The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-12-16
State News From Exchanges

uCC III ohh Lon Oy A~N yOH
was elected President
Goods of the University of Nevada have struck against the
appearance of Divorces or members of the divorce colony at social
functions which the girls attend
BY a recent decision of the Government, declaring the land
mineral land, the Southern Pacific Company loses 1854 acres OF
land in Storey County that it has heretofore held as agricultural
land.
The Yerington Times states that 100 men are now employed
at the Nevada-Douglss copper mine near 1erington. Many men
are also working in the gypsum quarry, which is shipping steadly
to the reduction plant in Reno.
J.H. Durbin plead guilty to bigamy at Yerrington last week
and Judge Langan gave him three years in the pen, all the law al
lowed. Durbin married Miss Rose Martin Of Carson when he had
a wife and three children in Utah. The wife and children faced
him in court
Michael Dupey, one of the best known business men of Austin,
commiHeds suicide Saturday by taking ~strychnine. The deceased
was injured a number of years ago in a runaway accident causing
the loss of both legs. As he feared another operation he ended his
troubles.
As a result of a drunken bebauch, Henry Heller is in the
county Jail at Ely awaiting trial for murder in the first degree, and
Jennie Fitzgerald of the vice district is lying in the morgue. Not
content with having knocked the woman on the floor, Heller kicked
and trampled her until she was almost unconscious.
The new rotary snow pillow, recently made at Paterson, n j.,
for the Western Pacific, passed through Palisade the other day by
special train. The machine is one of the largestever turned out by
the car works, and will be stationed at Portola, where is is expected
to be able to keep the road over the Sierra Nevada mountains open
to traffic during the coming Winter.
The Chronicle says there has been a large exodus of Indians from
Virginia City the past two weeks, and according to the present rate
of emigration there will be few of the familiar Piute faces left IN
that city. The change of base is due to the fact that many OF the
Piutes are taking advantage of the offer of ranch land OF the Gov
eminent near Sparks and are settling on the same.
Frank Knox, one of the Directors of the Pitsburg Silver Peak
Mines Company, which has for years operated large gold and sill
yer mines at Blair, and which has been involved in litigation for a
number of years, says that the company now has a surplus OF ST.
400, 900, and that this will soon be paid out in dividends. He also
says that the company is earning about $4,000 per month net
Felix Fleur, who pleaded guilty to a charge of forging a num-
Der of checks in Tonopah, after he was arrested at Suisun, CALI
fornia, by Sheriff Maney, has been placed in the Nevada Penitenti-
airy to serve a three-year term. He confessed to his crime and
returned from California to Nevada without the need of eztradition
papers. He was captured through the aid of letters sent to a
woman in S1isun.
Despite the efforts of the authorities to prevent gambling in
Reno, it is still going on. and arrests are reported to be expected.
Now it is the selling of pools that is causing the officers trouble.
1t is a ~well-known fact that there are parties in Reno who are sell
ing pools on the races at Juarez, Mexico. The booksellers have
headquarters in Truckee, it is claimed, and have agents in Reno
who peddle the coupons.
The Ely Expositor says there r said to be nine hocks of Elko
County sheep being grazed on the forest reserves along Newark
Valley and every night the camp fires of the herders can be seen
from the valley. These sheep are in White Pine County but the
ow ners have not, it is said, paid taxes here for the privilege of run
ming their sheep in the county and residents of Newark Valley do
not look kindly on the visitors for that reason
Word has been received from Philadelphia that an amicatle
agreement has been entered into between the Tonopah Mining Com
pany, and the Jim Butler Mining Company, regarding the working
of the ledge on the side line which divides the Valley View claim
of the Tonopah Mining Company group and the Wandering Boy Of
the Jim Butler holdings. The knowledge of the impending settle
ment caused the Jim Butler stock to advance several points last
week.
The Mammoth National Mines Company has instituted a suit
at Winnemucca against J. L. Workman, Ida Workman, William ID.
Howe and others for $4,000 damages alleged to be due the COM
pany on two causes of action. This suit is the outcome of the trou-
BILE between Workman and his associates and the Mammoth Ma
tional Mining Company, when Workman and associates forciby
took possession of the property and drove the Mammoth men from
the mine, which they were working under a lease and option.
Following a quarrel with a Mexican laborer who had been dis
charged from the section on the L. V. & 7. Railroad and would not
remain away from the work, Lawrence Mcguire shot the man with
a % calber rifle and is now in Jail at Goldfeld charged with as