The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-08-29

ing the Summer in San Francisco, was
~telegraphed to from Ety. by securing
a special train over the E. g. p. railroad,
and relays between Eureka and Ely,
arrived there Wednesday, where the
embalmed body, in charge of nearby
friends, had preceded her, to await in
terment in the Ely cemetery.
The funeral took place from the resi-.
dence of w. N. McGill, Thursday, and
was largely attended by sorrowing
friends from White Pine County and
vicinity.
MI. Cleveland was q native of the
State of Maine, and was born at Show
hogan, Somerset County. During his
life there he acquired a fair education,
and in January, 1858, started for Cali
fornia OIL the steamer Star of the West,
the boat that was the first fired upon by
rebels during the War of the Rebellion.
Upon reaching the Pacific Coast, Mr..
Cleveland engaged in mining in Tuol-
umne and Calaveras Counties until
1862, when he went to Plumas County
and engaged in the stock business. In
May, 1868, he crossed the mountains to
Nevada, and located in Virginia City.
His business at that place was princip-
ally mining. In 1865 he went to
Washoe County and engaged in the
lumber trade. He was one of the first
to build a V flume for the purpose of
conducting lumber and timber down
from the mountains, having had one in
operation as early as 1868, at Simonds'
place on Simonds Creek, at the head of
of Little Valley, near Lakeview Station.
This fiume was two and one-quarter
miles in length.
In 1866, Mr.. Cleveland was elected a
Commissioner for Washoe County, and
was a delegate to the State Convention
that year, and during a contest before
that body before the Winters and the
Blaisdel delegations from Storey Coun-
ty, Mr.. Cleveland was a member of the
committee that decided the matter, and
held the deciding vote.
In 1868, Mr.. Cleveland was elected to
the Assembly of the State Legislature
from Washoe County. In the Fall of
1868, he went to Hamilton, and has
been a resident of White Pine County
since that time. During the Winter of
1868-69, he built the toll-road running
north from Hamilton. In 1870, he was
elected to the State Senate from White
Pine County. and in 1871, he was ap-
pointed to prosecute the claims of the
State at Washington, District of Colum-
bia, and succeed in getting an appropri.
alton for the State of $50, 900. In 1878,
he moved to his present ranch, in
Spring Valley, where he engaged very
extensively i'll stock raising.
In the pursuit of this business. he
imported a number Of very valuable
thoroughbred cattle and horses, and
Cleveland bred and raised stock com.
manded higher prices all over the West
that many of the foreign importations.
Mr.. Cleveland always took a very &C.
tive and prominent interest in all pub.
lie and political affairs of the County
and State. In 1891, he was granted a
right-of-way across the State Of Nevada
for a railroad from Salt Lake to San
Francisco, but he had scarcely gotten
the preliminary organization of the
company under way, when the fnan-
cial panic of '93 took possession Of the
whole country. rendering the under
taking IN impossibility.
In 1894, he was nominated by the
Republican State convention for Gov.
ernor, but on account of the strong sill
yer sentiment at that time, he went
down with the balance Of the ticket.
In 1896, he was chosen by the State Re.
publican convention as q delegate to the |
National convention of his party, held
at st. Louis, from which he withdrew
with Senators Teller and Dubois, and,
Silver : Republicans, endorsed the
Democratic nominee, VIM. j.. Bryan. |
In 1898, he entered the race for United
States Senator against VIM. M. Stewart,
in which he made a losing fight, prime.
ipally due to a serious illness and be-
pledges of support were unful-
filed. In 1902, Mr.. Cleveland reluc-
accepted the Republican nomin-
alton for Governor, realizing that the
would be a losing one, though he
made the canvass. largely to satisfy a
host of friends and the confidence they
in him.
In the death of Mr.. Cleveland, Ne.
yada has sustained an irreparable loss.