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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
W. P. NAMES DIVISION POINTS
Mileage of Each Is Given In a
Schedule Just Issued
By the Company

A schedule issued by the Western
Pacific Railroad divides the 927 10 miles
of its line between San Francisco and
Salt Lake City into six divisions. as
follows;
San Francisco division from San
Francisco to North Tesla junction,
near stockton. 90 SO miles.
Sacramento division from North Tesla
junction to Oroville, 114.6l miles.
North Fork division from Oroville to
Spanish Creek, a distance of 70. 20 miles.
Sierra division from Spanish Creek tc
Deep Hole, Humboldt County, Nevada,
l49. 70 miles.
Humboldt division from Deep Hole te
Elko, 236. go miles.
Salt Lake division from Elko to Salt
Lake City. Utah. 260.24 miles.
The length of these divisions is de-
termined by the character of the road
especially as to grade aud curves. ev
erything bsiug taken into consideration
that would affect the ability of a train
to cover the division within o certain
time.
There is a $50 mile stretch of road
between the Flower Lake tunnel, il
Elko County, and the Antelope summit
in Humboldt County. where the maxi
mum grade is 0.4 per cent The NORTH
Fork division contains the l per cent
grade needed to cross through the Beck
with tunnel. the heaviest grade be
tween Winnemucca and San Francisco
This division also boasts of 30 tunnell
ane 8 bridges in its 70 miles.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
Ely Miners Demand
Guaranteed Wage Scale

At a meeting Of the union miners emu
ployed at the Veteran mine, held last
Sunday, it is reported that a demand for
q guaranteed wage scale to apply to
contractors and all others employed
underground. was supported by a vote
of 104 to 26, says Tuesdays Ely Mining
Expositor. The company will have
until July / to meet the demands Of the
union, or it Is claimed a strike will be
called. Whether such action would in
volve any other unions in the district is
uncertain at this time, and would prob
ably depend on events subsequent to
the calling Of the strike.
The vote of Sunday is said to be q
division along grounds of nationality.
as most Of the miners at the Veteran
are Anstrians, who are the ones de-
manding the fiat wage scale or a guaran-
tee for those working under contract.
The other niners Of different ~nationali.
ties, Greeks, Italians and Cornishmen.
are said to have stood together as a mi
nority and voted against the PROPOSE.
lion.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
STEWART WAS A PLUcKY LAWYER
How the Late Senator Returned a
Desperado's Threat

THE late Senator Ste Sart Of Nevada
believed in muscular Christianity. and
many a rough aud tumble fight did he
have in the old days in California and
Nevada" said q California Congress
man.
"He was not quarrelsome, but he was
never known to run away from an en-
counter, and as he vas q powerful man
physically there were not many who
were keen to tackle him. On one occa-
sion a noted desperate was interested in
a mining suit and sent word to Stuart.
who was attorney for the other side.
that if he appeared to argue the case be
might count on being killed. The fell
low had slain half q dozen men,, but
his threat in no wise inundated the
plucky young lawyer. The desperate
had a we'll known system of hiding a
pistol in his coat pocket and shooting
his man without openly drawing the
weapon. This. Stewart knew. and SC
when he walked into the courtroom the
first thing he did was to lay down a
bowie knife about a foot and a half long
aud a six shooter as big as a young
cannon on the table directly in front OF
him. Then. sternly eying the bad man,
he said: i hear you mean to kill me
if l argue this case. That's a game
two can play at. That pistol You have
in your coat isn't worth a cent against
this layout. The minute you put your
right hand in your pocket I'll send a
bullet into you, and if that doesn't
finish you this knife will
An old miner who was present and
told me the story said the fellow turn.
ed white as a sheet and skunk out OF
the courtroom to appear nc more
Biltimore American.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
State Measuring Humboldt River

Winnemucca, Nevada, June 80. - r.
B. Crowell. field engineer under the di'
rection of the State engineer, is now in
Winnemucca for a few days. He has
been engaged in surveying the Hum
boldt river and measuring the flow. and
states that there is plenty of water in
the Humboldt for every n owning
land irrigated by this stream. The las
Legislature appropriated $50. 900 to ad.
judicate the water rights on this river
and the engineers are now measuring
all water rights and allowing so mucf
water for each acre. In this way every
land owner will receive his just proper
ton Of water. according to the amoun'
of land under cultivation. This will
put an end to endless litigation. ant
will do much to develop the country.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
DEATH IN A MINING SHAFT
Hosting Engine at Phoebe Re-
fuses to Work after Men Had
Lighted Nineteen Fuses

