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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1911
Page
2
Subscription rates listed for postal service with pricing for one copy one year one copy three months and other term details, indicating a community publication at Kareka in its fortieth year and addressed to the post office.
Governor Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada underwent successful appendicitis surgery in Reno. Dr George Mackenzie led the procedure with a steady recovery expected. Lieutenant Governor Gilbert Ross will serve as chief executive during his absence.
The Interior Department will no longer allow a six month constructive residence on government land before the first six months after entry. A circular directs officials to require five years of actual residence or cultivation as proof for homestead final proof, effective after December 1. Samuel Adams, acting secretary, instructs that approval depend on statutory five year residence proof and gives notice of the change.
The Southern Pacific loaded 10 000 ties pickled in Great Salt Lake for service tests on the Ogden Lucia and Hazen cutoffs. Some ties along Promontory remain 40 years intact, proving salt preservation. Drawbacks include heavy salt impregnation causing ground interference with electric block signals on main lines.
The latest metal quotations show a buyer in New York at 62 cents per ounce. Lead in New York listed at 445 per 100 pounds and copper at 1200 in New York.
The Szwrixet hies limited prints of Eureka mining district accompany the Pardy map with Windfall and neighboring Secret Canyon mines. Price per map is one dollar with six cents postage if mailed.
Two guards of the Mammoth mine assay office in National are held at gunpoint as bandits steal two sacks of high grade ore worth about 1 000. A pursuit follows and one bandit is believed wounded. two suspects are later arrested. About 200 pounds of ore recovered. some large pieces missing. Also: Nevada Supreme Court upholds Lyon County land claim against Storey County over 1861 survey dispute involving Southern Pacific.
In Butte Montana on September 4 six miners were injured in a shaft accident at the Black Rock mine. Five were killed instantly when a hoisting cage jammed and the steel shafts whipped loose sweeping men into the sump 1400 feet below. James Lee died later in hospital from his injuries. The dead are Charles L. Green Leo Chevrier Patrick ONeill Dan Sheehan James Lee and Daniel Shea.
Butte Montana ore mining company officials report success using compressed air for hoisting ore and plan to enlarge the compressor plant to supply power for all mines.
The Grand Prize group of mines at Tuscarora Elko County was sold by the sheriff to satisfy a $65,000 mortgage, with A F Wheeler bidding $40,000. Mrs Robert Kyle of Reno, 30, dies in Austin from heart trouble. Deceased native of Lander County. Location notices and legal blanks available at the SENTINEL office.
Reports from Reno to Tonopah detail a fatal stabbing in Hazen, a railroad accident in Winnemucca, mine deaths at Mizpah and Giroux, and a gas incident at Tonopah. Also noted are school district formation in White Pine and Elko counties, tax changes, a smelter suit in Carson, a dividend news from Goldfield, and a Supreme Court mandamus restoring $73,000 to the general fund.
John D. Rockefeller has given 41 million dollars to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Edward Harriman donated funds to the Southern Pacific Hospital in San Francisco to establish a bacteriological laboratory. The Crawford estate in New York is appraised at 45 thousand dollars and divided among widow and four children. A national economic crisis summit is planned in Washington before December session. Gotch defeats Hackenschmidt to win the championship wrestling match in Chicago.
The Primence arson case scheduled for Elko in September has been continued and will now proceed on October 23.
The record lists approved monetary allowances for indigents, naming individuals such as Jessie Cameron and others, with specific per person amounts authorized by the board. The entry records the September 5 session date and the allocated funds for relief.
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