The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-09-25
Nevada State News

ceived from Senator key f1ttman tne
nomination for the cadetship at West
Point. He is IS years of age.
The registration for courses in
education at the University of Ne
vada is reported as three times
greater than that of last year.
In addition to buying the Jory
ranch near Copper Canyon, James
Dahl is reported to have purchased
the Wilson ranch and water rights
for $4,000.
Threshing has commenced at
South Fork. Elko County, says the
Independents correspondent, and
there are some fine crops of wheat,
barley and oats.
The fire at Ruth. White Pine
County, on Monday of last week re-
suited in the destruction of a large
store, a butcher shop and a saloon.
The damage is estimated at SIS, 900,
partly insured.
Rev. Percival S. Smithe, rector of
the Episcopal church at Las Vegas,
was unable to preach at Tonopah on
Sunday as expected andis at Pomona,
CAL, suffering from what is thought
to be appendicitis.
F. Schacht, A. Settelmeyer and
William Settelmeyer of Gardnerville
have bought the 1000 acre ranch of
William Blackburn in Mono County,
CAL, 60 miles south of Gardnerville,
and will work it in addition to their
Carson Valley property.
The wheat that won the grand prize
from all the world at the Panama
Pacific Exposition was grown on the
farm of George Henningsen Of
Carson Valley. The Gardnerville
Record Courier says Mr.. Henningsen
has been growing the same kind OF
wheat for years.
Carson Appeal: One of Uncle
Sans recruiting officers has been
visiting in Carson. but with his de-
parture there don't seem to be any
diminution in the number of those
who for the past year or so have
been bowling that this country
should go down and take Mexico.
Mining Inspector A. ]. Stinson has
returned to Carson from investigat.
ing the accident by which &c. Camp.
bell lost his life at National in the
mine there last week. Stinson thinks
Campbell was splitting the holes. five
in number, and had trouble with
them, and before he had finished the
fifth, the first went off.
Three more boys, Frank Raines,
Charles Zitterbarth and Richard
Clingman escaped from the Indus.
trial school at Elko Saturday night.
The boys are supposed to be headed
West over the Western Pacific. Two
boys who answered the descriptions
which have been sent out were put
off a train at Palisade Sunday night.
A joy ride that terminated in a
near tragedy was the experience Of
a Reno couple recently. Harry j.
Smith and a woman whose name is
not given turned turtle in an auto
mobile on an embankment near
Carson City. The woman is in a
hospital. Smith was not seriously
injured. The machine was a total
wreck.
Eight carloads of honey totalling
in the neighborhood of 10000
pounds is the showing of what is
looked upon at Lovelock as a small
business, that of the bee industry.
C. p. Mallory. a Los Angeles buyer.
has been at Lovelock for the past
two weeks negotiating for the out
put of the honey producers OF the
valley.
A stranger. supposed to be John
Kilroy of San Francisco. was found
in a room at the Tahoe house in Vir-
ginia City recently with his throat
cut. AS he had been about town
during the day trying to raise money
on his watch. it is supposed that he.
in a fit of dependency. tried to end
his life with a razor which was found
under the mattress on which he lay.
He has a fighting chance to live ac-
cording to the doctor in attendance.