The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-12-05
Nevada State News

Albert McGill. the Indian found
guilty OF an attempted train wreck
ing, was sentenced Monday at Ely
by Judge Coleman to serve one to
five years in the penitentiary.
Fallon shipped IS. 2O4 pounds of
dressed turkeys out for the Thanks
giving trade. according to express
company figures. The average
price paid was 20 cents a pound.
The increase in land valuation in
Lander County, as ordered by the
Nevada Tax Commission. according
to the computation of Recorder
Bert AGREE, aggregates the sum of
1888, 449.
There is a scarcity of feed for
sheep in Elko County; hay is scarce,
and sheepmen are up against the al
tentative of paying prohibitive
prices, or move their herds by rail
to points where feed is plentiful.
Plans are being discussed for the
establishment in Reno of a weekly
newspaper to be devoted to giving
particular publicity to Democratic
affairs in Nevada. If the enterprise
is successful as a weekly it will be
changed into a daily when the sup
port justifies.
Miss Anne H. Martin, president of
the Nevada Equal Franchise Society,
is expected back from the East in a
short time to begin work in trans
forming the Suffrage Society into a
civic league to operate on non-part-
isan lines in the political life of Me-
vada, says the Journal.
A number of both old and young
people of this city enjoyed the first
skating of the season Tuesday after
noon. The river below town WIS
frozen yer firmly and the hard
glossy surface Of the stream WIS
covered with skaters until a late
hour.-Elko Independent.
According to n statement made by
Governor-elect Emmett d. Boyle, A.
A. Burke, Sheriff of Washoe County,
will receive the position Of Superin-
tendent of State Police at the begin
ming of his term January 1. David
Hayes will be the next State Engin-
Ger and Smith. who has worked with
Boyle in his engineering work, will
probably be the Governors secre-
tary.
Frank DePretto, the former Ne
vada convict, who was found guilty
in Salt Lake City of murder in the
first degree for the part he played
in the Holdup of the Highland Boy
store in Bingham canyon April Is,
1914. when Eugene Allen was shot
and killed. vas sentenced by Judge
M. l.. Richie of the Third District
Court of Utah to be shot January
Is, 1915.
A cattle disease that has for years
bafled the veterinarians of this Sec
ton, has again made its appearance
in this valley, and one farmer has
lost 60 head of steers, through this
mysterious agency. Drs. Baker and
Mack have been making a study of
the disease and have arranged to
have tests made by a specialist of
cattle diseases who is connected with
the University of California. The
disease is confined to stock on this
one ranch and it is not likely to
spread further. -Gardnerville Record.
Elko Independent: According to
newspaper reports A. Grant Miller
will start a contest of the recent
election in seven counties. Miller
was the Socialist candidate for u. S.
Senator and ran third. with Sam
Platt second. and F. G. Newlands
first. According to rumor. friends
of Platt are quietly interesting them
selves in the proposed contest and a
real lively time is anticipated. Platt
was only 40 votes behind Newlands
and his friends, it is said, will make
one last and mighty struggle to land
for him the Senatorial toga.