White Pine sheriff missing in mystery and suspected embezzlement
White Pine County faces a missing sheriff after A J Butler vanished for about ten days. The safe was opened but $7000 was not recovered. It is believed he took the money and fled toward Mexico or South America, possibly after transferring property to his wife in Ely. The last grand jury noted unfiled September and October collections totaling about $2100, prompting the Democratic Board of Commissioners to appoint 8. Crain as interim sheriff amid growing party tensions.
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A.J. Butler
White Pine County
Butler
Mexico
South America
San Diego
California
Ely
Board of Commissioners
Crain
White Pive N
County Republican Committee
Recount Ordered in Nevada Attorney General Contest
The Nevada Supreme Court orders a recount in the George Springmeyer versus Cleve Baker Attorney General election contest. Recounting begins June 12 in Carson City with county ballots inspected first, starting Washoe County. Baker leads by 65 votes after the election, and the Legate clerk contest will be decided in the same count.
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Nevada Supreme Court
George Springmeyer
Cleveland H. Baker
Carson City
Springmeyer
Washoe County
Baker
John W. Legate
Supreme Court
Joseph Josephs
Western Pacific Finances and Uncut Timber Estimate
Sacramento Bee reports Western Pacific costs to June 30, 1910 around 70.425 million dollars excluding accrued interest. Including expansions and future timber traffic the line projects 9,000 to 10,000 dollars earnings per mile annually within two years, with 100 million carloads of uncut timber along the Sierra Nevada.
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Sacramento Bee
Western Pacific
Pacific Coast
ToMy
Traffco
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Western Pacific Company
Anaconda May Be Abandoned As Smelting Moves
The Ely Record hints Anaconda Montana could be abandoned as a copper smelting center. Amalgamated may shift ore processing to Great Falls to utilize water power. Butte faces rising unemployment and housing vacancies as conditions in Montana deteriorate amid a struggling copper industry.
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Anaconda
Ely Record
Montana
Butte
Amalgamated
Great Falls
Se Ienis
Two Stars Added to American Flag
The joint resolution admitting Arizona and New Mexico to statehood with withheld approval of amendments passed the House by viva voce vote. It allows states to adopt amendments or reject them via popular referendum, finalizing state constitutions after votes are cast.
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Arizona
New Mexico
House of Representatives
Jad
Congress
Boy Crushed to Death at Copper Flat Pit
A 10 year old Austrian miner Samuel Zroch, employed by Nevada Consolidated Copper Company at Copper Flat near Bly, died after being crushed beneath the wheels of a small locomotive in the big sopper pit. He had heard a warning whistle before attempting to board the engine to escape flying rocks, slipped and was run over.
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Sam Zroch
Nevada Consolidated Copper Company
Copper Flat
Bly
Sex Education in Public Schools Proposed by Harvard Figure
The Sacramento Bee argues for sex education in public schools starting with botany and zoology for children, followed by study of reproduction in animals and humans. It cites Dr. Charles W. Eliot advocating open discussion to overcome prudishness, noting lessons could cover nesting birds, mating, and transmission of life as a natural, orderly process.
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Rataide
Sandor
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Eliot
Wireless ignition by Marconi tests blamed for premature blast
H G Rogers of Giant Powder works investigated a Columbia River blasting accident in which uninsulated charges were wired for a battery. A Dalles wireless station was found nearby and 100 trials of wireless discharges were conducted with only one failure, showing strong interference from wireless waves and suggesting insulation is essential for explosives.
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H. G. Rogers
Columbia River
Manhattan Mail
Rogers
Dalles
San Franciago
Marconi
Nevada Consolidated treats low grade copper ore at 0.8 percent
The Nevada Consolidated Company reports mining ore averaging 0.8 percent copper, transporting about 22 miles and milling it at Steptoe, using a section of the concentrator for this experimental treatment. Ore from Copper Flat pit South end developed while higher grade rock was mined. Salt Lake Tribune notes the initiative as a fine point in handling low-grade ore.
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Nevada Consolidated
Nevada Consolidated Company
Salt Lake Tribune
Restore Power Plant at Mono Lake Powers Southern Nevada
The Pacific Hydro Electric Power Company plant at Mono Lake has been fully restored and is supplying power and light again to Bodie Lucky Boy Aurora Rawhide Fairview and other camps in Nevada. The plant was destroyed last March by a new slide that tore away the power plant and lines, causing several deaths and injuries.
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P Pacific Hydro-Electric Power Company
Mono Lake
Nevada
Bodie
Lucky Boy
Aurora
Rawhide
Fairview
Bids Wanted for Cordwood Coal and Lime at Prospect Mountain
Farmers Mining Company invites bids for cordwood char coal and lime to be furnished at the mouth of the Prospect Mountain Tunnel below the Silver Conner mine. Communications should be addressed to Farmers Mixing Company Eureka Nevada.
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Farmers Mining Company
Prospect Mountain
Silver Conner
Farmers Mixing Company
Eureka
Nevada
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Elko, Nevada
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B. Noble
Vic
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C.F. William
KB. Ennor
Harry M. Blain
Fallon
J. W. Danielson
Blain
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Palisade
Minoletti Bros
K. McCharles
Eureka County
Eureka, Nevada
Schecline Banking & Trust Co
Reno, Nevada
General Banking
Business Exchange
Savincs
Safr Deposit
Never
Eatates
P. H. Haul
Dome
Levi Strais
Mrs. A. Fraser
Newada
Johnson Mercantile Co
Punrae
Hbiram Jounsown
Hotel Zadow
Louise 8. Zadow
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