The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-11-25

the cause.
During the heavy windstorm Of last
Thursday night the roof on the new two
story brick European hotel at Battle
Mountain was blown of.
The Tonopah Mining Company has
appointed Joseph + spur. an eminent
Reologist and mining expert, as its sec
ond vice president and advising engineer.
He will assume his duties Jan. l.
The smallpox situation in the Seven
Trougbs District still remains more or
less acute. Several new cases have de-
veloped, while those who first contracted
the disease have recovered and have
been released from quarantine.
Ernest G. Williams, accused Of steal
ing horses in the northern part OF Hum
ooldt County, neal Paradise. was found
guilty at Winnemucca Wednesday night.
He was convicted Of having secured q
horse by means Of i~mpersonating an Of
fcer and never returning the animal.
He was arrested at Golconda.
After sitting down to dinner with her
husband and other relatives and joking
about something that she had cooked,
Mrs. Perry Whit Of Rye Patch, Hum
boldt County, suddenly gasped and fell
over in a faint. A physician was sum
moned but before he arrived she died.
She leaves a husband and two children.
She will be taken to Bakersfield for in
torment.
Thomas (. Kepner, a Reno attorney,
has brought suit against Judge Thomas
F. Moran of the Second Judicial District
Court for $500. alleging that the amount
Is due him for services rendered in assist
ing the Judge to prepare opinions in
three cases. Judge Moran denies that
Kepner ever assisted him 10 preparing
opinions and claims the attorney owes
him money.
Fire starting from an o~verheated stove
Tuesday set fire to the Conover Laundry
at Goldfeld and resulted in the destruc-
ton OF much laundry and the interior Of
the building. The walls Of the building
are Of adobe and were not injured. Ben
Conover, the owner Of the laundry, in
attempting TO ave some OF the clothing
intrusted to his care, was seriously
burned.
The burning question OF the hour in
the State Bank case on trial at Carson
is, "What besame OF that booze" There
were 300 barrels of whisky. rs barrels OF
rum, so cases of bottled goods and a 100
cases Of champagne. 1t was given to
the bank for security upon a loan of
$4,000 in Goldfeld a number OF years
ago. The books show that the mortgage
has never been paid and the whisky is
gone.
There are three surveying parties at
work in White Pine County between Ely
and Deep Greek marking a route for the
proposed railroad from Deep Greek to
Ely. The road will tap a large mineral
area and several mining districts, and
it is thought by many that it is
only a portion of a line to he built by
the Western Pacific from Ely into Salt
Lake City, and that the line Will be con-
tinued to Los Angeles.
The White Pine County Grand Jury
has returned indictments against Fred
Megilton and Walter I. Bauer, charging
them with stealing cattle. The men are
accused Of killing a steer belonging to
Swallow Bros cattle dealers Of that
county. They were first arrested and
taken before the Justice OF the Peace at
Osceola. who let them go with small
fines. They were then brought before a
Justice in Ely on another complaint,
and we're held to the Grand Jury, and
nov thew have been held to trial.
The Indian girl. Snake. and the child
rem who we're captured at the time
of the Indian battle last year are to
be taken to the Fort Hall Indian reser-
walton in Idaho where they will be cared
for hereafter. The superintendent OF
the Fort Hall Reservation has received
authority from the Indian department
to make the transfer. The change is
being made On account of the Fort Hall
reservation having more Of the same tribe
of Indians Of which the captives are a
portion than any other reservation and
it is believed they will be more at home
among their people than at the Stewart
Institute at Carson.
r. M. Whitlock, q laborer. has been
arrested at Reno by the police on a
charge of having ruined his daughter,
Emma, aged IA years. She is soon to
become a mother. The girl is in the
Crittenden Home and has made a state
ment on which the warrant for her
fathers arrest was issued. When taken