The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-04-20
State News From EXCHANGES

Fred Grob, who recently resigned his position as cashier of the
Farmers and Merchants bank of Reno, and G. E. Bingham, also of
Reno, have entered the mercantile business in Falon.
Ed Williams and Henry Bush, who robbed a miners cabin
near Virginia City several days ago, we're captured at Dayton by
Sheriff Seeman and Will Mcdonald. The stolen articles were re-
covered.
Jarbidge was the scene of what will probably prove a fatal
shooting affair last Saturday night A man by the name of Stone
hacker shot Nathan Williams in the abdomen during a quarrel over
money matters.
The members of Las Vegas two hose companies are peeved
because the city fathers refused to pay them the sum of so a man
for attending a fire and 81 a man for attendance upon the monthly
meeting and fire drill.
In an effort to put a stop to the practice of carrying guns, prin-
cipally among the foreigners of the Ely mining district, and at Nc
Gill. the snnelter town, Sheriff Grain of White Pine County is posting
placards setting forth the law in conspicuous places.
While in the act of unhitching her horse, with which she had
driven home from church, Mrs. Lucridia M. Prose, wife of a pros
porous farmer near Reno, fell dead Thursday afternoon at the horses
feet. She was found there some time later by her husband.
Old Olinghouse, the mining camp northwest of Reno, is rapidly
coming to the front once more. Now that the litigation between
the Government and the Southern Pacific Company over the land in
the canyon has been settled the miners are again seeking leases,
and there will be a number of properties worked there this Summer.
William Uren, a miner in the Belmont mine at Tonopah, while
working on the 1900 foot level, had his right arm caught between
aheavily loaded ore bucket and a timber and crushed. The arm
was amputated. He has a wife and two children in Tonopah.
George Bond and Walter Mowrer, two other miners working in the
Belmont, slipped from a timber Tuesday while working in the lower
levels of the mine, being seriously injured. They will recover.
George Wingfeld, President of the Goldfeld Consolidated
Mines Company, has gone into the turkey business. He is the
principal stakeholder in the Churchill Creamery Company, owning
the Calvada and Comstock ranches on the Island in Churchill County,
and this company is preparing to raise 5000 turkeys this year. The
turkeys will be a cross between the tame turkey and the Virginia
Wild Bronze, which are now being raised on his Lassen preserve.
Prominent citizens of California and Nevada, among whom is
Governor Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada, have Incorporated what is
known as the Prospectors Alliance of America for the purpose of as
ssing the mining prospectors in securing their rights under the
law. The incorporation has no capital stock and is not organized
for profit. The incorporators are J. A. Butler, Sacramento; Tasker
L. Oddie, Carson City, New. Eugene Grett, Hawthorne, New; Lester
Chal. George W. Leedy, A. H. Swallow and {. E Kunze. all of
Bishop, Cal.
That the farmers ofthe Loveock Valley are a unit in the in
junction proceedings that have been started against the Pacific Re-
clamation Co. was evidenced at a meeting held last week. An as
sessment of 10 cents an acre on all of the land in the valley was
fovorably considered for the purpose of properly starting the pro-
ceedings. The sentiment prevails that there is no alternative for
the lower appropriation and consequently the case will pc fought to
the last ditch. There are $4,000 acres of land represented. A rep
resentative of the farmers is now in Reno and the suit will probably
De hed within the next few days-Loyeock Review-Miner.