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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1899
Page
4
A London wire reports distress over General Otis censorship in Manila. Journalists claim news must reflect U S views, suppressing navy details, captain disappearances, and hospital figures. Correspondents fear retribution and mutiny while accuracy is constrained.
Fragments from The Silver State wire report a murder and multiple crimes in San Francisco and Atlanta. Lloyd Tevis dies after a cold. related dispatches recount Dreyfus court actions, Cuban veteran meetings, and a lynching of Charlie Mack in Georgia for rape and robbery crimes.
Weather Bureau data compile twenty year period results for Nev including monthly tempera tures precipitation and wind notes. Warmest months 1878 and 1888 average 74 deg while coldest 1881 at 67 deg. Highest 102 deg in 1882 and lowest 26 deg in 1887. Frost dates October 24 and May 1. Precipitation 0.08 inches monthly average. greatest 0.70 inches in 1896. Clear days 23, partly cloudy 7, windy days. Winds mainly from the east. peak wind 84 miles from the SW on July 25 1898. J C Hayden observer Weather Bureau
Train cars loaded with soca pe selast this afternoon. Water in the Humboldt River falling rapidly at this place. California shipments over the road average eighty cars daily. Plaster from Justice Rutherford’s ceiling in the courthouse last night. J Puett stabbed at Carlin. dying condition reported yesterday. James Little fined or imprisoned. paid fine this morning. Hay hands in demand in Parsilige valley. scorched hay due to heat. D Pascal arrived from Paradise with three wool wagons. more loads pending. Wool from Pollitta Bros. at twenty eight sacks per acre, 350 pounds each. Baby relief claims for colic and cholera remedy by Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy praised by grateful mother.
Market reports detail cattle and hog receipts across Chicago Kansas City and Omaha with steady to strong trends. Wheat and barley prices in San Francisco and Denver show inactivity and firm moves while copper and lead quotes appear in New York as of July 25.
While traveling from their ranch to Evanston Wyoming last week Mrs Byron Sessions and her son passed through a living bed of bullfrogs spanning about a quarter mile. The frogs appeared to cover a quarter mile square on the prairie where water was scarce after heavy rainfall. Authorities concluded the frogs were sucked up by a cyclone from lakes in the Bear River area of Utah and western Wyoming and deposited on the prairie by a cloudburst.
George W West a famed Live Oak County stockman keeps a sixteen year old longhorn steer as a curiosity to see how large its horns will grow. The animal in Jackson County Texas stands out for its eight feet seven inch horn spread from tip to tip.
A travel note extols the Union Pacific as a premier railroad with ample comforts, excellent equipment, and smooth tracks. The piece urges readers to contact H. M. Clay in Salt Lake City for info. It also includes multiple drug advertisements praising De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve, One Minute Cough Cure, and Shiloh's Cough and Consumption Cure, with endorsements from local figures and pharmacists.
The advertisement extols Union Pacific Railroad as a fast, fully equipped line with buffet library and sleeping cars, promising time savings to Eastern points and low rates. It directs inquiries to Hi M. Clay, Salt Lake City. Also promoted are Hall's Catarrh Cure with a money back guarantee and Karl's Clover Root Tea for digestion, sold by Eagle Drug Store.
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