The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-08-14
Nevada State News

Pahrump last month.
DIR. ]. L. johnson fell from q ladder
in the Duplex Extension mine at Search
light last week and dropped 20 feet. re-
ceiving injuries from which he died the
following day.
On account of the reduced freight
rate on coal by the Southern Pacific OF
one dollar per ton, the coal dealers OF
winnemuccs have reduced prices from
si2 to s11 per ton.
A baseball tournament with the teams
Of Austin, Manhattan and Round Noun
tain competing. is one Of the sporting
events promised for the near future,
says the Round Mountain Nugget.
The electric light plant installed by
the Southern Pacific Company at Carlin
was put In operation for the first lime
Wednesday evening and has changed
the appearance of the town until it looks
like o real city.
Joe Eason, a well known resident Of
Austin, was accidentally thrown from
the seat of a four.horse wagon Monday
on the grade between town and the de-
not and run over. His ribs were caved
in and he died while being removed to
town.
John Samara, O Mexican, stabbed
Johnnie Rolston, an Indian, to death at
Lovelock August 6. The killing is said
to be the result of a quarrel over the
price of a bottle of whisky the Mexican
tried to sell to the Indian. Samara was
arrested.
Senator George s. Nixon, the Re-
publican Senator from Nevada. altar
spending a number of days at his home
at Lake Tahoe, left for New York, and
from there will sail for Europe. where
he intends to spend several months.
He will tout through England. France.
| Germany, Spain and Italy while away.
Judge Langan made au order direct
ing the receiver of the Nye & Ormsby
| County Bank to accept an offer OF $4,000
from the Dangberg Company for the
fixtures of the bank branch office in
Reno, consisting of vault doors. safe de-
post boxes and other furniture now in
place i n the bank. Frank Golden stated
that the fixtures cost between $4,000 and
$4,000, but that he considered the price
offered a fair figure.
Indian Tom. a Piute hunter. while in
the hills near Ely last week. found the
decomposed body of Ralph Hart lying
in q small canyon, with the clothes
nearly all torn from the body. The
mans pockets had been turned inside
out and there was evidence of robbery
and foul play. This is the third body
found in this locality in the past few
months, and it is believed that all three
men were murdered and robbed.
The officers of Ely and Riepetowl
have requested the mine owners to ge
rid of their Austrian laborers. The.
claim that the Austrians are Away
fighting among themselves and tina
they have more trouble with Austrian
aud Greeks than with the laborers o
other nationalities. Last week foul
Austrians held up a country man name'
Frank Rozan and gave him a fearfn
beating aud then robbed him. Two o
the Austrians have been arrested.
Representative Of mining machiner
firms from Chicago, Reno and othe
cities have been In Austin figuring wit
the chief engineer of the Austin Mar
haitian Company on the entire equiv
ment for a producer gas plant for mir
ing and milling purposes. The plan
d contemplated is to have a capacity {
400 horsepower and will use as fut
either coal or California crude oil. Tn
o company will its decision o
II bids soon after August 20.
q Louis j. Cohn. Register of the Govern
ment Land Office at Carson City, hs
notified 20 settlers on the Truckee-Cai
a son Irrigation Project, in Church,
q County, that their homestead eDtrit
have been Cancelled because they hav
failed to pay two of their installment
:, for Government water. These settler
have just completed building new home
and putting their fields in shape to pre-
duce, aud hoped to have the time
payment extended. but the Governmer
d has refused to give them any extensio
of time and has ordered their hom'
steads cancelled summarily.
I'll Reno has a murder mystery. TIL
body OF R. ]. Little was found SatuI
day morning in an ~irrigating ditch nei
the residence of Senator Nixon. II
a had been hot through the head and b
" skull had been crushed with a rocl
. Little was employed by the InterOa
tional Protective Association, a LAY
and commercial agency having office
in San Francisco He was a compari
tive stranger in Reno and no motive fe
the crime is known. except it be tha
he was in possession Of papers that b
murderers wanted. His shoes had bee
taken off and his hat torn to pieces. bu
otherwise his clothing had not been ms
Tested. Officers are working on tn
case. Init at last reDorts thew had n