Show I LOCAL AND MINING NEWS FROM CAMP OF EL Y Special to The Herald Ely EI Nev ev April 12 As the result of a amass amass mass meeting held here last Saturday to te night steps stops arc are being taken looking the organization of a a commercial club A A strong committee appointed by b Lieuten D S Dickerson temporary chairman is drafting a constitution and by laws which will be acted upon in mass meeting tonight A petition was circulated among tax taxpayers taxpayers ers yesterday asking the district payers pa court to grant Ely a town charter The petition has been signed by all taxpayers except two It Is believed that the char charter charter ter er to tho town will be granted at the th theMay theIa May Ia term of the district court James Allen a waiter walter employed at the Vienna caf died here Tuesday as the result of taking by accident an overdose of f medicine Allen who came here from Salt Lake Is said to have been drinking An Inquest has been ordered Edward Leahy a niner rr n Iner employed atLane at atLane atLane Lane City died Tuesday at the ago of this district for 50 years ears He lIe had bad been In several years and leaves a brother who lives ives at Grand Rapids Iowa A sad feature of death Is the fact that ho he 10 had almost concluded negotiations lor br the sale of some of hIs mining Interests for 1200 He told friends a n few days das before he became ill III that within two weeks reeks he would be able to quit hard work and take life easy for the remaining years ears of his life Water has been b n encountered on the 3 foot oot level leel of the American shaft of the Ely Consolidated The water rose rapid rapidly ly iy y Wednesday afternoon and the miners were driven from the workings There was wag eight feet of water In the bottom of the shaft within a few hours after the underground flow had been struck A pump which was ordered some time ago agos Is s expected to arrive daily The Bril Briliant ilant shaft of the same company com pan is down nearly feet and for the last fifty feet has ms been sunk unk through a body of f ore similar In values to that found in In the Ruth luth which is among the richest pro producers lucers in the camp |