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Newspaper
Tonopah Daily Bonanza
Location
Tonopah, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1908
Page
2
The management of the Goranea asks readers to refrain from buying the paper. The notice requests cooperation from all patrons to support this directive.
A charity ball is held tonight at the Miners Exchange hall to aid a city woman with eight children whose husband is missing. Local ladies organized the event after concern over the family’s destitution, with reduced musician fees and hall costs donated. Admission is one dollar, aiming for a large turnout.
Washoe plans to send an anti Bartlett delegation to the Democratic convention in Tonopah after the Bartlett faction was defeated by Considine Haley Driscoll allies. McCarran support appears split with some delegates backing Bartlett as polling shows Bartlett leading statewide. A telegram reports Nye County for McCarran, while Bullfrog backed him but Tonopah voted against. Manhattan division noted.
Mrs K F Burdick left yesterday for Seattle. Arthur Kunze came up from Greenwater. Mrs C F Wittenberg left for the coast. Mrs Henry Bartlett and child from Round Mountain. Walter D Cole is in Manhattan for mining interests. Mrs Arthur Raycraft returned to Manhattan. Henry Bartlett from Round Mountain hydraulic camp. Fred Brown and Frank Dodd auto trip to Bodie and Carson. M S Wahrhaftig of Sacramento arrived for several days. Max Jinghandel, mining engineer, from San Francisco. G H Rotherham and B A Bosgui leave for Los Angeles for about a month. Mrs W D Forster to visit Stratford Ontario and eastern cities.
To merchants the refrigerator can from San Francisco via 8 P Mina and T and G RB containing your perishable freight now at the T and G depot ready for delivery.
Nevada lawfulness of parole by the state board of pardons is challenged by Detective Thacher of Wells Fargo. He cites Reno Gazette reporting that the board rarely pardoned prisoners before this year and plans to probe whether any statute grants parole power and why recent commutations occurred.
Wm. Er. McMillan, a wealthy lumber dealer, was robbed on a Pullman car near Pittsburg. The thief took clothing, 155 dollars in cash and jewelry valued at 200 dollars. McMillan, who weighs 200 pounds, had no clothing on the train that fit him and left in conductor trousers wrapped in a sheet.
The International Reform Bureau, active since 1896 in Washington, D. C., uses legislation influence letters lectures and literature to promote moral reforms. It operates nationwide including Nevada where anti gambling law is sought for the next state session. Field secretary H. B. Hudson plans a Tonopah lecture on Should Nevada Become a Colony for Gamblers.
F A King of San Francisco a prominent Knight of Pythias and agent for Henderson Ames Regal ia company will arrive on Sunday morning and attend the local lodge meeting Monday evening A smoker will be given on the occasion and all knights are urged to attend promptly.
New York reports seven men insured 1 000 000 or more with Rodman Wanamaker of Philadelphia atop the list at 4 000 000. James B Colgate and others hold substantial policies as Philadelphia and New York show strong totals in a nationwide life-insurance tally.
Republican primaries open 1 pm to 6 pm at the former Creamerie site on Main Street. Judges of election are W. M. Bowle W. K. Wise and Duncan McDonald. A large Republican vote expected in this city.
Tonopah and Goldfield officials announce a change in refrigeration car unloading, now Tonopah first then Goldfield, ending layover delays. Dr S A Chapman died after morphine overdose intended to calm nerves. He leaves a wife several children and a Nevada City brother. body to be shipped for interment. Certificates of location noted.
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On August 12 at 10 a m and continuing until all articles are disposed of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad company will sell at public auction to the highest bid a large quantity of unclaimed baggage accumulated before January 15, 1908 at their freight house in this city J R Johnson
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