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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1897
Page
3
A crowded column notes names and travels around Paradise Willow Point and Elko. Mentions baseball in Elko and Battle Mountain, Klondyke gold brick fever in Indiana, and a monster fight talk between Maher and Sharkey set for October in San Francisco. Also reports on population estimates, a Tuscarora rattlesnake injury, and a lynching in Kentucky.
Wyatt Earp, famed lawman turned fighter, plans a trip to Dawson City to start a high stakes gambling venture with a San Francisco syndicate. He will sail from San Francisco to the Yukon seeking wealth amid the gold rush and winter cards.
Inquiries are being made by Harry P. Barton of Mills boiling San Francisco to locate Edward McArdle who vanished after leaving Virginia City around 1876 77 and is believed to have gone to Utah. McArdle mined in White Pine Nevada then San Francisco and worked in the Chollarmine before his disappearance Flo Irish born naturalized U. S. citizen. A liberal reward is offered for information on when and where he died.
A legal note from Connecticut suggests bigamy may be hard to convict as a man can marry many wives yet avoid prosecution if he does not live with them. Separately, Union Pacific reports a record long run by engine 800 from Evanston to Omaha covering 955 miles 24 hours incl stops, with a 295 mile segment North Platte to Omaha in 279 minutes at 63.49 mph. Samuel C. Dannam of the U.S. Department of Labor travels to San Francisco toward the Klondike to study conditions for a March bulletin.
A mixed set of notices and ads: water shutoffs on Second and Third streets with time windows. veterans testimony praising Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. plumbing and tinning services. F J Cheney & Co catarrh claim. various patent medicines including No-To-Bite and Hood's Sarsaparilla. Cascarets and other health ads. local hardware stock at Brown & Piper's.
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