The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1917-01-20
Nevada State News

The road bonds of Clark County,
amounting to $50. 900. have been sold
TO a Denver, Colorado. firm at pre-
MUM of 5000.
Hunters of Lund. White Pine Coun-
tv divided themselves into two part
les last week and held a rabbit hunt.
Over 100 were brought in that night
and the losing side gave dinner to
the winners Monday night.
Jim Rios, a Mexican, pleaded guilty
in the district court at Elko to the
charge of stabbing Cowboy Bill on
New Years eve. He was sentenced
to from one to.two years.
But Is miles of track remain to be
laid on the Deep Creek railroad now
building between Wendover and
Gold Hill. 1t is expected that the
first shipment of ore will be made
over the new..road on January 20.
A new light which had been put in
the Lund-Duckwater stage exploded
Just as the stage reached the bound
ary line between White Pine and
Nye Counties and the stage was COM
pletely destroyed by fire. Passengers
had to camp on the trail all night.
Since the first of the year. more
than 20 of undesirables have been
banished ::from the town of Elko.
The justice of the peace made an ex-
ample of the first few brought before
him and the others are'making haste
to get away from his jurisdiction.
The shipment of turkeys by Wells.
Fargo express from Fallon amounted
to SO tons for Thanksgiving and %
tons for Christmas. AS near as can
be estimated. these turkeys brought
10 the farmers who raised them
about $35. 600.
The Rathskeller in Tonopah is now
closed. The proprietor took in about
$1,000 during the course of one of his
recent busy nights and left by auto
for parts unknown. He is said to
have left many creditors and a war
rant has been issued for his arrest.
The dairy and new cow barn on
the Whitney ranch in Fallon were
recently destroyed by fire. Two days
later supply of lumber arrived and
soon after that all the neighbors.
They pitched in and by nightfall a
new barn had riser out of the ruins.
Peter Paintonti fatally stabbed
Peter Lorenzo in the abdomen dur
ing brawl in a saloon at Good
springs on the night of January /.
Lorenzo expired early the following
morning. Paintonti will be tried for
murder. The brawl developed from
New Years celebration.
E. P. Johnson was sentenced in the
Elko district court to term in pris-
on of from one to fourteen years.
Johnson recently passed several bad
checks on Montello merchants. When
arrested it was found that he had
signed the checks under one name.
registered at the hotel under another
and written to mis- wife under still
another.
Owing to the inability to secure
the necessary amount of coke fuel.
the Mason Valley smelter has not
been able to start up. according to
c. A. West. traffic manager. The
plant requires to have on hand sew
eral thousand tons of fuel before
making the initial start with the two
big furnaces, which have capacity
OF 1900 to 100 tons of ore daily.
Only about 100 tons of the 5000 tons
needed have been received.
A wrath Of the furious blizzard
that deprived Tonopah of light and
power for four days came from the
other side of the range through the
announcement that Steve Andrew
and Ralph Andrew. brothers. had to
submit to the amputation of limbs
as the result of having been caught
IN the storm. The brothers were
found unconscious in the snow, hav-