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^^NOVEMBER 9, 1918
lOCAL BREVITIES.
iMarietta Bailey and son,
of Diamond Valley, were
visitors Wednesday.
Plummer is at Mineral Hill
per Basin, and expects to be
)Ut two weeks.
nd Mrs. James Griffin and
ighter autoed over from Carr
y for a short visit in Eureka.
1918 taxes are now due and
See notice published in an
lumn of to-day’s Sentinel.
Florio returned to Eureka
rom his trip East. He left
rio and the children at Win
for a visit with relatives,
ma Woods has been engrapred
ier of the new district
f Aerial near the Grimes
the western part of Eureka
a was an arrival from Bald
intain Monday. He says the snow
ipretty deep in that section dur
the Winter and he intends spend
the next few months where liv
eonditions are more pleasant,
abert Raftice. a former well
mi resident of Eureka who has
ilocated at Bald Mountain, White
County, for several years, came
Eureka Monday for a few days’
land to attend to some business
ters,
rs. William Potts, of Monitor
ley, daughter Miss Adelaide, son
i, Miss Lottie Daniel and Leo
ey autoed into Eureka to-day en
leto the Handley Bros.’ ranch in
lark Valley for a visit with Mrs.
[s’daughter, Mrs. Walter Hand
eon and Peter Ardans returned
iday from Rochester, Minn.,
re they were called last week
ig to the serious illness of their
ir, Mrs. Isadore Sara. They left
latter in a much improved con
in with every prospect of com
s recovery from an attack of in
iza.
R. Tognoni autoed up from
kwater this forenoon and brought
[Johnson, an Indian, whose wife
?rday gave birth to a child and
since been in a serious condition.
Brennen returned with them
Inckwater to render aid. Mr.
noni states that so far no influen
ases have been reported in that
ion.
rs. Elmer Rosevear and little son
Pinnemucca, who have been here
the past month visiting her moth
Mrs. Thomas Evans, returned
k last Saturday and was accom
her sister, Miss Ethel Clark, who
lunderstood will take the com
rcial course at the Winnemucca
[h School.
I. W. Ruden returned to Eureka
iday from a several months’ visit
h relatives at Bowmont, Idaho,
made the round trip by auto and
5 that most of the roads are in
y good condition for traveling
h the exception of that through
Iroad canyon between here and
o, which he says the public should
warned from traveling.
■ H. Rogers, superintendent of
Hope Consolidated Mining Com
iy on Mineral Hill, adjoining Ruby
I on the south, informes the SEN
that after penetrating the
indodiorite for 732feet cutthrough
ligneous rock and found pyrite,
rhotite and dolomite lime. The
iund is veiy hard, but the min
dization is encouraging and it
ks as though ore should be found
the next contact. The mineral
d ground has been penetrated for
bt feet.
Parry Keyser, of the undertaking
Mors said Tuesday morning that
N October 16th, just three weeks
|°' there has been 29 deaths handled
ihim, all from Elko- County ex
from Palisade. Not all of them
victims of the "flu,” but the
fcat majority were. And still some
Me say that the situation is not
*'0113, and the face masks are no
*°d- Never in the history of the
"Wy has there been such a large
*ath rate as during the past three
Nu.
TUESDAY’S ELECTION
Fast Telephone and Anto Service
Gives Eureka Returns From
All County Preoincts in
Record Time
The election in Eureka last Tues
day was about the quietest ever held
on the Base Range. There was no
opposition for any of the county of
fices except that for District Attor
ney and the Commissioners from the
first and second districts. With the
order made that there should be no
loitering about the polling places on
account of the influenza epidemic
throughout the country, and the
cold, crisp air that followed the snow
falls of Sunday and Monday, made
nearly every one strike for home or
their place of business as soon as
their ballots had been deposited.
It is stated that on account of ill
ness and bad weather conditions in
the northern and western portions
of the county a number of voters
failed to get to the polls on election
day.
