The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-05-03
Nevada State News

The date of the State fair at Reno has
been fixed at September % to 27. There
will be running and harness races every
| day.
Fallon will ship in several tons of
sugar to the Grand Army encampment
to be held in Reno, as an advertisement
Of the beet sugar industry.
The proposed site for the Ely high
] school has just been condemned by the
White Pine County Grand Jury, which
doesn't like the view and thinks it would
cost too much to heat building on the
ridge in Winter.
A Norman church is being built at
McGill, in the Ely district There are
now large number OF Latter Day Saints
in that district and several additional
colonization schemes are projected =
Wells Herald.
1t is reported that the public schools
at Metropolis, Elko County, are closed
on account of an epidemic of measles,
there being Is well developed cases
among the school children. some of them
being seriously i'll.
Charlie Bcknell, former resident OF
Carson and who served several years as
| Clerk of the Supreme Court, died last
week at his home in Los Angeles The
deceased leaves wife and one son. He
was native of Maine, 76 years of age.
The Nevada Hills Mining Company
has completed its pipe line from West
Gate. Churchill County, and now has
plenty of water. The mill has been run
| ming only one shift because of lack OF
water, but with the additional supply as
sured two more shifts have been put to
work.
Felix Anrad, the Mexican who with
an Indian named Wego. got the II year
old Stewart school girl drunk and killed
her near Fallon last Fall, has been found
guilty of murder and sentence fixed at
life imprison ment by the jury that con-
victed him. Wego is to be tried at Fall
lon next.
Virginia Chronicle: Measles, scarlet
fever and small pox are at present pre-
valent in this city. so il behooves every
one to exercise care and keep their prem
ises clean. Walter Dexter, who has
been i'll at his home on the Divide, de-
veloped case of smallpox Saturday and
the premises have been quarantined.
Considerable speculation is being in
dulged in as to who will get the appoint
ment as United States Marshal for this
district. Harry Humphries' term of Of.
fee expires sometime this month and
it is to be presumed that under the pres
ent administration a Democrat will re-
ceive the appointment. There are a
great many applications for the job from
different parts Of the State.
Reno is to be the headquarters of two
surveying parties for the next few
months. The surveyors are sent by the
reclama ion service, and their duties
will be to survey the entire country along
the Truckee river. practically from the
State line to Pyramid lake, in order to
determine the rights of water users. The
work is done in connection with the suit
by the Government against the water
users to determine the amount of water
to which they are entitled.
The investigation of the Government
officers OF the recent post office robbery
at Carson has brought some rather inter
esting bits of information to light.
Among others. an investigation was be-
ing made of wheres certain man about
town had suddenly secured bunch OF
spending money, the fellow being sus-
pect. The fellow pleaded, so the story
goes, that arrangements had been made
for himself and Carson lady to elope
and she had provided the where~ithal'
but after he had secured the same he
changed his mind and spent the money