Las Vegas Age: Last Thursday even-
ing the miners running the compressor
drills in the Pioche-King shaft at Phoebe
had completed nineteen holes, each six
feet deep, loaded each hole with six
pounds of dynamite. lighted the fuses
aud sprane Il the hois', giving the sig
nal to pull up. The hoist raised about
eight feet when the engine refused to
work. leaving three men suspended over
certain death. Two OF the men sprsng
to the timbers aud by franti, climbing
succeeded in reaching a place Of COM
parative- safety. The other man, Doc.
McCloud by name, dropped from the
hoist to the hottom of the shaft and
made desperate efforts to cut the nine
teen fuses before the charges could ex-
plode. He succeeded in cutting only
six of the fuses when the terrible ex-
plosions tool place, twelve of the nine
teen charges of dynamite going of.
As soon as possible q rescue party de-
scended the shaft aud found McCloud
buried to the waist. yet still conscious.
He was soon taken from the shaft and
upon reaching the open air became I'M
conscious and died an hour later.
McCloud's wife. when the husband
failed to reach home at the usual time,
c ,lled up on the telephone TO ascertain
the cause of the delay. She was t Id
that her hu sband had been slightly in.
jured aud replied, IL know he is dead. "
| The wife had dreamed three times, it is
said, that her hu ,band was killed in the
mine. and her dread premonition proved
only too true.
In addition to the widow, McCloud
| left two small children.
The reason given for the failure of the
hoist to work as usual, was the refusal
OF the gasoline pump to work.
The shaft is a three compartment,
tour and one-half feet by twelve feet
four inches in siz', and three hundred
feet in depth.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
Anticipating New Tariff Act

New York. June 30.-Anticipatine
the effect of the present provisions OF
the Aldrich tariff bill. the prices OF
mems clothing have been sent skyhigt
within a week. Clothing dealers re.
port that suits that could be bought a
week ago for $40, are now being mark
ed to $35. Staple worsteds and wooleni
have all taken a 35 per cent rise in the
last few days. Coupled with the tariff
anticipation is the increased cost Of
secured wool. which a year ago cost Al
cents a pound and which to-day is quot
ed at rs cents. Clothing sellers lool
upon the situation with much satisfac
ton. their position being much stronger
than it has been in many years.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03

Rhyolite, Nevada. June 29.-Tht
doors of the Bullfrog Bank aud TrusI
Company were closed to-day by order Of
the State Bank Examiner. who reported
that the institution had but five per
cent Of the currency necessary to cover
its deposits on hand whereas the State
law requires that at least is per cent
of the deposits must be kept in currency
by every bank. The capital stock of
the bank Is 500. 900 and its deposits
aggregate 5000. 900. The largest stock
holder is Owen B. Young of Grand
N. d.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03

name and influence against the Demo-
cratic ticket. A man by the name OF
Brandenburg sold to the New York
Times an article purporting to be writ.
ten by Mr.. Cleveland, urging the sue
cess of the Republican ticket. Mrs.
Cleveland promptly challenged the gen.
u~ineness Of the signature and has re.
Gently gone into court to testify against
Brandenburg. She would naturally
shrink from such notoriety, and her
perseverance in the prosecution Of Bran
denburg will be appreciated by the rank
and file of the party who have not yet
forgotten the grace with which she
presided al Washington when she wen,
from boarding school into the White
House,"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
Nevada State News

