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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1913
Page
2
The Sentinel announces a reduced four page edition this week due to a misrouted shipment. A ready print magazine section failed to arrive by Friday’s train, and the bundle was diverted to another Eureka by the express company.
Nevada press reports Reno turning against easy divorce as public meetings show strong sentiment for tougher divorce legislation. The statewide protest grows while Reno leads in urging amendment and voters display clear support for morality and decency.
Miss Maggie Jones is now postmiatriae at Palisade. Mr and Mrs W Pratt of Mineral Hill left for the East. Charles Rand returned from Canada. Willis Bradley of Palisade went to Mineral Hill to work at the mill. Frank Yaten celebrated his eighth birthday with a school party. Mrs Bessie Amidon has gone to Salt Lake for a visit. Plummer brothers began hauling ore from the McCoy mine at Mineral Mill to the railroad for shipment to the smelters. Mia William Yates and Misses Mary Rand and Rose Corto attended the Mineral Hill dance and visited friends.
The sale of 420 Sinclair Street to A. J. Stinson funded by Carson National Bank is noted as a major Reno realty deal. The two story residence sits on a 50 by 140 foot lot. Stinson, formerly of Hareks Nevada, plans to make Reno his home and is father-in-law to State Engineer W. M. Kearney.
Senator Newlands forwards seeds to the Sentinel for public distribution. Packages of garden and flower seeds are available. apply at this office to receive them. Country orders will be mailed free of charge.
St Valentine Day dance planned for February 14 by the Ruby Hill Star Band. The arrangements committee features four energetic band members and promises a festive, merriment filled evening with new dance music. A prize will honor the best couple in a waltz. All are invited to attend.
Rudolph Zadow of the People's Market offers fresh salt water fish and freed Eastern oysters weekly during Lent. Oysters priced at 75 cents per can. Extra creamery butter twice weekly at 70 cents per pound and a half. Fepsb Golden Ribbon braniego 40 cents per dozen. Beef described as particularly choice with reductions from retail prices on large cuts.
In Elko County Nevada Sheriff Harris District Attorney Carvile and County Clerk Voight review scalp lots sent for verification. They discover 83 wildcat scalps forged from badger hides with horsehair tassels. Glue failures reveal the ruse, preventing a $70 loss.
Senator Arnold’s slot bill was tabled while Senator Scanlan pushed a public school act revision to empower the Board of Education to select study lines and set pupil exemptions. A Sullivan bill would place over $500,000 of state funds in Nevada banks and earn interest. A Reno parents and teachers group opposed a vision requiring dental and hearing exams for children. Other measures curb armed strike security, bar nonresident spies, mandate free textbooks, limit candidate and party expenditures, and restrict women’s mill work to eight hours with rest breaks and penalties for violators.
Documents of record cover deeds to placer grounds in Lynn mining district, notices of location for Tip Top mine in Eureka district, proof of labor on Tenderfoot Lulun and Gadfly mines, and location certificates for Montana New mines in Buckhorn area. Also noted are hand power rock drill demonstrations promising cheaper prospecting and mining tools.
London reports the Balkan war has renewed hostilities. Adrianople endured bombardment starting at nightfall after a two month armistice. Tehatalja saw a minor skirmish as Scutari teeters toward fall amid reports of Turkish capitulation talks.
In Rochester Nevada on February 4 workers under J H Cyusten met a cross vein that started as six inches wide last Friday and widened to five feet after three days of tunneling. The vein, worth $40 per ton across five feet, drives toward the main ledge as miners anticipate the Big Four lead to be reached within two days. Crown Point No 1 leases prompt tunneling toward the main vein at 450 feet depth, aiming to strike the ledge beneath block 3. The discovery, initially seen as a minor accident, expanded rapidly as a crownier guided the ore line.
The Tonopah Nevada school superintendent A H Yoder faces a $500 bond for assault and battery over a scuffle that left a student with a broken arm. After trustees refused to dismiss him, about 400 students, including 20 lower grades, walked out of their classes yesterday but many returned later.
February 8 report from Sacramento notes Rep Harry Palsley of Colusa has introduced a measure backed by constituents to license both saloonkeepers and drinkers. The bill requires all who wish to drink to obtain a drinker's license from the county clerk. The proposed tax is ten dollars, and Palsley believes the bill is likely to pass the house.
February 3 report from Muoywan cites Dr. J. R. Ward an assistant state veterinarian who says a disease killing horses in Kansas and Nebraska has reached Mootans and Idaho. Ward recently returned from the Montana border and estimates about 1000 horses have died in Montana with many more affected.
Wyoming’s ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment makes income taxation a federal power. Congress will draft a tax law imposing tax on incomes above about $5,000, potentially replacing the old corporate tax and funding government operations. Expect implementation during the forthcoming extra session called by President-elect Wilson, with anticipated annual revenue around $100 to $600 thousand. The measure halts the 1912 attempt to revive an unconstitutional income tax and may include provisions from that era’s plan.
Nevada State News reports excitement around a strike at the Serita mine near Masonic, noting a 15 foot free milling ore ledge yielding $50 to $100 per ton and new territory found between Masonic and the Walker River. It also cites criminal complaints in Goldfield against the American Express Company and Wells Fargo for bullion carriage without license, with penalties expected to be heavy. Sheriff Ed Malley of Tonopah receives $1000 from Continental Casualty for loss of his right arm, while J. Sotenbury arrives from Reno to arrange payment of the policy. Additionally, Harold Bowler, son of attorney P. M. Bowler, is assaulted by Principal Yoder, breaking his arm, with a District Attorney complaint filed. A Feb. 4 bill by Senator Arnold in Carson City provides state aid to indigent widows and children, including those with incapacitated or imprisoned husbands.
A rural county in West Virginia eyes a statewide free textbook program. Reports say Southern County has successfully provided free texts to schools, with a bill proposed to make the program mandatory in every county. Superintendent Bray reportedly supports the initiative.
County commissioners at the February 3 meeting approved sums of money to be allowed to named persons. The record lists the payments and designated recipients in a concise financial action excerpt.
Notice is given that Charles Weley Willats of Duckwater Nevada filed a mineral claim in 1908 for fractional lot and sections in Township 123 North Mount Diablo Meridian. The claim lies in Eureka County Nevada and is to be proved before the Eureka County Clerk on March 20 1913. Names of claimant include Daniel Tartalietat of Duskwater Nevada.
T O Dixon of Eureka Nevada declares rigid enforcement of Nevada Rev. Laws Sec 6642 to stop driving removing or grazing his cattle and horses from ranges near Barrel Springs 18 Mile House Bectel Springs Sulphur Springs Pancake Springs Spanish Gulch and Summit Springs in White Pine Eureka counties He allows corraling for separating animals by owners sharing range and requires return to hard ground. notice dated February 1 1913.
State Printer Farnaworth released a concise booklet on the 96th Nevada Legislature listing members and officers, standing committees, releases, and related details. The reference work is described as very convenient for citation and use by lawmakers and staff.
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