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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1896
Page
3
Sun shines and visitors arrive as local brief items cover skating numbers, ice shipments, a $5500 Carson Lodge shortfall, and Colorado mineral totals. Dentists and births appear amid jokes, a fatal teen incident, a pioneer electric light debut in Elko, and a citizenship ruling for Wong Kim.
A new witness may bolster the Brown Davidson scandal with Mrs Thurston of Oakland set to testify in court. Attorney Gallagher seeks a subponea to compel Thurston to disclose Mattie Overman and Rev Allen links, while Overman’s confession is said to corroborate extortion charges. The piece also notes Elko county’s incomplete 1895 vital statistics and urges strict filing of birth, marriage, and death certificates with penalties for noncompliance.
December weather data for Winnemucca Nevada shows average temperature 31 degrees, 1.30 inches rainfall over 17 years, with highs of 54 on the 11th and a 62 degree monthly range. Also notes a quiet wedding between Alonzo C. Webb and Delia Brown in Reno, carriers to California, and local community items from Reno Journal.
A scan shows critique of Krag-Jorgenson rifles as inaccurate and slow compared with Springfield. The page also promotes Syrup of Figs and Hall's Catarrh Cure with treatment claims and a $100 cure guarantee. Local notices include education board sessions, a missing cuff button reward, bank shareholders meeting, and various ads for goods and services across Winnemucca Nevada.
Legal blanks offered for sale including summons subpenas warrants of arrest writs of attachment committ ment on imprisonment and com en for justices of the peace Sold at reasonable cash prices.
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