Tonopah Railroad Plans Boost Nevada Growth
Colonel Alonzo Trip reports a Tonopah line from Rhodes Marsh to Tonopah with two percent grades and forty miles of level terrain. Thirty miles of rails ordered, three 35 ton mogul engines, and coaches and freight cars to follow. Trains to run from Mound House to Tonopah in one night, aiming for operation by early June.
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Tonopah
Alonzo Tripp
Pennsylvania
Trip
Nevada
San Francisco
Carson
John
Rhodes Marsh
Mound House
Tono
California
South Carolina
Calientes Cleans Up As Lincolns County Grading Advances
Calientes, once a rowdy town of saloons, begins to clear up as the Gam Pedro and Los Angeles grading progresses in Lincoln county. Saloons move with departing men, leaving little business. A saloon keeper left a place in the one end up church with sixteen men. There are twenty children in town, and a few weeks ago the nearby vicinity counted over eight thousand people.
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Calientes
Gam Pedro
Los Angeles
Lincoln County
Calientés
Nevada Pardons Board May Spare Indian Boy Seegmiller
A Nevada petition from Lincoln County residents asks the Board of Pardons in Carson City to commute Conchi Seegmiller’s death sentence imposed in 1903 to one year in prison. The appeal cites the deceased’s alleged bad character and seeks mercy as public sentiment sways toward clemency.
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Seegmuller
Gisbeéin
Seane Ee Zens
Bardot
Red Man
Mack
Seex
Miller
Board of Pardons
Hon
Carson City
Nevada
Lincoln
Nevada postmaster asks for rural delivery study
Congresman VanDuzer has spent weeks examining postal service needs in Nevada. He wrote to every Nevada postmaster requesting data on local offices and how to improve service. He advocates rural free delivery for Truckee Meadows Carson Valley and Mason Valley citing dense farming, good roads, and proven success in other regions.
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Congrensiida VanDuzer
Nevada
Truckee Meadows
Carson Valley
Mason Valley
Spea
Middle West
Corazon Valley
Elko
Lyon
Debts Paid for Elmira Syndicate Mining Company
R. J. Davidson and Chas. B. Lattin, representing the Syndicate to raise funds, arrived from Eureka with $4,707.60 to settle the company's indebtedness locally. The money was turned over to Recorder Grandits. no long term plan for the mine and mill was announced. Dressler arrived from the valley to spend the day in Carson. A Japanese laborer was killed by a train near Reno. Skating thrives on local ponds and a War Hoe Lake New Year party is planned if weather permits.
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R. J. Davidson
Chas
Lattin
Elmira
N. Y
Chainman Mining and Electric Company
Eureka
Warhoe Lake
Family of Commissioner Woodbury moves to Carson
The widow and family of Commissioner Woodbury moved to Carson yesterday to take up residence in the house recently vacated by Wills Brougher. Woodbury is rapidly recovering his health and expects to be back on deck for some time.
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Yesterda
Commissioner Woodbury
Carson
Wills Brougher
Woodbury
Second Hand Store Opens Opposite Briggs House
A second hand store has opened in the building opposite the Briggs house. All kinds of second hand goods bought and sold. Reasonable prices prevail on sale items. Furniture repaired and restored to first class condition. H. FOX proprietor. Mrs. L. G. Taylor returns to the city after months in Pennsylvania to reside here. M. A. Murphy fell to his death from the Desert Queen mine shaft at Tonopah on Thursday. he formerly lived in Folsom, California.
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Briggs
L. G. Taylor
Pennsylvania
M. A. Murphy
Tonopah
Jhe
Folsom
Cal
Strange dog causes shooting and horse injury at home
A dog entered a yard and barked at a family. Frank fired at the animal through a window, hitting it. The bullet then struck a horse in the stable, breaking its leg. The dog likely died. the horse was euthanized by a veterinarian.
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Feee Ieee
Wikies
Yar
Frank
Assistant Appointed for State Asylum Board
The State Board of Asylum Commissioners met at the Capitol. Dr. Patterson requested an assistant superintendent, offering to share his salary. Governor Sparks, as chairman, proposed Dr. Hood of Reno, and the vote was unanimous. Hood, a Democrat with a clean record, is praised as a good practitioner. Rube Kelly returned from Reno. The funeral of William M. Cann was held at the Catholic church on Sunday with Nye County and Carson friends in attendance.
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State Board of Asylum Commissioners
Capitol
Patterson
Sparks
Hoo
Reno
Hood
William M. Cann
Nye County
Carson
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Rube Kelly
J. Walsh
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Che Emporium Carsontier
Che Bine Front Haberdashery
Michael Stern
Che Emporium Zarsontieo
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