The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-09-09
NEVADA STATE NEWS

The duck season opens at sunris'
on the morning Of September 1e.
Las Vegas has received a new Re-
fire truck of the pumping type.
r. J.. Scope OF Fallon has averaged
IS bushels OF wheat from 100 acres
making a record for this years crop.
After comforting with business mel
the commissioners of Las Vegas Gu
the city tax rate from 80 to Sc PEI
cent.
Carson City Is undergoing an at
tack Of tennis with tournaments FOL
grown-ups and juniors raging furi
ously.
The Rainbow Ridge opal mines. In
Humboldt County, are operating
without any diminution Of the de
mand.
J. @. Crumley was elected presi.
dent and w. b. Forman v~ice-presi-
dent Of the newly organized Tono.
pahS Welfare League.
@. Z. McCracken. school superin-
tendent of Churchill County, says
school attendance must be restricted
for want Of adequate accommoda-
ton.
Miss Irma Emmitt has been ap.
pointed clerk in the Governors of,
fee. succeeding Mrs. Bertha Cohen
who is now Governor Boyle's private
secretary.
Total deposits in "a Nevada State
banks on June 80 of this year were
$1S.15S.07S.93, an increase of $579.-
$3.50 over the amount reported on
May 5th of this year.
Ely is enjoying a reduction of 2 N
cents a kilowat owing to the local
plant having been connected with the
Con. Copper Company.
So heavy is the apple crop in Starr
Valley, Elko County, this year that
the excellent fruit is rotting on the
ground. Visitors to that section OF
the county are invited to help them
selves to all that they can carry.
Liam Woo Yu and J. s. Hsia. Chin
ese students, have arrived at Reno to
attend the University of Nevada. The
Chinese youths have been sent to this
country by their government to study
at American schools.
Wells Drury. a former newspaper
editor in Carson and in Virginia City,
was defeated for the Office of County
Treasurer Of Alameda County. in the
recent primary election in California.
His opponent expects to beat him by
1000 votes.
Much of the recently burned sec
ton of Tonopah is to be rebuilt. ac-
cording to the papers published in
that city, accrediting announcement
OF aims of those whose buildings
were destroyed by the biggest fire in
the history of southern Nevada.
Two haystacks on the Abel & Curt
ner ranch near Winnemucca, struck
by lightning early Monday morning
and ignited, we're saved from destruc-
tion by hay hands who scattered the
burning hay with buck rakes. saving
all but a small portion of both stacks.
Organization of the Tonopah We'll
fare League, for the avowed purpose
of combating the sinister propagan-
da of the I. w. ". organization, has
been partially effected. The move
ment started when /. w. w. litera-
ture, similar to that distributed in
the southern part of the State re-
Gently, was discovered in Tonopah.
Senator j. H. Sheehan of Winnie
has been named chairman Of
a delegation to visit Washington in
the interest of banking and marketing
relief for the live stock industry. The
appointment was made at the Dem
yer National convention and Wy
oming. Arizona, New Mexico and
Colorado delegates will serve ON the
committee under Senator Sheehan.
That Capt. ]. P. Donnelley of the
prohibition enforcement stan of Ne
vada was offered a bride Of a block
of Texas oil stock and $500 per
month for protection for a Reno sa-
loon was the testimony brought out
from L. d. Mcneil. former prohibit
ton officer, at the trial of Ralph
Dent in the Federal court. Mcneil
offered the bride to Donnelley, who
was his superior at that time.
An airplane. encountering an air
pocket, nearly cost MI. and Mrs.
Sam Plat, rs well as the plane pilot.
their lives. The mishap occurred at
Tonopah. Platt chartered the plane
to journey to Y~erington, to keep a
speaking engagement. The plane,
shortly after rising, struck an air
pocket and it was with difficulty that
the pilot managed to volplane to
earth. In landing he knocked down
two telephone poles and consider
ahla wire All nccunanfa of the air