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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1909
Page
3
The Eureka Sentinel reports a Knights of Pythias ball at the Pers House tonight amid local notices. Also noted are health updates, travel to California, church services, a Windfall mine rebuild, and various town happenings with multiple residents’ illnesses and travels.
Presbyterians hold Sunday services at Boreks and Eureke with Sunday School and midweek prayer meetings. Evang H J Jones and Rev Hoyts BK Heartgoes led services. Episcopal Church at St James Barska invited. Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for community support after bereavement.
Salt Lake reports that a new steam railroad from Garfield to Cherry Creek Ely and Eureka Nevada via Deep Creek Utah is under consideration with French capitalists rumored to back it. Scofield and two experts say a syndicate could fund the project if experts’ report is favorable. Work may start by May 1 with Garfield as eastern terminus and an eventual Salt Lake connection. Separate Eureka High School entertainment at the Opera House featuring the three act comedy My Awful Dad drew a good crowd and finished with dancing.
Frankie Porter, seven, spilled boiling coffee on her legs at home Friday afternoon. Dr. Francis said she is progressing well with no serious complications expected. Leo Lacey sustained a crushed right foot Saturday when a timber fell on it at the Eureka and Pall freight depot. recovery in eight weeks.
Austin Jackson, ex Eureka city editor of White Pine News, now runs Copper Ore a new alt column quarto published at McGill about 18 miles east of Ely. H 8 Godcharles edits. The Chord lease shaft is 85 feet deep with contract to reach 100 feet as work advances 1200 feet from Windfall shaft on Jim Crow farm owned by Eureka Windfall Mining Co.
The Ball To Night Remember the Knights of Pythia ball is set for Friday evening at the Opera House. The committees in charge promise a pleasant evening for all attendees with careful planning to ensure guest enjoyment. Subscriptions for the SextinxL are noted.
The WEW mine reports a strike at the Holly mine on the 300 level drift with galena ore 6 feet from the vertical shaft. Drift work on the 800 level exposed ore and the company plans a mill once enough ore is opened. Indications suggest the 400 level drift and crosscut will yield the required tonnage.
Recorded February 11 Emil Peterson Charles Toyne Jr William Toyne for the Lucky Boy mine located about one mile east of Harney station on the Southern Pacific Railway in an unspecified mining district. Also recorded February 12 and 15 are Proofs of Labor for the Carbonate Hill mine in Union district by George W. Lindsau Andrew Royal and for the Big Six No 3 mine in Lyon district respectively.
Word reached White Pine County via telegram from W N McGill that Mrs. Jerome B Mathewson has died at her daughter Mrs A D Campton residence in Pasadena California. She was widow of Jerome B Mathewson a longtime prominent county figure who with his brother Arthur ran Hamilton’s largest store when the county seat. He was involved in mining and served as postmaster and Wells Fargo agent. Her death will be deeply regretted by many old residents of White Pine County.
Want Nevada Husbands Attorney Schnitzer of Reno has received a letter from Miss F. E. Gray of Washington stating she and five other young women in the National capital are eager to find husbands in Nevada. The letter says these girls would go to the end of the world for a husband and asks if any single men are available in Nevada to be sought. Names are requested so correspondence may be opened.
Several men arrived this week seeking work as Kareks Co mine repairs proceed. Lincoln centenary closure of school noted and local events include a show by High School Seniors and a dramatic club play. Weather turns mild, sleighing ends, and miners mourn the death of O T Wiedman Jr while the town copes with water cuts and a rock injury to Richard Jury at Buckeye.
A Windfall mine collapse killed Charles T. Wiedman on Sunday February 14 while returning to surface after assisting with an air pipe installation between the 126 and 925 foot levels. The fall, caused when a coil of wire snagged on timber, broke his neck. widman, 1885 07 11 Maidenville Montana native, was a Pony Lodge member and leaves a family in Pony Montana. Funeral services were held in Eureka with large attendance, and his body was sent to Pony Montana for burial.
A Native man tied a camper’s horse to a hay bale and resisted Deputy Constable Porch when asked to move it. Porch fired twice as the suspect fled, missing. The man was captured, jailed overnight, then released with orders to leave town. He headed to Duckwater.
United States Attorney Platt filed a libel for seizure and condemnation of 50 cans of shrimp shipped to Reno Grocery Company. Inspectors Moore and Kitchen reported the case, with Deputy Mack seizing the goods pending hearing. A separate seizure involved butter from Nevada Packing Company found 45 percent water under telegraphic orders from Secretary Wilson.
The latest metal quotations show silver at New York 51 cents per ounce, lead at Salt Lake $4.10 per 100 pounds, and copper at Salt Lake 13 1 6 cents per pound.
Wells Fargo and Company cut rates for Nevada to Los Angeles shipments of fruit vegetables butter eggs dressed poultry and fresh meat by about 381.9 percent from previous tariffs. Principal beneficiaries include Beatty Bonnie Claire Oprite Goldfield Rhyolite and Tonopah with perishable freight moved by express and refrigerator equipment prepared to handle higher volume.
Washington's Birthday falling on Monday February 2 percent will mark the 0th anniversary of George Washington's birth. The legal holiday leads to county offices, Barska County Bank, and public schools being closed.
U S sugar consumers spent over a million daily, about 372 million in 1908 for 7.09 billion pounds, with 4.37 billion pounds from foreign sources. Beet sugar output last year reached 967 million pounds, and the industry, though young, is rapidly growing, signaling a future where domestic sugar may dominate consumption.
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