Several head Of valuable horses in
Churchill County have been destroy ed,
after being pronounced afflicted with
CHAMBERS.
The Western Pacific Company has a
well boring outfit at Carlin, driving a
well 175 feet deep. The new warehouse
and depot are nearly completed.
Colonel Maxson says he will cut poll
tics from now forth aud devote himself
to business. Any time Colonel Maxson
forgets politics until he gets even with
Nixon and Blakeslee, let us know it,
Carson Appeal.
Young Porteous Of Reno. who won
the appointment to the Annapolis naval
academy, has been rejected on account
of his height. He lacked nearly two
inches of being tall enough to fill the
requirements.
Attorney-G General Stoddard and State
Engineer Nicholas have returned from
their tour of inspection of Eastern
prisons. They are full of ideas that
they will try to have incorporated into
Nevada's new prison.
There is an organized baud of thieves
| operating in the deserted mining dis
| trict around Goldfeld. Deserted work
ings compose the field Of their operations
and their plumber in one instance in.
cluded a hosting works. in another 9
blacksmith shop.
John Ryan. General Manager of the
| Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, and
engineer in charge of the line being sur
veyed from Goldield to Ely, states thaI
the survey of the new railroad has beer
| completed to within so miles of Gold.
field, and that the greatest grade on the
entire line will not exceed IL per cent.
The Goldfeld Consolidated Mines
Company has just issued its report for
tie month of May. The report shows
| that during that month the gross pro.
duction of ore amounted to 81 $50. 975
tons; the gross value was $762, 748 10,
and the net returns 5000. 759. so. The
cost Of handling the ore per ton was
Sc IL.
Judge Somers. in the Esmeralda
County District Court, warned some
newspaper men in Goldfeld that they
must not pass the lins between news
aud comment in reporting the recent
graft trials in that city. One of the
papers in that city paid no attention to
the admonition. Judge Somers an
nounced after the jury went out that
when the trial is over he will call the
recalcitrants and punish them for con-
tempt Of court.
In the Federal court at Carson last
week the jury in the case of George
Waite, charged with forgery, returned
a verdict Of guilty. after being out half
an hour. IL was alleged that Waite
while acting as agent for the company
stole a bar of bullion from Wells Fargo
and shipped it to the San Francisco
mint under the name Of Oscar Schultz.
and that afterwards he signed a icti-
tious name to a receipt for a check in
payment for the bullion and then
cashed the check at a Carson bank.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
Last Survivor of Ormsby's EXPEDITE,

Last Survivor of Ormsby's Expedition
Oscar Steel, a resident Of Virginia
City since August IL, 1859. is the only
survivor of Major Ormsby's expedition
against the Indians in the vicinity Of
Pyramid lake in 1860. The Indians
were killing settlers and committing
other depredations at hat time. Major
O%rmsby's command consisted Of 105
men, of which sc. including Ormsby
were killed. Mr.. Steele is in his list
year and is hale and hearty.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
Harriman's Condition Reported Serious

Vienna. June 27.-Far more serious
than at first reported is the condition Of
E. H. Hartman. who is suffering from
a constant stiffening Of the muscles
about the spinal column. Professor
Streumpel. the famous specialist of this
city, is being called frequently to N
suit with the railroad kings physicians
at Harriman's health resort, Semmer-
ing, in the Austro-H Hungarian Alps.
The patient is suffering severe pain
from the chronic contraction of the
muscles in the spinal region, and his
doctors promise only that the trouble
can be much relieved. 1t canno be
cured.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
Settles Bullion Tax

The Florence Goldfield Mining com
pany has paid into the district attorney
office Sl0.01s. representing the arbitrary
assessment made by the Esmeralds
County officials for bullion tax for the
last quarter of last year. together with
25 per cent penalty for delinquency anc
5 per cent due as fees to the district at
torney. The county's civil suits against
the Florence company and Indictment
against its officers were then dismissed
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
Mining Engineer Reports on Ellendal,

Mining Engineer Reports pm Glendale
A letter received Monday by the min.
ing department of the Salt Lake Tri
bune from q well known and conserva
tive mining Engineer states the origina
discovery at Glendale, the new golt
camp 30 miles east of Tonopah, "showl
as fine q surface array of gold ore as ht
ever saw any where. Six feet of sur
face rock will run $4,000 in gold per ton
while there is specimen rock in nearly
all the groupings. Values are being
found on groups other than the origina
strike. and he appears to believe tina
the camp is worth trying out. Thu
town is booming, and promises to be
come an important one."
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
Diamond Robber Gets Seven

Diamond Robber Gets Seven Years
Jerry Larsen. one Of the men arrested
on a charge of stealing diamonds from
the CLARK jswelry store in Ely by digging
a tunnel beneath the store and then
entering the building through the floor,
has been sentenced by Judge Brown tc
serve seven years in the Nevada peni
Tertiary. G. NJ. Hussey was arrested
with Larsen, but made a confession and
testified against Larsen. thus securing
his discharge. It is stated that the
officers have notified Hussey to leav,
Ely Immediately.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
JULY 8. 1909.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland

