The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-01-04
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has been held in Fallon n steps taken
TO sign up more acreage and an endeavor
is being made to have other sections
plant sugar beets for the coming season.
Less than one-quarter the amount was
produced last season by farmers 10 Ne
vada to keep the plant running a suf-
fcient length OF time to bring in any
profits to the owners.
Robert A. Bingham. q sophomore at
the University at Reno. has been ap-
pointed Il the United States military
academy at West Point on Senator
Newland's nomination. AS already
published. Senator Massey has noui.
mated Thomas b. Ramsey. The final
mental examination will be held at SaD
Francisco Oh April 80 and the ply steal
examination at West Point in June.
The Nevada Medical Association has
passed a resolution opposing the allow
ing Of DIR. +. II. Wichmann to resume
the practice of medicine in this State.
This physician was recently paroled
from the ~penitentiary. after serving a
short part of an eight-year sentence for
granddaughter. The Medical Society
also discussed legislation they may favor
at the coming session of the Legislature.
Having sent all of bis months wages
to his wife in Tonopah several days be-
fore Christmas, NJ. Mendenish, a miner
working at Blair, returned home to Tono-
pah Christmas to spend the holiday with
his wife, but On entering his home found
il empty and both wife and money miss
ing, as well as all OF his and her personal
belongings. He found that she had left
Tonopah with an Italian laborer and had
gone to Los Angeles. The officers there
have been notified to apprehend them.
The first newspaper to be started in
the new camp Of Rochester is now
planned for issue about the first Of the
year by Frank l.. Reber, according to
the announcement OF the Humboldt
Star. Mr.. Reber has had a long expert.
ence as a pablisher and as a mining cor.
respondent. He was one of the first to
Visit the camp and to announce the
strike and his decision to start a paper
gives considerable assurance of the
camps chance for permanence.
Owing to the fact that q mild form OF
smallpox, similar to that prevailing in
and other parts of Nevada, has
made ts appearance in Reno, the City
Board OF Health states that parents
should take the ~precsution Of v~accinatine
their children. The health officers
further state that there is no cause for
apprehension, but that the safeguard OF
vaccination should be adopted to prevent
possible serious injection in some cases.
William H. Schnitzer, a former Reno
lawyer and father Of the Divorce Colony.
who left there under an indictment for
s~ubornation of perjury. writes a pitiful
letter from Canada begging the District
Attorney to dismiss the indictment
against him. He declares his troubles
have ruined his health and shattered bis
and that he van to settle in
Southern California. District Attorney
Woodburn states he viii take the action
desired.
George b. Thatcher. newly appointed
Attorney General of Nevada, who vas
named to this Office following the death
OF Attorney General Cleveland Baker, 10
quite i'll at his home at Tonopah with
pneumonia. Thatcher was for a time in
a dangerous condition but has now
passed the crisis and it is expected that
he will soon be out again. He expected
move to Carson by January l, but his
removal to the capital city may now be
postponed for some time.
George Fronhofer, who has been on
trial at Winnemucca for the murder OF
Laux, a miner at the camp of
Kennedy, has been fonnd guilty Of muir
der in the first degree and the jury has
liked the penalty for his crime at life
Imprisonment. He will be formally
sentenced Jan. is. The men quarreled
over a mining claim at Kennedy Janu.
AIRY %. 1912, and Lsux was shot. From
hofer and another man were arrested,
md when Laux died Fronhofer was
with murder.
In the last issue OF the Clark County
there is an interesting article