Eureka Local BREVITIES Highlights from the Week in Eureka
Attorneys, merchants, and residents make weekly rounds with travels to Reno Las Vegas Tonopah and Butte. A Legion meeting plans charter steps while a snow storm deposits over a foot in Eureka. A leap year dance boosts class funds as mining ties and property deals unfold.
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Carville
Elko
Eureka
LeRoy Pike
Reno
Tom Plummer
Dewey McNaughton
Butte
Montana
Bache
Theholic Church
Isadore Sara
Robarts Creek
Oak Station
S. T. Jeffreys
Las Vegas
Nevada
American Legion
Red Cross
John Barrier
Nye County
Tonopah
Nick
R. Berg
Ranger
Texas
Eureka County High School
Frank T. Torpey
San Francisco
Kingman Silver Gold Mining Company
Kingman
Arizona
Black Mammoth Mining Company
Manhattan
Curto
Goodwin Canyon
James Hunter
Ferinda
Rose Curto
Southern Pacific
Western Pacific
Palisade
Taxes of the Times Shaw turns down film offer
American moving picture firm offered George Bernard Shaw one million dollars for the rights to his plays. Shaw refused, joking that he could not afford it. He explained the combined U S federal, New York state, and British income taxes would leave him about seventeen thousand dollars after taxes.
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Moving Picture Company
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
U. S
State of New York
Johnson Club Organized in Palisade Supports Californian For President
The Johnson for President Club has been organized at Palisade by Sexton. It already has 25 members who back the Californian for the next U S president and plans to contact other Johnson supporters.
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Palisade
Sexton
United States
Johnson
Eureka News Excerpts From September 1870 Sentinel
In early Eureka days the town moved ahead with news and wealth. The Sept 1870 Sentinel items note a $3,000 San Francisco hearse, rules to “kill a town” by stalling growth, arrivals and departures for the week, bullion shipments from Farview and Palisade, railroad ticket sales, and a lavish 125-pound bullion bar marked Eureka.
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Eureka
Sentinel
Bill Nye
Artemus Ward
San Francisco
Woodruff & Ennor
Colonel Robbins
Farview
Palisade
Consolidated Mining Company
Collier Robbins
Jackson
Owyhee Land & Livestock files in Elko with $300,000 capital
Nevada state records show the Owyhee Land & Livestock Company filing articles in the Elko county clerk's office with capital stock of 300000 dollars. Five directors named: John G. Taylor Hugh W. Taylor J Sheehan W C Noteware and Prince A Hawkins. Reorganization of the Nevada Utah Sugar Company plant at Fallon aims to resume operations after three years idle. Lady Hadfield wife of England's largest steelmaker settles in Minden Nevada seeking a divorce continuing a high profile local matter.
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Nevada State News the Free Press
Elko
Owyhee
George F. Wasson
Salt Lake
Michigan
Wisconsin
Nevada
Lady Hadfield
England
Minden
Mary Pickford
Elkoites Make Big Money Trapping Beaver
Beavers bring strong earnings to Elko trappers as open season begins. George Bruce leads returns with about 43 pelts and 1400 dollars in two months. Oliver Grover earns up to 600 dollars monthly near Green Ranch. Numerous locals report solid success along the Humboldt River.
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Humboldt
George Bruce
Oliver Grover
Grover
Green Ranch
Elko Independent
Anne Martin Declares 1952 Senate Run
Anne Martin, previously defeated for the U S Senate in Nevada, announced from Washington headquarters that she will seek the Republican nomination this year. Her platform opposes the peace treaty and the League of Nations, and she would not fight a bipartisan fusion candidate alone, threatening to run as an Independent if necessary.
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Washington
Anne Martin
United States Senate
Nevada
Miss Martin
Trouble Looms For Film World Stars
In Nevada a suit by the people of Douglas County seeks to set aside Mary Pickford and Owen Moore divorce decree granted March 2 in Minden. The move follows a Nevada Bar Association probe into possible collusion and fraud and draws comment from Governor Boyle on the case.
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Los Angeles
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Nevada Bar Association
Nevada
Minden
Owen Moore
Boyle
Sacramento
Sacramento Bee
Pickford
Pickford-Moore
Moore
Gardnerville
Whiskey Sale Rumored Near Elko In Bootleg Plot
A rumored sale reportedly valued at 35000 dollars occurred at Biko with 30 barrels of whiskey moved to bootleggers linked to Basques. The deal, priced 30 to 40 dollars per gallon, yielded about 1200 dollars per barrel. Witnesses say whiskey had been hidden in Elko since the dry law and the seller keeps more stored in various county locations.
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Elko
Biko
Eiko
Elko County
Sheep shearers head to Eureka for Martin Hachquet ranch
Fifteen Wyoming sheep shearers who stayed days for season opening left Monday for Eureka to work on Martin Hachquet’s Willow Creek ranch. Shearing price is eighteen cents per head and all travel expenses are paid. The note ends with satirical lines about trust and hats.
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Nike Free Press
Wyoming
Eureka
Martin Hachquet
Willow Creek
Western strikes and political shifts ripple across cities
Salt Lake City faces a widespread rail strike with Insurgent Switchmen causing embargoes on perishables and late trains. Nationwide actions include a House vote ending the war with Germany, Nevada seeking Mary Pickford divorce revocation, and Hoover indicating he would decline a Democratic nomination if offered. Pacific baseball standings show Oakland Vernon and Portland neck to neck. stock quotes list Croe Sua, Holly, and Climax on the San Francisco exchange.
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Salt Lake City
Prancinco
Los Angeles
Oakland
Sparks
Carth
Benicia
Port Costa
California
Stockton
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Traimuen
House of Representatives
United States
Germany
Twoty
Senate
Nevada
Mary Pickford
Owen Fe
Congress of
Herbert Hoover
Chandler Wood
State Democratic Committee
Massachusetts
Vernon
Portland
Claude Kitchin
Democratic House
Congress
Admiral Fletcher
Admiral Sims
United States Navy
Sims
Denver
Charlie Chaplin
Louis Mayer
Chaplain
Mildred Harris
Alexandria
Davis
Idaho
Pocatello
Leonard Wood
Eureka
San Francisco
Clouing
Croesua
Holly
Climax
Wanted Mine Details and Valuation in Eureka District
A reader seeks information on a mine that has produced or claims of such. Request history and precise locality, nearby notable mines, and a sketch of its position within mining districts in Eureka. Include valuation, base terms, and whether an option can be obtained with duration. Address Box 101 Sentinel Office.
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Eureka
Sentinel
Notice of land entry by Albert E Kimball in Nevada
Public land notice shows Albert E Kimball of Biko Eiko County applying to enter locate Lot 5 Section 19 Township 23 N Range 8 W under Section 2308 Revised Statutes. Protests about mineral character or other objections must be filed with the register by May 8 1920. first publication April 10 1920. last publication May 1920.
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Biko
Nevada
Albert E. Kimball
Eiko
John 8. Robbins
Register
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Taxes OF the Times
Eureka News
The
Miss Pickford
Langan
Nidge Langan
Ely
Ilipah Basin
Illipah
Engineering and Mining Journal of New York
Ely National Bank
First National Bank of
McGill National Bank of
McGill
Frank Crane
Gospel
Illipah Basin Oil & Gas Company
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