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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1880
Page
3
The War Department Signal Corps records a dawn observation from Abilinn at 4 17 a.m. noting time of event and station conditions. The entry is sparse with limited details on the exact observations and location labels.
The Board of County Commissioners met Saturday to decide on hiring counsel to assist the District Attorney in the St Clair case. Judges Berry and Buckner advised the Board there is no statutory authority to employ extra counsel. Acting District Attorney McMillan must proceed alone unless Harding travels from California. The Board would consider approving reasonable compensation if the Grand Jury later urges the need for extra counsel.
Tramps beg on sidewalks and at the depot claiming to be starving to wheedle money from benevolent travelers. Officers seek to stop the practice but the state vagrant act allows arrest only after ten days of roaming. Also notes on local residents and a late Eastbound express train delayed by Union Pacific washouts.
The Reno Gazette urges screening at heads of irrigation ditches to prevent trout losses from diversions and brush dams. It calls for an act with penalties, noting the economic and recreational value of the native calvilivas clarkii trout and arguing current losses are excessive.
Knights Templar from the coast return after the Triennial Conclave in Chicago. Three or four went west Saturday and six yesterday, exulting over San Francisco as the site for the next gathering. An educated white girl of 17 elopes from Allegheny with a 40-year-old married man. relatives failed to split them, then she left her husband for a second choice, a mulatto.
A man on the bank at Laredo Texas fired on swimmers in the river killing three. He was a sheriff pursuing the others, who were convicts fleeing custody.
SPECIAL LOCALS Aver's Cathartic Puts are described as the best and most effective vegeta ble purgative pills. The text extols their use by physicians and civilized nations, claiming they keep the system in order and support digestion. It emphasizes mild, safe relief for children and weakened constitutions.
Summer Hats advertised by Jed E Remuane Co in Green's Augnet Flower. A medical pitch promotes Green's Averust Flower claiming to cure dyspepsia and liver complaints with sample bottles for 10 cents and regular size 75 cents. Supports druggists across the United States.
An advertisement touts Shilohs Consumption Cure as the best lung medicine promising to cure chronic cough asthma bronchitis and more in half the time. It sells at 10 50 and 1 with a porous plaster also offered. C A DeSaussure Druggist sells Shilohs Vitalizer and Hackmelack perfume. Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup claims quick relief for teething children sold countrywide.
A cash store run by C Coxxowern offers seven pounds brown sugar or six pounds white sugar for one dollar. The ad promises fresh stock with no old goods. Also advertised is a full line of tobaccos and cigarettes from various brands at direct-from-manufacturer prices.
Fragments advertise Fairbank's Lard at F. C. Rowin's and cheap cash fruit cans by R. W. Woon. Promotions for three ply rubber hose at Barsister & Wernenny and cold weather clothing at F. C. Rowinx. Oysters and celery salad nightly at Doc's Laxecu Stamp. Levy & Co. opening today with dry goods and clothing, promising not to undersell.
An advertisement asserts Everybody's Baking Powder is as good as rival brands while Levy & Co's Meal claims superiority. The copy touts no alum unless requested and suggests reliable performance, aiming to persuade readers of its superior quality.
Fresh groceries and provisions offered direct from first hands at low cash figures. Goods include coffee brands and Vermont maple sugar sold by the box at 2 cents per pound and in smaller quantities at 25 cents per pound. Banister & Werersy advertise Pure Maple Sugar and a venue for wine sales.
Two horses found two miles below Winnemacoa on the river. One is gray and the other black, both branded J p on the left thigh. Owner is asked to call at this office for details. Pat O'Donnell seeking identification.
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