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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1901
Page
2
The Silver State daily except Sundays publishes notices from Windle and Brackett as lessees. Subscription rates list one year by mail six months three months and by carrier in Winnemucca per week with office at Garner Bridge and Fourth Streets.
Weather Bureau report from Wisnemceea Station shows 24 hour mean temperature 47 degrees, max 7, min 27, mean barometer 30.19 inches, prevailing wind from the west, no precipitation. Forecast minimum for April 12 at 35 above zero. J C Hayden observer.
Fair tonight and Saturday. Cooler Saturday. McAdie printer's weather note dated April 12 1901.
Kansas City World argues that a treasury surplus of about $80 million by year end, reduced to $60 million by Congress, represents unnecessary taxation. It condemns directing funds from the people under War Revenue and protectionist measures, calling the surplus wasteful and harmful.
The beet sugar industry has grown vastly in the United States and Europe. In 1840 world beet output was 50,000 tons versus over a million tons of cane sugar. By 1900 beet sugar reached six million tons while cane sugar was 2.8 million tons. Prices fell due to beet’s cheapness, reducing cane profitability despite South’s cane bounty.
The Department of Agriculture distributes free seed packages to tens of thousands via addresses supplied by Senators and House members. Last week at least 1,200 mail sacks, each with 200 seed packs, left the Washington post office. This year’s total seed packages are projected at 1,000,000, about 2,000,000 more than last year.
A gallon of rye whisky was discovered among the effects of a deceased man with no known relatives. Kansas law allows sale of unclaimed personal property by probate, while another law bans liquor sales. The probate court has taken the matter under advisement to decide how to handle the liquor in the estate.
Congress adjourned without acting on the Newlands irrigation measure. The bill would have funneled receipts from western public land sales into irrigation works, requiring no direct government outlay. Western agricultural interests opposed it, claiming marketing interference and political boodling risk, urging unity for a possible reversal next session.
A six ounce bottle of Trib claims to relieve sprains bruises burns insect bites stings chilblains hives and often rheumatism at a price of fifty cents. The ad emphasizes quick relief and broad use for minor injuries and skin conditions. It markets a small bottle as a convenient home remedy.
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