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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1908
Page
1
Eureka judge Peter Breen urges separating the judiciary from politics in Nevada. He argues elected judges should answer only to the people, not parties, and proposes linking judicial elections to state school trustee elections to ensure merit based selection and cleaner judicial affairs.
A London Times report introduces the Stenotyper, a six key shorthand machine. By combining keys into dot dash patterns it forms an alphabet like Morse code. It is light portable quiet and self feeding with simple parts, enabling one operator to distribute notes to multiple clerks.
State news notes the Socialist Labor Party uses a proxy to smooth support for Presidential candidate Martin R. Preston, serving a 25 year manslaughter term in Carson. Reno officials report leprosy rumor at Wadsworth unfounded after testing all town Chinese. Dr. B A Chapman dies from morphine overdose intended to calm nerves, leaving a Virginia City wife and California brother. Reno man identifies robber by notes from the South Virginia road holdup, naming John R. Byron as one suspect among robbers.
Goldfield metallurgist A C Hutchison has been notified by the Washington patent office that a caveat on his reduction process for treating concentrates without roasting has been granted. The Consolidated Company runs ten tons daily at the Kinkead mill, extracting about 95 percent of values, with the new mill to adopt the method. the process targets concentrates, not crude ores.
The veteran commander Lord Roberts visits Quebec for Champlain tercentenary celebrations. The crowd recalls his South African campaigns and Victoria Cross, noting his modest size and long list of honors. A humorous anecdote highlights his enduring public regard.
Arthur J Vorys, Ohio campaign manager for Taft, is cited as supporting golf as the administration sport. The piece notes Taft’s golfing suitability, Vorys’s resilience despite a hand injury from a buzz saw, and his early work with his woodworking father Isaiah Vorys. It highlights Vorys’s nerve and dedication.
Mr Vorys, age fifty two, a Lancaster native and Ohio State University graduate, has long practiced law since 1880. He served as city solicitor of Lancaster and held several terms as state insurance commissioner. He advised Judge Taft during the preconvention period and continued in the canvass, while personal notes mention a playful exchange about marbles with his son. Notary public John McKerean offers conveyancing and land patent services.
Miss H K Clapp once a Reno teacher and librarian who helped found the Babcock Memorial Kindergarten disinherited her adopted daughter Mary Louise McDonald after learning she secretly married T F Jensen. Clapp cancelled the will and ordered McDonald from her home, shocking Reno acquaintances familiar with Clapp’s University of Nevada ties and local charity work.
Washington reports that at the Culebra section, the Panama canal dig is well advanced with modern shovels drills and dynamite. Over half the cut of nine and a half miles is complete, exposing a high point where a 430 to 1000 foot wide trench is dug to a depth of 10 feet.
Baron Louis von Horst of Coburg Germany arrives in New York aboard the St Paul to supervise hop harvesting in California. He plans a three month stay and warns that Europe’s unsettled state and fear of war depress investment. He notes Britain’s strong fleet, French-Russian tensions, Turkish issues, and a rift between the United States and Japan as possible sparks of conflict.
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