Local News Briefs Include Travel, Shipments, Fight and Fossil Bones
William Dealo leaves for Paradise and Thomas Scott visits from Disaster Peak ranch. Miller & Lux shipments total 25 carloads of beef to San Francisco. About 400 stock cars ordered for cattle and sheep shipments by November 1. A cyanide plant may be erected to save ore value at State Line. Joe Goddard and Tom Sharkey plan a San Francisco bout around November 18. J. B. Dally in Oregon digs up mastodon bones near Echo with huge vertebrae and long skeleton. E Rein hart & Co advertises store and range savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roxy Boyd
Lottie Tregankin
Paradise
Miller & Lux
San Francisco
Stewart Wade
Lincoln
White Plog
Elko
Frank Mayer
Jamestown
Cal
Joe Goddard
Tom Sharkey
Mechanics Pavilion
Constable Feliz
Lagelock
Jake Martin
Justice Young
State Line
Utah
Nevada
Thomas W. South
Philadelphia
Tiago
Jane A. Clendinin
J. V. McBride
Calais
Maine
Hilman Belmore
Humboldt County
Echo
Umatilla County
J. B. Dally
Sacramento Beats Reno in Fifty Mile Cyclist Race
Over 2000 spectators watched the Sacramento and Reno teams race fifty miles from Sacramento to Reno. The event featured multiple crashes and lead changes, with Sacramento finishing about a quarter mile ahead. Individual times and riders are listed, noting record-lowering performances despite injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Sacramento
Welsh
Snare
Shaver
Riddle
Thompson
Shearer
Johnson
Tenbosch
Tenborsch
Stanley
Welch
Patterson
Trenbosch
Huallauer
Payen
Young
Smith
Hirsch
Reno — Snare
Hamp
Manuel Simas
Eaton
Nash
Texas Quarantines Galveston Area Over Yellow Fever Report
Telegraphic news item notes several Texas places quarantined due to suspected yellow fever in Galveston. The brief includes other dispatches on Cuba’s new captain general Ramon Blanco aiming to end insurgency, a Brenham murder and mob killing, a Cal barn fire, Alaska gold claims, a labor strike looming across Federated Trades, and Ike Lothrop’s Klondike letter describing hardships and warnings against the route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Galveston
Ramon Blanco
Cuba
Bob Carter
James Burch
Brenham
Tex
End of the Drought Marks Broad Rain Across Western States
Chicago dispatch reports rain fell across the parched Western belt ending a historically severe drought. Kansas Nebraska Iowa Illinois Missouri Arkansas Minnesota show general rains with potential continuation. The drought caused crop losses and fires, with farmers hauling water for stock in many areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Ilinois
Missouri
Arkansas
Minnesota
Paradies Valley Tenet Sale Promotes Stoves and Nuts
Advertises a sale in Paradies valley featuring brown and piper stoves and cookers. Customers urged to apply to ART and OH for more details. Browns & Piper's in Winnemucca listed as sellers with a wide selection of line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paradies Valley
ART & OH
Winnemucca
Brown & Piper
Sesou
Leading Hardware House Promises Low Prices and Quality
The Leading Hardware House, Brows & Pires, advertises hardware including stoves ranges oils and tinning and plumbing as their line of business. They pledge to please customers with good goods good work and the lowest prices.
Advertisements and medicinal cures in a late 19th century paper
A collage of ads and testimonials offers cures for catarrh and lung illness, pain relief, and general tonics. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure, Hood's Sarsaparilla, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and No-To-Bac for tobacco cessation, with local shop mentions and dentist notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Banner of Liberty
Libertytown
Maryland
W. A. Brown
Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
William Dealo
Thomas Scott
McKeid
Laveaga
Sommerfeld
C.H. Wilbur
BR. T. Evane
Golconda
E. Cerf
San Luis Opispo
Be, Reinhart & Co’s
Orn
Les Douglas
C. Fresbour
Les
Burra
Lyon County Times
E. Reinhart & Co
Riverside
H, Scassor
Telegraphic News
Frank Guerero
San Luis Obispo
Guerero
E. Guilbault
Colorado
Denver
Alaska
Pennock
Cook's Inlet
Guilbault
Cook’s Inlet
Klondike
Minera
London
Federated Trades
Ike Lothrop
Wadsworth
Danger
Royal
Oya
Baicine
Bosley Tor
Chris
Diehl
O.C
Ren
J. Cueney & Co
Iset & Travx
Toledo
Hall
Hood
Cole
Brown & Piper's
C. F. Moore
State Board of Dental Examiners
Remuart & Co
C. C
Duncan & Miller’s Meat Market
Chris, Diehl SR
Prop
Upper
N. Owen
C. A. Lagrave
Castle Gate
C. G. Kallberg
Winnemucca, New, Bridge Street
Eagle Drug Store
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