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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1897
Page
3
Louis Fremonth arrives from Paradise and many residents visit kin while others travel from Mc Dermit Lovelock and Elko. Beef market stays firm as cattle owners guard herds. Weddings, county elections, and new officers mark a busy week in Elko and surrounding towns.
A Californian back East met Mark Hanna in Washington and quoted a boast about funding McKinley’s Nevada campaign. Hanna reportedly regrets not contributing twenty thousand dollars to Nevada to win for Jones, Stewart, and Newlands, a claim the Carson Appeal describes as an impression on Republican bosses needing money.
A Reno switchman named Burks was bound to a box car by three tramps and robbed of thirty three dollars just paid from the pay car. He was nearly strangled but later released by a passerby. A later column notes a $25 reward offered by Governor elect Pingree for unenforced laws discovered by Michigan state university law students.
Regular annual meeting of Lee shareholders of the First Nations bank of Winnemucca to be held in the banking office in Winnemucca Nevada at 10 a m Thursday January 14 1897 for electing a board of directors for the ensuing year amending article 3 of the articles of association and other business. Geo S Nixon secretary. Also includes assorted old ads for patent medicines and tonics not tied to the meeting.
Classified items from Winnemucca describe information requests for John Borland No. 2 via H Warren, attorney. Also notices offer a Hotel for sale, a restaurant opened in Central hotel, a silk items sale, a residence for sale or exchange, and a shoe agency shipment. Multiple names and local business notices appear with short descriptions and contact details.
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