The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-07-01
NEVADA sIATE NEWS

Peter Buol was the first candidate
to file for the U. s. Senatorial NOM
ination.
The Moapa Valley Telephone Com
pany has asked for an increase of
rates.
John Dotta OF Pershing County is
seeding FIVE acres to Russian sun
flowers for ensilage.
Patent has been applied for 121
acres OF land in Elko County fled
on in1S71 by Anna McGinness.
Churchill County will raise so per
cent more turkeys this year than
last.
Application by an Elko doctor has
been filed to restrain the county hos
pital from engaging in treatment Of
other than indigents.
A company has been organized to
reclaim several thousand acres OF
Lyon County lands by tapping the
underflow water.
Warden Rufe Hendricks reports
that the number Of Nevada %convicts
decreased ten 9 cen during the
month of May.
Fallon district will double the po-
tato crop by planting 500 acres more
than last year. Metropolis Is also
going to specialize in spuds.
j. A. Miller, employed at the Elko
shale plant. was seriously injured
when he was thrown rs feet when
caught in the belt Of the fywheel.
Five hundred acres have been add
to the new alfalfa land on the Big
Five ranch at Lovelock, and 500
acres more will be planted this Sum-
mer.
w. Z. Reading, the old time Well
ington merchant, who came to Bodie
in 1871, celebrated his S0th birth
day at his home surrounded by three
generations.
r. w. Davis, who owns the Black
well ranch near Carson City, lost a
Studebaker car when 1t burned up on
the road owing to a leak of the gaso-
line feed pipe.
Charles Sadlier, manager of the
Hotel Golden. displays what he calls
the champion trout of Tahoe, meas
uring 32A inches in length and
weighing IL pounds, which he caught
last Sunday,
w. l.. Spencer. manager of the
Grey. Ried Company store at Carson
City. was found dead on the floor of
a bathroom of the Travellers hotel in
Sacramento. Death was due to IA
tural causes.
Virginia City and Gold Hill. where
there are no meters, consume 500
gallons of water per capita daily
while in Carson City with meters the
service by the same company shows
a per capita of "a gallons every "a
hours.
Alfalfa hay-cutting at Fallon
started on the Newlands project last
week. and by the end of this week
will be in full swing. All available
local labor has been employed and a
large number of farm hands are be-
ing imported for the haying season.
Plans for a county fair to be held
in September, are under way, and
from present indications, 1t is said
this fair will surpass any yet held in
Elko. Three or four days will be
consumed. with prizes averaging
$1,000 per day. Stockmen and
ranchers r particularly interested.
The contractors on the Hotel Hum
boldt, now being built at Winnemuc-
ca. complain that it is difficult to get
bricklayers, although the wage is
$40 for eight hours. While fifteen
are needed. there are only six on the
job. A number were hired in Salt
Lake the other day and six of them
turned back after starting, perferring
to work in that city.
Pleading guilty to Indictments
charging him with embezzlement and
the issuing of money orders without
receiving funds therefore. A. ]. Hall,
postmaster at Cobre, was sentenced
to a term of one year at McNeil's Is
land on the embezzlement charge and
fined $500 on the money order
charge, by Judge E. s. harrington In
the Federal court at Carson City.