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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1906
Page
2
The Sacramento Union hails the rate bill as an epoch making measure despite faults, noting it aims to end discrimination that hinders commerce. It credits high minded leadership and broad intent to equalize opportunity for rich and poor, while acknowledging residual imperfections.
Brief political chatter warns about Dingley tariff effects and oil trusts while emphasizing partisan jabs. Local items from Eureka County include W. E. Bradley arriving from Eureka, Maggie Jones appointed Census Marshal at Palisade, the Five Hundred Club gathering at Mrs. Folienbach's, and Beliefs about railway bridge work near the depot.
Henry Bowe of Buby Hill request s sorrowful lines as a death in Cornwall, England. Ray Ventoo’s family looks toward recovery as visits and conge tion of the liver afflictions rise. The Bareka Con mino shifts ore shipments, with Ruby Hill sees trains carrying loads to chutes. Bristol district mines in Lincoln County ship about 1000 tons of ore.
A ministerial commission appointed by Bishop Spalding recommends trying Rev. James B. Eddie, former dean of St. Mark's Cathedral in Salt Lake City, on charges of immorality. The inquiry spanned several years and included testimonies from several boys. Eddie, from Carson City, now in San Diego, awaits formal action. Local clergy react with shock and disbelief, noting Eddie’s earlier respected service in Carson City.
A party of five mining men led by Robert Gordon A L Hartley C J Moore Arthur Doolan arrived in Tonopah after a five week overland trek from East Lake City. They toured Hit Creek Green Springs Duckwater and Clifford en route and report active development at Hit Creek Green Springs ledges with copper and gold values. General Manager Frank A Keith and associates run a new tunnel at Hot Creek while promising new property development. In Carson City Gutzen Borglam the Davise artist begins modeling a life sized statue of the late John W Mackay for Clarence Mackay with a New York letter noting the study captures mining days dignity and manly spirit.
Articles filed May 16 announce a Reno bank to do business with capital stock fixed at 2000 shares of par value 100 dollars. Subscriptions total 25000 dollars. Incorporators are Oscar J. Smith Minnie D. Smith Bert J. Swaty S H Wheeler George H Taylor T F Dunaway A H Smith and W S Wail.
Prospectors should watch radium deposits as prices surge from 1 400 000 to 9 410 312 16 per ounce. A few ounces could provide a plow grubutake. Friends say Governor Jobo Sparks will soon announce he will not run again, but he declines to comment.
A novel muskrat feast is planned for December 28 at the state armory in Monroe Michigan. The third annual event is hosted by the Monroe Yacht club with preparations to catch five thousand muskrats from marshes near Lake Erie to feed diners from distant areas.
The Reno Board of Health reports to the City Council urging dismissal of unsafe conditions at Grey School. It cites overheated poorly ventilated rooms and insufficient teacher training to use ventilators. Sewage systems are faulted as making schools unsafe, while Select Trustees are criticized for inaction on improvements.
Sheepmen from Wyoming and Utah report large die offs linked to black sage grazing. Powell Runyan, Utah stockman, reportedly loses over 2000 sheep from a 10000 herd. Other ranchers are said to be losing hundreds as the poison appears deadly to the flocks.
In a United States District Court in Salt Lake City last week a judgment for 7000 was granted to Mrs Mary A Camp against Southern Pacific Company for injuries sustained in a railway wreck at Wadsworth Nevada on July 3 1904.
Washington dispatch May 17 reports House committee of the whole debating the Naturalization bill seen as a farce by Rep Hepburn who notes near total naturalization success and calls the system a joke while noting few denials in fifty years. Also includes Carson matrimonial note about more marriageable women than men in town.
In Washoe County the coroner's business is to be handled by the Justice of the Peace under Judge Curter. Obituaries note the death of Mrs. C. H. Rogers in Tonopah from suspected carbolic acid ingestion. Local mining and civic items touch Goldfield engineering incidents and Reno openings by J. M. Henry and E. Hardack, plus notes on Nevada fish protection and Catholic cathedral site plans. May 1904 records also report the Ruby Mountain Forest Reserve proclamation and a Reno birth in Kareka County.
A $10 reward is offered for information leading to the recovery of a 7 year old sorrel horse branded with a bar over a figure 2 and vented LP. The animal was last seen with a small black horse near Hootington Valley in Elko County heading toward Eureka Nevada on May 25 1906. It mentions recovery of a person named James Bonanti.
Notice given that there will be a meeting of the stockholders of the Northwestern Consolidated Mining Company at the office of John Pardy in Eureks on 09 June 1906 at 3 PM for the transaction of business.
President Roosevelt appoints Frederick W. Whitridge of New York as special ambassador to Madrid for the royal wedding of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Princess Ena. The ceremony May 31 is famed as a major matrimonial event drawing attention from Spain England and both hemispheres. The bride Princess Ena, tall, athletic, amiable, and well educated, and the groom King Alfonso XIII, a spirited youth, bring two royal houses together amid public fascination and courtly intrigue.
Readers learn of a re classification of mail to foreign nations allowing shipments at 12 cents per pound for parcels up to four pounds and valued up to sixty dollars. The new rate reduces a former four pound cost from 1.60 to 44 cents.
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