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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1899
Page
2
The Silver State newspaper listing shows subscription rates for six months and three months, with mail and carrier delivery options. It notes offices at Bridge Corner and Fourth Street and mentions Windemeres as a carrier area.
Weather Bureau report for Wannamucca shows one hour ending at 0:00 indicating mean barometer 9.94 inches, maximum temperature 6? degrees, minimum 31 above zero, mean 9 degrees, normal 37 degrees, prevailing wind direction 8, precipitation 24 hours. Aukerman, Observer.
Partly cloudy with showers possible and warmer tonight. Nevada topics include irrigation for desert lands, water storage, and the San Joaquin valley example. Reports mention E Bates Loper execution, Stanford stock, Nevada potatoes, Klondike nuggets, and local university basketball plans. Notes touch political and railroad questions, Bryan silver prospects, and Hawaiian population decline.
A westbound freight known as the Cooper special struck another westbound train between Auburn and Bowman California around 10 pm. Conductor Cooper and a brakeman were severely injured and later reported to have died. The Castonia passenger train will be delayed, not arriving before 7 pm, possibly later, and will be in two sections.
Six cars of beef cattle depart for San Francisco by Western Meat Co. from a San Francisco butcher Junker. E F Mullaney brought in the cattle yesterday. two cars today go to Western Meat Co. from Battle Mountain. Sacramento’s E T Schane is at Lafayette KE Mullaney and wife visited from McDermit. Dr M J Davis returns to Golconda. J Sibbald travels to Golconda. Paradise notes report James Byrnes Sr improving while stockmen head to fields. Feed quality improves in Paradise as ranchers plant and tend crops.
Governor Reinhold Sacher proclaims Friday April 21 as Arbor Day in Nevada. The notice urges planting trees and scrubs, plus care for growth and beauty in public and private grounds and school ceremonies. It clarifies the day is not a legal holiday for courts or civil contracts.
Golconda gears up for a grand Fourth of July celebration with a planned Jockey Club and prize races after a town meeting. The piece also runs through assorted local notices, medicines, and advertisements including Hall’s Catarrh Cure, Pain Balm praise, apple trees for sale, and One Minute Cough Cure.
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