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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1904
Page
3
Local mentions include Ed A. Harmer candidate for Tonopah Constable, Eureka social events, visitors from Duckwater and Nye County, and several residents traveling to San Francisco Oakland and St Louis. Notables include M L Requa with White Pine Copper Co and Mrs Malatesta moving to Oakland.
Mrs J Sarafield visited Apha this week. Dest and A P Tengoord spent a few days here. Will Kohler of Pine Valley visited last Sunday. P G Lane of Pine Valley shipped a train load of horses west. William Whalen of Alpha returned from the East last Tuesday with his party. Mrs Walter Rynearson returns to Ely from the western part of the State. Lucey, EB and P fireman, is taking a lay off and visiting Eureka. Will Hawkins took his place on the road. P A Patty and Steve Maplex shipped eight carloads of cattle to San Francisco on Wednesday. Willis ae and Charlie McBride helped with cattle shipped from pre Valley on Wednesday. Mr Bradley heads to San Francisco and Mr McBride as far as Reno.
The SENTINEL asks registry agents in Eureka County to send copies of registration lists for official publication per a Board of County Commissioners order. William Spinner the Eureka telegraph operator arranges a Western Union substitute until after the election. Miss Coyle to arrive from San Francisco Saturday to run the office during Spinner's absence. Foner John Holland of Elko and Florence Bain of Golconda, Humboldt County, one at Salt Lake City on Octo
Henry W. Lewers of Bend Nevada and Mise Era Ford of Colusa Cal. married October 16 1904 at bride’s sister’s Sacramento residence with Rev. Dr. Swan officiating. Couple to reside in Reno after October and plan a home at 190 Virginia street. Groom is assistant cashier at Bank of Nevada. Bride praised for talents in painting and writing.
Miss Josephine Rider of Napa California and Dr Charles Corbiere of Redding California wed at the bride’s parents home in Napa on October 16 1904. The ceremony was conducted by Rev Richard Wylie in the Presbyterian Church hall with relatives and friends present. The bride a State Normal School San Jose graduate and longtime Napa educator. The groom a leading Redding dentist. The couple will reside in Redding.
Voters lists appear for Eureka Eureka County precincts Raby Hill Diamond and Alpha. Andrew Tenvoord of Eureka and Edgar Sadler backed by the Silver Party announce Assembly candidacies this week. Tonopah Store acquired by W H O Neil and J G Ford who will run I B Edwards business as W H O Neil Company adding general merchandise and hardware.
Sheriff T. A. Bardick conducted a sheriff s sale of mining property near Alpha Eureka County advertised in the SENTINEL. The sale did not arise from a district court execution in favor of Edward Altwegg of Eureka against United States Mining and Smelting Company. Altwegg bid $695 to cover his suit and costs.
Three four horse loads of water pipe were hauled to Eureka from Hamilton this week bound for Reno. The pipe is for the Reno Water and Light Company, part of the Aurora and Eberhardt system once used to convey water from Illipah to Hamilton mines and recently sold to the Reno Company.
Eureka agent Will Gavin for Hank Knight tears down the Hank Knight saloon on Main Street to ship to Bullfrog, the new town in Goldfield country. Knight already runs a saloon and a store in a tent at the new camp.
Western trains are stranded as a fire in the snew sheds in the Sierra Nevada mountains halts service. No westbound trains have arrived at Palisade since the flyer passed through early Thursday morning.
Samuel G Gibson, 43, of Eureka, died in a Diamond mine tunnel on Prospect Mountain from deadly powder fumes after returning to blast a hole against orders. Foreman Ed Berryman suspended work and a coroner’s inquest returned a verdict supporting the accident. Gibson, Irish-born and long-time miner, left a wife Annie Catherwood and five children. his funeral was held at the Odd Fellows hall and he was buried at Masonic cemetery.
The Mining and Scientific Press explains assessment work rules for mining claims in 1904. Claimants may begin before January 1 1905 and must complete $100 worth of work or improvements to hold the claim. Work started late in 1904 and finished in 1905 counts, but work done in 1905 cannot be done in 1904.
County Commissioners ordered 250 feet of terra cotta sewer pipe four inches in diameter to replace the old wooden sewer at the County Hospital. The new pipe, costing 30 cents per foot, has been received in Eureka and is being laid with a greater fall than the old drain. Fred Esselbrugge oversees the project.
Mrs. O. UD. Green opened a new store in Eureka this week offering fall and winter hats walstas and novelties to local ladies. A stock of candies was received. The storefront is in the south half of the former H. A. McKim building and has been attractively fitted for patrons. Ed McEllin Injured By Horse My Mine trip: Ed McEllin rode from Hamilton to his mine two miles east of White Pine Mountain. His horse shyed and threw him and stepped on his stomach. He is laid up but not seriously hurt.
Robert Bailey of Diamond Valley spent several days in Eureka this week for irrigation checks. He reports his pumping plant a core safe ii ae using a term of irrigation to place water in furrows and is rapidly converting land to alfalfa. The University of Nevada eleven defeated the Olympic Club of San Francisco 6 to 5 on the University field in Reno Saturday.
James B. Gilmore died Tuesday October 18 1904 while en route to Eureka for medical care. A longtime Morey Mining Company watchman in Nye County he lived in the Tybe and Morey country for about 30 years and held mining interests. Born in Ireland about age 70 he served as Nye County Commissioner years ago and left a brother in Australia as his only known relative. Funeral held in Eureka on Thursday.
In Memoriam pays tribute to a classmate's father now departed. A.G. Anderson of the Goldfield Miners Union warns miners and millmen to stay away from Goldfield amid labor tensions. The note mentions long tunnels and world’s longest tunnel through the Alps as context. Eureka, Sept. 23, 1904.
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