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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18

It s not creditable that the American
postal system, which originally was the
model of postal SYSTEMS the world over,
should have fallen behind in the de.
velopment which the systems Of all
other civilized aud semi.civilized States,
even such as Egypt, Morocco and Mex.
leo, have enjoyed. But such Is the ex.
traordinary fact. Practically the whole
world, outside the United States. en-
joys the benefits Of the modern parcels
post, and the more enlightened States
enjoy the advantages Of a post-check
currency system, or at least some
modification of it. But Americans
have. lone Of. thesemodern mail room,
veniepces. THE, American system has
made little Improvement in a genera
ton. There is now q decided demand
for improved postal facilities. Several
are pending in Congress to
that end. and it seems probable that
the improvements win,not much longer
be delayed. -Sacramento Union.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18

At the home of Judge and Mrs. A
Cheney in Reno, Miss Laura B. Orr a.
Reno and Mr.. Leroy L. Richard of To.
nopah were married Wednesday. Fab
8, 1905. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. s. Unsworth of Trinity EMS
copal Church. The bride was give,
away by her father, and Miss Elizaba,b
Mccormack acted as bridesmaid. Raw
Richard, a brother of the groom. was
best man. Keil's orchestra played the
wedding march, and during the cere-
mony rendered 30 Promise Me-" A
delightful wedding supper was served.
during which many toasts were re.
sponded to, Judge Cheney acting as
toast master.
Mr.. Richard is a graduate of the
School Of Mines of the University NJ
Nevada and is a successful mining an.
gineer. For several years he held n
position in the mint at Carson City. but
for the past few months has been in the
great gold country.
Miss Orr is also a graduate Of thu
University of Nevada, and last vsar
she was Vice Principal of the Eureka
Public School. A short time ago she
resigned a position in the Reno school.
She resided in Reno for several years
and has many friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richards are at Del
Monte, CAL, and will go to Honolulu ON
a wedding trip. They will make their
home at Tonopah, where the groom has
a position with the State Bank and
Trust Company.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18
the KANSAS 9

To boycott an entire State is some
thing new in Trust tactics. but that ap-
pears to be what the Standard Oil Com.
pany is about to do in order to defeat
antitrust legislation in Kansas, says
the Enquirer of Oakland. Cal. Because
the State Of Kansas proposes to estab-
lish a State refinery the Standard Oil
Company has given orders to stop buy
ing oil in Kansas. This order of the
Oil Trust will throw thousands of men
on of work in Kansas. but the temper
of the people of that State is such that
they are not likely to be intimidated by
such threats of dire disaster.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18
THE WESTERN PACIFIC.
Gould Coming to Inspect the Pro-
posed Route of the New Road.

A dispatch from San Francisco
dated Feb. 10 says: Railroad people
are much interested in the announce
ment coming from New York that
George J. Gould is going to inspect all
his railroad properties in the West, and
will include in his tout Denver, Ogden,
Los Angeles and San Francisco. Gould,
it is said, will meet Virgil Bogue, his
head consulting engineer, in Salt Lake
some time next month and inspect some
of the route Of the Western Pacific in
that State before coming here to look
over the California plans of the Com
pany, and particularly its Oakland and
San Francisco projected terminals. 1t
is said he approves of the sale to
the Western Pacific of the Marys-
vale branch Of the Rio Grande
Western, which is 1872 miles in length
from Thistle Junction to Marysvale.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18

Freight Embargo on Entire c. & C.
Announcement is made by the South
ern Pacific Company, through District
Freight Agent Rising, that effective
Friday, Feb. II, and until further
notice the Carson & Colorado Railway
will decline to accept all freight except
groceries. provisions, boots and shoes.
wearing apparel, bedding. household
goods. oil, fuel. grain and feed. destined
to any point on its rails south of Mound
House to and including Kesler. or to
points reached by its line. The Carson
b Colorado, the Virginia d Truckee
and the Tonopah lines are fairly clear
now, but on the side tracks of the
Southern Pacific proper, there are Ala
cars bound for Tonopah and Goldfeld.
When loaded into narrow gauge cars
they will make about 1000 loads, more
than can be taken care of for several
weeks under the circumstances, and the
new order is to relieve this congestion.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18
Linderman Is Found Guilty.

