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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1898
Page
2
Weather Bureau report for March 31 1888 at 4 PM 75th meridian time shows mean barometer 29.90 inches maximum temperature 4 degrees minimum 2 degrees mean 38 degrees normal 4? degrees wind from the SW precipitation 0.00 inches. March 15 87 minimum above zero. By GEO B ACKERMAN observer.
Editors warn stockmen that Nevada will not be added to the quarantine district. Senator Stewart advised Washington that Nevada remains excluded, despite fears California cattlemen may ship starving cattle into the state.
The Virginia Enterprise argues that looming irrigation shortages in Nevada require building storage reservoirs. It urges the legislature to authorize funding in phases, creating regional reservoirs to reclaim land and ease tax burdens as water access improves.
Chaplain Chidwick's official report lists 257 men and two officers dead. Six died of injuries at San Ambrosio hospital and one on a Spanish transport. Of 171 recovered bodies, 61 identified. 161 buried in Colon Cemetery and 11 in Key West. Corrections completed.
The U S district court hears a case over a few boards of decaying lutober taken from Fort Halleck. The Carson Appeal mocks the defendants saying true grabs would be a half million acres of land and avoid trial.
The editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat has been appointed director of the United States Mint. If confirmed, this marks a rare instance of a newspaper man taking a government money minting post, signaling a novel public service path for press professionals.
A veteran colonel warns war is too terrible to contemplate and declares his sons are substitutes who bled and died for him. The piece contrasts this with a listener’s remark about whisky and notes a farcical foreign account of Klondike travel. Also references Hood's Sarsaparilla and various local ads for hats shirts windsills and Cascarets.
A sheriff sale under a district court decree in Humboldt County Nevada covers the Blackbird mine and mining claim described as 1500 by 600 feet in Central mining district. The sale, by public auction, occurs April 18 1888 at 12 noon in Winnemucca courthouse steps, to satisfy judgment of $531.57 plus $31.15 costs and interest.
The District Court of the Second Judicial District of Nevada Humboldt County appoints Katherine Germain executrix of Joseph Germain's estate. Creditors must file claims with vouchers at the court within the statutory stay period after first publication or be barred. Dated March 23, 188?.
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