The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-02-25

r.,,on erowers propose to have
.auob acreage in cantaloupes 20
estn q carload daily during the com
ing season.
wilson Brougher. brother OF Cal
Rrougher and well known In Nevada
Is dangerously Ill at his home In YAK
land, California.
Harry Dunn, wool buyer for Kosh-
tend q Co. of Boston. estimates the
wool production of Elko County will
he 1000, 900 pounds this year.
The Bell Telephone Company OF
Nevada now has a crew at work ex-
tending a cable line from Gold Hill to
comstock, the new town on Ameri-
can Flat.
The Boy Scouts of Reno are plan
n;ng q contest, the winners of which
will have a treat of a hike to Yosem-
tie next Summer, making 1t In stages
of Is miles a day.
AT a meeting last week a number
of Elko citizens took steps to start
a movement for the location of an
indian school near Elko by the Fed
eral government.
Nevada losses from fire during the
FIVE wears ending December 81, 1921.
amounted to $1,721,451, according
10 a report just made public by the
National Board of Fire Underwriters.
Elko County is going in strong for
road building and with State and Fed
eral aid expects to expend 100000
in that county before next year in
building 60 miles of improved roads.
ny-t- T.. a. cfart % annn "a GnrfnQ
opens.
The Carson City Trustees have vot-
ed to incorporate in a new license
ordinance a provision for a tax of a
cent a gallon on gasoline sold by re-
taiIefs in Carson City. the dealers to
report monthly on their sales and to
pay the tax.
Mail planes equipped with sleigh
ing runners Is the latest innovation at
the Elko air mail field. Since the re-
cent heavy snow the attaching of
or skids, to the machines
has been generally adopted to facili-
tate landings.
John e. Robbins, who has been
register OF the Eiko land office for
eight years, or ever since II was es-
tablished, handed over the keys of
the Office last Friday night to Z. M.
Steninger and will open a land law
Office at Elko.
The Ely Chamber of Commerce has
made arrangements for daily mail
service, and a Ford motor truck will
run over the Nevada Northern rail-
road on the days hat the main line
trains do not run Discontinuance of
air plance service was the cause of
the new arrangement.
The booklet, Fertile Valleys of
the Walker River Basin" setting
forth the advantages of Lyon Coun-
ty, which was published recently by
the Lyon County Commissioners. the
Yerington Commercial Club and the
Walker River Land Company. Is now
completed and a number of copies
sent throughout the country.
Andy Dick. an Indian. has been
arrested al Yerington by a Federal
officer for altering U. S. currency. He
changed 81 bills to $40 and SIS bills
to $40. A Chinaman was also ar
rested at Carson for a similar offense.
w. II. Simmons has been elected
president of the Washoe County Bank
At AttnOy ouNGttuAh6 + -. Jpn
Frank Dumont is at the Tonopah
Mine Operators hospital suffering
from a triple fracture of the right
arm. Mr.. Dumont was hurt In the
Belmont 'ailings mill at Millers
where he WIS employed. His arm was
caught in a belt and the doctors be-
lieve the arm will be saved, but Mr..
Dumont will not be able to use II for
some time.
A fee of $4,000, the largest in the
history of Washoe County. was al
lowed to Attorney N. ]. Barry. adj
ministrator OF the estate of F. w.
Rowland. wealthy California rancher.
Mrs, Christine Forgnonne of Para
disc valley has disposed of her entire
ranch holdings for $45 900. following
the death OF her brother Alfonso Pas
quale. the prominent sheepman who
died last week.
John Pullman, an employee at the
Elkora mine at Jarbidge. lost his
life last week in a snow slide. Ac-
cording to the word received by Mine
Inspector Stinson, Pullman and a
companion were working the wind
lass over a shallow shaft. They took
shelter from a shot. which is sup
posed to ave started the slide. Pull
man was dead when found, but his
companion was only slightly injured.
Thirty acres of cantaloupes will be
grown at Fernley this year. and pos
sibly forty. according to an announce
ment made at the farm bureau there
recently by Era Funk, who has