While returns from the other
counties are not yet at hand, we be
lieve Eureka County will obtain the
record for precincts that cast their
solid vote for and against prohibi
bition. Prospect precinct voted her
13 votes solid for Wet, as did also
Three Bar precinct with her 14 votes.
Ruby Hill precinct gave all her 12
votes for Dry.
For the first time in many years
the Sentinel is able to give the
complete un-official returns from all
the precincts of the county in its
first issue following the election,
and a table showing this'result is
published on the first page. In near
ly all the precincts reporting by tele
phone the vote of the candidates
without opposition were not sent in.
Returns from every precinct in the
county except Eureka and Three Bar
had been completed by 10:30 election
night; Eureka at 4 o’clock the next
morning, and Three Bar reported at
noon Wednesday. A Reno Gazette
bulletin service reported returns of
the State election up to midnight on
election night.
Following is a list of the names of
the county candidates whose election,
Dn .the face of the returns, is con
:eded:
State Senator—C. H. Rand.
Assemblyman—W. 0. Ferguson.
Sheriff—James Mackey.
Clerk and Treasurer — R. Mc
Charles.
District Attorney—W. R. Reynolds.
Assessor—W. J. Hooper.
Recorder and Auditor—Edgar
Eather.
Long Term Commissioner—R. J.
Reid, First Commissioner District.
Short Term Commissioners — Eu
gene Johnson, Second District; F. A.
Fulkerson, Third District.
Dry-186.
Wet-162
Justice of the Peace Eureka Town
ship—J. J. Lucey.
Constable of Eureka Township—
W. E. Taylor.
The Board of County Commissioners
met this morning expecting to can
vass the Eureka County election re
turns, but owing to Friday’s train
not reaching here the returns from
Beowawe precinct were not at hand
and the Board adjourned over to
next Tuesday.
National and State Officials Elected
According to the latest returns the
following National and State officials
were elected in Nevada last Tuesday:
U. S. Senator—C. B. Henderson.
Congressman—C. R. Evans.
Governor—E. D. Boyle.
Lieut. Governor—M. J. Sullivan.
Justice Supreme Court—E. A.
Ducker.
Secretary State—George Brodigan.
Treasurer—Ed Malley.
Controller—G. A. Cole.
Surveyor General—C. L. Deady.
Attorney General—L. B. Fowler.
State Printer—Joe Farnsworth.
Supt. Public Instruction—W. J.
Hunting.
Clerk Supreme Court— William
Kennett.
Inspector Mines—A. J. Stinson.
Question No. 1—Yes won by about
4000.
THE INFLUENZA SITUATION
Recurrence of the Disease In Eu
reka County and Adjacent Sec
tions Cause Stringent Meas
ures to be Taken To Prevent
Its Spread
About the middle of the week
when it was thought that the influ
enza situation in Eureka County was
well under control, and the people
were beginning to assemble and
meet together, apparently paying
little heed to the instructions of the
County Health officer forbidding pub
lic gatherings as a precaution against
the spread of the disease, it was de
cided to allow the schools to re-open
and to remove the restrictions re
garding the meeting together of peo
ple in public places. The Eureka
Theatre had also been notified that
it could re-open and a picture show
and dance had been arranged for
Friday evening.
Thursday afternoon and evening
reports were received in Eureka that
the disease was again spreading in
an alarming way in the north and
western portions of Eureka County,
and in Huntnigton and Mound Val
leys in Elko County, adjacent to Eu
reka County, where a number of pa
tients had been violently attacked and
several deaths had occurred. The
same afternoon a message was re
ceived here stating that Miss Char
lotte Laird, teacher of the school at
Maurice Isaac’s, was seriously ill and
summoning a physician. Her moth
er, Mrs. Abram Laird, with Dr. Bren
nen, her son Albert and son-in-law
Thomas Clifford, immediately left in
an auto for the Isaac ranch, about 65
miles northwest of Eureka.
In view of these conditions the
County Council of Defense took
steps that evening toward again
guarding against the disease and re
quested that the trustees again close
the schools. The County Health of
ficer was asked by the Council to
notify the saloons to close their
places of business by Friday noon.
