The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-04-15
State News From Exchanges

Frank B. Miller, a miner was killed in the Quartette Extension
mine at S~earchight a few days ago by falling 100 feet down the
shaft. Nearly every bone in his body was broken.
Governor Oddie has appointed Gordon H. True, A. W. Hesson
and G. NJ Bowers as members of the Board of Control of the State
Agricultural Dry Farm at Pleasant Valley, Elko County.
The total tax rate at Carson for city, county and State has
been fixed at SIS on the hundred dollars worth of taxable property.
The county and State rate is s43 30 and the city 20 cents.
The Combination Fraction at Goldfeld has closed down its
mill, there not being enough custom ore in the camp at the present
time to justify operating the mill The mine is now being operated
under lease.
Angry because he lost his position, George Augerolopulos. a
Greek, attacked John Manos, foreman of the smelter at McGill
After striking him over the head with an iron rod he tried to throw
the inert man into a ore bin. Other laborers prevented him from
doing SO, saving him from becoming a murderer.
W. G. Douglass, the Carson Valley rancher, has returned from
Nebraska where he purchased at much expense four fine stations.
He has two Belgian stations weighing over 1000 pounds and two
Percheron stations, also about the largest of that breed. He also
purchased a fine Percheron mare weighing 2050 pounds.
The announcement is made that hereafter there will be a mail
to Rhyolite and Beatty only twice each week instead of daily as at
present over the Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad. This reduction
is made by the department on account of the extreme dullness
which prevails in the BuIfrog district since the MOntgomery-sho-
shone closed down.
"Pap" Allen, an old pioneer prospector of Baxter Springs
near Manhattan, is in Jail charged with stealing and killing cattle.
His young wife and four children are being cared for by the
county while he is in prison. For some time Allen had been sus-
pected, as he had been selling meat in Manhattan. He is IS years
of age and his wife is So. They have four children. the Oldest
aged 6 years and the youngest three months.
William Higuera, charged with forging the name of Barney
Horn, Postmaster of Aurora, Elko County, to postal money orders
to the amount of over $500, has been placed in the County Jail at
Reno to await the action of the Federal Grand Jury. He forged
the money orders last Winter, while Horn was in California, it is al
legged. He has pleaded guilty to the charge, and in default of
$1,000 bail has been placed in the County Jail
Frank Peterson of the Nevada experiment station, who has
charge of the Nevada agricultural exhibit at the Pacific Land and
Livestock Exposition at Los Angeles, says that Nevada made
a great showing at the Exposition. March 30 was Nevada Day
and hundreds of people visited the Nevada exhibit on that day and
learned what a productive State this is. He says that the Nevada
exhibit, while not as large as others, was as fine as any exhibit at
the fair, and gave the State thousands of dollars worth of good adj
vertising
George W. Lloyd, formerly of this place. is now located at a
camp called Fitting. some Is miles from Lovelock, says the Yering-
ton Times. He writes to Yerington friends that there are some
wonderfully rich placer properties in the old district and that VI
rangements are being made by a company of capitalists to work the
ground with a dredge. Chinaman ire the main workers OF the
ground in that district now and they are making good money, the
gravel running from so cents to SIS per yard. Mr.. Lloyd has
secured several claims in the district and stands to make a bunch
of money out of them.
After securing backing to aid him in a great irrigation project
in the Kawich and Reveille Valleys, in Southern Nevada, Captain
T. j. Donnelly has returned to Goldfeld and will Immediately put
men at work surveying for the project. The new syndicate takes
over the land of the Associated Land and Reclamation Company,
the Peynora Valley Land and Irrigation Company, the Kawich
Land and Irrigation Company and the Reveille Valley Land and
Irrigation Company. These four projects include 4S0, 900 acres of
fine land and about $4,000, 900 will be expended in putting it under
irrigation, it is claimed. It is the plan of the syndicate to water
the land by means of artesian wells.