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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1916
Page
2
A terse report notes a Postance at Zareka event where Benvet Cem Mace is involved. The item underscores local focus and names the individuals connected to the occurrence. Further details are limited in the readable text.
Helens Montana November 15 Politics focus for Miss Jeanette Rankin congresswoman elect on the Republican ticket. Rankin designs her own garments and hats and manages her own wardrobe. Her platform includes national woman suffrage child welfare tariff revision nationwide prohibition and publicity of congressional records. Rankin is a University of Montana graduate and active in suffrage work in Montana for years.
Attorney General Thatcher sues over Nevada inheritance tax on Henry Miller estate valued around two million dollars. Mrs. W F Linebarger died in California and funeral held in Carlin. Miss Mabel Vernon left Reno for the east as Wilson's election was celebrated. Governor Boyle seeks Illinois extradition of A G Crane of Interstate Life Insurance on false pretenses charges. Crane indicted with H H Dunbar in Nevada cases. arrests in Winnemucca and Humboldt County.
List of unclaimed letters remaining in the Eureka Nevada post office dated November 18, 1916. Recipients include Florencio Corts Mre L Dreeben T H Madden Joe Pittman Boencer Reynolds John Ryan Emilio Tayo Ike Tobe T McParle J Maria Yucharti and others. Postmaster Laura HoegH notes to call and say Advertised.
In Kureks Nevada on November 12 1916 a son was born to Jobn B McNaughton as part of a family announcement in the local column.
Beef cattle fetched $11.40 per hundred pounds for 40 head averaging 1857 pounds at the local stock yards, a new high above the previous $11.85 set in December 1914. Elko reports Frank C. Van Duzer pioneer dies in Boulder Colorado, father of former Congressman Clarence D. Van Duzer. Legal blanks and mining locations for sale at this oft.
Election results from most precincts concede the United States Senate seat and several state offices. Names listed include E Reterte for senator, J A Sas Gere for Supreme Court, Willien for Regents, and J F Abel for Supreme Court along with other officials B F Corler and Eins Baker.
Reported from a national briefing that the presidential landscape shows no definite shift and V's election outlook remains broadly conceded. Official vote tallies in California and other close states have not produced material changes to this assessment.
Elko County announces elected officials including Assemblymen Booker Coryell Fairchild Hodge and others. County Clerk Hunter Sheriff Harris District Attorney Carville plus Long and Short Term Commissioners and local justice positions are named or partially listed. Additional names appear for New Ormsby and Douglas counties.
By a four to one vote the State Board of Pardons commuted J. Frank Tranmer’s death sentence for murder to life imprisonment. Nimrod Urie, Tranmer’s accomplice, also remains under a commuted death sentence and confirmed the crime details to the prison board. The killings occurred over a saloon robbery in Imlay more than three years ago. Charles De Armand, Elko County surveyor elect, left Eureka recently to visit his ailing father.
The Churchill County board of commissioners will lease the recently purchased tractor for road work when not in county use. E R Sans, heading the Nevada campaign against rabid coyotes for the biological survey, says the work may be abandoned this month due to lack of funds.
A 1916 letter from Key Prerman in Reno Nevada expresses gratitude to Nevada citizens for reelecting him to the United States Senate for six years. He pledges continued duty and loyalty to the state and praises Woodrow Wilson's victory as Western endorsement. He notes regret at Ed Caine’s defeat but frames it as a broader Democratic win.
The Department of Agriculture’s October Nevada crop report puts wheat at 1,764,000 bushels and potatoes at 2,660,000 bushels. Last year’s final wheat and potatoes were 1,660,000 and 2,236,000 bushels respectively. This year’s crop is above average in quality, with excellent market size and no disease.
The Florence Goldfield Company reports its flotation plant operating successfully and profiting. The plant processes about 20 tons daily with nearly complete copper recovery and 85 to 90 percent recovery of gold and silver content in ore.
After Monday October 28 1916 all dogs running at large in Eureka and vicinity without a muzzle will be killed without further notice. The action follows the visit to Eureka on Friday of eight rabid coyotes that bit three town dogs.
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