Tent City Suggested For Rodeo Week
Elko leaders push for a tent city to house auto tourists during September rodeo crowds. City officials cite heavy travel through Bilko and crowded hotels and urge immediate setup of a camp to provide beds, air, water, and a safe sleep for visitors.
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Bartlett
Mr. Bartlett
Sierras
Garcia
Elko Development Company
Southern Pacific
Arizona
Maricopa
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San Francisco
Elko County
California
Yellowsone Park
Nevada
Ing
Nevata
Union
Phoenix
Swiss Alps
Pumping Water for Irrigation on Beachland Alfalfa Patch
Harry Van Driften faces a broken gasoline pump at his ranch six miles below town as warm weather drives irrigation needs for his forty acre alfalfa patch. He sunk a nineteen foot well on the upper tract to draw river water by gravity through gravel, hoping to prove pumping irrigation can work on sagebrush beach land and open more acres.
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Harry van Driften
Mr. van Drillen
van Drillen
Ralph Brown
Strolling Over Hills Adjoining Elko City
Sunday in the Elko region reveals pleasing hill country with sagebrush aroma and cedar groves. Wildlife including a woodpecker nest and jackrabbits share the quiet, while wildflowers like prickly pear and delicate mountain flowers dot the landscape.
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Elko City
Elko
Bryant
Lamoille
Biko
James Russell
Eiko
Osino
Bullion
Independent professor's Tuscarora trip raises questions
A Nevada school official billed the Elko Independent for a Tuscarora country excursion with meals, drinks, commissions, and other items. The paper questions whether any actual sales were produced and notes a subscriber cancelation, suggesting misused expense funds.
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Prof. Ross
Elko High School
The
Independent
Rip
Tuscarora
Prof
Ross
E. Talmage Ross
A. DB
M. A
Keith & Russell
Elko Independent
Nevada
San Francisco
Perrin
Nevada Building
Bratting
Anh
Days Tomahawk for McCarran
Reno Gazette reports on P. A. McCarran and Rey Pittman vying for the Democratic U S Senate nomination in 1916. Inner-circle tactics after Newlands and Pulman return to Nevada hint at machine influence to block McCarran and shape county conventions and delegates.
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Reno Gazette
P. A. McCarran
Rey Pittman
United States
Pittman
Democratic Party
Nevada
McCarran
Newlands
Pulman
Tonopah
Preliminary Carson work satisfactory completion at Long Valley dam site
Gardnerville Record Courier reports Bell who supervised preliminary work at Long Valley for the reclamation service will move his outfit to Fallon this week after completing the dam foundation seat. He says investigations were much sooner finished and very satisfactory. The Survey corps will stay in Alpine for the next week at eighty dollars pace.
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Gardnerville
Bell
Long Valley
Reclamation Service
Fallon
Survey Corps
Teachers Examination In Elko At Biko School
Mrs J P Sherman and Misa Bish both of Mountain City and Miss Ada Laide Philips of Roby Valley are in Biko today taking the teachers examination at the Biko School under supervision of Minn Knemeyer.
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Elko
J. P. Sherman
Misa Bish
Mountain City
Adalaide Philips
Roby Vatley
Biko
Het
Biko Nien
Acheol
Minn Knemeyer
Huber seeks bail after murder conviction and new trial
Attorneys Dysart and McNamara ask Judge Taber to admit Frank Huber to bail pending a new trial granted by the supreme court. District Attorney Carville will oppose but the amended statute may allow bail. The court could rule this week on the motion.
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Dysart
McNamara
Taber
Frank Huber
Billingen
Mountain City
Supreme Court
Carville
Huber
Interesting trip for a sightseer uncovers oil storage
A fragmented note describes land once under a sea of oil where storage sites attract sightseers. The passage highlights a peculiar historic landscape and a traveler’s curiosity about former oil infrastructure.
Senator Gault Attacks Elko Industrial School
The Sparks Tribune quotes Senator James Gault criticizing Elko Industrial School. He claims $42,000 was spent two years ago for a marble home for unruly boys and a further $50,000 to furnish the school, predicting maintenance costs for each boy reach ten thousand dollars over the next two years.
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Oneight
Sparks Tribune
James Gault
Senator Gault
Elko Industrial School
the Independent
Elko
Desperate Conditions Reported in Yaqui Valley
Refugees reaching Nogales describe devastation in the Yaqui Valley from Indian attacks with Villa troops not resisting. The dispatch notes urgent distress in northern Mexico as authorities assess the ongoing crisis. A separate local item mentions George Russell installing a new floor in an old ice house intended as a seed storehouse.
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Washington, D. C
Quaki Valley
Mexico
Nogales
Villa
George Russell
Governor Slaton Under Guard As Mob Enrages
In Atlanta on June 22 troops guard Governor Slaton at his mansion after a threatened mob vows to execute him over the commutation of Leo M. Frans sentence. The siege continues as authorities seek to restore calm.
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Atlanta
Slaton
Leo M. Frans
Tom Taggart and 127 Democrats Indicted in Indiana Fraud Probe
Special to The Independent reports Indiana Democratic boss Tom Taggart and 127 politicians indicted by a grand jury probing election frauds. The piece notes a Salvation Army farm program, suggesting reforms and work for underage or dependent workers, with details about training and bank accounts.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Tom Taggart
Lpdiana
Joseph Hell
California
Salvation Army
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