Startling Experience of a Comock Giner a Prospectors
El Paso Aug 15 1802 officials announce Second Annual Southwest Silver convention in El Paso Dec 5 1802 to address looming mine closures and silver price decline. The piece also reports on a Quebec blacksmith Ferdinand Allard who claims a lost art of hardening copper and a Denver Republic sketch of Pueblo prospector Jack Martin. It ends with a dramatic anecdote of Baldy Golden facing a ghostly Chinaman aboard a mining shaft.
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New Mexico
Arizona
Texas
el Paso
Tex
Southwest
George Washington
United States
Cuas
Loxavemann
Quebec
Ont
Ferdinand Allard
Egypt
Allard
Admiralty
Pueblo
Jack” Martin
Yustler
Denver
Creede
Cripple Creek
FE. al. Martin
Preble Ore and Metal Review
Midnight Visitor Haunts Bolting Mill Workers Ghost Tale
A Chinese quarter sighting prompts a night shift worker to confront a supposed demon then confirms the visitor was a dead gambling den killer. Police identify the person as a man killed years earlier, known to locals as a ghost figure in a cantankerous tale.
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Opia Dena
Mr. Golden
Baldy
Man Bitten by Skunk Advised Pasteur Treatment Near Ash Fork
A Mexican youth bitten on the arm by a skunk while asleep at a ranch twenty miles north of Ash Fork came to Prescott for care. He was advised to go to Chicago for Pasteur treatment, as rabies from skunk bites has caused deaths in the territory in recent years.
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Sam Rowley
Williamson Valley
Prescott
Sam
Pioneer Hotel
Arizona
Courier
Ash Fork
Chicago
Steamboat Captain and Wife Found Living Roughly by River
An aged couple, Captain JG Minor and his wife, were found living under rag carpet on rough poles along the Ohio River below Gallipolis West Virginia. Minor owned the steamboat Alpha which sank ten days ago leaving them penniless and in debt. Minor, a former Confederate treasurer, held Confederate currency and once owned large land tracts in Texas and the Western United States.
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Ohio River
Gallipolia
W. Va
JG. Minor
Minor
Alpha
Confederacy
Capt
Wall Street
Texas
Blondel offers dynamite rescue demonstration at Osford Lake
Blondel challenged locals at Osford Lake Alabama to enter a boat and be blown up with dynamite to prove his rescue method. Richard Neely a white man accepted the risk and was blown forty to fifty feet, breaking his left leg and suffering serious injuries but may recover.
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Ld, Blondel
Osford Lake
Alabama
Blondel
Iim
Richard Neely
Oll
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