Reno Evening Gazette in Reno, Nevada

Stegall the Wood land saloon keeper drops dead

TH Stegall a saloon keeper in Woodland dropped dead in his saloon Friday night from hemorrhage of the lungs. November was a banner month for the California wheat fleet with fifty five vessels cleared in the first twenty seven days. The new church and school building erected by General Bidwell on the Rancho Chico for the Indians will be dedicated next Sunday. Professor Marsh of Yale spoke at the National Academy of Sciences meeting noting Nevada footprints are from a gigantic extinct sloth. A case on fruit box disinfection and the Viticultural Commission will be heard Friday in San Francisco. The Manzanita has soundings on the bar under Colonel Mendell, revealing water depths near the Escambia wreck increased to eight fathoms. Navigators await an explanation for the rise.