Tuscarora Scrapers Brought 10 Jail
Constable John Phillips arrived from Tuscarora Saturday with Gene Swartzwout and Emmet Johnson in custody after a rough saloon brawl in Buck Horns. Johnson and Swartzwout faced assault and battery charges and were jailed for thirty and sixty days, with Swartzwout’s sentence reduced on plea. Buck Horn was fined for contempt after protesting the reduced charge.
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John Phillips
Tuscarora
Gene Swartzwout
Emmet Johnson
Buck Horn
Johnson
Swartzwout
Swartzwoul
Battler
Clark
Horn
Buck
Phillips
Battlers
Biko
Rabies Commission Meets In Reno Plans Tax Levy
George Russell Jr secretary of the State Rabies Commission reports a Reno meeting was satisfactory. He stopped in Winnemucca to arrange a Hun-delta county meeting for a 3.5 cent tax levy to fund a federal supervised rabies campaign. County pledges are needed to start extermination efforts.
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George Russell, Jr
State
Reno
Winnemucca
Hundeldt County
Russell
Biko
Strikers Wreck Royal Weaving Plant in Riot
A riot in Pawtucket at the Royal Weaving Company injured twenty workers as the machinery was smashed before police dispersed the mob this morning. The strike action and damage prompted local officials to investigate the unrest and its causes.
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Pac
Int'l News Service
Pawtuckett
Royal Weaving Company
Preferred Death to Humiliation in Prison
Reginjalo Frederico aged 32 hanged himself at Topanga prison camp today after declaring death rather than endure undeserved punishment. He was serving a 30 day sentence for vagrancy.
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Pac
Int'l News Service
Los Angeles
Reginjaldo Frederico
Topanga
Prominent Young Rancher Willam Crosson Dies
Starr Valley reports the death of Willam Crosson eldest son of Mr and Mrs John Crosson after a month of bed confinement with typhoid fever and inflammatory rheumatism. He was about forty, one of the county’s most prominent young men, universally respected. A longer notice will follow.
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Starr Valley
Willam Crosson
John Crosson
Armed Merchantmen Classified as Cruisers Policy Shifts
Washington February 14 reports the administration leaning toward supporting the German decree that armed merchant ships be treated as cruisers. After March 1 passports will be refused to Americans considering sailing on armed merchant ships of the Allies. Britain is expected to protest vigorously.
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Pac
Int'l News Service
Washington, D. C
United States
Great Britain
Bandit Surrounded After Robbery Near Willows
A bandit who shot and killed Warner Smith and wounded Theodore Jensen during a failed safe robbery at the Rochdals store in Germantown near Willows is reported surrounded by the sheriff. The incident occurred at an early hour today as the men attempted to open the safe. Biggs County Sheriff and deputies pressed the pursuit.
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Pac
Int'l News Service
Willows
Calif
Warner, Smith
Theodore Jensen
Rochdals
Germantown
England to Raise Another Billion Dollar Loan
London reports Parliament is expected to vote on a new credit of 1.25 billion dollars to fund war debt. This would raise England’s total loans raised since the war began to about 9.56 billion dollars.
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England
Pac
Int'l News Service
London
Pals
State forecast predicts fair weather tonight and Tuesday
The forecast from San Francisco reports fair conditions for tonight and Tuesday across the state.
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Pac. and
Int'l News Service
San Francisco
Another munition plant afire at GE facility
Fire partly destroyed the General Electric munitions plant on February 14. The company's private fire department extinguished the flames. No authorities were notified and officials have refused to disclose the cause.
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Pac. and
Int'l News Service
Schenectady
General Electric Company
Poison Fiend Friend of Anarchists Linked to Banquet Poisoning
Chicago reports through letters that Jules Crones, accused of poisoning one hundred banquet guests in honor of Archbishop Mundelin, is a compatriot of Gretano Brosci, the Italian anarchist who assassinated King Humbert in 1900. John Allegrini, already arrested, is described as Crones’s ally in an anarchist group. The note also mentions a leap year ball tonight and a shooting incident during a store escape attempt.
