The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-06-28
State News From EXCHANGES

George Meyers, one of the oldest sheep men of this State, died
Monday evening at Reno after a long illness. He was "a years of
age and was a native of Germany.
The Verdi Lumber Company is reported to have bought out
the Reno Mill and Lumber Companys interests in Reno and Ne
vada, paying 500, 900 for the property and good will.
Judge Averll on Monday at Tonopah sentenced Lizzie Wood
folk, who murdered Lena Hamilton in a jealous rage, to seven years
in the penitentiary. The woman is colored and so was her victim.
Horse thieves descended on the ranch Of J. r. Martin, nine
miles from Cherry Greek in White Pine County, last Friday night.
They got away with eight head, but the Sheriff is after them now.
The trustees of Austin school district have appointed the
following teachers for the coming year: Principal, Geo. B. Nc
Cracker; grammar grade, Miss Lavina Mullie; primary grade. Miss
Marie Borego.
John Mccormick, manager of a drug store at Reno, Monday
pleaded guilty to a charge of selling forbidden drugs without a
prescription being produced by the purchaser. He was fined 500
by Justice Lee j. Davis.
The five teachers in the Las Vegas grammar school have all
refused to return to teach there, as the salaries are too low-$75
to sS5 a month. The school board offered them 80 a month in
crease. but this they declined.
The 1s-months-od daughter of Carl Giburg, who lives in La
noble valley, found a bottle of carbolic acid in a freshly-opened
box on Friday night, opened the cork and swallowed some OF the
LIQUID. She died two hours later
The State Industrial Commission has sent out 1000 letters to
different companies and firms in Nevada this last fortnight with ref
erence to the new law in regard to the industrial commission. 1t
expects to be ready for active business on July l.
Ivan Hocevar, the Austrian who on April g shot and killed
staven Sedar. a laborer on Commercial Row at Reno. was Monday
adiudped insane by a jury in the District Court, and has been COM
mhted to the Nevada Insane Asylum. The jury ~deliberated 20
minutes.
When Edward Terry, indicted on a charge of cattle rustling by
the Lincoln County grand jury. stepped over the Nevada line from
u.ob ba did not know that Charles Demmick, a rangerider, had
hsan made a deputy sheriff Demmick placed him under ar
rest and took him to Cahente.
The grand jury of White Pine County, which has been invest-
eating fatal accidents in the mines aud quarries, has made a recon-
nondst;on that all men employed underground be American or
T--nah onoakino as it has been found that a number of the fatal
aaqs?dsnts have come about through the foreigners being unable to
understand the orders IN English.
-...o Adams of the University of Nevada. who
rtrnnontal in securing the formation of a State Tax Commits
s;o r is writing a book on taxation in Nevada. he declares that II
az Tax Commission does its work well the State Will have more more
ne aa~t vaar than it needs, under the 6O-ceut tax rate. The
% % r. not fixed fairly, and should be better regulated he says
M man select a wife as they would a race horse or a prize
aocordinp to her appearance, teeth, age, pedigree, gait ana
grooming, and then wonder why she does not settle down naturally
into the slow old pillow OF matrimony.