A Christmas Killing in Alder Gulch Pot Hole
In Alder Gulch Virginia City miners pursue a legendary pot hole known as a rich gold vein. A Christmas day murder tied to Plummer's gang ends the fortune hunt as vigilantes kill a gang member and block extraction. The shaft remains cursed, with water flooding and pumps failing in later years, leaving treasure unseen.
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Alder Guleh
Virginia City
Plummer
Walter
Matt
Jack Galligher
Galligher
Tairs
Atynd
Galaigher
Scenes in the Isle of Spices in Ceylon Tour Notes
A Calcutta correspondent describes Colombo and inland Ceylon. The piece covers landscapes from tea and coffee plantations to rice terraces, caste customs, bullock carts, and native dress. It details Colombo’s bayfront, Galle Face Esplanade, and daily life of Cingalese communities, then recounts an elephant hunt stockade, capture methods, and the fate of trained versus wild elephants amid Rajakari pressures.
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Teylon
Calcutta
India
Baltimore Sun
Asylon
Colombo
Ehlet
Galle
Ceylon
United States
Kean
Ita
Wil
Kraal
Heleht
Washingtons Seat of Government Transfer Deliberations
Ainsworth B Spofford presenting to the Columbia Historical Society a committee report details the long debate over locating the capital, noting sites from Delaware to the Potomac, the 1780 act, the 1791 boundaries, and the dates when executive and legislative branches operated in Washington, while deferring judgment on centenary celebrations.
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Washington
Spectaltimore Sun
Ainsworth B. Spofford
Wharman
Congress
Columbia Historical ‘Society
Philadelphia
Baltimoore
Lancaster
Annapolis
Times of New York
Maryland
Virginia
Delaware
Potomac
Susquehanna
Germean Town
Wilmington
Harrisburg
Baltimore
Timar
New England
Madison
Fisher Ames
Euphrates
United States
Conogacheque
District of Columbia
Federal City
Enfant
City of
Columbia
Congress of the
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