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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1914
Page
1
May Slaughter, held on cattle theft accusations, escaped last night by digging through a brick wall using a table fork. She fashioned a 12 by 18 inch opening, tied a sewn blanket to a sewer pipe, and left a note for Deputy Sheriff Muller promising to return for trial. The upper jail area lacked steel lining and housed women, aiding the breakout.
Nevada figures in a biographical sketch of T A Brown of Clark County who died at his La Mesa home. Hal Michels of Carson City is named to collect Nevada's agricultural exhibit for the Panama Pacific exposition, a former Carson Appeal editor and Sam P Davis stepson. Nye County roads benefit from a runabout to cut travel costs. T F Dunaway leaves the Nevada California Oregon railway after 13 years as general manager. Reno Gazette critiques Attorney General Thatcher over the exp board appointments of Kendall and Michels, two lawmakers prohibited from holding such posts. A fire destroyed F C Norton’s stamp mill on Surprise Valley road near Pyramid Lake, five miles away, with losses around 20000 dollars but partially insured.
The Nevada press criticizes officials for blocking parole of Preston Goldfield while urging public support for Fallon’s chamber of commerce and its boost group. It endorses adherence to by laws and paying dues to ensure the local business booster’s persistence amid past organizations’ failures.
The United States Geological Survey will continue exploratory drilling for potash in the West during the coming season and may award contracts if favorable bids are received. Plans include sinking one or more deep wells in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, as part of the ongoing potash search in the desert basin despite continued interest.
Aspirants are urged to act promptly as primary elections approach on Tuesday September 1. Filing nomination papers must occur 30 days before the primaries, prompting candidates to hasten filing and campaigning now.
A Utah article reports a simple $2 device to combat the alfalfa weevil. A 20 foot iron pipe with 21 holes sprays arsenical poison from a wagon mounted engine, covering field swaths to kill weevils. If experiments succeed, Agriculture will publish plans for farmers nationwide.
Edison industries workers in West Orange were greeted by a sign declaring cigarettes intolerable. Henry Ford asked Thomas A. Edison to analyze 20 brands, finding varying quality but all papers containing poison. Edison warned cigarette poison harms brain folds and mental activity.
Mrs Fox and Fox refuse to accept son’s engagement to Miss Golder, debating objections to the marriage. Fox argues against losing status with the Golders, while Mrs Fox resists the idea of opposing the match.
In Nye County eastern district some 40 steers and milch cows died in the past week from a strange disease unlike loco. Stockmen report unusual symptoms and losses. The case has been reported to the Bureau of Animal Husbandry at the University of Nevada, with stomachs sent to Reno for chemical testing to identify the plague.
A jumble of homely maxims advises farmers to move to the city and city folk to the country while mock instructions urge assembling a dollar watch and wearing a red necktie to impress townspeople. A note then reports seven year old Eugene Wines of Ruby Valley being taken to Elko after breaking his right arm while bronco busting a calf.
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