The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-04-04


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A powerful tractor has been trans
ported to Paradise valley. Humboldt
County, to be used in the breaking
of $50 acres of new land.
Ed Allen, a delivery driver of
E1ko. has been arrested on the charge
Of selling intoxicating liquors to an
Indian. He Is believed to have been
In the business for several months
past.
Judge Quicker has sentenced Mat
thew Price, convicted of cattle steal
ing in Humboldt County, to not less
than seven years nor more than
eight years in the Nevada State
prison
Falling from a train between Ely
and Lane City last Saturday. John
A. Steele, a pioneer of White Pine
County, dislocated his shoulder and
cut his scalp and hand. He is in a
hospital.
The water gauge at Winnemucca
has remained stationary for the past
several days at 1917 feet The Hum
boIdt is said to be falling in the
eastern part Of the State, due to
cold weather, and no food is feared.
Chris Diehl, Jr., one of the fore
most business men of Winnemucca,
died at Beowawe Friday. Heart
failure is presumed to have been the
cause of his falling into the irrigat-
ing ditch from which his body was
recovered.
Thirty thousand head of sheep
were sheared at Golconda the latter
part of the week. The shearing
hands have moved to other localities.
The clip along the Humboldt river is
now nearly completed and contracts
have been signed for practically all
the wool.
Although women are not voters in
Nevada they are allowed to hold the
office of school trustee, if elected.
Therefore, Mrs. Helen Schwalenberg
has filed a certificate of nomination
with Recorder Oldfeld of White
Pine County as a candidate for the
school board of the Ely district.
Frank L. Wildes, receiver for the
defunct State Bank and Trust Com
pany, has dismissed his suit against
the Tonopah Bonanza Publishing
Company asking for judgment for
$780, 900 damages alleged to have
been sustained through publication
in the Bonanza of an article accusing
Wildes of m~alfesasance in Office.
C. Nordling, who has been working
for Jake Reed at Deep Creek, in the
northern part of Elko County, has
been arrested on a charge of horse
stealing. Nordling, it is alleged. left
the ranch on Thursday of last week
with a horse that did not belong to
him. 1t is stated that his trial will
come up at the present term of the
district court in Elko.
In the case of DIR. G. u. Hall,
charged with manslaughter of Mrs.
Owen through wilful neglect while
attending her in childbirth at Winnie
mucca. the jury returned a verdict
of not guilty in 20 minutes after re-
ceiving the case There were three
physicians connected with the case,
DR.. Hall having been first called and
dismissed two or three days after
accouchment. The Silver State says
the public generally, as well as the
jury, no doubt looked upon the mat
ter as a fight between doctors. at
tempting to shift responsibility.
Jesse Root Grant of New York,
third son of former President u. S.
Grant. was Monday denied a decree
of divorce sought on grounds of de-
sertion, against Elizabeth Chapman
Grant, whom he married in 1880 in
San Francisco. Judge Sommers in
the District Court at Goldfeld denied
the decree, declaring that the refusal
of Mrs. Grant to leave her home in
order to live with her husband in a
hotel did not constitute desertion.
Contest was made against the suit
by Mrs. Grant, who, with. her two