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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1896
Page
3
Long dispatch notes a series of items from Winnemucca and Reno including the Vaughan murder case transfer to Washoe, local weather rain easing dust, various residents returning from trips, and ongoing debates on tariff and silver in Congress with references to McKinley, Teller, Carter, and Allen.
Chas Biggs plans move to his ranch this week. JH Thief has 200 acres of wheat sown. Southwest ditch watering last week. John Hill shipped nine carloads of cattle to San Francisco. Jos Marten sent a carload of beef steers to Truckee. Wheeler sent 11 carloads to San Francisco. Hay abundant for Lovelock feeders, Col Maren active buyer. Dr McDonald buys two lots, to build house. JG Taylor and Cotton ship multiple carloads of cattle and sheep west. Rose Council masquerade ball on the 21st drew 27 masked attendees with prizes for best dressed and character roles.
A Washington dispatch reports the Carson City mint will not be shut down after all. A subcommittee debated the treasury appropriations, but Representative Newlands led a fight to keep funding for another year. Also noted are ongoing chicken thefts in town with multiple culprits suspected, and a mugging attempt on Gy. W. Brasher by two Indians on Front Street. Hood's Sarsaparilla is recommended for nervous relief by readers.
A San Francisco Post reprint recalls Nevada officials L B R Bradley Jerry Schooling and Bill Hobart as “picturesque, honest and competent” at one time. Anecdotes recount Bradley skipping an appropriation battle by vowing to run the state two years, and Schooling ferrying $500,000 in bonds in a carpet sack. The tale ends with a hotel loan quip about safeguarding state funds. Also appears are early ads and notices from Toledo and Winnemucca, Nevada, plus a travel tout for Union Pacific to Chicago and New York reaching Sacramento.
Local office advertises ready legal blanks for sale including summons subpoenas warrants of arrest writs of attachment and committal on imprisonment and complaints for justices of the peace at reasonable cash prices.
Notice from Carson City land office dated February 20 1806 lists John B Schaix filing for final proof on his Humboldts County homestead. Proof review April 1 1806 at Winnemucca involves witnesses Sage McDermit Crandall and Cute. protest or rebuttal rights explained.
The partnership between Rickard and Chas A. Owen in the livery business at Winnemucca Nevada is dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts due to the firm are payable to Chas A. Owen who is authorized to settle and receipt. Debts owed by the firm will be paid by him. Dated February 4, Winnemucca.
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