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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1903
Page
2
Jackson Cal April 13. Miners in the district push for shorter hours and union recognition. Only two mines face closure tonight but several more may shut down by tomorrow. Owners refuse concessions while some properties risk permanent closure due to labor costs and weak profits. Less than 1000 men are out with potential increases as more mines close.
The State Board of Education weighs swapping half a million in four percent school fund bonds for Massachusetts higher coupon bonds, noting maturity differences, with voter consent urged. In Tonopah, Van Duzer vows a mining stock era and defends Comstock against critics, while local sentiment shifts as the Tonopah bubble looms. Supervising Architect Taylor cites delays in Reno for Intermountain building projects, with site selection and Treasury action awaiting the secretary's decision.
One Fresia child has died of diphtheria in Winnemucca while a second child recovers. Exposed individuals are quarantined and officials vow vigorous action to stamp out the outbreak. The smallpox patient in hospital is improving and public schools remain closed. Nevada bar members call the Tonopah pension ruling unconstitutional and Nye county commissioners refuse Tonopah accommodations. The case likely goes to the State Supreme Court.
Tailings on unoccupied government land become locator property while tailings on another’s land belong to the landowner, with mill owners liable for land damage. The Evening Telegram mocks rivals over heated debate on socialists gaining ground after recent elections in Anaconda, Battle Creek, and Saint Louis. A Saint Louis judge bans children from hearing parental divorce testimony, welcomed as common sense.
The report covers rising salt prices at Salt Lake and cotton prices along the Mississippi, Panama Canal labor figures, Wells Fargo relocating to New York, and a San Francisco strike averted. It notes a Northern Securities anti-trust ruling, Carnegie benefactions totaling over 67 million, Kan-s deposits surpassing 90 million, a Modoc lynching aftermath, and prominent deaths. It mentions Postmaster Payne’s Washington return and ongoing investigations, a Wall Street stock slump tied to the decision, Cleveland’s controversial white supremacy stance, and Southern views on race amid Reconstruction legacies.
Weinstock Lubin Co operates from the former State Fair Pavilion at Sixth and M Streets Sacramento. They run a large city and mail order business selling a low priced grocery list. Mailed free. Send for their catalog and table Siete.
A first person tale of living in a country cottage and raising a pig named Toby. The narrator argues women are unsuited for pork packing while humorously recounting Toby sale and his wife’s reaction to pork. He prefers hiring husbands to motivate men at work.
The mutilated body of E. A. Kilmer was found six miles below Reno along the railroad. Police infer murder as the victim was known to carry hundreds of dollars, with pockets empty. Physicians suspect a bullet hole in the heart. The body was split and the two halves lay 200 yards apart, with blood on a bank above the track, suggesting foul play.
A terse dialogue hints at a brief confrontation as a person returns home seeking help to remove an entry from a book. The exchange underscores a domestic scene with tension but no explicit violence or resolution described. The New York Journal framing suggests a serialized domestic anecdote or column flavor.
The Evening Telegram notes Nevada’s open policy to welcome newcomers and Roosevelt. It mentions the Southern Pacific Company advertising Nevada’s advantages to settlers, asserting water and printer’s ink can triple population, with high altitude seen as a boon and religous zealot worries fading.
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