The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-12-26
Nevada State News

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or denly in aSan Francisco hospital
recently, death beins due to compli-
cations from kidney trouble.
Some time ago the State Engineers
Office called for proofs for water
rights to be filed with his Office not
later than December Is. This has
been extended to February Is, 1915.
A small blaze occurred at Elko
Tuesday morning. Owing to the n.y.
drants being frozen the fire threat
ened to spread through the business
section of the city. A bucket brigade
saved the town.
Mineral County recently authoriz-
ed a county high school. and the
Commissioners last week selected
Hawthorne over Nina for the location
of the school. They are now look
ing for a competent principal to take
charge of the school at a salary of
$125 monthly.
committee was appointed recent
ly at the convention of the Pacific
Union conference of the Seventh Day
Adventists at Glendale, CAL. to estab-
lish a denominational academy in
Nevada. A fund of $3.50, 900 for this
school and other educational institu-
tons in the union territory is now
being raised.
May Slaughter. who dug her way
out of the Humboldt County jail at
Winnemucca with a table fork eight
months ago. and who left a note to
say she would be back for trial on a
charge of cattle rustling, was found
not guilty of the offense of Jail
breaking in her trial recently for
that offense.
w. M. Gotwaldt, who has been
identified with newspaper work in
Nevada for many years, and who for
the past year has been attached to
the Reno Gazette. has accepted the
position as assistant to w. w. Booth
of the Tonopah Bonanza. a place
made vacant recently by the resigna-
ton of ]. C Martin.
A jury in the Carlin justice court
aeGaittsdW. S. Mckenzie ora charge
of stealing five fat turkeys which had
been killed at aturkey shoot by Con-
stable Charles Happier. Mckenzie
was seen by Mrs. Happier when he
took the birds but the jury believed
it was a practical joke, as Mckenzie
has a local reputation as a joker.
Harold Grant, formerly of Elko.
whose mother, Mrs. George Grant.
now resides at Sparks. is in Jail at
~Jonesville. Wis.,. charged with the
murder of Jennie Miller, State Lii
braIian at Aurora, ILL.,. according to
dispatches recently received at Elko.
The family formerly lived at Winnie
mucca. Elko. Fallon and Tonopah.
While engaged in cutting matches.
Bernard j. Moran. a miner employed
at the Desert Queen mine at Tono.
pah. sustained painful injuries re.
Gently when he slipped at the station
on the 600 level and fell a distance OF
so feet He was Immediately rushed
to the mine operators hospital,
where it was ascertained that no
bones were broken.
AS a result of a conference recently
between a Committee of the Washoe
County Grand Jury and the County
Commissioners it is probable that sug-
gestions for changing the State law
80 it will not give a monopoly to GER
tain certified public accountants OF
Nevada in exporting the books of var
ious counties will be made at the next
convention of the Legislature.
Twelve degrees below zero was reg
ietered Wednesday of last week by the
official Government weather bureau
thermometer at the Western Pacific
at Elko which was IL degrees
than on any preceding morn
ing this Winter, and within degrees
of the coolest recorded last Winter,
which also was during December. So
inadequate were the furnaces at the
grammar school to rovide
enough heat to keep pupils and teach
ers warm that Principal McWhinney
found it necessary to dismiss the
during the morning session.