The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-02-06
Nevada State News

school recently walked from Wonder
to Falloh, a distance of 60 miles. in
Ia hours.
The women of Esmeralda County,
particularly those who are wage
earners, held a meeting the other
evening and denounced the Arnold
eight-hour bill.
Twelve candidates from Deeth,
eight from Carlin and three from
Elko were initiated into the indie
pendent Order of Odd Fellows at
Elko on Sunday.
The Tonopah Bonanza reports the
advent of a "near-jitney" automo-
bile service. In Tonopah the jitneys
will charge Is cents instead of a
nickel or a dime.
Frank Pianna, a resident of Gold
field since the early days, is believed
to have persisted on the desert be-
tween Goldfield and Silver Peak from
delirium tremens.
California is preparing to abolish
its State Board of Equalization and
form a State Tax Commission
modelled somewhat after the law of
the State of Nevada.
The Humboldt Star reprints an
article from a Boise, Idaho, paper,
| stating that money for the proposed
Winnemucca Northern Railroad has
been pledged in Chicago.
Ed Ryan. formerly mining inspect
or, has received notification from
Senator Pittman that his name has
been sent to the Senate for confirm
alton as Superintendent of the Car
son Mint.
The Simmerone Fraction claim at
Goldfeld was sold recently by the
Sheriff of Nye County under a judg-
ment from the district court. held by
the Tonopah Bank, to Walter Trent
of Reno.
A meeting of representatives of
nearly all the labor unions of Tono-
pah was held Tuesday evening and
resolutions we're adopted ~favoring
the passage of the eight-hour law for
women workers in the State.
Judge Taber of Elko held the gift
enterprise law unconstitutional on
Thursday when he released Harry
Stofer. a magazine agent. from GUS
tody on a writ of habeas corpus.
Stofer had been sentenced to Jail for
four months.
j. C. Jones and j. H. Price left
Reno Monday evening for San Fran
cisco to install the mineral exhibit of
Nevada in the mining building.
This exhibit is one of the largest ever
sent from Nevada and includes over
$40. 900 worth of high grade ore.
The Senate passed Senate bill No.
20. cutting off the salary of $500 a
year of the Attorney General as ex-
oficio Mineral Land Commissioner.
The bill provoked considerable dis
cussion while under debate and f.
nally passed by a vote of IL to 10.
Charles Wightman, formerly Coun-
ty Assessor of Churchill County, was
instantly killed Friday evening. and
L. L. Downs, a we'll known citizen of
Fallon, badly injured, by the over
turning of their auto while en- route
to Reno from Fallon at a point near
Derby.
Ray Goodwin of Las Vegas. whose
foot was cut last May when he. was
struck by falling glass while fighting
a fire. submitted to an operation on
account of lameness he had been
suffering. A piece of glass an inch
long and half an inch wide was taken
from the wound.
Fred Lambert and George Bryant,
opium, cocaine and morphine fiends,
were among those arrested by the
authorities in Tonopah recently in
the general clean up Of the camp of
all undesirables. Because of their
habit the men will be committed to
the State insane asylum for treat
ment.
Wells Drury, one time assistant
Secretary of State in Nevada, fore
man of the Virginia City Enterprise,
later assistant city editor of the San
Francisco Examiner and subsequent