Nevada Progress and Reno Growth Highlight Gureka Sentinel
Nevada shows rising mineral resources and wealth, Reno rapidly expanding with new buildings and permanent homes, and the Southern Pacific planning Reno as a divisional point. The Reno Ledger expands to eight pages, Goodwin's Weekly debuts in Salt Lake City, and Utah women gain voting rights. Tonopah Company builds a new two story residence as laborers flock to Tonopah.
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Nevada
Reno
Southern Pacific Railroad
Reco
Sacramento
Ogden
Mings
State University
Beep Him Movin in Wells Ending Beaten Road Show
A man calling himself Rev William Keen posed as a Baptist minister and missionary. He rented a schoolhouse, borrowed lamps to illuminate it, and tried to speak to locals collecting money but left town without returning the property. He headed west as police warned other towns to move on. William Hockey and W L Coleman were arrested at Elio for selling whisky to Indians.
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Wells Herald
Wm. Keen
South Africa
Transvaal
Nevada
William Hockey
W. L. Coleman
Elio
Nevada University beats Utah in Salt Lake City meet
In Salt Lake City on May 15 a debating teams contest saw the University of Utah defeat the Nevada University. In Reno, the Southern Pacific plans to move Wadsworth railroad workers to a new shop site two and a half miles east of the city. The Reno school superintendent election is postponed until the new board convenes in July. Inyo Independent notes possible railroad link between Keeler and Mojave by Southern Pacific engineers. Silver State reports L. J. Flint suffered a stroke. condition precarious. Pauline Bergstein, former Reno asylum superintendent’s ex-wife, sues for back alimony since May 1900 in San Francisco courts. default judgment entered.
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Salt Lake City
University of Utah
Nevada University
Utahes
Wadsworth Railroad
Southern Pacific Company
Reno
Inyo
Payls
Southern Pacific
Keeler
Mojave
Utah University
Nevada
Unair
Mra
Pauline Bergstein
Dr. Bergstein
San Francisco
Republican State Central Committee slate revealed in Carson
Reported in the Virginia Chronicle that a Republican State Central Committee meeting at Carson outlined statewide offices including U S Senator Farrington and others. A Carson Appeal note adds satire on mining bonds and a call for speakers, while a May 18 alert records a date change for the state convention from August 14 to September 12 and a civic moralizing quote urging constructive town talk.
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Virginia Chronicle
Republican State Central Committee
Carson
U. S
E. 8. Farrington
Congress
F. EH. Norcross
J. D. Torreyson
I. B. Rickey
Sam Platt
G. J. Surveyor-Ceneral
C. H. Sproule
Orvis Ring
G. N. Noel
F. KE
Fairbanks
Advics
Hickers
Mechanical Wonder in Idaho City Potato Planter
The Idaho World reports a local machine in Idaho City that astonishes natives by planting in a Garden Valley farm. A farmer drives the potato planter, which digs, plows, and fills the fur row, tossing potatoes as it runs along the hillsides.
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Idaho
Idaho City
Western Nevada Gossip Mixes Politics and Promises
Reno letter from May 20 1902 surveys Carson City Gardnerville and Virginia City fortunes noting lottery schemes and prize fights. It highlights Reno Washoe County growth prospects the East End Reno East Reno plan and Southern Pacific influence. It previews Nevada political factions fusion silver Republicans and figures Newlands Mills Sardis Summerfield and Borax Bill amid calls for retirement of Senator John P.
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Carson
Carton
Douglas County
Gardnerville
Virginia City
Central Pacific
Storey County
Nellie
Virginia
Storey
Reno
Washoe County
Southern Pacific
Sacramento
Wadsworth
Washoe
Newlands
Major Dennis
Dick Ryland
Billy Sharon
Westerfield
Black Wallace
Nixon
Humboldt
Ed Kelley
van Duzer
Newland
Mills
Patsy Flanigan
Sardis
United States District
Summerfield
Stewart
John P
Nevada
Warcu
Fort Hall Reservation Opens to Homesteaders on June 17
Idaho’s Fort Hall Indian Reservation will be opened to home steaders on June 17. A recent weekend storm caused a $1,000,000 loss for Uintah county sheepmen with over 200,000 sheep reported dead. Sacramento street fair ended with about $6,000 deficit, adding to $3,000 debt from last year for a total negative balance of $9,000.
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Fort Hall
Idaho
Uintah County
Utah
Sacramento
Cal
Man Escapes Mortal Fashion Emergency in Ballroom
A Braneau Idaho man, dancing a quadrille, tore his pants and fled to a dressing room where his wife mended them. She locked him inside by mistake, and he pounded on a door shouting he was in the ballroom, creating a comic dressing room misadventure.
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Braneau
Idaho
President Harriman awards CP reconstruction contract
A San Francisco dispatch reports President Harriman of the Southern Pacific Company letting an extra contract for rebuilding part of the Central Pacific. The project covers three terrors, grading and masonry work in Nevada at Prospect Eureka County on May 16, 1902, for the wife of P Rapotta a daughter.
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San Francisco
Harriman
Southern Pacific Company
Central Pacific
Nevada
Prospect
Hureka County
P. Rapotta
Patent application for Rocco Mine in White Pine NV
Bert Smith and coowners Jackson, Andrew Jeckeum file for a patent covering 1479 linear feet of the Rocco Ledge mine and 1479 linear feet of Rocco No 2 veins with surface ground 284 feet wide and 600 feet wide in places in White Pine district Nevada. Field notes describe boundaries, tunnel progress, and surface monuments across multiple corners with extensive survey details and distances. Total claimed area around 1906-100 acres.
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U. 8
Canson Crrt
Nevada
Otice
Bert
Smith
Addromy
Kureks
Burks County
Bimaeif
Jeckson
Ovear
Andrew Jeckeum
Rocco Ledge & Company
Rocco Mine
Rocco Ledge & Com
White Pine
White Pine County
State of
Mineral Survey
Gross Wood Road
Groun
Toninstake
Rocce
Rocce Ledge & “Company of Thin Survey
Nolara
Kovoo Ledge & Company
Ieseo
Esiae
Sserseens Sansee Roi
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