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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1904
Page
2
At a Tonopah meeting the Miners Union endorsed Governor Sparks for U S Senator W R Hearst for President and OC D Van Duzer for Congress. Roy Pittman resigns from the Silver party state committee amid concerns the party would aid Republicans.
Scarlet fever has broken out at Weils in Elko County. R P Hoy of Elko won a contract to build the Methodist Church at Carlin, the town’s first church, costing 2000.
Sharon estate secures a twenty year lease on the Fairmont Hotel under construction in San Francisco as Palace Hotel seeks control. A seduction suit verdict awards Nina E Robinson $1000 against Red Brot's mayor T R Walton, implying paternity. A Japanese heroism tale praises a widow who sacrificed herself for her son who later enlists. Senate inquiries highlight reform needs with Dentrich Smoot and Barton cases. Frank Jenkins resumes editing the Silver State as Rosch departs. Iowa miners strike. all mines idle after March 1 19,500 workers walk out.
Vice-Admiral Togo leads a night assault on Port Arthur with four Japanese ships and fire ships armed with Hotchkiss guns. Russian torpedo-boat destroyer Silni under Lieutenant Krinizki sinks the lead vessel and engages six enemy torpedo boats, suffering seven dead and multiple wounded. In Korea, the first land engagement at Chongju sees Russian and Japanese forces clash while larger enemy movements unfold in Eastern Korea and near Newchwang.
Captain Irkorff of the Manchurian commissariat service is sentenced to twenty five years penal servitude for selling information to Lt Col Akashin of the Japanese Legation in St Petersburg and will be sent to Nerchinsk mines. The Czar decorates Silni crew with the St George cross for Port Arthur defense. Stoessel forbids civil desertion during bombardments. Newchwang martial law closes port to commerce as powers debate neutrality and withdrawal.
Reno leaders offered a 25000 purse for a Britt Corbett finish fight on the Fourth of July with additional purses for Gardner Fitzsimmons and Gaus. Britt's managers refused the Reno offer saying they can secure a 33000 San Francisco gate and would not travel for a smaller guarantee.
U S Senator from Kansas Joseph Ralph Barton was found guilty by a federal jury in St. Louis on accepting compensation to protect Rialto Grain and Securities interests before the Post Office Department. The 41 hour deliberation preceded a motion for a new trial. a sustained verdict could oust him from the Senate and bar future offices. Each count carries potential two year terms and ten thousand dollar fines.
Balt Lake Herald reports from a traveler that the Western Pacific is drilling wells at regular intervals across Utah and into Nevada. Officials are taking possession near springs and surveying near the path, signaling anticipated Spring construction to supply water for men and animals.
In the Rev. A C Welch interview a Reno citizen poses two questions about wide open towns and the gambling saloon trade. A visitor sought Reno as an investment site but left convinced the town’s conditions deter capital. Separately the University of Nevada basketball team beat San Jose Normal School in Reno 17 to 4.
Efficiently equipped Ely Nevada mines are set to add to Western copper output. Engineer J. B. Flemming has joined White Pine Copper Mining Company to arrange an experimental mill for concentrating copper sulfides, aiming for an adult plant and quicker production. Also notes Gould Moffat Western Pacific links, and government garden site in Chico for plant introduction studies.
The December 98 2008 Washoe County Grand Jury report is issued in pamphlet form, spanning twenty pages.
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