At Reno On Tuesday, after three
hours elaboration. a jury for the
second time declared Al Linderman,
alias Frank Williams. guilty Of partici.
patton in the murder of Jack WEIGH
near Winnemueca. and that the crime
was in the first degree. He will be
sentenced to be hung Saturday morn
ing, and will then be returned to the
State Prison at Carson. where he will
be placed under o death watch.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18
KILL THIS MEASURE.

A bill was introduced by Assembly
man Jones of Washoe County on Feb.
., which has for its object the reduction
ofthe rate of interest on contract lands
from 6 to 4 per cent.
By contract lands is meant the lands
that have or may be granted by the
United States to the State of Nevada.
The State Land Register is empowered
to sell these lands. aud the conditions
Of the contract are. in brief: One.ifth
of the purchase price (s1.25 an acre) to
be paid on ~application. the remainder to
be paid in % years from the date of
of contract, with interest at the rate OF
6 per cent annum, interest payable al.
nna1Iy.
The interest on these lands is the
principal revenue of the Nevada public
schools and the loss to the State School
Fund If Assembly Bill No. 80 should
become the law is clearly explained by
"a Friend of the Schools" in the Car.
son News, in the following:
'The Surveyor Generals report, page
81, says that the interest payments for
1904 were $74,267.6 6. and to produce
this interest at six per cent the princi-
pal must be $l,2S7. 7S4.S3. Four per
cent upon this principal will make only
$49.511.77 causing a loss to the school
funds of $24, 700. 88 annually.
eff would pay up as
threatened, to the amount of $412 1888.
the $S25,21 left at six per cent would
pay as much interest as all at four per
cent. The new contracts will be for 25
years, and the loss in that time (f 1884,.
1865 be lost annually will amount to
861s, 800.
.rrhey say the School Fund has
plenty of money. II SO, why is Genoa
district advertising a special tax to keep
their school an additional four months?
''They say that people are paying up
ON the lands. The Surveyor Generals
report shows that the interest payments
for 1904 exceeded those of 1903 by
by $1O4s. 7ss which proves that the
principal is increasing instead Of being
paid mp as threatened"
Assembly Bill No. SO is a revival of
the attempts that have been made at
each recurring session of the Legisla.
ture for several years to cut the rate of
interest on the State lands. and it is a
Measure that should be killed. The
holders of large acreages are RESPONSE.
BILE for the repeated efforts that have
been made to reduce the interest, for
the small holder, as a general rule,
knows and appreciates the fact that 6
per cent from the State is q more
liberal rate Of interest than he could
obtain If he had to borrow money from
private institutions to make full cash
payment for his land. The lands are
exempt from taxation until final pay.
ment is made, which is usually long de-
ferred, asthe contracts run for % years
The SRN4INEL urges every fsisud Of
the schools tos protest against the pass.
age Of Assembly Bill No. SO, OF any
other bill Of like purpose.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18
History of the University.

The SRSTINEt acknowledges the re.
ceipt of a bound copy Of the History of
the Nevada State University. The
book is a memorial volume Of the Tri.
Decennial celebration, which took place
from May 2S to June 2, 1904. aud is
edited by J. E. Church, Jr. The events
OF the ceiebsatiop are given in full, and
the work is embsllishea With views
OF the University and h~alf.tonss Of the
Regents and officers. A catalogue of
graduates from 1889 to 1904 completes
a very interesting souvenir for any one
who has attended the University.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18
Confessed to R0bbing Express Office


George Morris. assistant agent IN the
Wells-Fargo office at Truckee, Cal. has
confessed that he is the man that
robbed the company's safe at that place
on the night of Dec. IL. He returned
$500 OF the money that was stolen, two
gold watches and a valuable ring and
then left the country before the war
rant was served on him by the officers.
Morris is not 81 years of age and has a
mother residing at Reno. He was q
trusted employee of the company but
did not know the combination of the
safe, which he guessed. Areward is ON
his head and he will be hunted down if
possible.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18

