Murder at Round Mountain Rocks Miners
Italian miner Frank Ciscillini was shot and killed in Round Mountain on Wednesday night. Authorities suspect two men acted after a dispute over a woman’s marriage plans. two pistols were found at the scene and no arrest has been made. Assistant District Attorney Walter Cole went to Round Mountain to investigate and may return later today.
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Frank Ciscillini
Round Mountain
Ciscillini
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Ciseillini
Walter Cole
Rawhide Miner Survives 104 Foot Shaft Fall
Joe Ray a Rawhide miner fell 104 feet to the shaft bottom at Rawhide last week and survived with a broken right arm and stiffness. He was brought to Tonopah express and is in a local hospital. Physicians call his escape miraculous as 99 of 100 would die. Ray is Zeb Ray’s brother, a prominent mining property owner. He helped drill at the state fair grounds last year.
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Rend
Joe Ray
Ray
Tonopah
Rawhide
Zeb Ray
State Fair Grounds
Reno merchants oppose Interstate terminal rates plan
The Reno merchants have filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission to secure terminal rates. The traffic bureau of the Merchant's Exchange in San Francisco opposes the move. Secretary C. Friedlander warns that Reno’s success could stifle commerce between Nevada and the West. He says Nevada town buyers pay freight to Sacramento and back, though goods do not go there. The Reno traffic bureau and the merchants plan to fight. San Francisco seeks protection for its merchants and vows a strong defense.
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San Francisco
Bct
Reno
Interstate Commerce Commission
Merchant's Exchange
Traffic Bureau
C. Friedlander
Nevada
Sacramento
Hanta
Turks and Bulgarians Engage at Dunmaq Frontier
A Athens dispatch reports fighting between Turkish and Bulgarian forces at Dunmaq on the frontier. The tally given cites seventy Bulgarians and seven Turks killed, with the dispatch confirming ongoing hostilities.
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London
Athene
Dunmaq
Pepert
Turquoise Diggings to Be Worked Again by Tiffany and Co
Old Crescent Camp October 20 Tiffany and Company of New York will reopen the famous turquoise diggings taking out 500 pounds of premier gems. Earlier a 100 pounds were shipped east. Turquoise occurs in lime scams of quartz and porphyry near the surface. below 15 feet stones soften. The discoverer Simmons is said to have profited $160,000 but died before enjoying it. A five year old shooting fatality involves C. C. Smithson. Updated turquoise price near $1 a carat makes the shipment worth about $1,000,000.
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Tiffany and Company of
New York
Simmons
Barnwell
C. C. Smithson
Old Crescent
Tiffany
Bertillon System In Nevada State Prison
The Bertillon system will be installed this week at the Nevada state penitentiary in Carson under Warden Maxwell and state police. All convicts serving more than thirty days will be photographed front and side, measured, described, and marked for identification, a process expected to take fifty days. Certificates of location for sale at the Bonanza office.
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Nevada State Penitentiary
Maxwell
Carson
Notice of Foreclosure Sale in Tonopah Nevada
Public notice of a Nevada Nye County foreclosure sale dated Oct 15 1908 commands the sale of Lot 1 Block 4 West End Addition Tonopah for satisfying a court decree issued Oct 12 1908. The sale occurs Nov 7 1908 at 4:00 pm in front of the Nye County Courthouse, with gold coin bids accepted. Judge Owens signs as Sheriff.
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vAppah Lumber Company
Pisintiff, Va. Gev
Tonopah
County of
Nye
State of
Nevada
West End
United States
J. Owens
Shorts
Vail Pittman
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Tenderloin
Clabh
Old Crescent Camp
Bonanza
Tonopah Banking Corporation
Europe
H. J. Hall
Liquor House
Lower Main Street
Depot
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