The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-07-29
Nevada State News

places in the county.
The Giroux Consolidated Mines Com
pany has made o contract with the Me-
vada Northern Railroad, understood
to be for one year. for hauling its ore.
The contract contains q clause provid-
ing that the minimum tonnage shall be
500 tons daily.
II. II. Mix, editor Of the Manhattan
Mail, and we'll known as o newspaper
man throughout Nevada, died at Tono-
pah Friday, the results Of q paralytic
stroke he suffered some weeks ago in
Manhattan. He was formerly editor
of q paper published at Blair at the
time that camp had a boom.
Lieutenant Governor Gilbert @. Ross.
who is now Acting Governor during the
absence of Governor T. l.. Oddie. was
Monday night thrown from q horse as
he was preparing to go for q ride in
Carson. The fall broke a bone in mi
of his feet, and he is now in the Sisters
Hospital. The horse fell on its be ok,
and Ross had q narrow escape from
being crushed to death.
Timothy Morley, the man who went
insane at Ely after shooting his brother,
mistakiDg him for a burglar. escaped
Monday night from the Nevada Insane
Asylum, near Reno. He removed the
iron grating from his cell. climbed
along the cornice of the building and
down the fire escape to the ground.
He has not been seen since. He was
declared insane after he killed his
brother at Ely.
AT Reno Saturday there was arranged
a settlement in the damage suit of w.
r. Cutler against the Pittsburg Silver
Peak Mines Company. Cutler had
sued the company for damages for
injuries sustained while at work on a
building for the company and had Sc
cured a judgment for $500. This was
paid to him Saturday evening by At.
torneys Platt & Gibbons, representing
the mining company.
Tonopah people, interested in the
potash locations that have recently been
made in the vicinity of Railroad Valley,
about 100 miles in an easterly direction
from that town, have become more or
less elated over the news they have re-
ceived from that section. A consider
able tract of land has been taken up.
and samples taken therefrom and sub
mitted to competent assayers have
shown potash in paying quantities in
the salts.
A fisherman, making his way in the
brush along the south side of the
Truckee river, west of Reno, Sunday
afternoon. found the complete uniform
of a Nevada convict and the number,
1918, which the convict had worn. The
outfit was hidden behind a tree, where
the convict had changed it for other
wearing apparel. This was the number
worn by John Riley, the convict who
escaped from the prison gang at Steam
boat.
1t does not pay for a convict to es-
cape Jail and then be r~ecaptured. as is
shown in the case of Jim Antoine, who
left the road gang in Washoe valley.
He is now getting his a-plenty, for. &C.
cording to the Carson News, he has
been cast into the p~enitentiary dungeon
where he will subsisr on bread and
water for 60 days. When he energies
from the dungeon he will be dressed in
a red shirt aud a suit of black and
white stripes, and will be carefully
guarded. He will also be prosecuted
for Jail breaking, and is liable to get
six years more tackled on his original
sentence. 1t all goes to show that
Warden Baker can be severe when the
occasion demands it.
Finding that q number of the Piute
Indians in the vicinity of Fallon were
suffering from trachoma, DIR. Harrison,
the Government physician attached to
the Indian Service, recently went there
and secured the aid Of the local physi.
clans to treat these Indians. The In
dams allowed the Government physi-
clan and his assistants to give them
temporary relief with medicine. but
when he suggested an operation which
would give permanent relief they OBJ.
jected. The result was that the physician
met with very little success and left the
county without aiding the Indians to
any great extent. Those who are af.
flicted are isolated, but at the same
time the disease is infectious and many
Indians will lose their eyesight.
While crossing the East Walker river
at the Wichman ranch on Monday a
young Indian girl lost her life by
The river is quite high at
this point aud the current swift. The