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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1880
Page
3
Observations from the mine station describe ongoing signals and stationed personnel. The report references Aron Joly and LAO authorship, noting wartime mine area activity and signal corn related operations at a military post.
Local reports note Frank Cerquin, recently retired, ma y have been injured when a horse bolted and threw a rider at Snapps Place days ago. The man, Haber of But Tule station, was severely hurt but improving yesterday. a separate Humboldt Lake drought update mentions irrigation needs and lake conditions. The Keno Journal lists census figures for multiple counties, and Paradise reports rich ore finds in Paradise Valley with Mount Rose tied to a New York company. A wagon accident near Humbathy left John Watteriall injured.
Lovelock July 29 1880 a shooting left Patrick Tully dead as Robert St Clair fired from a bridge the coroner held an inquest with Dr Hanson testifying the bullet entered the heart and killed him witness names included Herman Mahler Theodore Wild and others. St Clair remained jailed pending examination by Sheriff Milter.
The Rile Independent recounts Henry Clay Davis sending a gold badge presented to Captain J. Hopkins by Captain Dahlgren of Bath Mountain. The gold bar honors Hopkins for gallant service at Shiloh Lookout Mountain and Atlanta with Sherman. The Sentinel notes a fierce Eastern Oregon storm, courthouse crowd, and injuries to two men with four horses killed in lightning.
About three hundred empty box cars have been moved west this week from this station and other eastern points to California where demand exists to transport the wheat crop before shipment to the seaboard. A meeting of Humboldt District A M and M Society directors is at the secretary’s office this evening. all board members are urged to attend.
In a letter under the signature An Old Republican the writer urges the people of the county to form an independent party to elect good men and true to county offices. He warns that without such action the county may fall into deep debt and face repudiation.
Advertising copy promotes White coats pants and vests at cost from F C Boars and Ladies summer hats at reduced prices from Jed BE Retitani Co. A sobering medical claim touts Mrs Wixstow’s Soornixa Syear for teething pain claiming safe gentle relief and bowel regulation priced at 26 cents a bottle.
Advertises Green's Avorer rower claiming quick relief from dyspepsia liver complaints indigestion and related symptoms with sample bottles and regular sizes sold by druggists. Mentions rubber hose and maple sugar from Vermont with local sellers and pricing.
Be Cool and Comfortable call at F C Rats' for a white coat panta and vest selection. Levy & Co opens today offering the largest complete stock of dry goods buttons and clothing in the Stake with fresh goods and low prices.
A local note praises C Carrowerr cash store for new groceries and cheap sugar offers. Customers may buy seven pounds brown or six pounds white sugar for one dollar with fresh stock and no shopworn goods.
By Universal Accord Arma the Carmanric Pris purgatives are praised as the best vegetable pill. The text claims long chemical study and wide physician use prove them mild yet effective for all ages, maintaining digestion and bodily health with gentle cleansing.
Advertisements claim Shilohs Consumption Cure quickly cures coughs and lung diseases, with a guarantee and varieties priced at 19 cents 50 cents and 1 dollar. Plasters and Vitalizer also advertised by local druggists. Fragrances Hadmetack perfume promoted by Winnemucca merchant C A DrSausseez.
The North Western Masonic Aid Association of Chicago announces M J Henley of Virginia City Nevada as agent for Winnemucca and vicinity. The group offers widows and orphans of deceased masons eight thousand five hundred dollars at nominal cost per policy, about one quarter of standard life insurance costs, with solid indemnity. For details contact the office on Second Street near Bridge in Winnemucca.
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