The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-02-11
State News From Exchanges

An old institution, the clock step, has been aooIsneu al ~
State penitentiary by Warden Baker.
William Maxwell, former Warden at the Nevada State Prison,has
assumed the management of the Arlington House in Carson.
A train on the Nevada Northern Railroad on the 141-mie run
between Ely and Cobre a few days ago averaged over 90 miles an
hour during the entire run.
Senator Nixon has beeu notified that be has the appointment
of two cadets in the Annapolis naval academy. He will name two
principals and six alternates.
The estate of Alexander A Borand, who committed suicide at
Lovelock recently, is valued at 1884, 7S2O7, and consists OF money
in bank, real estate, mortgages, mining stock, ETC.
Owing to the snow being six feet deep at Truckee, the three
men who were killed by a snowslide at Prosser Greek will be
buried in the snow until graves can be dug in the S~pringtime.
All the measures that were vetoed by Governor Dickerson at
the last session of the Legislature have been acted upon by the
present Assembly. In each instance the vetoe of the Governor has
been sustained.
Effective February 1, the Western Union has made a reduction
in rates to several Nevada points. The reductions, which amount
Ely and McGill
Governor Oddie has appointed the following residents of Ne
sada as the Text Book Commission: G. F. Watson of East Ely
W J. Hunting of Carson City; Mrs. c. L. Booth of Reno and Miss
Thora Paulson of Goldfeld.
Senator Nixon has secured for Miles 7. Goats of Reno and for
merly of Tonopah, a position as door keeper in the United States
Senate. Mr.. Coats is an old Grand Army man and for years was a
conductor on the Southern Pacific
The engine house, engine and one car at the Eagle Salts works,
west of Fallon, were destroyed by fire Saturday. The engine ex-
ploded and set the round house afre, and soon both were destroyed
A car standing near was also burned, and the loss is estimated at
about $4,000.
There was a meeting OF the Reno Bar Association on Wednes-
day night, and at the time it discussed plans of taking action
against certain lawyers said to be doing the same sort of divorce
advertising that Attorney schnitzer, recently suspended from prac-
tce, did.
Elko Independent: Letters have been received here from San
Francisco stating that Assessor Weathers and Miss Clara Taber|
we're married at Reno on their way to the city. This event has
been expected for some time and the news of their marriage will
not surprise their Elko friends.
A fine exhibit of Nevada coal is now being made in the window
of the News office at Carson City. The coal is from the property
of Henry Anonymous of Coaldale, Esmeralda County. He has
three and a half feet of coal in a blanket ledge, which has been.
sunk upon with an incline to a depth of 140 feet
David L. Shirk, well known in Winnemucca and formerly one
of the big stockmen of the Stein mountain country in Harvey
County, Oregon, has been made defendant in two suits brought by
the Government charging him with fencing about 5000 acres of
Government land. Shirk is now engaged in ranching in the War
ner Mountain region in Lake County, Oregon.
The population of Reno, the county seat of Washoe County
and the metropolis of the State, is officially declared to be 10000.
This would indicate 5000 families. The court records of Washoe
County show that more than 700 divorces per annum are granted
to residents" of Reno; meaning, if these court records tell the
truth, that every married person in the city will, in four years, be
"divorced.-Goldfeld Tribune.
Frank W. Butterfeld, formerly Postmaster at Schurz, Nevada,
has been bound over to the Federal Grand Jury on a charge of
embezzement. He is out on bail at present. Butterfeld is charg-
Government at Schurz, and at his hearing stated that he was ready
to make good the amount, and had been ready to do so for some
time, but that he could not learn how much he was accused of
taking.
The Virginia City school trustees are trying to force the
teachers OF that city to sign a jughangled contract. Principal
Comerford refused to sign the contract and he was bounced and
Miss Ida Marx was named as temporary principal. Miss Marx
and the other teachers have notified the board that they will not
sign the proposed contract. When Mr.. Comerford was dismissed,
he notified the board that he he would be at his place in the school
room next day, ready to do his usual work. At last reports, the
trustees had the matter under consideration.