Mr.. Bryan in the latest issue Of the
Commoner pays Mrs. Grover Cleveland
Q deserved compliment. He says:
1.-THE Democratic party is indebted to
Mrs. Cleveland for the earnest and
womanly protest she has made against
the fraud that was perpetrated against
the party when after her husbands
death an attempt was made to use his
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
B~randenburg Acquitted

New York, June % : Broughton
Brandenburg was acquitted to-day on
the charge Of grand larceny growing
out of the sale to the New York Times
of an article purporting to have been
signed by Grover Cleveland. He was at
ance arrested on q charge of kidnapping
his stepson. James Shepard Cabanne, in
st. Louis.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
NEW d.
Notice Of Horses Shipped

Over the Eureka l. Palisade Railroad on June
25, 1909, from Diamond Station to Council
Bluffs, Iowa, by II. G. Whitney, in cars in.
itialed and numbered +. and L. X. X. %, 62.
Animals inspected AZ.
der.
One mule branded BIS over bar on left hip,
vented BIS over bar on left shoulder.
One mule branded quarter circle over LIB
connected on left hip, and vented quarter cir
Gle over LIB connected and SO on left hip.
One mule branded LID connected on right
hip and o on left hip.
One mule branded circle r on left shoulder
and " on left hip.
One mule branded quarter circle over L on
left hip and o on left hip.
One mule branded SIX on right hip, and
vented SIX on right shoulder.
One mule branded circle II, Mr. and Sc on
left shoulder and vented Be on left hip.
One mule branded II on left shoulder and
o on left hip.
One mule branded LIP connected on left hip
and o on left hip.
Two mules branded quarter circle over b on
left hip.
Eight mules branded o on left hip.
One mule branded So on right hip and D on
left hip.
One mule branded T over g connected on
right hip and o on left hip.
Two horses branded o on left hip.
One horse branded circle r on left shoulder.
Seventeen horses unbranded.
NJ. MAHoNEY,
Sheriff of Eureka County, Nevada.
By James Mackey, Deputy.
Shipment No. n.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
Mexican Cattle Die of Thirst

MexIcdH Cdtue DIG OF IhfrSt
According to reports received at Ell Paso,
Texas, thousands of cattle are dying
from thirst in the north central part of
Mexico. Small streams have completely
dried up, and not a drop Of rain has
fallen in IL months. Wells are low,
and the loss to cattle owners is heavy.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03

DIR. J. Prescott Dyos. optometrist and
optical specialist, gives free consulta-
tons and furnishes special lenses for
the correction Of defects Of vision. VIII
remain in Eureka until July 5. advt
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
California. Primary Law Sustained

San Francisco. June 2S. = The direct
primary law enacted at the last session
of the Legislature, was held to be con-
stitutional in an opinion rendered to-
day by the State Supreme Court. The
suit in which the decision vas made was
brought by the Socialist party against
the election board.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03

Over the Eureka and Palisade Railway on
June %. 1909, from Diamond Station to Copn-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, by II. c.. Whitney. in cars
initiated and numbered 4. and p. R.R. 152,
1l6, 80, IL. Animals inspected So.
One horse branded j on left Jaw.
One horse branded reversed A on right hip.
Two horses branded bar over b on left hip.
One horse branded T heart connected on
left lip.
One horse branded v over bar connected on
left hip.
One horse branded 2 on left hip.
One horse branded PIP reversed on right hip.
One horse branded quarter circle over pipe
on right hip.
One horse branded quarter circle over A on
left hip.
Five horses branded spear head on left
hip.
Two horses branded pitchfork on left jaw.
One mule unbranded.
Fifty-o one horses unbranded.
M. MAHoNEY,
Sheriff of Eureka County, Nevada.
BY James Mackey, Deputy.
Statement No. 70.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
BORN.

