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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1917
Page
2
President Wilson appeals to Americans to unite and act for democracy in the world war. He calls on farmers and factory owners to boost production, outlines food and clothing needs for belligerents, and asks households to practice thrift while women play a vital role in supporting the war effort.
A tele gram from State Superintendent Bray in Carson City says State Controller George Cole refused to pay district deputies of schools for travel and office expenses. He will not pay salaries after July 1, effectively abolishing the district deputies per an attorney general ruling. This leaves Nevada schools without supervision for about two years until the next Legislature.
The commissioners of White Pine County have ordered revocation of all licenses to kill wild horses. No new permits will be granted except to directly affected residents, and bonds will be required.
Thursday metal market report lists silver at 74.5 cents per ounce, copper at 87.00, and lead at 83.75 cents per pound in New York trading.
R. A. Laird has just received a carload of coal and is ready to make delivery. Terms Cash.
A draft bill to compel military service is before Congress with committees considering it. Senate committee reported favorably while the House committee rejected it. Proponents say 500000 men are needed immediately and a selective draft is the democratic, fastest way to recruit fit young men without disrupting industry.
Churchill County Board of Education resolves to credit the 1917 scholastic year in full for high school pupils eighteen or older who enlist in U S military or naval service. Governor and State Board ratification sought. Bray backs plan as first in state.
Virgil M. Henderson and Gustav E. Hofmann, both Nevada University graduates, were appointed principals of the new mines at Ely and Goldfield by the University Board of Regents.
A Washington dispatch reports the Senate Naval Committee room was broken into during the night. A jimmy used to force the door, officials say no papers were taken, and Secret Service agents pursue the likely government employee suspect.
In Carlin, Al Hickman lies in Sperlick hospital and John Wheat in Carlin jail after a saloon cut affray. At Mound House workers strike for $4 daily, while mine and quarry hands reject a 10 percent raise. Goldfield expects recovery for John Clingan injured by a rock fall. A northern Elko County mail carrier was offered 500 to haul liquor to the Idaho line. Reno attorney J M Frame injures his shoulder in a Carson repair pit. Aurora Mines report first fatal accident as E Stephens plunges down a shaft. Nevada Industrial Commission pledges 100000 toward the war loan. Secretary McAdoo notified. Humboldt County snow fades and cattle turn out. Manhattan grows busier with old-timers returning. Dave Moore found guilty for calf killing, sentenced to 1 to 14 years in Elkoto jail. pardon efforts may follow.
Washington supported plan to raise about half war funds by taxes rather than borrowing. Income tax and excess profits tax would rise, targeting rich earners. Proposed rates vary from 2 percent on mid incomes to 13 percent on very high incomes, with possible 50 percent on large profits. Excise taxes on tea coffee sugar whiskey beer and tobacco eyed. Local taxes also rise to cover war expenses.
In Elko district court Saturday Judge Taber appointed Veral Black of Deeth as receiver for the McCall Smiley company of Deeth after stockholders sought to prevent wasteful litigation. The firm shows assets of 44 000 against 20 000 in liabilities with a 29000 book value and a 15000 stock in the works. A consolidation with the Deeth Mercantile Company is reported to form a single town store. Scarlet fever and measles cases are reported in Carson Valley as efforts to control the outbreak continue. Subscribe for Sentinel 3 per year.
Elko reports that a corporal was likely shot by his own men in a tunnel incident last week. Three west-end shooters fired five rounds each while two privates and the corporal fired one shot apiece. Bullets hit rocks, not the corporal, with splinters grazing the legs. Corporal Murphy remains hospitalized with non life threatening injuries. A dynamite stash near the tunnel top showed long weathering. In Lincoln County, a Wednesday smoke blitz destroyed four buildings near the Star saloon and caused about ten thousand dollars in damage. Star saloon insured for three thousand, others uninsured. Fire fanned by wind, extinguished after exhausting the water supply.
Warning to trespassers on or around our premises on South Spring street. Any person found there will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Mr. and Mrs. A Lamro of Eureka Nevada referenced.
A notice invites buyers to acquire wild horses with further particulars available by writing to Post Office Box 72 in Eureka Nevada.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Ruby Hill Tunnel and Mining Company will be held at the office of the company at P. H. Hill's Furniture Store in Eureka Nevada on Saturday April 28 1917 at 2 o'clock p m for electing a Board of Trustees for the coming year and for other business as may come before the meeting. C H Hill Secretary Eureka Nevada March 31 1917.
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