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Chicago
Jules Crones
Archbishop Mundelin
Gretano Brosci
King Humbert
Italy
John Allegrini
Crones
Former Elko Man Answers Summons
A telegram from Frederick Oklahoma reports the death of J L Boyd formerly of Elko at age 28 He leaves a wife and four children His death follows heart trouble last April which forced resignation from the Geo Russell Co hardware job He was a brother to Mrs H H Wright Q D Boyd Charles Boyd and Allen Boyd and leaves an aged father two Texas brothers and a brother in Oklahoma
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Frederick
Oklahoma
J. L. Boyd
Boyd
Geo. Russell Co
H. H. Wright
Q. D. Boyd
Charles Boyd
Allen Boyd
Elburz
Texas
Petition to pardon Bill Booth circulates in town
A petition asking the Board of Pardons to pardon Bill Booth circulates in Elko and Nye County. Booth was recently convicted of a gross misdemeanor and sentenced to six months in jail for an article about county officials. Supporters urge leniency and note his age, community service, and his wife’s illness.
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Board of Pardons
Bill Booth
Bil Booth
Nye County
Tonopah
Dbi Booth
Elko
Zeppelins and Trenches Dominate Front Headlines
Reports from Copenhagen and Paris alert to Zeppelins sinking in the North Sea while Bulgarians seize Fiori near Valona. French trench gains south of Frise, 100 prisoners taken, and German foothold near Alsace contested. Milan bombarded. Derby volunteers called. Arethusa cruiser lost to a mine with ten dead.
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Pac
Int'l News Service
Copenhagen
North Sea
Fiori
Paris
Frise
Alsace
England
London
British Admiralty
Arethusa
Artheusa
Reginald Terwitt
C. B
Bomb Plotter Case Continued in San Francisco
The alleged bomb plotters and neutrality violators arrested in San Francisco were brought before Federal Judge Dealing. The cases were continued for one week, and the accused will enter pleas at that time.
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Pac
Int'l News Service
San Francisco
Train Hits Auto Kill Two In Sumner Crossing
In Sumner Washington on February 1, George T. Campbell was killed and Porter Mc Call fatally injured when a Northern Pacific train struck an automobile at a crossing. The car had been racing a local train and failed to see the approaching limited. The impact sent the auto about fifty feet and the men more than one hundred feet.
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Lulu
Tom
Bigewater
Mary
England
America
New York
Help’s Help
Duke of
Bilgewater
Luli
Lin
Pac
Int'l News Service
Sumner
Wash
George T. Campbell
Porter McCall
Northern Pacific
Limited
County records to be recopied by recorder
The records of Es meralda County tracing to 1855 when part of Carson County Utah will be recopied from deteriorating volumes used as record books for six decades. President Wilson has authorized his name to appear on Ohio primary ballots as a candidate to succeed himself as president.
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Esmeralda
Carson County
Utah
Pac
Int'l News Service
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Ohio
Heaviest Snow Storm Binds East and Midwest
The Feb 14 report describes a heavy snow storm snowbound the east and middle west. Boston logged seventeen inches the heaviest in twenty years while New York and Chicago measured five inches each. Worcester Mass. reports two feet of snow depth.
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Pac
Int'l News Service
New York
East
Middle West
Boston
Chicago
Worcester
Mass
Mrs Edison Leads Orange Club Fight Over Low Neck Dress
Mrs. Thomas A Edison heads a Women's Club movement in Orange New Jersey to establish the Orange Standard for evening dress. Club leaders oppose fashion houses trimming necklines and hems on ball gowns, seeking modest attire.
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Mrs. Edison
Pac. and
Int'l News Service
Orange
N. J
Thomas A. Edison
Sinking schooner reported off Delaware coast
An unidentified three mast schooner is in distress and sinking off the Delaware coast. A surf boat sent at 9 o clock by life savers has not been heard from and is believed lost. J. H. White reports snow melting rapidly with most water soaking into the ground in his area.
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Pac
Int'l News Service
Washington, D. C
Delaware
Fife Savers
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