The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-04-01

have a dormitory and boarding house
for out of town pupils.
Fifty dozen quail are being trapped
in Clark County and shipped to Wa
shoe County for release there.
A new garage building for the ac-
commodation OF 20 automobiles is
to be built in Battle Mountain by
Dan Shovelin.
Twenty-Five days OF horse racing
with 400 OF the best horses in the
West participating. will start on the
Reno track on June 10.
George Wingfield is asking for
bids on the ~ive-story hotel in Reno
adjoining the Hotel Golden. The es-
innate cost is 100000.
Reno post of the American Legion
has started an unemployment bureau
for ~ex-service men and is locating
jobs for the unemployed men.
The main office of the Copper Can
yon Mining Company at Copper Ba-
sin. Lander County, was destroyed by
fire Sunday and valuable records lost.
The Las Vegas cooperative store
is in the hands Of a receiver. This
| store was formed in 1913 and has
done more than 100000 gross
business.
Almond trees are in blossom In
Las Vegas, and although this APP
pears very much like Spring, 1t seems
that they are about a month late
this year indicating a backward
Spring in all sections of the State.
An explosion occurring in one of
the huge air compressors at the plant
of the Pacific Fruit and Express Com
pany in Sparks, badly burned Ira G.
Wagner, the shift engineer, and did
$4,000 worth of damage to the COM
pressor.
A shake up in the police affairs
at Virginia City has taken place.
Chief Of Police F. Conney has been
relieved from duty and former Night
Officer Frank Conlan has been APP
pointed chief of police and road SUI
pervisor.
The United States Gypsum Com
pany, located 10 miles south of Las
Vegas, at Arden. Nevada, is planning
the building of a large addition to its
plant for the manufacture of plaster
board. This will enable the company
to make use of considerable Of its
present waste product.
Joseph McEachin, former United
States Marshal of Nevada, and for Is
years prominent and influential in the
councils of the Democratic party in
this State, died at a Reno hospital
last week from a complication of all
ments, with influenza as a contribut-
ing cause.
Advices from Fallon are hat the
Mutual Creamery Company of Salt
Lake will take charge of the Coop
erative creamery at Fallon April 1.
Final arrangements of the transfer
will be completed this week. The
creamery will ship it's products to
Los Angeles, 1t is said.
Tommy" O'Connell, driving the
State Engineers car from Las Vegas
to Tonopah Tuesday. covered the 224
miles in ten and one-half hours, the
Reno Gazette reports. The trip, for
the greater part, was over the old
Las Vegas railroad grade. which is
said to be in fair shape for tic
travel.
The school fund of the State is
richer by $9S5.01, the proceeds of
tie estate of the late John Mack. of
Carson City, who died without leav-
ing a will and without any known rel
atives. After the erection of an i'm
pressive tombstone. the administra-
tor turned the balance of the estate
into the State Treasury.
The property of the Mason Valley
Telephone Company, which will be
sold to the Bell Telephone Company
Of Nevada for a consideration of 1915
600, the Public Service Commission
permitting. consists of A miles OF
poles and wires between Dayton and
Yerington and the exchanges. The
Bell Company has operated the Ma
son line under lease for the last cou-
pie Of years.
Attorney Alfred Chartz went to his
ranch, about five miles south of Ge-
noa. yesterday to view the wreckage
resulting from a whirlwind which
struck the premises a week ago Tues
day. according to the Carson News.
The loss. Mr.. Chartz figures. is about
$4,000. and consists of the demol-