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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1901
Page
3
Local residents arrive and depart with many names and origins listed. J Button leaves Golconda while W W C Smith comes from Sacramento and P Sweeney heads to Oakland. Attendees include B W Stewart and Ruth from Willow Point and C A Kyle family relations clarified following a prior notice.
An aged squaw known as old Suale was fatally struck by an engine and two cars in the railroad yard near the Lafayette hotel around 15 o'clock. Deaf to the whistle, she was dragged about fifty feet and died instantly. Coroner Rougon ordered an inquest. the jury ruled the death accidental.
John J. Henry of Gold Hill, ejected from a train near Floriston about a year ago, suffered a compound fracture of the right leg. The Southern Pacific reimbursed his medical costs and issued a substantial check, recognizing the episode as a mistake, though the injury leaves him a lifelong cripple.
A Virginia governor is expected to veto a reapportionment bill passed by the Legislature. Reportedly the measure allocates 17 Senate and 37 Assembly seats and is challenged as unconstitutional for not basing apportionment on a fixed pro rata of population as required by the state constitution.
Advices from Carson warn that unless the Legislature amends the state's revenue laws before Stad Journs, Governor Sadler will call a special session. The speaker urges skepticism toward baseless claims and counterfeit remedies like DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
Paradise Valley reports a Friday night masquerade hosted by Kirchner and Kilbourn with music by Mrs. Milroy and James Minor. A midnight lunch at Paradise hotel followed dancing until daylight. A long costume list features Ed Connors and James Otis Paradise, Miss Julia Hansen, Albert Stock, Miss Eva Byrnes, G J Miller and many others.
The Dexter Tuscarora mine in Tuscarora will join the Boston Stock Exchange. Yukon district miners number 5230 earning about 1 dollar per hour. Philadelphia mint tested electrolytic gold refining producing pure gold and platinum by products. Webfoot mine in Atlanta Idaho yields bonanza ore with 75 percent ruby silver valued over 900 dollars per ton. Steamboat Springs area claims surveyed and staked awaiting development due to hot water issues. new methods expected to overcome the problem. shafts deemed impractical.
Work on the Stanley air ship progresses rapidly in San Francisco and is expected to be ready for its trial trip around May 1 to San Jose. President McKinley may be invited to ride. Applications for berths on the first voyage are coming in fast. The aluminum frame will be supported by six silk balloons with a combined lifting capacity of 21 000 pounds, while the ship itself weighs under 18 000 pounds.
Storey County fixed the 1901 tax rate at five dollars per hundred with indigent care costing about one thousand dollars monthly excluding the county hospital. A sheep trespass repeal bill was introduced, likely reigniting cattle versus sheep tensions. Dr. Leonard reports twenty miles of the Eureka and Palisade railroad washed out, with trains expected to resume in about a month. Elk head shipment from Allen Fisher to Grass Valley California, purchased by Elks. John Sparks ships a carload of Hereford heifers and prize Milton Grove bull to Channing Texas. Barney Cosgrove, Wells figure, injured by a train at Toano, odds favoring his death. A married woman in Virginia street threatened her husband with a cheese knife in a public street confrontation, later subdued and described as temporarily insane.
George Ward, a black man, was lynched in Terra Haute Indiana for the murder of Miss Ida Finklestein a schoolteacher. Finklestein was attacked as she walked home from a school near the city outskirts, shot and throat cut after a pursuit. Ward confessed after arrest claiming taunts over his color sparked the crime.
A newspaper notice touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh, claiming it cures all stages and constitutional disease through internal use. The ad offers $100 to prove failure and lists testimonials, with Toledo firm F J Cheney Co as the makers and 75 cent price. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills and a local dentist Dr H A MacMillan on Bridge Street offering guaranteed dental work.
Seven different views of the wreck near Mil City offered for sale at fifty cents each by J. D. Richards photographer for the People's Purchasing Agency and Information Bureau. Also notes on agents in San Francisco and a medical ad for One Minute Cough Cure highlighting throat and lung troubles with a claim of rapid relief for children.
Midwinter sale offers wool underwear and wool hose for men and youths. Includes wool and fleece lined gloves and mits. Reversible corduroy lined leather coats and blanket lined pants. Also canvased rubber coated coats and ladies flannel shirt waists with silk waists and underskirts.
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