The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-03-30
State News From Exchanges

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depot in Elko Monday.
Ranchers along the Carson river, in the vicinity of Dayton, are
now getting $40 per ton for their potatoes.
George L. Laughton of Fsrniey has located a fossil deposit
near there which is valuable a a fertilizer and for chickens.
Professor John Edwards Bray, Superintendent of Pnblic In
strucion, has arranged for the holding of the next State Teachers
Institute at Winnemucca in October.
Ed Morgan, a teamster in the employ of the Reclamation Ser
vice, was run over by his own wagon near Fanon. He suffered a
broken thigh and many severe bruises.
The taiings dump of the old Bamberger & DeLamar mine, at
DeLamar, Nevada, has been purchased by a Los Angeles syndicate
and a mill is being built for their treatment
The Winnemucca High School building, which has recently
been completed at a cost of about $1,000 is now in use. 1t was
formally dedicated Monday night with appropriate exercises.
Attorney General Cleve Baker has returned to Carson from
Oakland, where he spent more than a month for his health. He
has entirely recovered and has assumed his duties at his Office once
more.
During a blizzard several days ago, the driver of the stage
operating between Elko and Tuscarora drove off the road and, as a
result, he and three passengers remained out all night and did not
reach the latter town until the following day.
The Tonopah Bonanza says a a sign of the times, from eight
to ten cars Of freight is being received daily by the T. & G. Railroad
Company, consigned to various merchants and mining companies
in Tonopah, Manhattan and Round Mountain.
Frank Guerrero, a Mexican, who has been around Carson valley
for some weeks, and hung about Yerington part of the time, has at
last succeeded in getting into Jail with both feet Last Sunday he
stole two horses from the ranch of Tony Tabagni.
The Virginia Enterprise says the Gray. Reid, Wright Company
of Reno has purchased the stock of goods in the Tonkin store there
and it is rumored that the company will restock the store and carry
on a general merchandise and clothing business in Virginia City.
G. r Wei ster, who was spokeno of as the man who has the super
lative nerve and endurance, is still stepping around Reno streets,
despite he was shot in the abdomen twice less than a week ago and
should, by all the rules of the game, have been decently inferred
ere this.
Tonopah is going stock crazy over the recent rise in those shares
and the Bonanza says: Business is looking up daily in Tonopah
and it is estimated that $4,000 is changing hands daily in this
city through the buying and selling of stocks. Crowds ri eagerly
watching the stock returns"
The different wool growers of Nevada r now having their
focks sheared, and most of the wool has been contracted. So far
contracts for about 100000 pounds have been signed up, but
more will be sold within the next few weeks. The average price
for the wool is about Is cents per pound.
With the recent dismissal by Judge Langan of the indictments
for gambling against Thomas J. Carney and q. c. Lawson, the cru
SADIE in Storey County for the enforcement of the antigambling Jaw
has come to an end As in the case of Ed. Carney, the district at
torney advised the court that he had not sufficient evidence to
convict
M M. johnson, formerly of Ely, now in New Zealand, writes
of the good roads there, the strict enforcement of the laws. He
says saloons are numerous and have the support of some of the
churches. The government does much for the people. almost every
thing, yet foreigners generally don't care to pass all their days on
the islands.
A number of girls of the Senior class of the University of Ne
vada, at a class meeting the other day, declared that they would not
appear in the Senior farce if divorces are allowed to attend the
event Their efforts to exclude Divorces was voted down by the
male members of the class, and as a result there is now a disagree
ment in the ranks.
The explosion of a stove in the home of Louis Schloss. a mining
man of Goldfeld, set his home on fire this week and nearly resulted
in his serious injury. He had his face and arms cut and burned by
the explosion, but luckily his injuries ire not of a serious nature
The house was set afre, but was saved. Trash he had taken from
an adjoining vacant house to start his fire is supposed to have con-
tanned a piece of dynamite.
Johnny Meyers, one of the best known residents of Western Ne
yada, was found dead in a room at the rear of his place of business
in Carson, death being due to heart disease. 1t is supposed that
when he started to bed he had a lighted candle in his hand, and
when he fell his hand dropped across and on top of the candle
The mattress caught fire and his left hand was burned to a crisp
and his hip was also burned. The mattress was smouldering when
his nephew and another man opened the door of the room.