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Newspaper
Tonopah Daily Bonanza
Location
Tonopah, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
3
The following quotations are furnished by Kenneth Donnellan and Co. a reliable brokerage firm. Investors are advised to consider these figures as current reference values for market activity.
A social dinner featuring a bull's head was hosted Wednesday afternoon at the Imperial saloon owned by Downing and Corkery for friends and patrons. Also announced a newborn eight pound son to the wife of H. J. Stewart, with both mother and child reported well.
Reno dispatch reports a daring highway robbery on the south Virginia road between Reno and Moana Springs. Three armed men halted Mr. and Mrs. B. Wheeler and their two daughters, forcing them to surrender jewelry and money while one ring was dropped, a watch and beads hidden by a child.
Robbers stripped rings valued at over $600 from Mrs Wheeler’s Ruhstaller Beer on Draught at the Belmont Saloon in the Smith Block Tonopah. They forced Sam Wheeler to surrender a valuable gold watch and stock from Kelly Bros Props. Pool rooms are connected with the business.
A chaotic report details the Wheelers threatening to shoot them and to shoot the car full of holes if they try to flee by driving into Reno, signaling a violent attempted escape.
List of unclaimed letters remaining in the Tonopah post office for the week ending August 4 1908. Please say advertised when calling for same. One cent due on each. Includes Geo Boone F O Fletcher Pete Bogovich Bob Brown W L Cros Chipsen Frank Covell Mrs Wm Dyer Annie Harper C C Hartigan John Hall Mrs Wm Mitchell Mrs Wm Montgomery BE A Moffatt T G O Brien Jas Pettros Pet Peterson Mrs Al Secretary Mining Exchange South J E Sulet A Shelton Herbert Tonopah Wonder Mining Co Wright Bodie Wulrich Mitzer Foreign List Fisher Geoffrey C Hellings Herbert Stenson Thomas Stone Jacob Berg Mrs H A Packages Clark R D Rost John.
In Los Angeles on August 6 Mrs Lieale Schenck, aged 17, obtained an interlocutory decree after a guardian was appointed to pursue the action amid past desertion by her husband Robert Schenck. The case notes she married at 15 two years prior and was too young to prosecute alone.
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