The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-12-21

Nevada had 4O5 pensioners last year
to whom s65. 900 was paid.
Otto Olsen sold his 11O-scre farm near
Gardnerville last week for sic, 900.
Eight years ago the same property was
i, bought by l.. Nelson for $500. and two
years later he sold 1t to Olsen for $4,000.
At It's session in Austin last week, the
Central Nevada Stockmen's Association
passed resolutions protesting against the
abandonment of the Toiysbe forest re-
serve as wrong in principle and ruinous
in practice.
The long-talked-of Riverside drive
along the Truckee at Reno has been
completed at q cost OF SIS 900. Is is q
~favorite walk for people going to Reno
from that part OF the State where running
water is a rarity.
John Luce Of Touopsh, IL years old.
owns a homing pigeon that escaped
from his loft in the silver camp last
week, and few to its old loft in Los
Angeles, a distance Of about 500 miles,
in about Is hours.
Elected by two votes to the Assembly,
7. J. Kingdom Of Hawthorne. the only
Republican chosen from the field in
Mineral County. is now about to be con-
tested for the job by L. A. Ellis. of Nina,
who has demanded q recount.
Word comes from various points along
the Truckee river, between Reno and
Truckee, that the ice lie rapidly forming
on the river, and that il is now several
inches thick on some Of the ponds. The
harvesting Of this ice will soon commence.
and more than 1000 men will be am.
ployed.
i The story that Indian Billy Of White
} Pine County was killed by being thrown
from a horse. is not believed by District
Attorney McFaden Of White Pine. who
thinks Billy met foul play. The Indian
!, was drunk at the time of his death and
! McFadden has caused James Potter's
arrest on q charge Of murder in connec-
p ton with the case.
One hundred and fifty miners working
g for the Tuscarora-N evada Mines Com
pany, at Tuscarora, Elko County, struck
, for two days because their money for two
months wal delayed in being paid to
them. Superintendent Haskins secured
the money for one back month and
2 promised to secure the remainder in q
s few days and work was resumed.
The Nevada Experimental Union is
the name of a movement being inaug-
urated at the agricultural college Of the
! University of Nevada, designed to bring
the farmers of the State in closer touch
. with the work in the experimental sta
. ton of the college and to secure their
. cooperation in the tests that are 10 be
e made of products best fitted to this
State.
, James Goodwin. a prospector known
for years in this State and Idaho. was
found dead 80 miles from Jungo last Fri
day, a mile from his camp. The Coro-
ner of Humboldt County thinks he died
, on November % and it is believed, the
Winnemucca Star saws, that he persisted
from cold on his way back to his hut
He was a native OF Pennsylvania, aged
SO years.
Two men were killed and three badly
g injured the other day near Granite Point
y 10 miles west of Lovelock. in an accident
? on q work train bearing a gang OF section
laborers. The dead are Section Foreman
John Gilday and an unidentified Greel
laborer. Section Foreman A. McLair
had one leg cut off, and two Greeks were
+ badly crushed. A steel rail fell from the
a moving car and the men were thrown
under the wheels.
The State Board OF Examiners has ap
proved the bills contracted by the Stat
Police at the Ely strike. The tota
v amount figured 1888. 05. This amour
a includes the regular officers salaries ant
!. their regular expenses. The extra ex
pense. including mileage. salaries. board
ETC., shows $8,531.06. AS the law pro
|, = vides for just such an emergency. thu
claims have all been audited and are II
be paid.
Ichabod @. tBudd) Gallagher, the thirC
son of Senator and Mrs. w. G. Gsllsghe
Of Ely. says the Ely Expositor, was killed
in a snowslide at Copper mountain. l3t
y miles from Cordovs, Alaska. Sunday
December g.. For some unknown reasor
the family was not notified of the acciden
and knew nothing Of it until shown
clipping from the issue Of the Anacond,
Standard OF December IL, which reached
Ely Saturday night.