The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-10-24
OCTOBER "a. 1914
Nevada State News

The Carson Appeal says: Reports
reached here Monday that Aurora
had received orders to shut down,
the failure of the ore coming up to
former estimates being given as the
reason for the close down."
Two carloads of honey yer shipped
from Reno Thursday, the entire ship
ment having been gathered from the
apiaries in the immediate vicinity OF
that city. The destination of the
shipment is Medina, o.
Miss Florence Williams of Yering-
ton was unconscious Is hours as the
result of injuries received when she
was thrown from a buggy. The
horse bolted when Miss Williams
brother closed the gate behind it.
Officers of Elko have arrested Cor
ME O'Keefe of Tuscarora On acharge
of starting the fire which destroyed
the Primeaux residence and two
other buildings. O'Keefeis held for
examination before the insanity COM
mission.
The mines and smelter of the Ma
son Valley Mines Company have been
closed down, throwing $50 men out
of employment. The inability to dis
pose Of its copper product, owing to
the European war, is given as the
reason for the close down.
The Elko Free Press says a number
Of pledges are being circulated,
binding candidates for the Legisla-
tture to stand against any effort to
repeal the gambling law and the
paper pledges itself to work against
any candidate who refuses to sign.
Elko Independent: AS a result of a
premature explosion while making a
shot at the Alpha mines at Jarbidge
Monday. Adam Needham. an en-
ploye Of that company received a
broken leg and other minor injuries.
He was brought to a local hospital.
Churchill County Eagle: Ed Nor
gan who went to England some
months ago to purchase blooded stock
for himself and others, recently re-
turned. Owing to the war. he was
unable to ship any stock out of that
country except blooded shire horse.
r. B. Davis, chairman of the Board
of County Commissioners of Nye
County. is suffering from 9 broken
rib, due to an automobile accident as
he was about to join in the search
for Tom Shipe. the mar charged
with slashing a fellow miner with a
razor.
The final report of the Humboldt
County grand jury urges the county
commissioners to revoke the liquor
licenses of eight establishments, one
at National, one at McDermitt. two
at Paradise and four at Winnemucca,
on the ground that the %proprietors
have permitted illegal gambling.
The three-year-old son of MI. and
Mrs. William Hinch of Virginia City
was drowned recently when he fell
into a we'll back of the Hinch resi-
dence. The child was playing with
other children in the bedroom. and
it is believed that he crawled out OF
the window, and in attempting to
look into the we'll fell and was
drowned before assistance reached
him.
A.. B. Millet, a well known rancher
of Austin, Lander County, was in
jured recently while motoring to
Austin. While rounding a curve on
the Toyaibe range the car. weighing
$500 pounds, overturned. pinioning
Millet beneath it. The nature OF his
injuries could not be ascertained,
owing to the difficulty of telephone
connections between Austin and
Round Mountain.
Phoebe Record: Wilkes Campbell
and his brother, Floyd, dug up mute
evidence a few days ago of a tragedy
that probably happened in Phoebe in
the early days when shootings were
numerous. They were cleaning out
an old shaft some distance above the
old schoolhouse and unearthed al
skeleton of a human being. The
bones were badly decomposed, but