Return of American Fleet Stirs Washington D C Residents
Washington honors the Atlantic battleship fleet as it nears home waters with a shrill salute, while Admiral Sperry's ships approach Hampton Roads for review. The voyage, rivaled by diplomatic praise from Japan, marks a historic round-the-world naval cruise and a notable naval achievement.
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Washington, D. C
Ateam
Atape
Admiral Sperry
Washington
Hampton Roads
Secretary of the Navy
Chon
Pavalso
Thin Amar
Pacific
Japan
Asiatic
United States
Nevada mining and town news spree rattles Carson Valley
Nevada headlines report cattle purchases in Carson Valley, marriage of printer and painter, arrest in Salt Lake for forging checks, illness of Masonic grand secretary in Carson, Elko death after operation, Fallon stock company plan for a canning factory, and mining fortunes tied to Tonopah, Goldfield, and Reno. Fire, rail, and court updates weave through town life as artesian wells rise near Las Vegas and a taxicab of misfortune follows.
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Los Angeles
California
Frank Cogrwell
Elko
Eiko
Fallon
Churchill Gowaty
Davin
Charles J
Joseph Seitz
Tonopah
Dalay
Weins
Germany
Sam Boyd
Virginia City
Senator Boyd
Reno
E. B. Cashman
Rickey’ Bank
Manhattan
State Bank &Trust Company
Cashman
Supreme Court of Utah
Mary E. Neesley
Frank Neeelay
Southern Pacific
Gartney
Utah and
Nevada State Line
Oregon
Reno and Pot Hagen
Portland
Nevada State Police Report Aims For Efficiency Boost
W L Cox reports to raise force efficiency with nine on orders and three vacancies. Proposes mounted call men, higher pay for privates and sergeants, and self-supplied horses. Urges universal fingerprint outfit use and state headquarters as fingerprint clearinghouse. Notes 14 of 16 liquor to Indian arrests convicted. Reports strong state county cooperation and reduced horse thefts in northern counties.
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W. L. Cox
Lost Melrose Prospectors Rescued in Death Valley
The Melrose party of seven, recently leaving Nevada, was found by searchers huddled in a Papamint Mountains cave after three days with no food. They had sheltered from heavy showers, shot two jackrabbits, and cared for an ill child. Desert signs misled them.
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Mina
Southern Pacific
Reno
Tooopsh Junction
Harriman
Willroad
Minsons Aidetreck
Goldfield
Tonopah
Mount Grant
Windewept
Boyer
Thomas Lovelock
George Lovelock
Lovelock
Nevare
Sem Arlis
Melrose
Nevada
Death Valley
Papamint Mountains
Dismissals Shake Nevada Insane Asylum
At Reno the Nevada Insane Asylum saw two staff dismissed by Dr. H C Gibson. Miss Rose Mc Caffrey matron protests to the Carson City board, claiming appointment by the directors and alleging Dr Gibson lacked authority to discharge her. Nat Phillips the asylum farmer also was dismissed without explanation.
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Consigerame Wuuu
Nevada Insane Asylum
Reno
8.C. Gibson
Rose McCaffrey
Nat Phillips
Wanalso
Veteran Editor Mark Henry Watterson Retires From Public Life
Louisv ille Courier Journal editor Mark Henry Watterson, 69, announces he will never appear publicly again. In a letter to President Brown of the State, he cites the death of his beloved daughter and the loss of a son as reasons to cancel speaking dates and withdraw from public life. He is at his winter home in Naples Florida near Fort Myers.
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Ouisville Courier - Journal
Tampa
Florida
William Jennings Bryne
Henry Watternon
Louisville Courier-Journal
Traedy
Watterson
President Brown
Naples
Gulf
Fort Moyer
Deportation of Pioche Chinaman China Dick
An elderly Pioche Nevada property owner and restaurant keeper known locally was remanded to U.S. Marshal custody in Carson on Monday. China Dick had previously fled to China years ago, failed to post bond or obtain proper papers, and returned without government knowledge, making him liable for deportation.
