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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1907
Page
2
The Eureka Sentinel reports a December 14 1907 Crand Jury session with local items. Delinquent taxes. trustees and deputies appointed. lodge meeting announced. schools officials and assayer Joins Lincoln Company. holiday travel and weather notes. a critical memo on grand jury procedures and county official duties.
Three miners trapped at the 1000 level of the Alpha shaft in the Gitoox mines near Ely are alive and fed through a two inch pipe overflow system. Rescue teams, restrained by safety belts, work intensely to reach them. Officials warn it will take ten days to two weeks before contact is established.
Shortt W H Sweeney received a dispatch last Wednesday from Glasgow Montana to arrest Berry Stephone. Deputy Won Eberts notified the Sheriff the prisoner was apprehended at Palisade. The item also notes holiday ads for Mrs. O D Green jewelry stock and a family visit headline about Miss Henry Kind and family traveling to Indiana and New York for the winter.
Lloyd B. Thoman will conduct both morning and evening services at St Hae Episcopal Church. The third Wednesday of December advertises services with a morning service at 11 o clock and an evening service at 7.
The Kafka Social Lab will host a dance at the Opera House on Saturday December 14. Members must display their cards at the door or face a full charge. Dancing begins at 8 o'clock. A talk shawl was taken from the Miners' Union room Friday evening and is being investigated.
Thomas Grennett attended Sable Lake Sunday while John Christopheson left Thursday for Parade. Rev Ligd B Thomassil led divine services at ME Church Friday night December 20. The boarding house run by Mrs Beale Alden closed Thursday after months in service. The Miners Union ball drew a crowd despite stormy weather. Hill children practiced for a tie event at My E Church on December 24.
An Eureka writer urges a local citizen to start a wool and coal yard, noting high prices and scarce supplies. Existing stables and barns could store coal and wood with a small cost, and a new engine could run a wood cutting operation. Superintendent Abbott reportedly offered a free area at the EB and P depot for coal and fuel storage to a responsible party. The piece ends with a call for an enterprising citizen to seize the opportunity. Also announced is the Episcopal Guild meeting of St. James at the rectory on Friday after noon December 20, urging full attendance.
Dispatch from Washington informs OC L Bray of reappointment as Postmaster at Kureks for four years starting December 16. County clerk records a marriage license for Charlee P Barouut and Loretta McKinnon.
Forty potential jurors are listed to appear Friday December 27 at 10 am in the district court for the Uvcember term. Names include B Veresto, B Smith, DT Drews, John Tatton, Clemente Flavin, Walter Yates, Jake Depaull, Martin, Moyle, Hawking, Rather, Repetto, Kathorne, Rotern, Quarles, Merle, Norela and others.
The wedding of Mr. R. Allred and Miss Ethel Lorigan took place December 2 1907 in Duckwater Nye County Nevada with Justice Eugene Locke officiating. The bride is daughter of William and Mrs Lorigan. Vern Allred served as best man. A dance for friends followed on December 4 at Currant Creek schoolhouse with about 70 attendees, a late supper and music by the Currant Creek orchestra.
Morris Buck formerly miner on Ruby Hill San Quentin California dispatch of December 8 was hanged at 11 50 this morning for the murder of Mrs Charles A Canfield wife of a wealthy oil operator in Los Angeles on January 27 1906. Buck had been a coachman for the Canfields and was discharged for incompetency. He fired twice at Mrs Canfield wounding her in the abdomen and breast. she died instantly. Charles A Canfield, a former Ruby Hill miner turned California entrepreneur, had lived there years before becoming a multi millionaire.
Hamilton notes report Ira Shields closing boarding house and miscl pop up. Charles Minolett trip to Blg. Longue Louis rheumatism. Misaoe Smith visiting Strawberry folks at Ball Creek. Ed McEilin family in town for school advantages. Fay employs many men at high grade ore extraction. R A Dean linked to shaft at Withington hotel reopening under Charles Miparetti. William Matson freight teams back from Kareka laid off for winter. Drew Underwood of Nevada Land Co. heads to Mexico for winter. Mrs Joseph Rosevear moves to town for better schooling. Gas Simon to drill tunnel tapping roge claim in Rocgo canyon. winter work expected. Mrs Carl Muir recovering from appendicitis in Salt Lake, due home next week. Mines on White Pine Mount and Monte Crinto active with tents up and discovery work. Mrs A Shields injured by falling timber. foot badly swollen. R A D Sunday School Benefit Entertainment to fund Carniebiang Christmas gifts for Episcopal and Presbyterian children. Tony the Convict at Eureka Opera House Dec 23. dance to follow. more details next week.
Anthony Bruno, a Cherry Creek farmer, killed Tete Pirenai after Pirenai opened fire on Bruno and son-in-law Dave Welsh. Deputy Sheriff Budd Carberry arrested Pirenai in Cherry Creek after returning a warrant to District Attorney McCarran. Pirenai died from wounds before arrest reached. No charges filed against Bruno. investigation ongoing.
General Manager E. J. Collins of Nevada Smelter and Mines reports the 2G mine at Tybo has been pumped out and a large ore body found on the 00 level. Assays indicate about 120 dollars per ton with gold silver and lead present. Tonopah dispatch notes the discovery after arrival from Tybo.
Records show deeds involving Matt Hory and wife to Julio Mincletti for a blacksmith shop and property in Eureka dated December 1907. Also listed are railroad land deeds, reconveyances, and numerous mining certificates of location in Eureka and surrounding mining districts with dates December 5 to December 10, 1907.
An Aleut fraudster named Castlebury arrived from Salt Lake claiming to be an agent of Home Life Insurance Co. He cashed a $25 mail check for Gus Hintz in Eureka and fled after the bank declined. Arrested in Wells, Nevada, he faces embezzlement charges. Salt Lake papers note a prior acquittal.
Major Walter 8. Long, once a Eureka resident and longtime head draughtsman in the U S Surveyor General's Reno office, died in bed last Tuesday in Reno from heart failure. A West Point graduate, he served in the Civil War and retired as a major. Born in Baltimore, he was 65. Judge Pike planned to preside in Reno on the 27th in district court and probate matters where Judge Breen was disqualified. Metal quotes: Silver 55c oz, Lead 3.983 per 100 lb, Casting Copper 13c.
M J Barnett, longtime Davis Yolo County farmer, disappeared November 29 and was later found dead in the bay near Alameda. Relatives and a Sacramento Hee source suggest murder, challenging theories of death by accident or self harm. Burnett had moved to Oakland after retirement. He visited his physician November 2 and vanished thereafter.
Beowawe stockmen rode to a coyote raid that struck a drove of calves by night. Over 200 coyotes fought, 27 calves killed and 30 badly injured before the wolves were driven off. The incident followed heavy snow and bitter cold.
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