EUREKA, Nevada, Jan. 81. 1905

This is to certify that I, Robert A..
Laird, Of Eureka. Eureka County, and
State Of Nevada. do hereby assert that
the accusation ! made against DIR. W. F.
Burnett in Mau Brothers Store, in the
town OF Eureka. and in the presence Of
Justice L. W. Cromer. William Walker,
Ernest Mau and William Mau, was and
Is without any foundation. and I retract
the same and I hereby agree that the
above retractian be published in a news.
paper, or otherwise, if DIR. w. f. Bur-
nett sees fit. or if necessary to entirely
exonerate him.
(Signed) ROBT. A. LAIRD.
Witness: ]. H. HoEaH.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18
Grazing on Public Lands.
Will Team Goldfeld Ores 175 Miles

Will Team GOldield Ores 175 Miles.
A company has been organized in
San Francisco to haul ore from Gold.
field to Austin to be shipped we the
Nevada Central Railway to Battle
Mountain, the Lander County feeder to
the Southern Pacific. The distance
from Goldield to Austin is 1875 miles on
an air line. and the claim is made that
ore can be hauled to that point and
shipped more quickly and at less cost
than it can be hauled TO Tonopah and
then shipped by rail u of that camp.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18

Mono County Indians Have Smallpox.
A dispatch from Bridgeport, Mono
County, GAL, dated Feb, 10 says
Smallpox is raging among the Indians
of this section. They are compelled to
stay In their camps and cannot come
into town on any pretext. DR.. E. R.
Krebs. the County Health Officer, is
taking all means to keep the disease
from spreading.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18
Construction Work Soon to Begin,

Writing from Washington, ID. c.,
Ernest G.. Walker, correspondent for
the Sacramento Bee, y
There has been an assembling Of rail-
road contractors here from the different
sections of the country during the last
few days, in expectation of a definite
word about the construction of 175
miles of line Of the Western Pacific.
The proposed work will be started at
Oroville, the present railroad terminus,
and extending east by way of Reno.
The construction of that 175 miles is
calculated to cost about $4,000. COO.
being through the Sierra Nevada noun
tains. M. ]. Heeney, a Chicago con-
tractor, is expecting to secure the con
tract. He has had his experts here and
in other Eastern cities buying mac him
cry and making other preparations.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18
THE HEALTH OF GoLDFIELD.
President of State Board Of Health
Says There Is No Epidemic.

HFeSlutub vi Stdtt DUdFu VI UcaltH
Says There Is No Epidemic.
DIR. s. L. Lee, President of the State
Board of Health, was sent to Goldfield,
Esmeralda County, last week to in
vestigate the health Of that camp.
This action was brought about
through communications sent to Gov.
ernor Sparks from the Sheriff Of Esmer.
aida County, and from residents of
Goldfeld. Upon their information
that smallpox was epidemic at Gold
field and that the officers could not, or
would not, take official action on the
situation, Governor Sparks sent a com
m%unication to the Legislature, request
ing that body to take action. Accordingly,
q bill was introduced in the Senate Feb.
2 a~ppropriating $500 to pay the fees and
expenses Of members of the State Board
of Health to investigate the Goldfeld
epidemic and remedy the causes. The
bill passed both houses, was signed by
the Governor, and DIR. Lee vas dis
patched on his investigating trip.
At Tuesday mornings session of the
Legislature Governor Sparks trans.
mitted the report of DIR. Lee on the
health conditions of Goldfeld. The re-
port in part. as printed by the Carson
News, is as follows:
~ entered upon the work un infiu.
enced by prejudices or preferences
and prosecuted my research independ-
of any local coloring.
I'm three tents / found four patients
with smallpox, three of the patients
out on the wood pile taking a
sun bath. There can be no question as
to the character of the disease. 1t is
smallpox, but of a very mild type.
From first to last there has not been a
death from smallpox.
THE greatest mortality has resulted
from alcoholism and pneumonia, and
in the order named. l a~scertained from
authority that of the first 16
deaths, 10 were due to alcoholism.
"The County Hospital is up to date
and superior to the majority of similar
institutions in the State. There are no
patients in the ward designed for i'm
.pecunious patients.
"The water is clear, pleasant to the
taste and seems to be free from albumi-
noids. Samples have been sent to the
University for analysis.
"Dr. d. A. Turner has been appointed
Officer. and he will see that the
regulations will be strictly en-
briefly, in Columbia and Goldfield.
with a population of 1000, the death
rate amounts to about II to every 1000,
. mortality but slightly in excess of the
concedediy healthy cities of the East
aud West, where all conditions are
favorable for the preservation of health.
Here we have a mountain town in mid.
winter and in the first year Of Its exis.
tence, the majority Of its inhabitants
housed in tents, void Of naturalization,
large percentage addicted to alcoholic
and under these conditions /
Goldfield and vicinity among
the most healthful mining regions
1 have ever known in the first year
of their existence"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18
4 Rig Nat Should Be Defeated.

