The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-12-20

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The only bidder was E. Remnant q
Co.
The battleship Nevada, which will
be one of the two greatest dread
naughts afoat, will be launched about
April l, but the exact date has not
yet been set.
DR.. B. NJ. Weller. a veterinary sur
geon of Caliente, was killed Sunday
by being struck by a train. Several
cars passed over his body before the
train could be stopped.
Elko's County Commissioners last
week accepted the scalps of 1916 coy
otes. 226 wildcats and lynx and 1873
badgers, paying bounty on them
amounting to S15S9.5O.
The City Commissioners of Las
Vegas at a recent meeting enacted
an ordinance prohibiting public
dance halls in the town and fixed S1O0
as the quarterly saloon license.
James T. Green, formerly of the
Carson Appeal. has purchased the
White Publishing Company's print
ing and stationery business in Reno
and will take charge the first of the
year.
Rheumatism of the heart caused
the sudden demise of Joseph Burton
st. Staup. He died at the home of
his son near Fallon. Deceased was
a native of Ohio and was aged SO
years.
The widow of William Blumstrom,
who died recently as the result of in
juries sustained while employed by
the Tonopah Extension Mining Com
pany, will receive $4,000 insurance
from the State.
A general fight in a saloon at Blair
Wednesday morning resulted in the
shooting of R. A. Prior, a shift boss
in the Silver Peak mine. Mike Delic,
a miner who was recently discharged,
did the shooting.
The big irrigation dam near Win
nemucca in the Humboldt river for
the Miller & Lux Company has been
completed and turned over to the
company by r. E. Tilden, civil en-
gineer, who had charge of construc-
ton.
Russell Dorsey, a printer of Elko,
met with a serious injury several
days ago. While climbing through
a wire fence on a hunting expedition,
his shotgun was accidentally dis
charged and he may lose an arm as q
result.
A. B. Phillips, rendered despond-
ent by the continued illness Of his
wife, committed suicide by hanging
at Salt Lake recently. For five years
he was superintendent of motive
power for the Tonopah and Goldfeld
railway.
o. w. Whitaker and son were re-
leased last week after having beer
imprisoned in their Montezuma cabir
for a week by snow. Louis Besslel
and his son brought the relief. They
arrived in Goldfield on skis after
their hazardous experience.
The new cinabar industry in Nyt
County reports the shipment of
full carload of mercury from the
plant at lone for New York. The
shipment contains 80, 900 pounds Of
an estimated value of $15, 900. 1t i!
the pure refined quicksilver.
Water to be developed from the
famous Pattani spring will be used t
generate motive power for a new
Touring mill to be erected in indie
pendence valley near Tuscarora. Tit
plant is promised to be in readiness
to handle the crops of 1914.
One does not have to look very ia.
to discover one of the secrets of thu
prosperity of Sparks and Reno. Dur
ing the past year the Southern Paci
fic paid employees at Sparks, 81, 1874,
600 in wages; the average men EN-
ployed each month being 1882.
The Carson News has a Washing
: ton dispatch saying that Senator
= Newlands and Pittman have notifies
! John +. Robins of Ely, and Ashley
Dawley of Elko, that they have bee
selected respectively as Register AMI
! Receiver of the Elko Land Office.