The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-10-18
SATURDAY. OCTOBER IS. 1918
Nevada State News

being crushed between his engine and
another train at Copper Flat, in the
Ely district.
The Masons of Elko at present
have interpretations afoot, that of
organizing a commandery of Knights
Templar and also the erection of a
new Masonic temple.
A new county high school at Wells
to cost s12, 900 will oon be under
construction. according to action
taken Monday afternoon by the Board
of County Commissioners of Elko.
By a referendum vote of III for
and los against, the Tonopah Miners
union decided to accept the offer of
the Mine Operators association to
buy the union hospital for the sum
of $500.
The total assessment of Lyon Coun-
ty this year is Sc, 522, 500, which is an
increase of 81, 005, 765 over the assess
ment of 1912. Lyon County believes
this increase to be the banner adj
vance of values in Nevada.
A bear with two cubs has been kill
ing cattle in Elko County, where the
losers have organized two expeditions
against her, but so far without sue
cess. She makes her headquarters
in the mountains back of Starr Val
ley.
George Wingfeld has bought a con-
trolling interest in the Fallon cream
cry and intends to make a success of
the venture. He has arranged to
purchase 500 cows and will sell them
to the Fallon farmers on an easy pay
ment plan.
with several wounds in the back of
his head, believed to have been in
fiicted by a gun in the hands of his
murderer, the body of Jean Menta,
a prominent sheepman of Wellington,
Nevada, was found on Sunday near
Gardnerville.
AS in Esmeralda County, where the
commissioners found that $500
would be sufficient to restore all the
roads damaged by the storm, so the
Nye Commissioners have found that
$1,000 will serve to repair all damage
done in Nye County.
Two postmistresses and one post,
master resigning and also the resig.
nation of a mail carrier is the direct
result of the parcel post system as at
fectiong the Deeth and Jarbidge of
fees. The Deeth office has been
swamped by parcel post mail.
The taking of testimony in the big
water suit of the Pacific Livestock
Company against the Ellison Ranch
ing Company and other defendants,
including practically all the water
users in the Quinn River valley, be-
gan at Winnemucca this week.
Farmers throughout Lovelock Val
ley are putting in lawns and planting
flower beds, while trees are being
planted about the homes and along
the avenues. 1t seems to be a gen
eral movement on the part of the
land owners to lend scenic beauty tc
their properties.
William H. Gass, cashier for the
Western Pacific at Elko, who recent
ly confessed to a shortage of $3.50 in
his accounts, was sentenced by Judge
Taber to serve a term of not less thar
a year and a quarter MOI more thar
20 months. Gass told the Court ne
had always been square and this one
offense was all that he had ever beer
guilty of. He said he could not ex'
plain why he took the $3.50. He il
so years old and has a wife and -four
children and for their sake asked the
Court to be merciful.-Elko indie
pendent.
Judge Ben w. Coleman of Ely
points the way to a Relation of the
dream of the people for a non-parti-
san judiciary. He believes the only
way to bring about the desired end
is to make impossible the nomination
or election of a candidate under the
present partisan plan. He puts the
issue squarely up to the Bar Associa-
ton of the State. with a recommend
alton that a bill be prepared by a
committee of that body for passage
at the next session of the Legislature.