Nevada News Briefs Covering Appointments and Local Industry
Congressman Roberts secures Annapolis cadet appointment for August Bering of Virginia City. Two widows receive 1000 pounds coal at Tonopah masquerade ball. Nevada Cinnabar Company ships 750 flasks of quicksilver from Ione Nye County. Ranchers form artesian water study group in Mason Valley. Carson City appeals for scarlet fever prevention. Utah company formed to acquire Day Bristol mines near Pioche with a Bristol copper legacy of 2,000,000. Las Vegas Age notes spring greenery and county happiness. Carson Appeal reports attorney H Pilkington arrested for liquor to Indians, once a rising Nevada lawyer. Virginia City Chronicle praises school attendance enforcement against truancy and hockey habits.
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Tonopah
Nevada Cinnabar Company
Ione
Nye County
Mason Valley
Ormsby County Board of Health
Carson City
Utah
Bristol
Pioche
Lincoln County
Las Vegas
Vegas
Clark County
Carson
H. Pilkington
Nevada
Yerington
Pilkington
Death from Rabies Claims Child Near Virgin Station
A year old child of Mr and Mrs C W Younkins near Virgin station died after a 15 day illness with convulsions. The family cow died from rabies several days earlier and two dogs also died of the disease. Several people were bitten in the county but received Pasteur treatment. this is the first fatality reported from the outbreak.
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Winnemoces Silver State
C. W. Younkins
Virgin Station
Miss Hinckley To Wed Beowane Ranch Heir In Nevada
Miss Helen Hinckley announces her summer marriage to Melville Bowman son of the late Mrs. George Bowman. They will settle on the Hinckley ranch at Beowane Eureka County Nevada where Bowman will raise cattle. She is a noted horsewoman and social figure from San Francisco through connections with the Hinckley family and husband to be.
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San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco
Helen Hinckley
M. G. Hinckley
Melville Bowman
George Bowman
Beowane
Eureka County
Nevada
Bowman
University Club
Wide Plains
Miss Hinckley
Hinckley
Egbert B. Stone
Broadway
William C. Ralston
Orient
California
Coyote Enters Palisade Town in Daylight
A coyote wandered into Palisade from the machine shops area around noon. Wen dell Jones's dog and Will Raine's dog engaged the animal but were defeated. Several men shot and killed the coyote near the Southern Pacific tunnel, along with the two dogs in the encounter, raising concerns over rabies.
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Palisade
Wendell Jones
Southern Pacific
Will Raine
Palisade Couple Quietly Wed in Salt Lake City
Palisade resident L. F. Austin and Miss Ethel Paice were secretly married in Salt Lake City last week. Paice had been in the city for several weeks. Austin, a Southern Pacific railroad maintainer at Palisade, will take his wife home to Palisade and Pine Valley.
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L. F. Austin
Ethel Paice
Palisade
Salt Lake
Paice
Austin
Lake City
Pine Valley
Eureka
Mr. Austin
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Shakes Continue At Kennedy In Nevada Mining Region
L. D. Roylance superintendent of mines at Kennedy said he visited the mine and found it in order, but reopening is uncertain as earthquake shocks persist. The Winnemucca Silver State notes seven quakes in an hour one night last week and two strong shocks near Goldbanks on Sunday. On Monday night the miners slept at Mud Springs when heavy tremors nearly shook them from their bunks.
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Kennedy
Winnemucca
L. D. Roylance
Roylance
Goldbanks
Great Battle Without Result
London reports a vast German effort at Verdun with hundreds of heavy howitzers to smash the fortress. 1,500,000 troops rest after days of fighting as a major assault is anticipated from north and east, with French defenses ringed around Verdun and the Meuse flooded to slow the attack.
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London
Verdun
Paris
Pepper Heights
Cote du Pervere
Tavane
Vaux
Meuse
Manhuelles
Death of Theodore Taylor in Sebastopol California
A telegram from Eureka announces the death on Sunday February 27 in Sebastopol Sonoma County of Theodore Taylor aged about 65 father of A T Taylor of Eureka. A Methodist minister he served Green Valley church before a stroke ended his preaching career. He leaves his widow and four sons Henry William Lesley and Alfred T Taylor of Eureka.
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Eureka
Sebastopol
Sonoma County
California
Theodore Taylor
A. T. Taylor
Taylor
Green Valley
Henry
William
Lesley
Alfred T. Taylor
Death of William Hobart Former Eureka Pioneers Leader
William White Hobart born in 1828 died in San Francisco on February 24 at age 75. A California Society of Pioneers president and Butte County prospector, he served as Nevada State Controller 1870 to 1877 and worked for Spring Valley Water Company from 1882 to 1908. Survived by daughters Mrs. J F Halloran Berkeley Mrs W L Rowland Philadelphia and Miss Pearl Hobart San Francisco. Hobart edited the Eureka Republican in the 1880s while living in Eureka.
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San Francisco
William White Hobart
California Society of Pioneers
Butte County
Nevada
Spring Valley Water Company
J. F. Halloran
Berkeley
W. L. Rowland
Philadelphia
Pearl Hobart
San Francisco. Mr. Hobart
Eureka
Eureka Republican
Metal Market Quotations Logged in New York
The latest metal quotations show Silver at 56. tenths per ounce in New York Copper at 24.50 and Seed at 1.45 in New York.
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New York
Death of James D. Reilly in Ely Nevada
James D. Reilly died in Ely on February 22 after an acute pneumonia attack. Born July 2, 1877, in Hamilton Nevada he served as White Pine County assemblyman in 1902 at age 25. He later ran businesses in Cherry Creek and the Ely Expositor, worked for the Nevada Tax Commission, and pursued mining. He married Emma Cannon in 1910 and had two children. He is survived by his wife, two sons, four siblings, and an uncle in Osceola.
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James D. Reilly
Nevada
Ely
Hamilton
White Pine County
Cherry Creek
Norvine Baker
Carson City
E. G. Callahan
San Francisco
John Doyle
Osceola
Auto Licenses Sold in Nevada Reach 2000 Mark
Secretary of State Bradigan reports 2000 automobile licenses sold with an order for 750 more. This matches the total for all of 1915 and shows rapid 1916 demand, with an estimated 3000 licenses likely for the year. Sentinel subscription priced at $3 per year.
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Bradigan
Nevada
Diphtheria Fears Rise Among Kelsey and Tregaskis Families
Two Winnemucca children of Frank L. Kelsey and a daughter of E. B. Tregaskis fell ill with suspected diphtheria. Initial throat swabs were sent for testing. A later Winnemucca Silver State report claimed positive diphtheria indications, with Alvin Kelsey remaining in danger overnight and receiving oxygen therapy.
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Winnemucca
Frank L. Kelsey
E. B. Tregaskis
Swezy
The
State University Hygenic Laboratory
Winnemucca Silver State
Reno
Alvin Kelsey
Swery
First Large Truck Enters White Pine County
Bish Neilsen closes a contract for a 40 ton tractor with three trailers to run between Ely and the tungsten mines of the Snake range. It will be the first really large truck in White Pine County.
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Bish Neilsen
Ely
Snake Range
White Pine County
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A. Seilimann
August Bering
Virginia City
Congressman Roberts
Annapolis
Virginia City Chronicle
Big Beowave Ranch
Coyote
Halfa
Eurekan
Sentinel
Ford Automobiles
Goodyear
Eureka Garage and Supply CO
Kelsey
Thomas Rosevear
Ruby Hill
Fallon
Eudeka Cash Store
Adve
Eee
J.B. Biale
Eurska
Giant Powder Co. Consolidated
Ee North Main Street
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