The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-12-23

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ported By the Virginia City school OF
Mines
Humboldt County 10 employing it's
tractor to help heavy motor trucks
over the Hinckiey summit.
All Coldfeld mines are either be-
ing worked OF win be within q week.
claims the Goldheld Tribune.
Carson City donated the price Of
so knives to disabled veterans in the
Letterman hospital at San Francisco.
Father w. J.. Meany. OF Sacra-
mensS, has succeeded Father Cunha
as pastor of st. Josephs' church in
Yerington.
Rex Lampman, who acted as pub
lefty agent for Governor-elect Scrug-
ham, has taken a job with the Los
Angeles Times.
Milton Reinhart. Elko young man.
has completed his education In the
law and will start practice In his
home town.
Sparks city authorities continue to
reap a harvest in fines exacted from
automobile speeders from the near
by divorce colony.
A four-horse bob sled has replaced
the auto stage operating between
Tuscarora and Elko. with two feet
Of snow on the level.
-. uaoa. rosrrood ,hon-ar go
raising a fund to aid Edward Dur
ham, until lately one of them and
now suffering from tuberculosis.
It is proposed that only one of 725
water users on the Newlands project
in Churchill County Is delinquent in
the payment Of his dues to the Fed
eral government.
1t is reported. asserts the Reno
Gazette, that seven of the largest
copper companies in the Yerington
district r to be consolidated and
mining activities resumed.
Frank Cudney, recently found
guilty of a charge Of grand larceny.
the theft Of a sack Of wool, has been
sentenced to serve a term from two
to fourteen years in the State prison
by Judge Orr of the Elko district
court.
Mrs. Mamie Poll, drug addict, suf-
fered fractures of bones of both legs
when she attempted escape from the
Nevada State Hospital for Mental
diseases in Reno a few days ago by
jumping from a second story win
dow.
Jack Cunningham of Carson City
and Clarence Hussman of Gardner
vile. both undergoing treatment In
a Reno hospital for poisoning re-
sulting from taking bi-chloride Of
mercury tablets by mistake. are re-
ported to be out Of danger.
Governor-elect Friend w. Richard
son OF California has given assurance
to the Nevada State Highway De-
partment of his sanction for the con-
struction of the Truckee river high
way to connect Reno with the Cali
fornia highway terminal near Verdi.
Juvenile shoplifters have been in
vading stores at Fallon during the
present holiday shopping season. ac-
cording to the complaints of eleven
merchants, many of whom declare
that children have been caught TAX
ing merchandise from display coun-
tiers.
p. A. McCarran received a fee of
$4,000 for ten minutes work in ap-
pearing as attorney for Rachel Ros-
enberg, seeking divorce from James
Rosenberg, Of New York. The grass
widow received 500 a week alimony.
There was no objection from the hus-
band to either allowance.
Ely and Tonopah newspapers re-
port clever visitors In the mining
camps that proceed to denude punch
boards of their twenty dollar gold
pieces. The swindlers first punch a
few numbers, learn the serial num-
bers and then return to bunch a few
more numbers and show the capital
prize number.
The United States labor board has
denied the plea of railroad main
tenance of way workers for time and
a half pay for overtime and Sunday
work. BY the boards ruling this
class Of worker will receive regular
pay for the ninth and tenth hours
given each day, and thereafter time
and a half pay.
With the recent closing Of the
Verdi Lumber Company's sawmill at
Verdi for the Winter season, comes
the announcement that the company
is contemplating additions and I'm
provements to the mill in the near
future to cost In the neighborhood Of
$4,000. When these are completed,
1t IL stated that Winter closing of
this industry will not be necessary.