The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-11-01
Nevada State News

passenger Z lOT NcNdud, SuSSCCu-
ing John A. Gill, who has been trans
ferred to California.
Falling into a shaft at the Winters
mine and living for 20 days without
food or water, is an experience that
befell the valuable hunting dog be-
longing to Chris Jeppesen who is de-
veloping a mining property in that
locality.
That not enough young people en-
ter the field of education is the dec
~laration of J. E. Bray, State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, who
says that from so to 100 teachers are
brought in from outside the State
every year.
County Auditor Leahigh of White
Pine County has completed adding
the 10 per cent raise in the assessed
valuation of White Pine County which
amounts to $685. S6 in the total val
uation of city and county, making a
gross valuation PISS, 100, 246 on which
taxes will be collected.
A number of local horsemen and
baseball enthusiasts are planning to
construct a half-mile track adjacent
to the city of Lovelock. In the
center 9 baseball field will be laid off.
Work will begin as 500 IS sufficient
money is subscribed to purchase the
ground and make the improvements.
When the Gardnerville post office
was advanced to third class, post
master Jacobsen understood that he
would be allowed $500 a year for
clerk hire and hired the needed as
sistant. 1t nov terminates that the
Government allows the princely sum
of S11 per month for clerk hire.
A japanese colony in the Humboldt
valley on the edges of the Humboldt
sink in the vicinity of Lovelock for
the raising of sugar beets is threaten
ed in the visit of a wealthy japanese
from San Francisco, who is now in
Lovelock negotiating for the pur-
chase of 10, ZOO acres of land.
There are being circulated through
out Elko County several petitions
asking that the bill allowing the town
of Wells to bond the county and build
a high school at a cost of $40, 000,
passed at the last term of the Legis-
%lature, be referred back to the voters
under the referendum law that is
now in force in the State of Nevada.
Pearl Grant will be the guest of
Elko County for the next 30 days at
the county Jail as a result of her re-
fusal to obey a subpoena to appear
in Justice Castles court as witness.
She left for Carlin after she had been
summoned to appear in court and
left behind a note to a friend stating
her intention of remaining away from
Elko till after the suit had blown
over. She was confronted with this
note and had nothing to say. Then
she got 30 days for contempt of court.
--Elko Free Press.
Under a law passed by the Legis-
lature saloon licenses may be revoked
by a petition when signed by a ma
jority of residents of the district.
Petitions from Lamoille precinct in
Elko County, signed by a majority
of residents, were recently presented
to the Board of Commissioners, who
refused to take action in the matter.
The grand jury then got busy and
in its report censured the Commits
sioners for their neglect of duty, call
ing their attention to the statutes,
and asking that favorable action
thereon be had at once.
A few days ago Judge Harrington
appointed Pearls B. Ellis to the office
of U. S. Commissioner to take the
place of T. j. Edwards. who has held
that position at Carson for a number
of years. Under the new law no
clerk of the court is eligible to the
office of commissioner except with
the approval of the Attorney Gener-
al, and heretofore this approval has
been given and Mr.. Edwards has
held that position. The present At
torney General, however, takes a diff
ferent view of the matter and as a
result Mr.. Ellis was appointed.
In Austria there has been formed a