Robbery and Death at Fort Halleck
Thomas D. Henry, a Fort Halleck store and saloon keeper, was robbed and beaten by a masked man on December 2. He lingered in a coma and died five days later at about age 60. Humboldt County awarded a $10,794 fire system contract for Lovelock, to be installed within 60 days. Also an advertisement touts Electric Bitters by Mrs. H. M. Schneider & Co. as a remedy sold at 50 cents a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Henry
Fort Halleck
Thomas D. Henry
Eiko County
Henry
Jim
Elko
Humboldt County
Lovelock
George W. Hoffman
Harper, Wash
H. M. Schneider & Co
Woman Dies on Gallows at Windsor Prison
Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers was hanged at Vermont State Prison Windsor on Friday December 8 after two reprieves and a Supreme Court refusal. She confessed murder of husband Marcus Rogers in Bennington August 13 1902 at age 19 and was executed with accomplices Perham and Estella Bates. Perham received life, Rogers death sentence. the body was claimed by her mother and sister and buried at Hoosie Falls New York. The second item reports stage driver G P Sears of Humboldt Copper Co frozen to death November 25 near Stevens camp after blizzard, aged 60, Calif-born, brother-in-law to E J Wiley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Mabel Rogers
Vermont State
Windsor
United States Supreme Court
Actow
Rogers
Hogera
Marcus Rogers
Bennington
Walfoomaac River
Leon Perbam
Estella Bates
Perbam
Mia
G. P. ©. Sears
Humboldt Copper Company
Humboldt House
Jackson Creek
Humboldt County
Nevada
Stevens’ Camp
Copper Company
Sears
California
E. J. Wiley
Eight Hours Miners Workday Supreme Court Decides
The U S Supreme Court dismissed a writ from Nevada challenging the Eight Hour Law, affirming eight hours as a legal workday for underground miners and related operations in Nevada. The ruling ends opponent challenges and signals statutory status. Also reported: embezzlement case in Goldfield with minor dispositions, Reno license-test action by Fishur & Co., Tonopah ore shipments totaling 1697 tons, dry land farming plans in Humboldt County, a severe industrial injury at Goldfield, and a fatal fire at Hazen with substantial losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Supreme Court
Nevada
Justice McKenna
United States Supreme Court
Washington, D. C
Alfred Chariz
Peter Kair
Supreme Court of Nevada
United States
Reno
Martin Amater
Fishur & Company of
San Francisco
Washoe County
Eugene Ware Suicide Reported Near Goldfield Mountain
A Goldfield dispatch reports the decomposed body of Eugene A. Ware, a noted mining camp sportsman, found two miles south of Goldfield with a .45 revolver beside him and a bullet wound. His death, blamed on gambling losses last summer, ends a pattern of despondency and disappearance with his wife left amid strangers.
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Goldfield
Eugene A. Ware
Jane
Ware
Eiko
Nevada
Nevada Wheat and Alfalfa Yields and Public Morals Ruling
Nevada University Experiment Station reports wheat yields rising from 35 to 67 bushels per acre. Lovelock rancher harvests 75 bushels per acre on well irrigated land. Southern Pacific booklet estimates alfalfa profit at 15 to 26 dollars per acre. California Supreme Court prohibits punishment for open and notorious cohabitation unless the affair is widely known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Nevada University
Lovelock
Humboldt County
Southern Pacific
New
Supreme Court of California
Cattlemen Indicted Over Illegal Fencing in Kansas
Henry B Boice of Kansas City president of the H S Boice Cattle Company and all company officers are indicted for illegally fencing government lands in Morton County Kansas. Four indictments joined as eight counts against company officials. another against A B Lynch and Robert Merton for similar fencing. Also reporting the death of Bartley W Cavanaugh former Comstock figure aged 42 in Sacramento from pneumonia with a history in Virginia and California. Weakened systems need I W Harper Whiskey advertised by Fareke Cash Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry 8. Boice
Kansas City
H. S. Boice Cattle Company
Morton County
Kanes
Boice
A.B. Lynch
Snd
Robert Merton
Stevens County
Bartley W. Cavanaugh
Sacramento
Cavanaugh
Virginia
California
San Francisco
Caesar Young
Funds for Panama Canal Appropriation Passed
The House voted 11 000 000 for Panama Canal work on December 7 after debates over bond use. A bill amendment required annual progress reports and itemized expenditures to the President and Congress, and the measure passed without opposition. Mrs. Ham McCane of Halleck County died last week. An unrelated ad touts Dr King’s New Life Pills for liver and stomach issues.
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Panama Canal
Williams
Missimippi
Congress
Ham McCane
Halleck
Biko County
Dr. King
Pilla
Schneider Drug Store
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Eureka
Eureka Lodge No
P. A
Eureka Lodge
A. M
Masonic Hall
Mont
H. C. McTeusey
W. M. Joux Haxovor
St. John's
KR. A. M
H.C. McTeaxsy
H. P. J. H. Junt
Eureka Loige No
Moesta
Srences Berwouns
Diamond Rebekah Lodge
Lavea Bras
N. G
Kate Swick
Otto T. Williams
Atterney
Dotta
Elko, Nevada
W. F. Burnett
Epwar Asp
Ouark Sts
Besexce
Moursptolla
loSanp
Eureka County
Bate
Vicinity
A. G. Harris
Prop
Eureka & Palisade
Palisade
Ely
Freigh
Hamilton
Tybo
Fly
Belmont
Reveille
All Points South
Diamond
Alpha
Hay Ranch
Esi
G. D. Abbott
Superinendent
Maw Street
Avery Ree
W. H. Russell
E. L Mims
W. 0. Levy
Emil Sutro
Esmeralda County
M. D. Farrington
Mims
Sutro
Lang
Justice Bell
Mima
Tonopah
R. R
Lone Mountain
Willow Point
Paradise Valley
Umb
Wyoming
Mike Alward
Goldfels
Alward
Thornton
Hazen
Churchil County
Board of County Commissioners
Spring Street
J. H. Hoegh
Eugene Ware
Gardnerville
Carson Valley
Virginia & Urockne
Belie
Douglas County
Dangberg
Fred Dangberg
Minten
C. Whitmore
Fireman's Fund of
Home, Fire and Marine of
Hartford
Connecticut
Norwich Union
England
London & Lancaster
Hamburg- Bremen
Germany
Scottish Union & National
Queen of England
Western Assurance
Canada
Liverpool
London & Globe
I. Gc. G. Whitmore Agent
Joan HenpEnson
L. O. Hexpenson
Haypen Henperson Carnot Heyperson
Henderson Banking Company
Bank OF Nevada
Virginia Street
Desiel Meyer
R. L. Douglass
Moritz Sshecline
George F. Turrittin
P. L. Flanigan
Henry Anderson
A. G. Fletcher
Kerops
Asia
Messrs
Scheeline
Osburn Sre
Greace F. Tusatrre
Tai A
Evaewe Howett
R. C. Tussirrme
Ite
Cahn, Nicklesburg & CO
Thomas Rosselli
South Main St
Ney
Barnes
Dooks
MBS
O. D. Green Dusdea, Nevavps
Stockholders’ Meeting
Eureka Consolidated Mining Company
Pine Street
Hi. P. Bush
Cal
I. W. Harper
Fareke Cash Store
Funds For
United States Smelting Co
Salt Lake City
Utah
Bingham Junction
Merrill M. Fletcher
Ille
A. Fletcher
Brown Hotel
Fletcher Bros
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