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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1904
Page
3
Local travels abound with residents visiting Ely Carson City and Mandated trips to mines and ranches. School appointments address teaching assignments in Pinto Creek Antelope and Duckwater while the legal shot quiets doves near Eureka. A tennis court project progresses and the Jolly Boys serenade town as church services are announced.
Fourteen men work at the Gerald mine six miles west of Palisade, with about 150 tons of iron shipped daily to the American Smelting Company in Salt Lake City. The mine, sold months ago to West Mining Company by J A Porraro of Palisade, nets about 15 902 28 in six months for Eureka County taxes, under Ralph Watson's management near the Humboldt river canyon mouth.
Mr and Mrs W Rose returned from Currant Creek Nye County with a team of coal black mares bought from Joe Sabron of Currant Creek. The mares are 6 and 7 years old, weigh 1100 to 1200 pounds, and cost $100. In Eureka E D Walts described a five footed calf born on his ranch in Eureka County six weeks ago. The calf lacks two legs from the left hind knee, moves on three legs, and is lively. Walts drove from his ranch to Eureka with three 3-year-old jennets weighing 800 to 900 pounds, admired by equine enthusiasts.
Rich Find at Ruby Hill by Jobo Ring in the lava beds near the Jackson works reveals a pocket of lead sulphurets containing gold and silver. The ore runs from 80 to 100 dollars per ton. though not promising a large ore body, the pocket is large enough for a couple of shipments yielding a comfortable return for Ring.
Arthur H. Smith a San Francisco youth accused of stealing 300 dollars in money and jewelry from his sister Mrs Hill and passing two fictitious checks received 20 dollars on each check in Santa Rosa He was held to answer before the Superior Court on one charge the second was dismissed The Santa Rosa merchants lost money but their funds were returned to them
In the May 2 minutes printed in the SenTinel of the Times the bill listed Redlich merchandise five dollars as allowed by the County Commissioners. The charge by Mr Redlich was for interpreter services in a Russian patient case at the County Hospital last month.
Memorial Day to be observed Monday May 80 in Eureka with services in charge of Eureka Lodge No 16 of Odd Fellows. Memorial services to be held at the Masonic and Odd Fellows Hall with appropriate exercises.
The Post Office Department in Washington requests bids to carry mail between Elko and Bullion twice weekly. The route will shift from Palisale to Elko as soon as the new contract is awarded.
George Gavin received a carload of Waukegan Barbed Wire in Eureka on Wednesday. The shipment followed a test of several barbed wire brands and appeared in Gavin's New To-Day advertisement highlighting the results.
In Eureka District Court NEV the Tonkin versus Winzell water dispute pits Alpha ranches. The notice says attorney Thomas Wren is dead and Peter Breen, now a district judge, ceases to act, prompting Tonkin to appoint new counsel or appear in person at the next session. The case has lingered two years with a prior ruling for Tonkin and a Supreme Court remand for a new trial. a second trial date remains unsettled.
Nevada notice states Eureka will elect two school trustees on Monday May 23 one short term and one long term Robert A Laird is current hold over trustee. Candidates must file with County Clerk Hough by Wednesday May 18 per Section 18 of the School Election Law amended March 12 1901.
Paul, a well known miner in White Pine County Nevada, lost his left eye after a steel chip struck him while preparing to dig 100 feet at the Dewey shaft near Pilot Knob Ely. He was taken to his brother Frank Paul in Ely where doctors removed the damaged eye the following Sunday.
Colonel Joseph Grandelmeyer in a Virginia Report communication blasts the GOP on silver monetization. He claims the Comstock would employ 6,000 miners now instead of 500 and Nevada would house 10,000 miners if silver had not been demonetized. He brands Republican supporters as hypocrites and questions miners' prospects under party leadership.
Nye County commissioners Rice and Rogers meet Tonopah taxpayers to discuss a 14000 bond to cover warrants from defunct funds. Opponents argue moving the county seat to Tonopah would have kept funds healthy, while new law requires funds to hold money for any issued warrant. Vandalism warning issued as Mt Hope mines near Alpha report boards and timbers removed from Thomas Wren estate property with threat of prosecution for any theft or destruction.
Elko Grand Jury urged local lawmakers to push a bill for voters to decide on issuing bonds for repairs and enlargement of the current court house or construction of a new one in Elko County. The proposal aims to fund the project through county taxpayers and involves the Legislature in authorizing the ballot question.
J M Regus spent last Sunday at Elko. Whitmore and Lucey visited Carlin. Mrs Ellen Hooper and sons visited Ruby Hill. Mrs G D Abbott and Mrs Charles Rand spent Saturday at Mineral Hill. Bert Smith met family from Eureka. Meadows in north county promise large hay crop. Last storm boosted ranch feed quality. Katie Flynn and Villa Plummer returned to Mineral Hill. Doughty now with Curieux Bros Beowawe. Mrs B Succetti and sister to Italy to visit parents. John Ghirardelli returning from Italy via Hamilton White Pine. Mrs J R Ennor leased Ennor ranch in Pine Valley for five years. plans Colorado visit. Beowawe Hotel Annex opened with grand ball. many from Carlin, Palisade, Battle Mountain attended. Music good. supper served. event complimentary.
Elko defeated Winnemucca in basketball and baseball last Saturday. Miner Charles D. Lane visits Goldfield to inspect properties. Alberta L Bishop sues for divorce in Reno from Harry Bishop after a brief marriage. Foreman R K E Lewis of the Duter tle ranch in Golconda is stabbed six times by Angel over a small debt. Dawson City publisher L O Branson to issue a new Tonopah weekly called Tonopah Sun. Miner Charles O Pohle dies near Tonopah en route to San Francisco for care. Jury convicts John Reed in Reno of assault with intent to kill for shooting Frank Donohue in a box car between Reno and Truckee. Eighty acres near Sparks sold for 82000 to Nixon Harris and Boggs at record county price. Signal Service man J O Hayden at Winnemucca loses part of his fourth toe in an accidental shotgun discharge and is amputated.
Weekly ore shipment report for May 13 1904 lists totals and destinations from the Eureka and Palisade Railway. Includes quantities by mine and carload counts for the period ending May 13 1904.
Louis Janin Jr mining expert and former editor of the Pacific Coast Miner was declared insane in Tonopah last week. He had traveled from the Pacific Coast and during the journey to Sodaville engaged in delusional acts and spoke of his wife Virginia as the seat companion. He had a volatile career in Eastern Nevada including a 1902 dispute at Ely with a Chainman Mining Co bookkeeper.
A chaotic scene emerges as a bookkeeper allegedly threatens to shoot an executive, preventing completion of a report to Eastern shareholders. The incident interrupts communications and raises immediate security concerns.
Warren Shelton Clayton, a prominent Elko County citizen, died in Elko Nevada on May 7 1904. He served in the Mexican War and traveled from Tonneses to California before settling in Nevada in 1860. He lived in Ruby Valley and Mound Valley and is survived by a wife six sons four daughters and a brother in Joplin Missouri.
After about forty eight hours of investigation in the murder case against Chauncey Griswold for William Norton's death in Ruby Valley Elko County, the Grand Jury reported to Judge George Brown in Elko on May 6 that no indictment was returned. The tally was 12 to 6 against the bill.
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