The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-01-03
Nevada State News

That the population of Goldfield is
not dwindling %atpresent is shown by
the attendance upon the public
schools. The average is 465.
Mrs. G. E. Anderson, wife of the
superintendent of schools in Elko
County, is dead at Oakland. She
has been suffering from cancer.
l.. o. Harron, head of the old Com
stock mining machinery firm of Har-
ron, Richard and McCone, died sud-
denly recently at his home in San
Francisco.
A shipment of 1900 pelts was made
from Austin several days ago. Trap
pers report that fur bearing animals
in that region are exceptionally plen-
tiful this seas
Arrangeme Y been made by
the Scottish Iasons to baptize
and adopt the child of William
M. David of Can nCity, Grand Mas
ter of the Masons fNevada. This is
an honor that is rarely conferred.
George F. Armand, city editor of
the Ely Expositor, was held up the
other night and relieved of $1.75, the
residue of his salary, after having
purchased a jug of Christmas cheer.
The bandit permitted the newspaper
man to retain the jug.
Louis Stern, for more than 40 years
a resident of Hike in Lincoln County,
died recently at the National Soldiers
Home at Sawtelle, California, in the
87th year of his age. For many years
he was justice of the peace and post
master at Hike.
Whitman Symmes, mining engi-
neer and former superintendent Of
the Ward Shaft Association and the
United Comstock Pumping Associa-
ton, has filed suit in San Francisco
against the directors of those two
corporations for $4,000 damages for
alleged maliscious libel.
|. l.. Ruffner, representative of a
coterie of Pennsylvania capitalists,
recently inspected 10000 acres of
land in Smith valley in Lyon County
with a view to charging an irriga-
ton system at present embracing
5000 acres of land. If carried out,
the project will entail the expendi-
ture of $3.50, 900.
Arrested in Salt Lake City on a
charge of embezzling funds collected
for a Reno concern by which he had
previously been, employed, E. l..
Howell was recently brought back
to the riverside city from the Nor
mon capital by Sheriff Burke of
Washoe County. Howell did not
fight extradition on the charge.
The ranchers of the Truckee mead
ows have filed a petition with the
Nevada railroad and industrial COM
mission asking that the Steamboat
Canal Company be forced to establish
a lower rate for water. They COM
plain that the company is charging
Sc per inch for water and threatens
to increase the rate to $1,000. The
ranchers ask that the rate be fixed at
SIS and are talking of building an in
dependent canal.
c. S. Wheeler, who resides near
Reno, sustained painful burns and
narrowly escaped death recently
when his automobile suddenly took
fire while standing in the garage at
his residence. The car was badly
scorched and he saved the garage
from destruction by driving the car
out of the structure, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the machine was en-
veloped in flames, caused by Wheeler
striking a match to locate a gasoline
leak.
Miss Adelaide Phillips, employed
as a g~overness in the family of John
Jasper of Ruby Valley in Elko Coun-
ty sustained serious injuries recent
ly when the lights of an automobile
in which she was riding suddenly
went out and the machine missed a
bridge approach and struck a heavy
post. She was thrown through the
glass front of the car and her face so
badly lacerated that it was found
necessary to take her to Elko for
surgical aid.