The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-01-18

Nevada.
The Sherifrs office of Mineral County
reports that there no arrests in that
county during 1919.
A horse and wagon has been added
TO the post Office equipment in Carson to
handle parcel post packages.
According to the report of the Auditor
Of Washoe County the late election cost
that county s10.450. The primary cleo
ton cost within 5000 Of q like amount.
Nick Borsch, who formerly ran a
machine at the Qusrtette in S~earchllght,
dropped so feet to his death in the Orc
Belle shaft at Hart the last day OF the
year.
The Supreme Court Of Nevada has de-
cided that Joseph Josephs was elected
Clerk OF the Supreme Court by Al votes
over Joseph Legste. The contest has
lasted We years.
Chief Harry Priest. in a formal COM
munication to the Wells Herald, an
nounces that he has resigned the chief
tanship OF the Shoshones after holding
the place for 40 years.
The Tonopah Nevadan, which has
been doing its printing upon the press OF
the Tonopah Miner, has suspended pub
LEGATION until 1t shall have obtained it's
own plant. This will be about February 1.
District Attorney Sanders of Nye
County in an open letter thinks that
Senator Newlands in his ~retrenchmen'
plan sighted the District Attorneys Of
the State by not including them in the
organization.
The Ely Expositor says that George F.
Parker, who was a County Commits
sioner OF White Pine County in 1906 and
q resident of Cherry Greek for 80 years,
has been committed to the Insane Asy-
lum at Reno.
Agreeing last year to sell some 1000
acres of land in Elko County, and refus-
ing when the cash was rendered, a suit
has been brought against Ira d. Wines
for the deed to the lands. Some $780, 900
is involved in the deal.
Mrs. Heine Heinkel whose husband is
at the point of death at Tonopah, COM
mitted suicide in Golfield by taking car
bolic acid and bichloride tablets. She
had been suffering from a complete lapse
of memory for many days.
While working on q mining property
at Lone Mountain. Nye County, John
Cloud, aged %, was struck on the head
by a plank blown through the air by a
heavy wind, and died a few hours later
at the Miners Union Hospital in Tcnopah
A car load of Mexicans and several ex
p~erimental importations of Japanese
have failed to fill the gap caused at Ely
by the departure of the Slavonians and
Greeks for the war in the Balkans.
White labor is reported to be scarce and
in demand.
The Ely Record is informed that coy
ote hides are now worth about $6 each.
including the bounty paid by the county.
This is good money, and has induced
many residents OF White Pine County to
give considerable time in trapping and
hunting them
An Indian girl named Sadie Ste wart,
aged IA years, was found near Fallon
last week ~strangled to death. An Indian
and a Mexican, who are said to haye
been on a debauch with the girl and an
other young squaw. are under arrest
pending inquiry.
Tom Murray. a Tonopah miner. walked
to Goldfeld, a distance of % miles, a few
evenings g and purchased a vial of car
bolic acid. He returned to his Tonopah
home the mex day and shortly after his
arrival swallowed the poison. dying with
In a short time.
Robert M. Mitchell. Superintendent of
the Fourth School District of the State,
and former principal of the Sparks
schools, died at his home in Sparks We'd
nesday. Mitchell was i'll eight days with
pneumonia. He is survived by a widow
and six children.
The War Department has announced
that it will equip two companies of the
Nevada militia as cavalry and three as
infantry, or possibly as engineering COM
panies. 1t ia believed that the two COM
panies in Reno will ask that they be
equipped as cavalry.
The death is announced from Fallon OF
Mrs. Robert Douglas. wife of the well
known and popular former State Senator
from Churchill. She was formerly Miss
Eleanor Ernst aud resided in Elko before
her marriage. She died at Oakland.
California. last Saturday noon.