German Instructor Shoots Banker F. Holt Targets Morgan Home
Special to The Independent reports F Holt an instructor at Cornell University shot banker John Pierpont Morgan twice at his Glencove Long Island country home. Holt restrained the butler then fired injuring Morgan in the groin and leg. Morgan grappled with Holt saving his life before police took Holt, who claims Morgan aided the Allies with war munitions and started the European war.
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Cornell University
Butler
Morgan
Independent
New York
John Pierpont Morgan
F. Holt
Glencove
Long Island
Holt
House
Wells for irrigation experiment advances in Humboldt valley
A representative of the Independent travels with an auto party to the Harry Van Dreillen desert claim for a dry farming irrigation test. The group notes a four inch pump delivering water to a forty acre plot, with potential big gains as lands valued at five dollars an acre may rise to forty or fifty.
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Independent
Harry van Drillen
A. J. Dubois
Southern Pacific Company
Elko County
Dubois
Pleasant Valley
Southern Pacific
Utah
Mr. Dubois
Idaho
Washington
van Dreillen
Ralph Brown
Butt
Humboldt Valley
Grats Valley
Humboldt County
Bryan Entertained in Reno This Morning
Reno Gazette reports Sam Pickett chairing preparations for an informal reception for William J. Bryan as he passes through Reno on train No 5 en route to Tahoe Tavern and beyond. Bryan to speak briefly. officials and party members may accompany him to Lake Tahoe or Truckee. Justice McCarran helped arrange plans and may invite Bryan to Lake Tahoe by car via Carson City.
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Reno
Sam Pickett
Democratic State Central Committee
William J. Bryan
Tahoe Tavern
Pickett
Bryan
State Central Committee
Lake Tahoe
Truckee
Justice P. A. McCarran
Carson City
Walter Johnson sees newborn son in Washington visit
Grandfather Roberts reports Walter Johnson the premier pitcher of the American League hurried home from New York to see a baby boy born during the night. Mrs. Johnson is a daughter of Congressman R. E. Roberts of Nevada. J. M. Requa county commissioner of Eureka arrives for medical care. Grass Valley pumping projects yield profitable crops as two weeks bring harvest. alfalfa first crop harvested. samples of fall wheat and rye to Reno for Nevada building at the Exposition with expected prizes. Irrigation wells prove highly effective.
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Roberts Washington
Walter Johnson
New York
Johnson
RE. E. Roberts
Nevada
Gazette
J. M. Requa
Hureka
Mayer
San Francisco
Grass Valley
Silver State
Grasse Valley
James Edmunds
Reno
FB. A. Allen
Thousands of Visitors Eye Nevada Investments
Reno Gazette notes Elko hotel hosted 52 overnight guests Tuesday as outsiders pass through. Reno Journal reports 106 membership applications for Reno's new Commercial Club, about two thirds on blue blanks, signaling strong early interest and a possible rush to 1000 members.
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Reno Gazette
Elko's
Nevada
Reno
Reno Journal
Four Women Register for Sewer Bond Election
Judge Castle reports four more women have signed up to vote in the sewer bond election on July 28. The community largely backs the thirty thousand dollars in bonds for repairs and extensions, but interest is muted and more women are urged to register. Total registered women reach 76 with perhaps 200 eligible in town.
Questions Parade Through a Patchwork of Local Curiosity
A jumble of Qs from a historical page asks who struck Billy Patterson and what was said after crashes and crowds. It ponders elections, rodeo weeks, station builds, mail delivery, and political nominees with a string of nameless, era-specific concerns.
Lincoln Highway repair urged by Reno Commercial Club
At a directors meeting the Reno Commercial Club started a movement to repair the Lincoln Highway through Sand Springs country in Churchill county. Tourists have complained and some Transcontinental travel is diverted via Los Angeles, prompting a request for cooperation with California cities on road maintenance.
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Reno
Commercial Club
Sand Springs
Churchill County
Los Angel
W. H. G. Buck
California
Reception Room Wrecked by Bomb at Capitol
Special to The Independent reports the explosion wrecked the Capitol's east reception room after a letter to Morgan from a man signing as R. Peary Ile suya the explosion marked his plea for peace.
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Washington, D. C
Capitol Building
Morgan
Frank
R. Peary Ile Suya
Peace Going 10 Trap Shoots
Chief Dispatcher W S Peace of the Western Pacific travels to San Francisco for the Pacific Coast handicap shooting tournament on July 7 8 9 and 10 and to Los Angeles for the tournament on the 12 13 and 14. Mrs Peace accompanies him and will remain a couple of months after his three week return.
