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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1919
Page
4
Christmas coming next Thursday between the Sentinel publication days, we wish all readers a Merry Christmas. Eureka’s outlook has brightened, people are in better spirits, and Xmas promises happy exchanges of gifts and reunions. Let peace on earth and good will to men guide the season. Christmas comes but once a year.
In Beattle on December 17 Alfred Hubbard a 19 year old claims to have built a machine that draws electrical power from the air and can run without external energy. Nearly all Seattle electricians plan to inspect it. Rev Father William B. Smith of Seattle College calls it a potentially practical device that could replace existing power generators.
Correspondent reports 32 mining locations along Currant Creek west of Rail Road Valley. Tognoni, famed desert prospector and discoverer of Togmoni’s springs in Goldfield district, located the claim after years of prospecting near Goldfield and has a strong ore showing across several sites.
Harry Flannery died Friday at Lane Hospital in San Francisco after a prolonged illness. A longtime Virginia City and Nevada political figure, he served as secretary of the Nevada State Central Committee of the Dry Ver party and later sergeant at arms in the Nevada Legislature. He moved to San Francisco, obtained bar privileges, then ran the Richaléeon saloon at Geary and Market, and was appointed president of the police commission by Mayor P. H. McCarthy in 1910.
The Elko City Council established a license of 100 dollars per quarter per table for gambling games. Previously 135 dollars per quarter per bouus with a capped table count. Councilman Mayer, proprietor of the Mayer Hotel housing several games, cast the sole vote against the ordinance.
Local items report multiple residents leaving for Reno Carson and Eureka for holidays. Miss Agnes Lucey returns to Eureka from Sparks. W J Eathorne leaves Ruby Hill for Melrose Montana. Miss Berenyce Moore goes to Eureka. Also weekly taxes settled, real estate notices, car deliveries, rail travel, and school events amid mild weather after a cold wave.
John F. Coleman of Coleman & Rettze predicts world nations will debase minor silver coins by about one third in coming months. He notes bills in Congress and Parliament to reduce silver content, claims no U S silver exports to India since last May, and says England has embargoed silver while European nations shift to script.
Bantam Mass December 13 The Bantam Ball Bearing Company boards elect Anna Scott to succeed W C Rogers as president after a rapid rise from stenographer earning 12 a week to top boss in fifteen years. She shares profits, manages a family farm, and is adored by employees who value her leadership and care for workers families. Coyotes skins sell for eleven dollars each aiding state treasury with three thousand four hundred eighty two dollars and sixty cents from October and November captures.
A Portland inventor reports a new burglar deterrent using a vial of poison gases sealed inside a safe. The timed device would explode when the safe is forced open and release a tear gas and asphyxiating blend to incapacitate intruders. The gas is not lethal, aimed to deter theft rather than kill.
In Elko a lawsuit last week between Georgs Wolford and Emma Boswell ended with Wolford marrying Boswell before a decision. The Elko Independent notes the marriage does not alter the outcome under community property laws, leaving no clear winner.
Frank Pittman a Tonopah attorney and brother of Senator Key Pittman died November 12 in Rochester Minnesota after kidney surgery. He came to Tonopah in 1903 and built a leading law practice. Survived by a widow two children three brothers Senator Pittman Vail Pittman and W B Pittman of Honolulu. He was about forty years old.
W. J. Stoneham of New York, long writing finance and mining news under Gordon Hall for the New York Morning Telegraph, has left that paper and become financial editor of the New York Record, a weekly publication with about 30 000 circulation. Stoneham was once connected with the Miner at Tonopah.
Negotiations between ore owners and major investors open the possibility of developing a large iron mine in the Kingston range Clark County. The surface discovery is described as a high grade deposit on the tlalms area.
Fifth Judicial District Court Nye County Nevada due to Manuel Oscar estate will sell privately with court confirmation. On January 19 1920 at 12 noon at Palisade Eureka County Nevada the estate in Eureka County lands described as sections 17 20 13 24 29 18 7 16 north east blue will be sold. Executrix Joaquina Lar and Price Hawkins attorneys dated December 18 1919 first publication December 20 1919 last publication January 10 1920.
Notice of application for permission to appropriate the public waters of Nevada. Application No 5895 seeks authority to divert water from Ping Creek for irrigation in a specified township and range. The filing cites statutes and dates of approval and includes details on water not to be returned.
A partial historical line notes that a revived estimate counts until the fall of 1918, with a reference to a figure of 23 and a 2-106 measure. The text is fragmented, offering limited clear context or subject identification.
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