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Newspaper
Elko Independent
Location
Elko, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1916
Page
3
An advertisement notes practical economy baking powders using alum or phosphate cost less than Royal Baking Powder made from cream of tartar grape-derived. It warns cheap powders vary in leavening strength and a failed cake wastes costly materials, urging Royal as the finest food and genuine saving. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. New York
A stage holdup near a frontier camp ends with the driver Fred Searcy dead after gunfire as unseen suspects flee into willow brush. Searchers, led by McCormick, chase a suspect network from dog tracks to a rented cabin. Officers seize a coat, a sack of silver, and a shirt with river clues as two men, McGraw and Jennings, are jailed. pursuit continues for others connected. Searcy’s body will be shipped to his sister in Independence Missouri. his mother remains in Washington.
Two separate 1916 Elko Nevada district court summonses notify defendants of actions. First suit seeks 13 868 92 dollars tied to mortgaged Overland Hotel and Gaiety Theatre interests with attorney fees and interest. Second suit orders payment of 890 94 dollars for Ogden Wholesale Drug Company merchandise.
Department of the Interior notices VIC c Gartin of Sixteen Mile Station Nevada intends to complete homestead commutation proof for lands described in Section 17 Township 37 North Range 52 East Mount Diablo Meridian. Witnesses named Stinson Smith Stinson Reed. Elko Register John E Robbins. First pub Nov 28 1916 last pub Dec 30 1916.
Notice from the Interior Department stating John W Griswold of Arthur Nevada filed desert land entry No 01388 for the N% NEY and EM NW% of Section 12 Township 32 North Range 59 East Mount Diablo Meridian and will prove up December 20 1916 before the Register and Receiver. witnesses Eva Griswold Arthur Griswold and Edward Goodwin all of Lautine Nevada. First publication November 14 1916.
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