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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1904
Page
3
Local items from Eureka Nevada list arrivals and departures, court sessions, teaches, rentings, market ads, and travel to events. Notables include Dr C Hamilton in Eureka, Father Manion from White Pine County, Judge Brown to Ely, and Kate McGill pursuing Mills College. Community updates cover hiring, sales, and minor accidents.
G J Hagaman, Eureka and White Pine Stage Co, reports surveyors are preliminarily surveying a line from Ely in White Pine County to Eureka. They camped near Round Springs after working in Jake's Valley on Tuesday. Surveyors are workers for the White Pine Copper Co led by M L Requa, also president of the Eureka & Palisade Railway. Copper mines at Ely spur speculation of a longer line, as an experimental plant at the ore reduction works nears completion and a key machinery piece awaits arrival for startup next week to test the process. The outcome will influence whether a large reduction plant is built soon.
In Third Judicial District Court Judge Peter Breen presided on Aug 11 as the sale of Herbert Jowell estate realty was confirmed to Thomas R. Jewell of Palisade for 1500 dollars. Guardianship accounts for Hannah Morris and for James W. Morris and Julia Morris were approved. An order authorized Baker Gray Public Administrator to sell Mrs. Dolan estate real estate in Eureka.
Miles McKinnon orders lumber for a new Palisade building while Gavin’s Hardware Store expands by acquiring the brick building once tied to Julia Brown. Gavin plans to relocate the hardware and tin shop into the Brown structure, storing wagons and implements in the current store space. The Gavin operation aims to become a premier stocked Nevada store after alterations.
The notice warns all foreigners without final papers to obtain them 60 days before the November 8 1904 election to vote in Eureka County. Judge Peter Brown expects to return from Lander and Nye Counties to naturalize foreign residents who qualify for United States citizenship. Applicants for final papers must supply two witnesses to testify to five years of U S residence.
Morning service at 11 at the Presbyterian Church. Sabbath School at 12 15 p m Preaching at 7 30 in the evening Special music by Hisso Eather Anna Gibson and Eleanor Johnston All are invited Rev J E Johnston
Eureka residents R. H. Manuel and James Berryman formed a partnership to operate a drayage business in Goldfield. They purchased two single drays and a dump cart from Peter Loh and plan to depart for the mining camp within days.
Pool Lane and family and Misa Mollie Brown of Pine Valley and Mies Noys Plummer of Mineral Hill left Wednesday for the East to visit the World’s Fair in St Louis and will return afterward.
The Republican State Convention met at Winnemucca with 128 of 150 delegates present. George Mills chaired the session, praising Roosevelt and urging unity to secure victory. The platform backed Roosevelt, opposed Parker, and supported eight hour work for public projects. George S. Nixon was chosen for U.S. Senate with a slate including James A. Yerington, Frank H. Norcross, and electors. The party delegates organized into county delegations and set the campaign committee.
The article outlines election law extracts from the Nevada Revised Statutes on nominations. It notes sections 1696 and 1698 and explains how certificates of nomination must be signed and how many offices a person may nominate for. It mentions a district court session led by Judge Peter Breen in Austin and Belmont, Nye County, with an August 16 start, and announces an Episcopal Sunday School Picnic at St James Church on Wednesday, starting 8 am from On Street.
Miss Nevada Ryland and Horace Dodd were quietly married August 10 1904 at the bride’s Reno home. Rev L Mears officiated. A wedding dinner followed. The bride, famed as Nevada’s beauty, is the daughter of Richard Ryland from Eureka. Dodd, a navy lieutenant, met her during her Annapolis visit. they plan a California wedding trip with no permanent home chosen yet.
J. H. Hoegh, current County Clerk and Treasurer, announces candidacy for re election while George Gavin of Eureka declares for a short term County Commissioner post. The Republican County Central Committee plans a meeting Saturday night in the Court House.
J P Raine, recently moving to Sparks to run a mercantile business, brings Palisade lime rock samples to Reno for analysis. If tests prove favorable, he plans erecting kilns at Palisade and shipping lime on a large scale. Nevada lime suffers rapid setting, but Palisade rock shows less porosity. Vast quantities exist in Palisade quarries.
Advertisement lists colonist passenger rates for Sep 15 to Oct 15 1904 from New York Boston 50 dollars Baltimore Philadelphia 40.75 Chicago 85 Soosa Memphis New Orleans 90 and more. It instructs how to apply through Southern Pacific agents and to address John M Fulton District Passenger Agent Beno Nevada.
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