The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-01-10
Nevada State News

go Monday afternoon following an
s,ssss Of more than a year.
,sa annual meeting of the State
association will be held in Reno
:. January 1s and IL. New officers
- he elected. ALI district court
'sssss have been asked to attend and
'.saruevs of renown from other
s,.iss will address the meeting.
The hve-year law protecting beaver
..,rad January / and 1t will now be
,..tul TO trap this very valuable an
al The latest market quotations
.,.es a price OF $40 on good beaver
..,os and as many are to be found In
yo,,hern Nevada the trappers will
make big money.
aired Chestang an empoye on the
-. Gang at Carlin, is confined In the
r,lo uesthouse with smallpox. He
rived in Carlin only q few days ago.
T,s Elko County health officer has
.,,mined the rest Of the men on the
~ gang and states that he found no
o,ssr cases, but that two men who
are slightly i~ndisposed are being
watched.
novu in Tonopah Is a boy who was
,oo moor to buy the gift demanded by
n. sweetheart for Christmas so he
.,ols 1t. Breaking into n Of the
.tores he took about 500 worth OF
lingerie, ignoring articles of more
r.lue, and the goods were taken all
At one size. The police hope to find
ths thief when they locate q young
l.dy who wears the sizes stolen.
c. E. sli~ngerland, one of Carson
cty's best known residents. and the
art warden of the State penitentiary
died at his home In Carson Monday
nom heart trouble. He was hfty-fve
years old. He was the son of Lieu
tenant Gov. Slingerland. the second
lieutenant governor of Nevada. He
lad lived IN Carson City nearly all
hs life and most of that time held
public ONCE.
State police raided a homemade
still being conducted, it is alleged. at
DAYTON by A. Sidelio. Thesstili Is al
Iced to have been making Ave gal
Ions Of whisky per day at the time OF
Sidelio's arrest. Three quarts OF Ii
Quor and sixteen hundred pounds OF
mash we're ~confiscated. NJ. Panelli,
a Dayton liquor dealer, was also ar
rested on a charge of having sold the
bootleg product over the bar in Day
ton.
The death of James Sproule, who
vas Instantly killed in a tunnel of the
Rochester Mines Company Wednes-
day. when the gasoline motor he was
operating crashed into the face OF the
tunnel. is quite likely to result In a
great deal of litigation. 1t is al
legged that the gas motor was being
operated underground contrary to
the provisions of the mines inspection
Act, and contrary to repeated rulings
Of the State Mining Inspector.
The Reno Journal says that Wal
ter 8. Evans, who had been connec-
ted with a number of mining enter
prses in Southern Nevada died In a
COldheld hospital Sunday from what
physicians said was the result of
drinking whisky" containing wood
alcohol. Evans became unconscious
IN q Goldield hotel Christmas night
and was taken to a hospital. He
died without regaining consciousness.
he was a graduate of the University
d Colorado.
The sum OF s4,346.4O on deposit in
the Ely National Bank has been seized
through attachment proceedings in
sututed BY United States District At
!orney WOODBURY. In Federal court
against jacques MAMMALIAN Morrell,
sometimes known as John b. Ken
lsdy.' The complaint in the action
alleges that the defendant was a
captain in the United States army.
and that in his capacity as d%isbursing
oncer at Camp Sheridan. Alabama.
ne received Government funds
amounting to eighteen thousand dol
'afs' which he appropriated.
Fifty trucks and tractors, In addi-
u0n to the equipment already Q
'slved, all brand new, were obtained
lor the State Of Nevada from the War
pspartment by C. c. Cottrell, State
highway Engineer. as a result of his
UP to Washington, from which city
10 has Just returned. The equip
asnt has already been ordered
slpped and will reach Reno within
- next few weeks, from which point
VIII be distributed throughout the
sNte where highway work is being