The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-03-06

Nevada Otate News
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee has been called by John F..
Kunz, its chairman. to assemble in
Reno on Tuesday. March 3.
Acting on request of Mayor Stew
art OF Reno. Senator Pittman has
asked the War Department to estab-
fish n or more Government stores
in Nevada.
Judge E. s. harrington of the Uni
ted States district court. is one of
the latest to be mentioned for the
Republican nomination for L. S. Sen
ator this year.
r. B. Speers of Sparks has been
named as Inspector of State Police
by Superintendent r. B. Henrichs,
with the approval Of the Governor.
Mr.. Speers is a locomotive engineer
on the Southern Pacific.
Mrs. EstelIe v. Collier has been
nominated by President Wilson as
customs collector for district forty
eight. comprising the States of Utah
and Nevada. 1t is believed Mrs. Col
lier is the first woman to be appointed
to such a position.
Nearly every clergyman Of the diff
ferent protestant churches in Ne
vada is absent from the State, being
in San Francisco in attendance al the
great interchurch convention which
assembled in that city Monday. The
object of the gathering is to concen-
trate in church work.
Approximately 1000 automobile
licenses were issued by George Brod-
igan, Secretary of State, during the
first two months of 1920. The rev.
enue derived from the sale of auto
and motorcycle licenses during that
period was s72.O4s.s4.
According to the Lovelock Review
Miner the 30-ton Gibson mill to treat
the ore from the Sheepherder lease.
which has been in the course of con
~struction for the past six weeks at
the Young ranch in the upper valley.
has been completed and is now in
operation. The r is being hauled
from the mine in the Humboldt range
to the mill by means of a tractor.
Another company has been organ
lied to operate a valuable group OF
| claims in the Hamilton district, which
at one time was n Of the richest
mining districts of the State and
which is now once more coming into
it's own The new company is known
as the Treasure Hill Deposit Mines
Company, capitalized at $1,000 900,
and N. H. Dunyon Of Salt Lake City
is the President.
The report of the Auditor of Elko
County for 1919 made to the County
Commissioners contains many inter
esting items and shows Elko County
to be In a prosperous condition. The
assessed valuation of Elko County Is
$4~0,S53,835, and the taxes collected
amounted to s~624.0SS.S1. The esti-
mated population of the county is
14.761, there being 4.024 registered
voters.
Ralph Drown, prominent young
rancher of South Fork, near Elko,
was married in California recently to
MissGladys Cottrell. who until the
past few months was the school
nam" at the little Lee school house
and boarded at browns home. The
marriage OF the young couple came
as a complete surprise to their friends
here. They returned home Saturday
evening and journeyed on to their
future home IN browns cattle ranch.
Through the signing of a petition
by Judge Averill, of Nye County, to-
gether with a number of citizens and
jurors, d. N. Fulcher, who was SEN
fenced from Nye for forgery is to be
granted a parole. He has lately been
received at the ~penitentiary. but the
circumstances surrounding the for
gerry were SO mitigating that Judge
Averill has asked that he be paroled.
Action will be taken within a few
days and Fulcher will return to Nye
County and endeavor to make good.
The Nevada Wireless Telegraph &
Telephone Company of Tonopah has
notified the Public Service Commits
sion of its intention to file schedules
Of rates for wireless telephone and
telegraph service between Tonopah
and Arrowhead. and other Nevada
points. and has requested that 1t be
supplied with the necessary blanks,
etc. The Carson News says that as
this is somewhat out of the ordinary
line Of the business over which the
commission has heretofore exercised
supervision. nc blank forms strictly