The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1910-04-23

County has announced mai ne VIII DC
a candidate for the Republican nomins-
ton for L~ieutenaut-G Governor.
Geo. w. Cowing Of Carson has been
appointed a member Of the State Bank
ing Board to Gil the vacancy made by
the resignation Of Jewett W. Adams.
Bishop. California, just over the Ne
vada line, has gone dry" and all who
travel to that section must look after
their own liquid refreshments before
starting on the trip.
The Montgomery Mining Company,
owning valuable property at Rhyolite,
Nevada, adjoining the Montgomery
Shoshone, is to be r~e-organized and its
capital stock made assessable.
The two Eastern surety companies
I which guaranteed the amount OF Nye
County funds deposited in the busted
Rhyolite bank have paid over the entire
sum, $2l, 1852. to the County Treasurer.
In q quarrel oyer a feed bill and the
possession Of stable, Frank White shot
and killed Charles Black at Manhattan
Monday evening. The men had been
partners in the wood business, but dis
solved partnership several months ago.
Hank Blanchard, one Of the early pio-
neers of the Comstock, died at the
German Hospital in San Francisco Thurs
day evening. He was the David Harum
of Edward Noyes Westcott's book. West
colt was his cousin. Blanchard was
born 10 New York SO years ago.
The Reno ReveiIle, formerly owned by
John l.. Considine and James f. Haley,
State Bullion Tax Collector and editor
OF the Ely Expositor, has been incor-
porated. and John Considine and Doug
las Shelor, a former San Francisco news
paper man, are running it. 1t is now
known as the Reno Nevada Weekly, and
is an attractive little paper.
The lower end Of the Lovelock valley
is still under water to q depth OF from
two inches to three feet in places, for an
area OF six to eight square miles. The
ranchers who were forced to abandon
their homes at the time of the food have
not been able to return as yet. Many OF
the largest ranches in the lower end OF
the valley. including the Big Five, will
raise no crops this year.
While suffering from mental depres-
sion, Joe Hall Of Mountain City, Elko
County, cut his throat. He was seen to
90 into the yard in the rear OF his store and
not returning was looked for and found
in a dying condition with his throat cut.
Mr.. Hall has been sick and failing for
some time. He was one OF the leading
citizens OF the northern part Of the coun-
ty. His body was brought to Elko for
burial.
At the Jeffersonian banquet in Tono-
pah last week. Supreme Justice James
Sweeney called upon the Nevada Demo-
Gratis to unite. Key Pittman denounced
the methods OF forming the National
Forest Reserves as practiced in Nevada.
G. H. Mcintosh called upon the Demo-
Gratis to "stand pat" against the reelec-
ton OF United States Senator Nixon.
Democrats from all over the State were
present at the banquet.
Arrangements have been made in
Gold6eld to print 1000 placards bearing
the description and picture Of Davis S.
Truman, the we'll known attorney who
mysteriously disappeared after having
been seen to board the ferry at San
Francisco. A friend saw him board the
ship for the trip across to Oakland, but
since that time no one has ever seen the
man. When last seen he was on his
way to Goldfeld.
In the hill climbing contest at Reno for
$1,000 between the Thomas car. owned
by Tex Richard, and the Doris car,
owned by Bert Lundy, Tex Richard
carried off the honors by IA 35 seconds
making the distance in 3 minutes and As
2-5 seconds. to.Lundy's A minutes. The
contest was a complete success. but was
marked by one regrettable accident,
which resulted in William Mcclure
Gotwaldt. a member OF the Gazette staff.
having his right hip broken by being
thrown from Lundy's car In the prelimi-
nary run over the steep and dangerous
hills.
By stipulation between the Postal
Telegraph Company and the Western
Union Telegraph Company a decree was
signed In the District Court at Reno April
16 allowing the former to erect lines
across the State along the railroad right
Of way connecting Reno with Salt Lake,
to complete q transcontinental line from
New York to San Francisco. Opposition
to the Postal petition for condemnation
vanished at the last moment. lending
belief to the rumors q an agreement and
merger. The Southern Pacific Company
was the original defendant, appearing to
protect the Western Union.
1t is promised that development work
in the camp Of National, Humboldt
County. Nevada. will be undertaken with
greatly increased energy now that the
suit Of the National Mining Company
against the Stall brothers has been dis