The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-02-04
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In order to keep lobbyists away a bill has been introduced In
the Assembly which will make it a felony for any person to try and
influence Legislators except by speeches on the floor OF the House
or before committees.
Winfred Il. A. Pike, son of the late Judge Pike of Reno, has
been appointed by Congressman Bartlett, to serve Uncle Sam in
the United States Navy. The young man who is the business
manager and editor of the Reno High School paper and a junior In
that school will take his entrance examination in April.
Word has been received from Milan, Italy, that Vive Hickey
Kingston, formerly Miss yive Hickey OF Reno, will soon make her
debut on the operate stage in Italy. She is now preparing Tor
grand opera and has already received an engagement This young
lady began her vocal education in Reno and later sang for some
time in San Francisco.
Ben Fitzpatrick will on June IL next complete a service of 10
years in the penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga, for stealing $4,000 in
bank notes from the United States Government, and will then be
brought back to Nevada to answer to a charge of robbing the First
National Bank at Winnemucca, on September 10, 1896, of $4,000
He was identified by Senator Nixon when President of the Winnie
mucca Bank.
A we'll defined attempt to transfer the capital of the State and
remove the same from Carson to Winnemucca was started in the
Assembly the other day when a bill, hitherto u~nheralded, was in
troduced by Robbins of Humboldt The body of the measure is
quite brief and calls for the amending of Section ], Article Is, of
the State Constitution, which shall hereafter read that the seat of
government shall be at Winnemucca.
Assemblyman Byrne of Esmeralda County has stated that he
intends to commence a suit for damages against Carson City He
was going to the Legislature on the second day of the session when
he fell and broke his leg and as a result is still unable to attend to
his duties as an Assemblyman. HI claims that he was injured as
the result of the neglect of the City of Carson to clean the ice from
its pavements and that he has a good cause of action.
Miss J. Z. Weir, Secretary of the Nevada Historical Associa-
ton, and professor of history in the University of Nevada, has
called a meeting for the purpose of organizing a Womans Suffrage.
Party for Nevada. Mrs. Clarence Mackay of New York has been
invited to attend and address the meeting. 1t is planned for
women to go before the Legislature and demand the passage of a
law giving the women of the State the right to vote.
Mrs. Mary Stone, whose husband J. L. Stone, is now serving a
term in the Nevada Penitentiary for stealing the diamonds of Mrs
George Campbell in Reno and then pawning the same in Sacra-
mento, has secured a divorce and is again married. She has be-
come the wife of ". E. Palmer of Carson City. She secured her
divorce on the ground that her husband wa a felon. She was ar
rested at the same time Stone was, but he shouldered all the
blame and she was released. She then waited until he tried for a
parole and when he failed she sued for the divorce and got her
decree.