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W.S. Peace
Western Pacific
San Francisco
Los Angeles
New 35-Room Winnemucca Hotel Planned
New hotel project to rise in Winnemucca with 35 rooms. Ore shipment of four and a half tons sent from Volcano camp near Goldfield this week. White Pine county reports over 200 wild horses shot to curb marauders. Reno business scene eyes expansion after Exposition.
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Winnemucea
Volcano
Goldfield
Elko
Golconda
Lovelock
McDermitt
Ti Ik
White Pine
Camaign
Alf Chartz
Carson
Gardnerville Courier
Quelquiois
Elko Population and Local Questions Rise in Elko
Residents speculate on Elko growth surpassing Reno and the Fourth of July plans. The text mentions Mr. Catlin buying shale belt land and 162 voters in Elko favoring commission government, plus details about a 1627 Dos Joe McNamara speaking at Lametilo for the Fourth and a referenced boy orator from Nebrawn.
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Elko
Reno
Mr. Catlin
Lamelily
Dos Joe McNamara
Lametilo
Nebrawn
Mexican General Orazco Escapes From Huerta Plot
In El Paso Texas on July 3 General Orazco once held with Huerta in a Mexican plot to start a new revolution escaped last night leaving no trace his disappearance becoming a mystery and the focus of police inquiries.
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EL Paso
Texas
General Orazco
Huerta
Long Dry Spell Broken by Surveyor General
Humboldt county resumes appointments as Surveyor General Deady names W. M. McGhie of Winnemucca to a salaried draughtsman post. This marks the first county salary appointment in about twenty years, and McGhie is noted as a civil engineer with prior Forest Service experience.
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Silver State
Humboldt County
Deady
W. M. McGhie
Winnemucca
Santa Rosa Forest Service
How Reno Gets Commercial Club
The Reno Gazette discusses the Reno Commercial Club plan, likening it to Los Angeles City Club influence on civic growth. It urges nonmembers to join, attend weekly luncheons, and contribute to discussions, noting the club will aid population and business growth and serve Reno and Nevada first.
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Reno Gazette
Reno
the Gazette
Elko
Los Angeles
Westminster Hotel
Chamber of Commerce
City Club
Reno Commercial Club
City Club of
Nevada
Claude Schoer Named Ukiah High School Principal
Claude Schoer, previously at Chico High School, has been appointed principal of Ukiah High School. He is in Biko due to his father’s illness and expected to return home after a recent appendectomy in Salt Lake. Ukiah sits about a hundred miles north of San Francisco.
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Claude Schoer
Biko
Salt Lake
Schoer
Chico
Ukieh High School
Ukiah
San Francisco
Judge Goodwin to Speak at Reno Luncheon
Judge C. C. Goodwin of Salt Lake City arrives in Reno for a noon luncheon at the Riverside hotel hosted by the Commercial Club. He will address Carson City's Fourth of July celebration and previously worked with Mark Twain at the Virginia City Enterprise. Reservations cost 50 cents and must be made by noon with Secretary Buck.
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Reno Gazette
C. C. Goodwin
Salt Lake City
Nevada
Reno
Commercial Club
Riverside Hotel
Carson City
Judge Goodwin
Carson
Virginia City Enterprise
Mark Twain
R. M. Daggett
Dan de Quille
B. Putnam
Arthur McEwen
Virginia City
Washoe
The
Tribune
Utah
Jean Valjean
Judge
Wingfield horses set for Reno meet and future Elko rodeo
George Wingfield plans to enter a string of fast horses in Reno July 17 and hopes to bring them to Elko for the September rodeo. Returning from Denver, he praises Star Shooter and Washoe Belle and notes Denver and Reno share racing rules and a strict, fair system.
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George Wingfield
Nevada
Reno
Wingfield
Elko
Humboldt Star
Denver
Mr. Wingfield
Denver Race Track
Star Shooter
Washoe Belle
Colorado
California
Wingfleld
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Reno Sour
Bert BE. Nixon
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Rupe Bryant
Garcia
Mike
Mary
Sheriff Marn Rig
Mies
Borah
Morehouse
Agent Long
United
Kyle
Miko
Winnemucen
Colonel Roosevelt
A. J. Dubola
Neil
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Lincoln Highway
Wight
Crank
Otate News
Orazco
Metropolis
Comstocker
Daily Independent
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Sunset Grocery Company
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