The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-10-25
Nevada State News

600 fire motor truck and the machine
will be delivered within the next 80
days.
That Carson valley produces fine
stock was demonstrated a few days
ago when a prominent stock raiser
refused $3.50 a head for 20 work
mares.
Mrs. Frances E. Noones of Ely is
under arrest and will soon be tried
on a charge of attempted murder, it
being alleged she attempted to kill
Christine Ness by shooting.
The placing of over 1000 acres
of land upon the market is the latest
move by the land department of the
Southern Pacific Company toward
securing new settlers for Elko County
A nugget claimed to weigh four
pounds and worth over $500 has been
found in a gulch near Manhattan.
Several other valuable nuggets have
been found in the placer workings IN
that section lately.
The State has offered a reward OF
$3.50 for the arrest and conviction OF
the murderer of Jean Menta, a sheep
raiser of Douglas Comfy recently
found shot dead in the road on his
way home. This makes the total re-
ward $1,000.
Kenneth Booth, formerly of the
Tonopah Bonanza, who for several
weeks has been editing the Elko Free
Press during the absence of h. Nj.
Steninger, has gone to Tulare, CAL,
where he will be connected with one
of the papers there.
Bert Rockwell, well known in Cen
trail Nevada, a prominent rancher OF
Lamoille, has been arrested as the
result of a row over a fence with
Samuel Mcintyre, also a prominent
rancher. The case is in progress at
ElkO IN the JuSClce 5 cOurC.
The validityof the grand juryof Elko
County has been attacked in the Dis
trict Court of that county, on the
ground that one of the jurors was
not a resident of Nevada. w. A.
Hyatt of Deeth is declared to be
really a resident of Wyoming.
At the Hudson ranch in Smith val
ley, owned by the Plymouth Com
pany, in which William Dressler and
Richard Kirman are the principal
owners, an arteslan flow was struck
this week at the depth of 80 feet.
The flow was ten gallons per minute.
Judge Quicker has sentenced George
Riley, who plead guilty to a criminal
assault on a 10 year old girl in Para
disc valley, Humboldt County, to 30
years in the pe~nitentiary. The Win
nemucca Star says that Riley showed
no emotion when the sentence was
passed.
Disease thinned out the rabbits in
Pleasant Valley, Elko County, sever
al years ago but now they have reap
peared in great numbers and have
ruined the Winter wheat at the State
dry farm. Ranchers are having a
hard time to save their stacks, it is
reported.
A battle royal is IN among the
legal fraternity of Elko County. Re-
Gently a man named McCombs was
arrested for horse stealing and the
Elko Cattlemen's Association has en-
ployed five attorneys to assist the
District Attorney in prosecuting
McCombs.
John w. Pruett of Carlin, to en-
force his claim to title to land used
by the Southern Pacific for a siding,
padlocked four cars to the track last
Sunday and built a fence around the
land. Then he defied the company to
remove the cars. At last accounts
they were still there.
John A, Gill, travelling freight and
passenger agent for the Southern Pa
cifc Company in Nevada, has been
notified of awell-deserved promotion
and next week will assume the duties
of travelling freight and passenger
agent from the general Office in San
Francisco, covering the entire State
of California.
Yerington Times: The Southern
Pacific Company formally took over