The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-03-04
State News From Exchanges


Wills Brougher, we'll known all over Nevada, fell on an icy pave
ment at Carson last Sunday and broke his right leg just above the
ankle.
The Goldfed Consolidated Mines Company has declared a
regular quarterly dividend of 30 cents per share and an extra divi-
.dend of 20 cents per share, payable April 80 to stockholders Of
record March 81.
Governor Oddie denies the report that he called upon the
President for troops to assist in the capture of the murders of the
four stockmen, who are supposed to have been killed by Indians
in the northern part Of Washoe County last month.
While working with an automatic revolver, A. b. Cooper, a
saloon man of Austin, accidentally shot himself through the
stomach and liver. The bullet went through his body. 1t is be-
ieved he will recover although he is in a very serious condition.
Death Valley Scotty has arrived in Winnemucca with his
pockets bullying with picture ore, which he declared he had secured
from a ledge in the northern part of Humboldt County. Scotty has,
according to his statement, uncovered a ledge richer than anything
he ever had in Death Valley.
Thomas MCGUIRE IAN aged miner of Gold Hill and school trustee
of that place, was killed Saturday in the Oph1r mine. He had
boarded the cage with another miner to go from the 1900 level to
the 2400 level and tainted and fell from the cage. He fell 80 feet
neck and nearly every bone in his body were broken. he
leaves a widow and three children.
Word has been received by Governor Oddie that the renegade
Indian Queho had scored his fourth murder of a white man during
the year when he shot a prospector named James Patterson at Big
Bend, on the Colorado river, whose body was found February 2I
A posse has been on Quehos trail for the past two months, but the
Indian has eluded his pursuers. A large reward is to be offered for
his capture and the State police will be sent out in a determined Ell
fort to bring him in.
The Southern Pacific Company will within a short time begin
the construction of a railroad from Thorne on the line of the Ne
vada q California In the new county of Mineral to Hawthorne, the
county seat of the new county. Hawthorne was once on the line
of the Carson & Colorado Railroad, but when the Southern Pacific
assumed control of that road and Strengthened it, calling it the Ne
vada & California, Hawthorne was left several miles from the
station. Now the old town will be connected again with the main
line of the Nevada & California.
A section of the Comstock lode never before explored and sup
posed to be rich in gold and silver will soon be developed by the
Best & Be]cher, Gould & Curry and Savage Mining Companies of
Virginia city. These mining companies have entered into an agreement
whereby they will sink a threecompartment shaft from the level OF
the Sutro tunnel into entirely new ground, and they hope to open
up a vast mineral zone as yet untouched. The shaft will be started
in the Sutro tunnel at a depth of 1850 feet and will be run down
until it is at least $500 or 5000 feet below the surface.
George @. Hunting, probation officer of White Pine County,
passed through Reno Wednesday on his way to San Francisco,
having in charge two girls of Ely-Mary Caples and Ruth Caples
taking them to California, where they will be cared for by an
aunt The mother of the girls is dead and the father is alleged to
be incompetent to bring the girls up properly. Many of the cii-
zens of Ely have protested against the fathers treatment of the
girls. The authorities have been communicating with relatives of
the girls with a view of placing them in good surroundings where
they would receive the right care and attention, with the result that
an aunt in California offered to take them.