4 RtH tkaf Should Be Defeated.
Assembly Bill No. 80, introduced by
Mr.. Stanton. to provide for licensing
itinerant merchants, auctioneers, etc.,
should be defeated. There are ordi.
nances in different counties in the
State licensing a~uctioneers which
should be left alone. as they have
proved effective fer the purpose
that they have been passed, and
that is to protect home merchants
from a band Of pirates who bring In q
lot of cheap John trash and sell it OFF at
fake auctions to the detriment Of every
busiuess man in the State. This bill, if
passed. would meap that one Of the
tribe would take out q merchandise
license in some part Of the State. aud
then send his band to every town and
dispose Of his trash by auction. The
Chronicle requests the press Of the
State TO give the matter prominence
and use every means to defeat the bill.
as it is o matter Of vital importance to
every merchant IN the State, no matter
what branch Of business he may be In.
Virginia Chronicle.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18

Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl.
vania reprieved Mrs. Kate Edwards,
white, and the negro Greason. who were
to have been hung Thursday for the
murder of the woman's husband.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18

Mrs. Ellen M. Cotton, widow of Col.
David ID. Cotton, one of the own
ers and builders of the Central
Pacific Railroad, died at her home in
Washington, ID. c., on Feb. 10 from
heart trouble. The remains have been
shipped to San Francisco for interment
beside her husband.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18

Assemblyman Brossemer's bill to re.
peal the revenue law of 1908. known as
the Newlands law has passed the AS
seApsy.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18
NEVADA PRESS
Quilted It's U~sef,laess.'

Quilted It's Usef.iness.
The Newlands Revenue bill has re.
ceived some pretty hard knocks in the
Senate and it is programmed that the
House will complete the work by kick.
ing the stufing out Of it. The bill has
turned out just as every pratical revenue
man predicted. It was an excellent bill
in theory. but for practical use Of very
little value. It was cumbersome and
complicated. Revenue bills to be Of.
fective must be simple and easy to pu,
in operation Carson Appeal.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18
TANNER PERJURED HIMSELF.
Senator Mitchell's Law Partner
"D0ctored" Their Contract.

