The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-08-07

sessment of last year.
Mrs. EiffeI E. Moore has been
commissioned postmistress OF Bull
lion, the mining camp Is miles south
of Elko. The commission was issued
July q.
The Campbell & Kelley foundry at
Tonopah burned early Saturday
morning. Several autos in the build
ing were removed. The loss was
SIC, 1000. The firm will rebuild i'm
m~ediately.
DIR. Helen Rulison of Tonopah has
the distinction of being the only wo-
man delegate to the International
Dental Congress which will be held
in San Francisco, commencing Au-
gust 80. She is anticipating much
pleasure and profit from the conven-
| ton.
David Young, an engineer, and Ed
Gentry, a well known Tonopah miner.
have been committed to the State
asylum at Reno by Judge Averill of
the district court of Nye County.
| Gentry's insanity is said to have
/, been caused by acute melancholy.
Young is said to be suffering from
locomotor ataxia.
Austin Reveille: Hervey Hoskins,
who was injured in the face by a
a broken soda water bottle here in
June, returned Monday from Salt
Lake City accompanied by his brother
Donald. Hervey has permanently
lost the sight of his right eye, but he
is a brave lad and says that he can
see plenty with one eye.
Word has been received from Palo
Alto to the effect that Miss Anne
Martin, Nevada's leading suffra-
gette, who underwent a yer oper-
alton a short time ago. is improving,
but will be out of the active work of
the suffrage movement for some
time. Miss Martin is now at the
Peninsula hospital at Palo Alto, Cal.
The Elko papers report that the
water in the river is lower at the
present time than it has been the
latter part of July for many years,
according to the Star. 1t is slowly
diminishing in quantity and from
what the ranchers say there is not
enough now in the mountains to in
sure that the Humboldt will not
cease to flow during September.
Star Shooter, owned by George
Wingfeld, was the winner, of the
Nevada Derby at Saturdays races in
Reno. Silver Ante winner of the
Denver derby came III second and
Rhodes third. The race was the fea-
ture of the meeting and was run for
a purse of $1,000. Some of the best
horses in the country were entered,
and the victory of the Nevada horse
is a credit to the State and its owner.
Tonopah Miner: Jack Longstreet,
one of the few remaining typical
frontiersmen, was in Tonopah We'd
nesday, coming from his place in the
Monitor mountains, so miles north
east of Tonopah. Jack says that in
all his experience in Nevada he has
never seen the mountain lions so nu-
merous and so daring as they are at
present. They are killing many colts
and calves and it is necessary to keep
the latter corraled at night to be safe
at all.
The Nevada Supreme Court has
just handed down a decision in the
case of Christensen VS.. Anderson &
Duborg, in favor of the defendants.
This suit was the outcome of the sale
of the Kimberly Consolidated mines,
and was a claim for commissions to
the amount of $4,000. A decision was
rendered by the lower courtin favor
of the defendants. but the plaintiffs
carried the case to the Supreme
Court, and the findings of the lower
court were affirmed.
George Fronhofer, sentenced to
life Imprisonment for the murder of
Peter Laux at Kennedy, Humboldt
County, was granted a new trial by
the Supreme Court recently. Laux
was shot from ambush and in his
dying statement named Fronhofer
as his murderer. Although the
statement of Laux was not admitted