The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-07-15

Tor the ONCE at the Sep
TENDER primary.
Judge e. s. Harrington has gone
to Occur d'kLene to hold court for
Judge Dietrich, who is sitting in Car
son City hearing the Henderson-Jour-
nal libel suit.
Prof. d. T. Smith. in charge of the
Virginia City School of Mines, has
been given one years leave of alb
sence. His place will be taken by
Vincent Gianella.
Charles Anderson was instantly
killed Monday when a a in which
he were riding skidded at the Ault-
man street curve in Ely and collided
with an electric pole.
A large barn in the Wingfeld sec
ton OF the Island district near Fall
Ion was burned Sunday morning with
q loss Of $1,000. The property was
owned by Dodge brothers.
Experiments in raising Persian
casaba and golden fieeces honeydew
melons are being carried on by IL
farmers in Churchill County : o whom
seed was distributed early this Spring
A poison campaign has been de-
clared against gophers on the La
hontan project. owing to the great
damage caused by the rodents eat
ing through bitches and embank-
ments.
A car containing 10 5-gallon kegs
of wine was captured while passing
through Reno. The owner said he
was going to a picnic and asserted
that the wine was for his personal
friends.
When Charles Hine Of Wellington
was removed to a hospital to be OPP
Grated on, his neighbors drove into
his alfalfa field the following morn
ing and eight mowers began harvest
ing the crop.
b. H. Morrison. George w. Barr
and Miss Sylvia Camligia of the Ne
vada vocational education depart
ment have been reelected to their
positions at the State Board of Edu-
cation meeting.
Destruction by snowslide OF a
$1,000 house at the American Beauty
mine in Furlong canyon, Humboldt
County. last Winter, was only found
out last week when Mariana Arioluca
returned after an absence of six
] months.
The alfalfa weevil is not being
checked. but is increasing in Washoe
County, according to K M. Pack of
the United States bureau Of ento-
mology. who was In Washoe County
recently making a survey of alfalfa
conditions.
Ben Moore, a parolman attached
to the Reno police department. is
dangerously Ill at a local hospital fol-
lowing a dental operation a few days
ago. Two teeth were extracted and
1t was necessary to pry n OF them
out of its socket. A few hours later
an infection developed.
Beginning July first there was a
reduction in prices made on the din
ing ears OF the Southern Pacific Rail-
road ranging from five to 80 per cent
and effecting practically every item
of food served on not only the cars
but in the hotels and restaurants OF
that company as well. A seventy-cent
combination plate served, was also
inaugurated on the same date.
The completion Of power projects
on the Pitt river in northeastern Cal
ifornia, will be the first step in the
electrifcation of all railroad lines in
northern California, and the South
ern Pacific line from Reno " the
Sierra Nevada mountain according
W q iOHB dititiC IA "A
bune, which officials of the power
company are quoted as saying that
railroad Identification is the goal to-
ward which they are working.
Eight Of the twelve horse-breed-
Ed Austin. a mine owner and claim
owner OF Dolly Warden, Elko County,
shot and killed Thamas r. Mahan,
a prospector 80 years of age, a few
days ago as Mahan called at Austin's
cabin for several articles of wear
ing apparel belonging to him. Aus
tin is in the Elko County jail and
authorities believe him to be insane.
Nevada's labor commissioner has
been appealed to from Arizona for
ranch hands. the supply being short