The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-11-15

of rustllng and peddllng peel, Wnlen
is said to be rampant in the northern
part of the county. Rewards of
$4,000 are offered for the conviction
of cattle thieves.
The White Pine High School has
started the publication of a monthly
paper called THE Rather" said to
be the first high school paper in Ne
vada. 1t is issued at Ely and the
editorial staff hopes to promote the
interest of high school work through
the State.
An effort is being made to have
the next session of the Mining Con-
gress held in Tonopah. Clyde Heller,
president of the Belmont and Jim
Butler Companies, has offered $1,000
to help pay the expenses of the as
ISOLATION if it decides to make Tono-
pah its next meeting place.
The Expositor says that John E..
Robbins of Ely has been rendered the
appointment of register of the Elko
land office by Senator Pittman. Mr..
Robbins is well known in Ely, where
he is the manager of the Nevin-
Graham Undertaking Company and
a prominent member of White Pine
Aerie of Eagles. He is an active
Democrat.
A petition is being circulated in
Carson asking Dur representatives
at Washington to take steps at one
for securing a hospital for Indians in
this State. Harry Day is at the
head of the movement. The petition
was generally signed in Carson and
we believe it will be throughout the
State. The object sought is a most
worthy one.
Milton M. White, an aged carpen-
ter found dead in his cabin near To-
nopah early last week, has now been
discovered to have been a noted ex-
pert in banking and a prodigy in fig
ures in the South, where he was born
long before the Civil war. He lost a
fortune through the failure of a bank
and it disheartened him. He reached
Tonopah in 1907.
The Nevada Railroad Commission
has protested against the proposed
increase by the railroads of the rate
on fruit. The California and the
Arizona commissioners have joined
in the protest and the hearing will
be had at Sacramento some time in
March. The Nevada Commission es-
innate the difference in rates will
mean about $780, 600 to this State
annually.
DIR. w. H. Hood of Elko says that
he is not authority for the statement
attributed to him that there are so
cases of infantile paralysis in Elko
County--a statement that the SENTI-
MEL with many other papers printed
in good faith. 1t is onlyfair to Elko
to say that the doctor reports Is
cases since the disease started and
two deaths. He says the disease is
rapidly subSiding.
Nye County is boasting that it has
the SWEETEST and most comfortable
rooms for jurors of any county in
the State. The Bonanza says: "The
woodwork is finished in maple and
the place is supplied with lavatories,
Including shower baths, hot and cold
water and other appointments that
will appeal to citizens serving their
country. New iron bedsteads with
springs and luxurious mattresses are
included in the furniture"
A blacksmith of the early '70's at
Austin, well known in that and other
camps, has been in the county hos
pital at Tonopah for three years.
Recently it was discovered he was
entitled to a pension as a Union vet
eran and he has been removed to the
soldiers home at Sawtelle. At one
time old Billy Newell, the man who
now goes to be with his fellow veter-
ans, was known to every one in and
around Austin and Battle Mountain,
The property and rights of the
Austin Manhattan Mines Company,
located at Austin, Nevada, will be
sold to satisfy judgments against il
on November Is, according to advice
received from William A Marshall