"Doctored" Their Contract.
Judge Albert H. Tanner. who ON
Feb. s was indicted for perjury in con-
nection with the Oregon land fraud
cases, went before the Federal Court in
Portland last Saturday and entered a
plea of guilty.
Tanner is the law partner Of U. s.
Senator John II. Mitchell. who is also
under indictment for land frauds in
Oregon. When Mitchell was in Port
land in December last, he looked over
the contract between himself and
Tanner, which was entered into March
5, 1901, and he told Tanner there was
a clause in it he thought ought to be
changed. Tanner in his statement
says Mitchell told him to fix it, and
that he then drew up a new agreement
which contained a clause not in the
original. This clause provided that all
money received in payment for services
rendered before Government depart
ments should go to Tanner. The new
agreement bore the date of the original
and it was prepared on a typewriter by
Judge Tanners son, Albert II. Jr.
Harry G. Robertson, the private Secre-
tary to Senator Mitchell, was the only
other person who knew of the new
agreement.
On Jan. 81, Judge Tanner went be-
fore the Grand Jury and swore that
the agreement between himself and
Mitchell made last December was the
original contract between them. The
Government vas in possession of evil
dence at that time which varied from
Judge Tanners testimony, and both
Tanner and his son were indicted by
the Grand Jury. Neither of these in
dictments was made public.
Judge Tanner for several days after
he was informed of the action of the
jury maintained his position, but
finally when he ascertained the nature
of the testimony which Mr.. Mitcheli's
Secretary, Harry @. Robertson, intended
to give, and in order to save his own
son from prosecution, Judge Tanner
yielded and went on the witness stand
and confessed that he perjured himself
before the Grand Jury ON Jan. 81.
More Indictments.
Following close on the sensational
testimony of Senator Mitchell's law
partner, Judge A. II. Tanner, and of
Harry G. Robertson, Mr.. Mitchell's
private secretary, last Saturday, came
the announcement that the Federal
Grand Jury had returned an indict-
ment against Congressman John r.
Williamson, DIR. Van Gessner, Mr..
Williamson's partner in the sheep-rais-
ing business, and Marion r. Briggs,
United States Land Commissioner at
Prineville, Or.
The indictment alleges that on June
30, 1902, the accused persons entered
into a conspiracy to obtain 100 persons
to file applications for public lands in
Crook County, Oregon, and swear that
the land was for their own use, when.
according to the Indictment, it was to
benefit the firm of Van Gessner &
Williamson, who desired the lands for
sheep grazing.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-18

Love leaps over the grave.
The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1905-02-03
Observation-Disclosures.

dridgr ~ Met barlrr shop and
interview chair w. =.
The Marion tHa,D Record, Of
which Coy. lloch j. owner. has not
lecn led by prosperity toca~t aside
the ladder that led To- it, ~ the FOL.
lowing paragraph from it, most
recent issue hears witness:
Just hccausc the proprietor of
this paprr !, nov drawing the Gov
crnur'~ salary. W. trust our sub
sCrilVrS will not cease e. send in
remittance |, takes money to
run the Old Thing and we'd hate
awiully to have ~ draw un tn
maintenance fund tn help u, uui
Remit, dear old subscriber, remit "
W. Lliry, S,urgi- ha. the sweet.
-, lot oi old maid. and the finest
luokiug set ut uld bachelor. vi any
town IN old Kentucky Ju,, Why
th,y don't gtmarricdi. uturr than
We ru ,,ll.-Sturrj- Gov 70 Nor.
garfield sun
The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1905-02-03
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quick thinkers. Women think
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The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1905-02-03
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TIA, :, Nhl, the "Siugiu SAu,r
Agmmut" WI, written iur. and II
m. yu,rl, fulfilled IL, mission "
will o., al,,,,,d When /, {. presented
IN Marion shortly under ,h, au,.
piu> VI the hdi,- oi the VI. T..
church. III, mI-t, uf Henderson
pronounce /, uur Vt thu mnnir-,
uj rl,N,rsi amateur entertain.
myui ever ~yu them. and this j,
ih, urrdir, that cons. ium al
over lhr State and irom III VI thr
husr yitiu, Vt the rutir south.
My>>u,. hcr,tam aud willard, the
authors, an Nrry funny comedians,
aud when they gcl mixed up with
about thirty ct our most talented
lngl poplr. rs they will upon that
o,,uSion, there is going to ~ some
fun. Watch Tor the exact date,
Nhich will IT, announced shortly.
Richard Nsippr. lor the la,
fourteen ynu, connected with news.
rapr, IN kCutucky, !, now ASSET.
aty editor " ,hcUrvnNrcd miss
CommunW ulth. formerly Governor
Nariamu' popvr.-Nmrriran
PMS.
Rirmri Mt,Up,r i. q NATIVE 1T
thi, county and ha, many friends
herr NhuWill H. plad to learn tina,
he !, continually advancing In hi.
yhucu profession,