The schools and saloons were closed
as ordered, and the moving picture
show and dance called off.
The co-operation of the people is
urgently requested in all measures
that tend toward the prevention of
influenza in this community and its
spread throughout the county, and
that all restrictions be more faithfully
observed than they have been in the
past.
Dr. Brennen and Mrs. Laird re
turned to Eureka this forenoon from
the Isaac ranch and brought the sad
news of the death of Miss Laird
there at 2:30 this morning. A cas
ket was sent out for the remains
this afternoon, which will be brought
to Eureka sealed and not be re
opened. The time has not been set
for the funeral, which will be strict
ly private and only attended by mem
bers of the family.
It is reported that Robert Raine
and two others at his ranch in Pine
Valley are down with the disease.
Miss Ella Hildebrand of Eureka,
teacher, of the Pine Valley district
school, is down with the disease at
the Yates ranch, and a doctor from
Carlin was called to attend her. She is
now reported out of danger. News
comes from Union that there are
four or five cases of the disease near
Bullion.
In the western part ot the county
all of the Isaac family except Mr.
Isaac, where Miss Laird died, have
been down with the disease. One of
the sons brought the disease home
from Elko County. Before he was
taken down a younger sister left the
home for Austin to be with a married
sister. In bidding her folks good bye
she kissed her brother, and she and
the married sister at Austin are now
also reported down with influenza.
From Robert Kelley who returned
Thursday from a trip to Elko it is
learned that the influenza in Mound
and Huntington valleys was violent
ly attacking the people of that sec
tion, with a number of fatalities.
From the Elko papers and other
sources it is learned that Joe, the
eldest son of Albert Hankins died
the rtrst of the week, and a younger
daughter on Wednesday.
At Hylton, Elko County, the fol
lowing persona wall known in Eureka
are down with the disease: Will D.
Robinson, wife and child, Mrs. Will
Swick, W. H. Smith and daughter.
Miss Anna, and Dan Robinson. Mrs.
Will D. Robinson gave birth to a
child while ill with the disease and
for a time her life was despaired of.
Mrs. W. H. Smith and son-in-law
Richard Hooper left Newark Valley
Thursday night by auto for Hylton
to be of assistance to the stricken
families. D. E. Nostrosa of Eureka
this afternoon received a telegram
from Will Robinson stating that all
the afflicted in both families were
now doing nicely.
UNITED WAR_W0RK CAMPAIGN
Don’t Allow the Peace Talk to
Cause You to Slacken Efforts
to Give the Best We Can to
Our Soldiers and Sailors
It is not going to be possible for
the Committee of the United War
Work Campaign to call upon the
residents of Eureka County on ac
count of the spread of sickness, but
literature describing the cause for
which the money is being raised is
being sent to all precinct chairman
of the sub-councils of defense and
will be by them distributed through
out the county.
In addition letters with pledge
cards are being mailed to-day to
every person in the county, and these
pledges are to be returned filled in
for whatever amount you can give—
either to the chairman of your pre
cinct or to the County Chairman at
Eureka.
Cash can be paid instead of install
ment payments if one so desires, in
which case fill in the pledge card,
mark in paid in cash and send it in.
There is much talk of peace, which
seems to make it harder for one to
realize why the money raising is be
ing pushed forward, but even if
peace were declared to-morrow, to
slack up now would be a serious
thing. It will be many months after
the declaration of peace before the
boys will be returned to this coun
try or before our training camps are
emptied. It means that there will
be many calls for luxuries and com
forts to maintain the trench-worn
weary boys until they can reach their
homes.
N. P. Morgan has been appointed
County Executive of the Victory
Boys and is urging all boys between
12 and 20 to join by signing their
“earn and give” pledge as quickly as
possible and turning it in; buttons
and service emblems will be sent im
mediately upon receipt of the
pledges.
Miss Merialdo is County Executive
of the Victory Girls, and they too
will receive their buttons and ser
vice emblems as soon as they have
pledged themselves. All pledges are
to be signed and turned in by the
18th of November.
