Nevada News Briefs and Community Notes
Local items report Sacramento shops employing 2600 workers and Mathew Kyle named Nevada surveyor general. J F Abel discusses war claims. Manila mail rates match U S rates. Rev M G Hamm to speak at M E church. Reports about Shafter dispute and Comstock mines closing prove uncertain. Twin births in West Virginia named Dewey and Manila. Women’s suffrage discussion continues in legislature. Odd Fellows officers named. notable enactments and committee appointments. A child’s remains found near Virginia City. a riddle about peasport marriages. Red Cross lawn social at the courthouse. proceeds aid a cause. Deep mining prospects prompt revival of wood, timber, farming, and railroad activity. Nevada cavalry to guard Yosemite area from May through August.
Locomotive Explosion Kills Three Near Dutch Flat
Terrible accident on the Sacramento division of the Central Pacific near Towles Station Dutch Flat Placer county California. Engine No 1993 exploded killing engineer Thomas Kelley fireman A J Perry and a tramp. Four others injured including a child and residents described. Officials consider electric power proposals and local claims noted by F J Abel for Indian depredation suits in Nevada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Central Pacific
Towles
Dutch Flat
Placer County
Cal
Thomas Kelley
A. J. Perry
Kelley
Perry
J. B. Fuller
Faller
Raymone Faller
Lawrence Faller
Henry Disque
Colfax
Nevada Volunteers Battalion Notes and Questions
Reports on Camp Sadler operations in Nevada military units with details on officers and adjutants, arming funds for hospitals, recruitment disputes, and expectant deployments possibly to Manila or Cuba. Includes a water notice, a weathered adverse incident at Camp Sadler, and a veterinary health ad followed by an advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Manila
Cuba
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Old King Faro Reign Ends At Comstock
A retrospective note recalls forty years of faro in Virginia City and Gold Hill, describing high stakes, famed players, and the social uproar of gambling. It contrasts past bold games with present quiet, while saloon figures and local figures fade into memory and change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comstock
Chronicle
Virginia City
That City
Gold Hill
Tom Dunven
Elk Saloon
Duncan
Carson
Joe Stewart
Jim Orndorf
Delta
Tom Buckner
Brown
Long
Stewart
San Francisco
Orndorf
Bay
Tiger
Cassius
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sacramento Railroad
McKinley
Mathew Kyle
J. F. Abel
United States
M. G. Hamm
M. E. Church
General Shafter
Shafter
Othe
West Virginia
R Ir
Marcellus Lewis
Dewey
Uff
W. W. Booker
Elko
Odd Fellows
F. M. Huffaker
Reno
Committee of Appeals
Hasband
Howe
W. Small
Winnemaces
Warlaworth
H. H. Forney
Red Cross Society
Nevada Cavalry Volunteers
Anecott
Sequoia Park
California
Yosemite
Reenes
The
Sierras
Wire
Charles van Nonten
Sierra Nevarra
Collis P. Huntington
South Yoba Ditch Company
van Norden
Summit Valley
Verdi
Madrid
Senor Gamazo
U. S
Klaworth Ingalla
U.S
Winnemucca
Watd
F. J. Abel
Sadler
Rigsby
Morrison
Stone
Carson Company
Uncle Sam
Etate
Colburn
Sanders
Woodland
Pyne
Camara
Suez Canal
Spain
Ceuta
Gibraltar
Joshua Rouger
Hall
Faro
Sr. M
M. Grant Hamm
H. B. McDonald
Wadsworth
Lafayette Hotel
Jezztl
C. W. Weerrene
Jy Lut
Bob Moore
Lafayette
Ind
DeWitt
Eagle Drugstore
E. Retwnant & Co
M. Hofman’s
Jyles. F.C. Ronuys & Co
Hood
Lever
Jerr D. Koontz
Golden, New Mexico
E. C. Blanks
Lewisville
Texas
Star All Steel Mill
Hhen
FE. Rennart & Co
Steam Leweccy Agency
Troy
Ogden
Ginoux
G. Krener
John Dann
Wheeling
W. Va
New York
Ke, Rerscani & Co
Chamberlain
W. A. Brown
E. Reisnanr & Co
B. _ Reinhart & Co
Evane City
Globe
F.C. Robins & Co
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