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Pioche
China Dick
Nevada
Carson
China
Lem Allen Headed for Heaven Assemblyman
In the twenty fourth session of the Assembly Dodge questioned Lem Allen on his stated plan to back the anti gambling bill and enter Heaven late. Allen argued Lem should defer and seek St Peter to suspend rules for all 47 members to join Heaven. Dodge and Folcom mocked the notion saying they fear sharing Heaven with such figures.
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Dodge
Lem Allen
Heaven
Lem
St. Peter
Allen
Limeolf
Folcom
Alley
Carson
Nevada Wool Clip Sold Largest Purchase Yet Made
M Staunton of Winnemucca representing Findley Gardiner Co wool merchants of Boston and San Francisco secured almost the entire Nevada spring 1909 clip. Wool delivery after shearing priced near 15 cents per pound. Nevada annual production runs in the millions of pounds, highlighting the purchase’s magnitude.
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Nevada
M. Staunton
Winnemucca
Findley, Gardiner & Co
Boston
San Francisco
Railway layoffs shift engine crew seniority on SP Sacramento
Southern Pacific in California reports many engine men have been laid off on the Sacramento division. As a result seniority for Sparks enginemen is disrupted with veteran engineers back firing and crowded down the line due to reduced business.
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Sacramento
Southern Pacific
California
Sparks
Nevada Starts Coal Mining At Coaldale In Nevada
Pioneer miner F H Petty visited Blair Janation district reporting his Coaldale coal mine will ship soon. He began seven years ago sinking on a surface vein with seven parallels, now 204 feet deep, yielding about 42 inches of excellent coal as production grows toward major state status.
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Nevada
Coaldale
Rock Springs
F H. C. Petty
Blair Janation
Pety
Tonopah Bovanza
Two Together in Life and Death Across the Road of Life
Fragmentary verse recalls a couple united in marriage and in grief. It speaks of two together facing fortune and fears, love guiding through health and hardship, with imagery of graves, gates, and a shared future. Names and places are unreadable, but the mood centers on enduring partnership and loss.
Cost of State Government and Infant Ophthalmia Fight
Nevada’s 1908-09 state budget totals about 1.38 million dollars with costs rising from 1,000,000 in the prior year to fund government operations. Efforts to curb expenses include a proposed tax and tighter controls while public health efforts stress preventing infant opthalmia through eye care and licensing midwives. Helen Keller and the New York Association for the Blind advocate preventive measures and improved birth reporting systems.
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Eggers
J. Eggers
Norads
Nevada
New York Association For the Blind
Hellen Keller
Association
Boards of Health
Reno Promotes New Penitentiary Near Reno Nevada
Agitation grows for a new penitentiary to be built on farm land near Reno where prisoners would work to produce food. Backers argue moving operations from Carson over five years could fund the walls, while the current prison deteriorates and needs costly repairs. A state official notes Nevada Prison quarry will soon be exhausted, strengthening calls for change.
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Carton City
Nevada
Aui
Reno
Carson
Nevada Penienntiary
In the Jungle Brother Son Faces Race Tip Loss
A brief item notes Brother Son suffered a sharp loss after a sure race tip went wrong, leaving him without cold cash and changing plans as he contemplates his next move in the weeks ahead.
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Brother Son
Harriman Lines to Train Entire Staff for Any Condition
Julius Kruttschnitt, director of Harriman lines maintenance and operation, says education and training of a staff for official positions is the railway’s toughest problem. A new system will mobilize the entire workforce into a trained reserve, ready to fill any role. The Pennsylvania road already uses a similar approach, promoting the next qualified man from within for any vacancy.
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Julius Kruttschnitt
Harriman
Pennsylvania Road
Let Women Refuse New Clothes Six Months
Mrs Belle Armstrong Whitney told a Rainy Day Club meeting in New York that women are not to blame for costly wardrobes but men who make or sell them. She urged a six month clothing boycott to create a commercial crisis and hinted Buffengists could press men to grant women the ballot with the slogan No ballot no new bonnet.
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Belle Armstrong Whitney
Rainy Day Club
New York
Death Valley Salt’s Samp Described In March Popular Mechanics
A vivid description of Death Valley’s salt samp appears in Popular Mechanics March issue. The piece portrays the samp as a striking landmark seen from Funeral range summit, glancing over molten steel-like terrain and gleaming under moonlight as a frozen, spiked, drifted scene.
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Death Valley
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