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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1904
Page
4
Reno visitors joined locals for the Carson Carnival featuring the pike the pikers the illuminations and a relay race. The event drew crowds from Reno with high meal prices and complaints about inflated food costs amid a pleasant celebration with some drawbacks.
Reno crowds expected a warm welcome at Carson for a carnival but faced sharp profiteering. About three thousand Reno visitors were caught by high charges as tamale grottos, ice cream shops, hotels, and saloons doubled prices at the carnival opening and likely kept the hikes through the festivities, drawing widespread complaint about treatment of guests.
The Reno papers accuse Carson of robbery during the Carnival, claiming visitors faced overcharging and poor accommodations. The response defends Carson, arguing Reno’s own two year record of overcharging and misdeeds. Citizens reportedly believe Reno enjoyed the Carnival and felt they got their money’s worth.
The Pullman Company cut nearly 1500 Chicago shop workers as orders dwindle. New York trials valued Shipbuilding Trust plants at 3.6 million, promoters priced them at 41 million with a 71 million stock issue. Attorney General Knox delayed cattle king prosecutions in Nebraska for land law violations due to funds, and Omaha juries were dismissed.
W Robertson of San Francisco set new elapsed time records driving 48 miles from Oakland to San Jose via Niles in 1 hour 80 minutes and returning from the Garden City in 1 hour 85 minutes. He traveled with a party of four, setting a landmark for the Gownaward trip and its return on the regular route.
Assemblyman P McCurran seeks State Senator seat on Fusion ticket in Wasco County. Esmeralda Grand Jury fails to indict Howard Sharp in Goldfield killing. James McKinty named superintendent of OC & C mining firms after Joseph R Ryan. Wabuska cloudburst floods ground to three feet, no lives lost but damages. Miss Gray Davis wins $850 car in Carson Carnival fundraiser. Joseph R Ryan funeral held in San Francisco with Virginian and Reno attendees. Lowe McClure, West Point graduate, commissioned Second Lieutenant with Fifteenth Infantry at Monterey. Sparks becomes a C P railroad division point increasing Reno through traffic and $2.50 per car switching fee. A Douglass Fallon auto exploded in Carson during Carnival, no injuries, car damaged.
A Fourth of July explosion at Jefferson Canyon Nye County killed an Indian man known as Dick Patterson and severely maimed a white man named Oakley. Patterson died on site, Oakley lost his right hand and sight in his right eye, and later had his arm amputated at the elbow in Tonopah. Patterson, educated and a Wee pah mine locator, owned a mining interest and had earned money from the sale of that mine.
The Postoffice Department in Washington issued fraud orders against multiple concerns, with mail to these addresses to be returned to sender. Names include Prof. A. H. Thole in Macomb Nebraska, Columbian Scientific Academy in New York, Shoemaker & Co in Harrodsburg Kentucky, American Mushroom Space Company in St. Louis Missouri and Texarkana Arkansas, Bishop Remedy Company and Hudson Medical Institute in San Francisco, James Powell in Ciudad Juarez Mexico, Sunset Missing Company and G. W. Ramble in San Francisco, Financial Brokerage Company at 41 Wall Street, A. H. Willman & Co on Wall Street, The Eastern Trade Company, New Mamie Graham in Green Forest Arkansas.
An old advertisement offers The Prospector's Companion or Nevada Edition for 25 cents sent to any address. The 52 page pamphlet covers prospecting for ores, tools, field assays, minerals, nursing elissary and more, urging mining men to obtain a copy from W. H Chapman at 725 So First West St Salt Lake City Utah.
A local notice advertises life insurance through New York Life Insurance Company with agent B. L. Sura offering policies to protect families. The ad emphasizes securing coverage as a safeguard for dependents.
The article recounts the romantic links of Senator Fairbanks family. Adelaide Fairbanks, once courted by a college peer, married then widowed, later reconnected with Ensign John Wesley Timmons of the battleship Kearsarge. The couple wed last September and live amid Washington and Indianapolis society.
W F Burbank of Oakland discusses the Exposition in St Louis noting hotelkeepers signed to hold rates but prices doubled before opening. He also questions the 5 cent water charge inside the Fair grounds and calls drinking water scarce during the event.
A Cape Town reader reports relief from a troubling cold after using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The letter notes complete cure after a few days and endorses the product as dependable, with purchase through Mrs H. M. Schneiders.
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