The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-03-23
State News From Exchanges

The Post Office Department has announced that postal savings
banks will be opened on April. 10 at Golconda and Austin, Nevada.
Attorneys Curler and Marinsen, who assisted in the prose-
cuton of the gambling cases at Elko, were allowed $1,000 each by
Elko County for their services.
The Elko Independent says a stipulation has been filed in the
Clerks Office continuing the Primeaux arson case from March Is to
November Is. The stipulation was signed by all the attorneys in
the case.
State Bank Examiner Eugene Howell has been confined to his
home in Tonopah for the last two weeks with illness bnt has now
SO far recovered that he has gone to LosAngeles in hopes the climate
will benefit his conditions.
The Forest Service has accepted the Verdi Lumber Companys
timber in the Tahoe National Forest, tobe cut within ten years, the
price to be subject to readjustment. This deal means the construc-
ton of railroad into Sierra County.
The fish and game laws of the State of Nevada have been COM
piled in neat form in a folder by the Nevada Fish and Game Protec-
tive Association, for the benefit of Nevada sportsmen. The folder
will be distributed free of charge by the association.
The first issue of the Goldfeld Post made it's appearance under
date of March 9, and announces that it will be published every Sat
urday. Boyd Moore is at the head of the new venture. The paper
is of eight six-column pages and makes a good appearance.
The Nevada Sugar Company of Fallon has signed up contracts
for more than 1000 acres of sugar beets, and expects to contract
for ut least 1000 acres more before the season opens. The ca
pacity of the mill is much larger than this. but this is deemed a
fairly good start
The Reno city council recently enacted an ordinance providing
a heavy fine for the distribution of samples of any kind of drugs or
proprietary medicines. A child recently got hold of a sample pack
age of drugs thrown on a porch with the result that it nearly died
after eating the contents.
While cleaning clothes with gasoline at her home in Fanon the
other day. Mrs. R. L. Douglass, wife of State Senator Douglass, was
painfully bnrned. The gasoline was ignited from a candle sitting
near the saturated clothes and exploded. Her arms and face were
burned but the fire was quickly extinguished and the home was not
damaged.
Last week was pay day in Ely for the Giroux Consolidated and
the Nevada Northern railroad. The latter paid ont about $4,000
to 200 employees and the former paid about 100000. This makes
the total pay roll of the several properties for March reach the sum
of 100000 To this about $4,000 more will be added by other
mines which have not yet paid their workmen
Captain 3. J. Gosse, who some time ago saw a meteorite fall
near Reno, has received a communication from the Foote Mineral
C0mpapv nj pb1ada1pb;a ID askinoh him 10 he con1d rive h coo-
psny the name of the person who found the meteorite. The commu-
nication stated that the company was willing to pay a good price
for the missile, and that it would pay Captain Gosse a commission
for finding it He states that he will try and find the meteorite