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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1902
Page
3
Judge W D Joons holds court in Washoe county. Local residents and visitors frequent Eureka with notices of mining deals, church services, postmaster appointments, and upcoming county meetings. Reports include property purchases at Hamilton Last Chance mine, shelving for H A McKim store, and bids for Eureka Birch Diamond Valley mail route.
The Nugget of Eureka reports heavy Nevada weather with a rolling storm bringing several inches of snow across Nye and Eureka counties. Warnings come as four youths, aged 13 to 15, are jailed after disrupting a business and school, while local politics watch Attorney-General hopeful Bartlett of Eureka.
News from Baroks reports Charles Van Powell died February 25 at Elko after a rheumatic relapse treated at White Sulphur Springs. Born in Hamilton White Pine County Nevada, he was 32 years eight months and twenty three days. He worked with his father as a teamer, later clerk at the Brown Hotel, joined the Resous Hose Company of Kareks, and served as toller of the bell at his death. He leaves a widow, his father, sister Jay Henderson, brother Dave Powell, and many friends in Elko and DeLamar. Funeral was held Thursday at the Episcopal church in Elko, Rev. George F. Plummer officiating, with burial in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Funeral for Frank R. Witten held at Ward's parlors San Jose on Sunday February 16. Services led by General Relief Committee United Workmen Triumph Knights of Phyllis Mispah Temple Rathbone Sisters and Degree of Honor No 69. Morgan Miles Master Workman in charge. Remains shipped by train to Cypress Lawn Cemetery San Mateo County for cremation with services by Rev F D Brondage and hymns by L Colina and Norton. Ashes buried next day.
The Sentinik left weak noted that three extra clerks were added to the railway mail service between Ogden and San Francisco. The goal was faster delivery to Nevada, but a week of mail arrived haphazardly. Eureka received Sacramento dated letters and no East Coast papers on Thursday. delays blamed on clerks at Palisade who reportedly fail to deliver mail for Eureka and points south.
Local items report attorney Geo A Bartlett departing for Tonopah to open a branch law office and pursue mining cases. B J Turner, builder of Eureka’s Turner House, now operates in Hanford. Eureka & Palisade ore shipments for the week end Feb 28 show 919 990 pounds to Eureka Consol. A Eureka District Court term begins April 2 with Judge W D Jones likely to empanel a grand jury. Tonopah Bonanza notes C G Gordon of Eureka will soon arrive to practice and sell drugs.
Jonefa Havsi Hausmann, a former Eureka resident and 55, died in San Francisco on February 23 1902 after long liver trouble and pneumonia. Born in Bohemia, he came to America in 1866, lived in Tennessee, crossed to the West, and settled in Eureka in 1870. He married Evslina Boas in 1877, later moved to Reno, and was a respected pioneer and husband. His funeral was held February 25 at B'nai B'rith Hall in San Francisco, with interment at Salem Cemetery.
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