The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-06-24
Nevada State News

at Terra Bella, Iulare County, Cali
fornia.
The water in the Humboldt river is
rising rapidly and at Oarlin and other
points above Lovelock 1t is above its
banks. This is the regular June flood
aud as the farmers expected it no dam
age is apt to result.
John Butler, a brother of AL Butler,
the missing Sheriff Of White Pine
County, was arrested at Elko last
Wednesday on the charge Of wife beat
ing. He was fined $2C0 aud sentenced
to go daysin Jail by Judge Klatte.
Herman johnson was found guilty in
the Justice Court at Winnemucca q few
days ago on a charge of smoking opium
and was fined 5000 or a hundred days
in Jail. Not having the money he &C
copied the hospitality OF the county.
Gay Reider, a local mining man. tried
I o stop a quarrel between Burt Wells
and the %latter's wife Sunday night at
Reno and was badly beaten by Wells
| with a bottle. Reider is in the hospital
and Wells is in Jail on a charge Of
assault.
A. @. Hamilton, q Nevada pioneer.
formerly Superintendent of the Savage.
Chollar g. Postosi Mining Company.
at Virginia City, died Saturday night IN
Los Angeles. He was 81 years of age.
He was a brother-in. law of former
United States Senator j. p. Jones Of
Nevada.
another laborer in Elko q few nights
ago and then escaped and started for
Jarbidge, is now in the Elko Jail. He
had concealed himself in a deserted well
and it was just as he was crawling from
this old we'll that the Constable saw and
arrested him.
Nevada paid a total of 1926 900 in life
insurance premiums during tho year
1910. according to the report of the H.
surance Press, The only death in the
entire State for which insurance was
paid was that Of Wilhelmina Stock of
Paradise valley. Humboldt County, the
amount being $4,000.
Judge Klatte has held Mr.. and Mrs.
Cutler to answer the charge OF grand
larceny before the grand jury of Elko
County. He fixed their bail at $500
each. They are charged with rifing a
trunk at Tecoma last October while
acting as the railroad agents, and taking
property valued at several hundred
dollars.
W. NJ. Weathers, Assessor of Elko
County, reports that the valuation of
property In that county has increased
in a years time more than 30, 000. 900.
This increase is due largely to the fact
that the Assessor is now ordered to
assess recently taken public land at
81 per acre instead Of at any sum fair
in the mind Of the assessor.
After being struck by q large rattle
snake and having his system poisoned,
Will Stock of Virginia City is still alive
and is suffering very little from the
eff, cts of the poison, Stock was reach
ing for a stick when the snake sank its
poisonous fangs into his right hand.
He was given the usual remedies and
was then rushed to a physician.
@. r. Webster, the man who owned a
saloon on wheels and claimed q piece
of the Western Pacific r~ight-of-way at
Gerlach. has lost out in a suit of eject
ment brought by the Western Pacific
and was this week ousted from the
ground. He is now just off of the
Western Pacific right-of- way and is
still conducting his saloon, only now
he has his liquors in a tent house.
While riding up an incline on an ore
platform in a mine in Six-mile Canyon,
near Virginia City, Saturday evening,
A. Fava was killed. He had raised his
head and it struck against the top Of the
incline and was crushed. His body was
turned completely back over the top of
the platform and badly mutilated. He
leaves q family there and two brothers
in Oakland.
The Oregon Short Line has started to
work in real earnest on the first lap of
the road from Caldwell. Idaho, to
Winnemucca. There are at present 200
men st work at Caldwell. In the rail
road yards of that city are rails, ties and
material for 50 miles of railroad. 1t is
proposed to rush this work as rapidly as
possible. it being claimed that q mile
of track will be laid each working day.
A resident Of Carson in a communi-
cation in the News protests against the
killing of dogs BY automobiles and says
as a climax to q rather sarcastic ar
ticle. ssTha smashad ribs of the dog