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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1899
Page
3
Local items note travel between Paradise McDer mit Golconda and Carson. Notables include Gen R M Clarke and W E Townsend, with others visiting, moving homes, and business updates. A county license tax figure, coal and salt deliveries, court pleadings, a planned grant ball, and a San Francisco masquerade are also recorded.
Professor Winfrey returned from the Central mining district with C H Wilbur superintendent of the Golden Eagle mine. He reports fourteen men developing the Golden Eagle and Gold Hill mines and observes extensive underground work with ore on dumps awaiting a mill. The Gold Hill mine shows two feet of ore in a new vein named the Winfrey lode. Shipping ore is ready and roads permitting will move soon. Also notes a law partnership Bigelow and Van Dozer formed by Judge Bigelow and Van Dozer. Beef prices and cattle shipments in the area are mentioned with Tom Rickey selling prime steers at forty dollars a head.
Crowds gathered at the Winnemucca depot as No. 3 eastbound and No. 2 bound freight trains paused. Visitors included General T. Riego de Dios and Senor M. Rivera, Philippine peace envoys bearing proposals from Aguinaldo, who learned of recent battles with American forces and losses. Also aboard were J. A. Filmore and party, Southern Pacific officials, and Shen Ting the Chinese imperial envoy, whose attire and bearing drew onlookers.
Lovelock Nevada February 11 1899 A LaGrave and Mr Gobn have worked to launch a cooperative creamery with ranchers backing up to fifty cows each and several others considering the scheme. The plan proposes five cents per hundred pounds of milk until stock is paid at six percent interest. A meeting today aims to finalize action while LaGreve and Cohn seek the building contract. S. R. Young’s livery stable leased to C N Bolin for a year. Mr and Mrs P A Peltier have returned from Woodland California. Howard Riddle of Elko visiting C H McIntosh and plans departure tomorrow.
An advertisement touts One Minute Cough Cure as a quick remedy for colds and coughing, claiming it relieves coughing and heals the lungs. It targets children and promotes Eagle Drug Store as the supplier.
An incident describes a girl who fell from a wheel and was knocked unconscious until a kindly old man advised rubbing her neck. The revival followed, with the woman reacting in anger at the suggestion. Also noted is F L Mosford of Reno seeking Decoration Day work on monuments and cemetery repairs during his Winnemucca visit. Paradise hotel ad offers inquiries to Mrs Carrie Clayton in Paradise Nevada.
Dr Collins a pioneer of the Com stock dies in San Francisco at 74. The Dexter mine in Tuscarora reports 4000 in gold bullion. Work begins on 1450 level of the Con Cal & Virginia for drowning the fire. Coroner's inquest in Virginia City finds death by brain hemorrhage. Genoa Courier: James Williams indicted for Mrs Surman murder. N O extends with vigor three miles of new track. Van Laam may be the year’s objective point on Madeline plains. Edward Marshall, wounded war correspondent, paralyzed in both legs. planning lecture tour but leg may be amputated.
John Crow an Empire boy was shot Friday evening by a youth named McNamara after warning to stop a tic tac game by the window. Crow was struck but is reported to be recovering. McNamara reportedly surrendered but no complaint was filed as the town is said to approve the act. The item was from Carson News.
An item notes Hood's Pills as the exclusive companion to Hood's Sarsaparilla and praises their efficacy for La Grippe. It mentions Mr. Bawkler, editor of the Meccanopy, and his family as sufferers, endorsing Que Minute Gough Cure as the sole remedy that helped them, with ads from Eagle Drug Store and Butterick patterns agency A fall NY supply by E Berswarr & Co.
Over twenty years we have described how Scott’s Emulsion builds flesh and aids wasting diseases in both adults and children. A small book explains in simple words how and why it helps, and a request will send it to you from Scott & Bowne New York.
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