The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-12-11

United States officers in Lyon County
are hot on the trail OF q Mexican who is
wanted in Yerington for being concerned
in the stabbing Of IN Indian in that city
on Sunday. As near as al be learned
two Mexicans had a quarrel over q squaw,
and in the mixup the Indian was stabbed
in the back. The Mexicans separated.
one going down the river and the other
mp. One was captured at Schurz Mon
day morning, but the other is still at
large. Indians are assisting in running
him down, and his capture is only a
question Of time.
Tonopah Miner: A short time 9 a
man by the name Of Deaner blew into
Tonopah in search of miners to work on
the Little Amador mine at Amador City,
California. By offering inducements Of
higher wages than is usually paid to
miners and muckers in California, on the
ground that he preferred Colorado miners
to all others. he succeeded in gathering
together a band o. 10 men, IA from Tono-
pah and five from Goldfeld. A report
Just received from that mine states that
all but one OF this picked" crew have
been discharged and are now looking for
employment.
Because ranch life had become dis
tasteful, and with the demands Of her
father that she return to her farm home
ringing in her ears, Ivy Belle Lewis, q
years of age. daughter of Charley Lewis
of Jacks Valley. swallowed s%trychnine in
Carson December 8. A week ago the
girl left home. saying that she was tired
of the daily ~drudgery that her life de-
manded, and declaring that she was go
ing to the city TO find the pleasure tbs
ranch could not give her. She came t.
Carson to the home OF a friend, and hac
been living with her.
Frank r. Nicholas, State Engineer
has been named as d~efendent in a sui
brought in the district court at Phoebe
through II. s. Laney. attorney for vii
liam p. Nebeker and Thomas McKeon
1t appears by the complaint that th'
State Engineer granted a permit to thu
plaintiffs to appropriate the waters o
Cherry, Pine and Cottonwood creeks
but after ward, for reasons stated at TIN
time, revoked the order. The plaintiff
claim that they had already gone to con
} siderable expense and they now sue t.
compel the State official to withdraw hi
! order OF revocation.
; Threatened with eviction from the no
J tel where he has been staying with hi
bride, because he could not pay his bill
, Captain w. A. johnson, one OF the best
known mining experts in the profession
I took cyanide Of potassium and was foun'
= dead in a room at the Belmont Hotel a
= Salt Lake. Captain Johnson was former
ly manager of the mining property OF tn
Guggenheims in Nicaragua and Soutl
America. served Cecil Rhodes in Soutl
e Africa, and made a brilliant record in tn
. Boer war under the British flag. He !
said to have put a large fortune into
8 group OF mining clsims at Yerington. Ne
r vada. His widow wal formerly a schoo
1 teacher at Yerington.
Interest that is being aroused through
9 out southern Nevada by the discovery o
artesian water in the valley in which La
4 Vegas is located. says the Searchligh
| Bulletin, is but a response to q move
e ment all over the State at the presen
t time to put much OF the arid but fertil'
lands Of the desert to some practical use
: Water is the key that will unlock tn,
wealth of the soil. and it is coming to b
: a recognized fact that in many places il
the desert, where there are no signs o
water, are plentiful subterranean streams
and reservoirs that may be tapped to thu
, enrichment of the tiller OF the soil. ant
incidentally to the material improvement
Of economic conditions Of the State.