The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-05-13
NEVADA STATE NEWS


Two freight trains a week are run
now over the Nevada Northern rail-
road.
Ruth and McGill plants will be OPP
Grated on the daylight saving plan,
beginning work at 6 o'clock In the
morning.
Ninety men have been added to
the section gang on the Western Pa
cifc to improve the roadbed between
Gerlach and Redhouse.
Las Vegas Methodists have accept
ed plans for a $4,000 church edi-
fee, which will replace the one de-
stroyed by fire in January.
According to the stamps attached
to the deed. $4,000 was paid for the
Homer Andrae ranch of $50 acres at
White Rock. Elko County.
Father Hugo Meisekothen has in
stalled a radio set at the Winnemucca
Catholic parsonage and is receiving
nightly reports from Los Angeles.
A tract Of $500 acres Of Govern
ment land in the southeastern corner
of White Pine County, 35 miles east
OF Ely, has been thrown open to en-
try.
Joseph L. Stewart has been elected
president OF the proposed railroad to
run from Wells to Idaho in place of
George L. Davis, who committed sui
eide.
Henry McOmie, who served In the
Nevada cavalry during the Civil war,
died last Saturday at the veterans
home. Napa, at the age of S3 years.
He left a brother in Ely.
Albert w. Coble, aged rs, who con-
Quoted q general store at Wells since
-1S78, died there suddenly Thursday
morning after spending the previous
day at the store. which he had turned
over to his SON.
The Big Chief Mining Company of
Midas has bought the Wheeler mil
ling plant in Lewis canyon. near Bat
tie Mountain, including a 200-hp.
Deisel engine. which was exhibited
at the San Francisco fair in 1915.
Charles 3. Chandler. Ely lawyer
and speaker of the last Nevada As
sembly. e. definitely announced bis
eandidacy for the United States Sem
ate in q letter to Chairman Harry e.
Stewart OF the Republican State Gen.
trail Committee.
Difficulty has been encountered at
the Syndicate Oil Company's well
a Fallon in dropping casing in the
2S40 foot well. The casing stuck at
1850 feet, and II It cannot be pushed
forward, dropping of four-inch casing
will be necessary.
Hilma Dahlquist. common-law wife
OF Alfred Dahlquist. who met his
death at Tonopah. February Q. 1920,
while employed by the Tonopah-Bel-
mont Development Company. has
been awarded right to collect a claim
due her through the Industrial In
surance, by the Supreme Court at
Carson City.
EIC0 M0IE 0fAa4Cp VIM CCCutAy
purchased $50 acres Of land five miles
north OF Las Vegas from Peter Buol.
is preparing the land for the plant
ing of Smyrna and Black Mission
figs. During the next few months
the work OF clearing and leveling the
land and preparing the irrigation sys-
tenn will be completed and the trees
will be set the coming Winter.-Las
Vegas Age.
Anastasio Landa ard Peter Orr
are under arrest at Ely. suspected Of
being implicated In the attempted
theft Of 1900 head of sheep belong
ing to the Idaho-Nevada Sheep Com
pany. The men, who were In charge
of q large band of sheep. allowed
their charges to scatter over a large
area Of country, and a checking up
Of the animals disclosed the fact that
1900 were missing. The men are sus-
pected with having purposely allowed
the sheep to wander, with the view
OF collecting them together at some
later time.
When Chief of Police Grin H.
Smith of Tonopah approached Frank
Curran Saturday on Main street. guns
were brought into action, and a wild
west scene might have followed had
Curran's gun been in working order.
Smith accused Curran OF circulating
reports that Smith had been getting
hush" money from bootleggers. A
fight started. in which Curran pulled
a gun. Smith followed suit. but no
shots we're Aired. Curran pulled the
trigger Of his weapon twice. but the
cartridges failed to explode. Curran
was arrested on Q charge of carrying
q concealed weapon.