The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-02-07
Nevada State News

out the State. n that IL
is his intention to start a daily news
paper in Ely some time in the near
future. The Record feels that 1t can
congratulate Mr.. Pittman upon his
nerve and the confidence he has in
the future of the city.
Tw~enty-four Government farms on
the Newlands project In Nevada, rang
ing in size from 20 to loo acres Of
irrigable land, will be opened to en-
try February 26, Secretary Lane an
nounced Saturday afternoon. Each
applicant must agree for himself and
his successors to take appropriate
steps to have his unit included with
in the Truckee-Carson irrigation
district.
The lack of snow at the head Of the
Carson and Walker rivers is causing
considerable anxiety among ranchers
and farmers residing in the districts
which depend on the water of the two
rivers for irrigation purposes. On
several farms In Smith valley and
along the Carson river blowing will
not be attempted for early Spring
planting unless more snow comes
within the next few weeks.
The entire estate left by the late
Francis G. Newlands, former United
States Senator from Nevada, is sub
ject to the State inheritance tax, ac-
cording to an opinion filed in the dis
trict court at Reno by District Judge
Lunsford. The estate, consisting al
most wholly of stocks and bonds,
amounts to S543,675. The entire in
heritance tax, which will be divided
between the State and Washoe Coun-
ty, under Judge Lunsford's decision,
is about $4,000.
Because required proofs of rela-
tionship could not be received from
relatives of Mike Kulliache, living In
Austria while the country was at war,
payment of death benefits h a v e
been delayed by the Nevada Indus
trial Commission for over five years.
Kulliache met his death in a Tono-
pah mine on October 81, 1915. The
proofs were received recently and the
Commission has ordered the payment
of $40 a month for 100 months to
the alien property custodian.
Test is to be made of the Nevada
sheep law, passed at the last session
of the Legislature, which requires
the dipping of sheep within ten days
after their arrival In the State.
through the case Of l.. Gorrard, who
was arrested some time ago at Mon
tello for failure to dip 5000 sheep
brought from Idaho. A writ of hab-
cas- corpus, returnable February IA,
was secured by his attorneys in the
Federal Court at Carson. Gorrard's
attempt to avoid the dipping is to be
resisted by the Nevada Sheep Comis-
sion.
Col. l.. G. Cannon, for the past
thirteen years vice-president and gen.
eral manager of the Nevada Nor
thern railway, and one of the oldest
and best known railroad men in the
west, died at the Steptoe hospital in
East Ely last Monday morning after
an illness of six weeks duration. The
cause of his death was cerebral hem
orrhage. Colonel Cannon was born
lS47. He received his education at
the public schools, and after gradu-
ating at the high school in White
water, Wisconsin, he entered the
railroad service in 1854 as bill clerk
and operator for the c. NJ. & St. P.
The Nevada insurance law passed
by the 1919 Nevada Legislature re-
quiring the filing of special specific
and tariff rates by fire insurance
companies with the State Controller,
who is ex-oficio insurance commits
sioner and prohibiting deviation from
those rates, has been declared con-
stitutional, in a decision by Judge
Harrington in the Federal Court.
Suits brought against Controller Cole
by the Niagara Fire Insurance Com
pany and the Liverpool, London and
Globe Insurance Company were dis
missed and costs were assessed
against the companies. Under the
law. the commissioner has power to
revoke licenses for failure to comply