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

Hogart in Carlin Sunday morning. The
house and its contents. valued at $1,000
were entirely consumed.
A Washington dispatch says Senator
Newlands OF Nevada has recommended
Clay Tsllman Of Tonopsh. late Demo
cratic candidate for Congress. to Presi,
dent-elect Wilson for Secretary Of the In.
terror.
Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont OF New York
has sent 800 to Miss Anne Martin Of
Reno to be used in the campaign fund
Of the Nevada Women's Suffrage Society.
Miss Martin states that Mrs. Belmont
is taking a great interest in the fight for
women's suffrage in Nevada.
A fur company in Elko, according to
the Free Press. received from a trapper
q short time ago a coyote pelt that meas
ured five feet from tip to tip. full furred,
as handsome a fur as you could find any
where. 1t brought the top price. and
will in time be worn by some lady who
will probably call it "her wolf"
officials Of the Western Pacific Rail-
road have announced that q decided cut
in freight rates on certain commodities
shipped from California to points on the
Nevada Northern Railroad will become
effective January 81. The principal towns
on this line are McGill and East Ely.
Among the commodities which will be
effected are the following: Canned goods.
cement, powder, farm articles, nails.
paper. sugar. forest products.
Governor Oddie has announced the ap
pointment of Cole L. Hsrwood Of Reno
to succeed Judge Orr as District Judge
Of Washoe County. Mr.. Harwood is q
partner of Senator w. A. Massey and has
been an active worker in Republican pol
itics. Two years ago he was a candidate
for the nomination for District Judge.
He has practiced law in Reno since 1907.
He was born in Wisconsin, reared in
Michigan and graduated from the Uni
versity Of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He
practiced law in New York and Washing
ton, d. c.. before coming to Nevada.
The roof of the school building, in
course of construction at Metropolis,
Elko County, fell in a few days ago, doing
much damage. II seems that the con-
crete, Of which material the walls of the
building are constructed, was much of it
put in during the cold weather, and tina
il became frozen before it bad "set." A
days ago, after the roof was in place,
the workmen, while cleaning up the in
built a fire to dispose Of some rub
bish. The heat from the fire thawed the
concrete and it gave way, allow
Ing the roof to fall in.
Frank Smith, a miner who Of late years
been in Butte, Montana, but who 80
years ago fell down a shaft on the Com
stock for q distance of 800 feet and es-
,aped with a dislocated shoulder and in
|uries to the head. which left him uucon-
,cious for several days. recently paid a
to friends in Reno. He was IN his
way to Fort Bragg, California. to visit his
brother, Fred Smith, who is Town Mar
shall at that place. Smith and nine other
men we're in the cage near the top OF the
shaft when the cable holding it broke and
Inc cage fell. The nine other men were
killed.
The Secretary OF the Interior has noti-
fed Project Engineer d. w. Cole. OF the
Carson project, and he has con-
veyed the good news to the homssteaders
and other water users on the project,
hat a part Of the 1912 payment for water
and construction charges has been de-
ierred until 1913. and that the remainder
the payment has been divided into two
parts and that these payments will go
over until the ninth and tenth payments
are due. This will give the water users
much relief, and was brought about from
the fact that there was a shortage of
on the project in 1912. and many
If the homesteaders we're unable to farm
heir land at profit.
Tuesday. the dead body of ar infant
was found beside the track Of the Nevada
Northern railway, a short distance from
McGill Junction, near Ely. The grew
some discovery was made by some jap
laborers. who did not touch the
but went at nee to McGill and re-
the incident. An autopsy per-
iormed on the remains of the infant shows
hat the babe was alive when born. but
hat it apparently had been cast away
without receiving any are or attention.
The autopsy surgeon states that it bad
never been given n%ourishment or atten-
lion and that its spine was fractured in
Two places, in the c~ervicle and dorsal reg
1t is the opinion Of officers investi