a shaft or
tunnel of claims where legitimate work
of development is in progress.
The moment capital becomes inter.
ested, the fraction hunter begins his
systematic system of hold-up. with re.
salt that he gets a fancy price for a
piece OF ground that absolutely pos.
sesses no intrinsic value, or else. as is
more frequently the case. the fraction
hunter. with his exorbitant demands,
drives capital out of the district .-Love.
lock Review.
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Lost Boy Wanted

Sheriff Mahoney this week received a
circular making inquiry for a 14-year-old
boy named Fred Draper. also a half
tone picture. aud a description Of him.
He left Atlantic. Cass County. Iowa,
August 4. 1908. The Sheriff Of that
county and the father of the lad say
they believe he is in some part Of the
State of Nevada.
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Presbyterian Church Notice

Services will be held at the Presby
terrain Church in Eureka every Sunday,
as follows:
Sermon at II a. m. and 7 p. m.
Sunday School at 1890 p. m.
Prayer Meeting on Wednesday
evenings at z o'clock.
Services will be held at Ruby Hill on
Tuesday evenings at 2 o'clock.
Every person is cordially invited to
all services.
ANGUS MATHEsoN, Pastor.
So tiny are some of the screws used
ia watches that an ordinary thimble
will hold 10. 900 Of them.
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Gard of Thanks

We desire to extend our sincere
thanks to all those who kindly assisted
US during the illness and death of ouI
late husband and father.
MRS. WILLIAM QUICK,
Mr.. AND Mrs. RICHARD JURY.
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Nursing and Sewing Wanted

I will 20 out nursing by the day. or
take care Of patients at my home; and
will also do sewing at home. OF go out
by the day.
MRS. j. B. BUFFHAM.
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INDIGENTs.
ORDERED. That the following sums Of money
be allowed the following named INDECENT per.
Notice Of Horses Shipped

Over the Eureka & Pslisads Railway on
January 26. 1909, from Hay Ranch Station to
Grand Island, Colorado, by T. L. Hall. over
the Z. & P. in cars initiated and numbered %
apdi30. Animals inspected So.
One mare branded "a on left shoulder.
Three mares branded I'll connected on left
shoulder.
One horse branded JP connected on left
shoulder.
One horse branded quarter circle over z OH
left shoulder.
One horse branded quarter circle over P on
left shoulder.
One horse branded JP connected on left
thigh.
Two mares branded 20 on left shoulder.
One mare branded X on left shoulder.
One mare branded half cir,le over dot on
left thigh.
One horse branded v over quarter circle on
left shoulder.
Fifteen horses not branded.
Inspected by NJ. MAHosEY,
Sheriff Of Eureka County, Nevada.
By VIM. Hammond, Deputy.
Statement No. GO.
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BORN.

At Palisade. Eureka County, Nevada, Jan
uary 20, 1909, to the wife Of j. w. Ebert, a
daughter.
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Location notices and legal blanks for
sale at the SENTINEL office.
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MEETING ON FEBRUARY 1, 1909
ORDTRED, That the following sums Of
money be allowed the following named per.
sons. respectively, to-wit,
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-25
SIX SUITS TO
RECOVER ON OLD NOTES.
Assets Of the Norman Estates of Led
yard Which Were Supposed to Be
Destroyed

Suits for foreclosure of mortgages,
which are Of more than ordinary in
terest to the legal fraternity, are about
to begin in the superior court. Six
different suits win be brought, but the
evidence in each one is practically
identical. The suits are brought by
an heir to the old Norman estates in
Ledyard.
The Norman family, consisting OF
2 man and his two sisters, left sew
eral years -ago an estate valued at a
large sum. The property included Sc
curities and notes. A man named Stod-
dard, who had lived with the family
for years, was with the last of the
survivors, after whose death he dis
appeared.
Some Of the papers were in his pos
session. Later he reappeared in Led
yard and lay claim to the notes and
securities, which he held saying that
members of the family had given them
to him. There was not an assignment
in legal form, and he afterward, after
being arrested and held in Jail for
some time for trial, turned the papers
over to Costello Lippitt OF this city,
who was executor Of the estate.
The notes were secured by mort
cages on farms In Ledyard and Cen
ter Groton, but for years no interest
had been paid on them. Persons on
whose property were the mortgages
said that the Normans had told them
there need be no further attention
paid to the obligations, that the notes
would be destroyed. A Mr.. Norman,
beneficiary Of the old family, now
seeks to foreclose the mortgages and
has brought six suits
The mortgages are on record and
nothing is given to show that they
have been paid off. The deceased
Normans. evidently thinking nobody
would care TO bring the foreclosure
suits, II they really intended that the
mortgages should not be paid up. had
taken no legal means of signdfying
their intentions. Nothing is given to
show that they felt as the persons
now named as defendants in the suits
say they did.
The plaintiff is supposed to have
possession of the notes given by the
people who are now made defendants.
A New London attorney who has been
consulted by the defendants says he
cannot hope to express an opinion on
the cases until further Investigation.