10, 1909, to the wife of George II. Sharp, a
son.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03

1t was SO in the shade at Elko on
Wednesday.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-07-03
Teachers Examination

Notice is hereby given that the County
Board Of Examination will hold it's second semi
annual examination for teachers certi-
icates in the School House in Eureka. Nevada,
on July IL. Is. IA. Is. at o o'clock a. m.
sharp.
A. b. LIGHTFooT,
Deputy District Supt. of Public Schools.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1909-06-11
School Notes

The Sussex Schools have received
quite a number Of very useful beue.
factions during the past year The
Sussex Bible Society has distributed
200 Bibles among the schools, costing
SlO26.
The Baltimore Business College has
given five scholarships valued at 500
each to the graduates Of the Sussex
High Schools.
Governor Pennewill has given val
liable lot for a new building to District
No. BPS, thus attesting his keen inter.
est in public education.
The superintendent and County
School Commission have distributed
over $50 worth Of prizes to schools main
tanning the buildings and grounds in
the best condition.
In choosing teachers for the coming
year, the School Boards should weigh
three things, scholars hip, professional
training and personality. Scholarship
comes first, as a teacher cannot impart
what he does not know and know thor.
oughly. Comprehensive knowledge is
the first essential for correct method.
Lawyers, physicians and other pro-
fessional men protect their calling by
insisting on a strict professional train.
before an applicant is admitted. Teach
ers have no such standards and the |
persons who has "picked up" the work .
is admitted on the same plan as the 1
ones who have devoted years to arduous
training. This should not
be. Unless the teachers natural talent
has been proven as well as developed
by years Of successful experience, she
should not be chosen to a responsible
position. Experiments are too expen-
sive.
Unless teachers guard more jealousy
the standards Of their own profession,
hey will continue to complain Of low
salaries and insecure tensuTe.
Under personality comes appear
.uce. character, industry, ETC., aud 10
person has greater use for the highest
equipment in this respect than the
eacher.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1909-06-11
ELLENDALE.

The almost constant rain has so a led the
/ fields. especially where the land is low, that
the farmers are at a standstill so far as work Is
concerned.
I The acreage OF tom atoes seems to be unusu-
ally large and this wet weather is giving the
farmers a fine chance to set out their plants
W. 5. Dickerson Is now busy setting out a
large strawberry patch, the plants OF which he
has Just received from Harrison & Sons Nur-
series at Berlin Nd. It is unusual to set out
strawberries at this season and We expect the
experiment 10 be carefully watched.
The concert which was given on Saturday
evening by home talent was a decided success
and proved the native ability Of those who
were participants Everybody who attended
we're highly pleased and elated over the affair.
There viii be a reproduction OF this minstrel
at Lincoln on Tuesday evening, June 18th.
This will be given by special request aud
large and appreciative audience is expected TO
greet them.
We wish again to remind the people ofOweus
that our boys will cross bats with their team
on Saturday next. Go out and show your APP
probation tine game.
We are tn receipt Ufa very kind letter from
a most prominent citizen OF owens, stating
that the attack upon US by Mr. Mcpherson Of
that town IL erroneous and unreasonable and
that they are continuously in the ieid Of prac-
tice. We will demonstrate to them that El-
lendale can produce bal players
The rapid growth Of our town aud the de.
mands OF the times has encouraged some pro-
gress and we will soon have a new and up.to.
date ice cream parlor which will be much APP
preciated and greatly patronzed. 1t Will be
opened by one OF our town citizens.
Mr. Filmer, who lives alone on bis pretty
farm near town, met with rather painful ac-
cident last week while climbing long ladder 4
in his barn. The bottom part OF the ladder |
S ipped out ana his corpulent form fell heavily I
to the floor and he lay unconscious for hours /
and with no help near. Finally Irving Cover /
dale came along and saw his condition and |
summoned Dr.. SAMSON and his daughter from
Philadelphia, who made the gen tlemau as COM
portable as possible. He is now slowly improving
The ChiIdreHs Day exercises Will be held Ia
NJ. +. Church sunday, June l3 Mucn effort
aas been made for the occasion ard a tue pro-
,ram will be rendered.
What came near being a serious accident
ook place in the woods Of Robert Cendanile
IN Monday, when a big tree fell and caught
Hoses Cuh, Walter Pettyjohn and Samuel q.
Fisher. the boss IN a dangerous position before
hey could escape Cuf and Pettytohn we're
mashed somewhat bat not seriously hurt. Mr..
Usher was badly bruised. Paul Pry.