J. J. Lucey has been appointed
the County Executive of the Knights
of Columbus organization, and those
particularly interested in the work
of the Catholic association may send
in their pledges to him.
The drive for funds is under the
direction of the County Council of
Defense, as have been all former
drives.
Do your best at once by cash or
installment pledge.
Death of J. A. McPhail
Mrs. Mary Fulton of Eureka last
Wednesday was notified by telegram
of the death of her brother, J. A.
McPhail, at Butte, Montana. The
cause of death was not stated, but
coming unexpected it is thought to
have been caused by influenza.
Mr. McPhail lived here for a num-|
ber of years during the early days of j
the camp and followed mining. He
left here about 30 years ago and
has since been living in Montana. He
was a native of Nova Scotia and about
60 years of age.
Mrs. Fulton and her son, Lyman,!
left here by auto for Elko en route!
to Butte shortly after receiving the
news of her brother’s death, to be
i present at the funeral.
A session of the District Court has
been called to meet in Eureka on
Tuesday, December 3.
COMMISSIONER PROCEEDINGS
Business Transacted By the Board
At Its Regular Monthly
Meeting
The regular monthly meeting of
the Board of County Commissioners
was held Wednesday, November 6,
with Commissioners Edgar Sadler
and R. J. Reid, the Clerk and Dis
trict Attorney present. . The follow
ing business was transacted:
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
The various county officers’ re
ports were read and ordered placed
on file.
It was ordered after November 6,
1918, the hospital matron shall be en
titled to two dollars per day for each
and every patient to and including
three. For four or over, until fur
ther order, the sum of $1.90 per pa
tient per day shall be allowed.
A list of the bills allowed is pub
lished in another column.
It was ordered that a school dis
trict to be known as Ariel School dis
trict be established on unsurveyed
ground in what is supposed to be
Township 19, range 49, and Town
ship 18. Range 47 East. This new
school district is near the F. K.
Grimes ranch, about 40 miles west
of Eureka.
Mrs. E. C. Plummer presented a
bond in the sum of $2000 as District
Attorney, which on motion was ap
proved by the board.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
Carrie Gibellini entered the High
School recently, bringing the num
ber of students enrolled up to 42.
This is the largest enrollment in the
history of the school.
The text books used in the teaching
of civic patriotism arrived during
the week and were given out to the
students Thursday.
On account of the influenza in this
county the schools were ordered
closed October 24 until the epidemic
had subsided. The situation seem
ingly improving, school was reopened
Thursday, November 7, but when
several new cases developed in dif
ferent portions of the county the
situation was discussed and it was
deemed best to again close the
schools, and so on Friday morning
school was dismissed for another
week. We all hate to lose this time
now as it makes harder work for both
teachers and pupils later on, but we
must not think of ourselves only,
but the health and welfare of the
community.
In order for the High School to
take an active part in raising money
for the United War Work campaign
beginning November 11 and ending
November 18, different ways of
raising the needed money were dis
cussed Thursday. The prevention of
all public meetings will undoubtedly
have its effect on our plans, but
nevertheless a large number of the
students have already pledged them
selves to “earn and give” a certain
amount toward this good work. Miss
Isabel Merialdo is County Executive
of the Victory Girls, while Principal
Morgan is County Executive of the
Victory Boys.
Edward Skillman, Reporter
Joe, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Hankins, at Skelton, died
Sunday morning with the influenza.
He was 20 years of age and was one
of the well known and popular young
men of Mound Valley. He was sick
but a short time and his death was
entirely unexpected.
The city council met Sunday eve
ning and issued an emergency order
closing all the saloons in the city of
Elko, on the advice of the health of
ficer. It is also reported that an ef
fort will be made to have the county
liquor board close the saloons through
out the county fo-i an indefinite per
iod, in the effort to check the epi
demic. __
CARD OF THANKS
I sincerely thank those who sup
ported me in my campaign for elec
tion to the office of District Attor
ney. I shall do my best to merit
the support given me.
Respectfully.
W. R. Reynolds