Local items and notes from Elko county and west
Elko county news lists residents visiting or arriving from Golconla Denio and Ogden. Reports describe a New Year ball ad, a Kansas seven year old barred from practice, local supper plans, and church ladies offering stands. Noted crime rumors, a San Francisco carbon monoxide concern, and DeLamar mill transport by mule team with armed messengers. Sulphur mines expand output with high quality ore and 430 acres of deposits.
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Kansas
M. E. Church
Uncle Sam's Guns Pass Through Winnemucca
Noon today three flatcars carrying twelve six inch guns moved east through Winnemucca from Mare Island navy yard to Washington navy arsenal. The guns likely came from an older warship retired from service. One car measured sixty feet, a rarity beyond the Rocky Mountains, built by St. Charles Car Company of Missouri.
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Winnemucca
Mare Island Navy Yard
Washington Navy Arsenal
Rocky Mountains
St. Charles Car Company
Missouri
Old Theories Upset In Ore Deposits Says Denver Republican
Geologists and theorists are upended by a newspaper critique of fixed mining rules and old mineral theories. The piece cites granite mistaken as rock, tellurium with galena, galena with no silver yet gold rich ore, and gold in coal mine pyrites, arguing current science does not know the true ore deposition processes.
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Denver Republican
Cripple Creek
Gilpin
Summit County
Wyoming
Denver
Sorrocco
Phanix
Arizona
Bingham
Utah
Telegraphic News Briefs From the Country
A U.S. agent arrived in Norway to purchase reindeer for Klondike relief. In Georgia near Jeffersonville two men killed and two women injured in a drunken dispute. Rev. David Howell of Monticello jail for five days or five days’ imprisonment for choking his wife. A box near Havana consulate found with a tube of explosive and lighting sandpaper. Luetgert trial draws small crowds as jurors inspect the sausage factory cellars. Local notes from Lovelock and Gardnerville report community activities and lynching tensions. Jackrabbit fur trade rising with New York parties buying skins for hats. Various notices list letters, business ads, and community events in Winnemucca and nearby towns.
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David Howell
Protestant Episcopal Church
Monticello
N. Y
Howell
United States
Havana
Chicago
Luetgert
Harmon
St. Louis
New York
Kansas
Australia
Durrant Is Scheduled for January 7 Execution
William Henry Theodore Durrant, condemned for the murder of Blanche Lamont, was again sentenced by Superior Judge Buhrs to die. The execution date was set for January 7. His attorneys sought delays and appeals to the supreme court, but Judge Buhrs overruled all objections. Durrant remained calm in court while a large crowd gathered at city hall.
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San Francisco
William Henry Theodore Durrant
Blanche Lamont
Buhrs
Supreme Court
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First National Bank of Winnemucca
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