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Newspaper
Wadsworth Dispatch
Location
Wadsworth, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1893
Page
3
Fragmented OCR text from Wadsworth Dispatch appears with garbled dates and locations. Readable bits suggest a local note or brief item, but key names and events are unclear. The record preserves uncertain pointers to a likely public notice or community update.
A miscellany of short items notes cold weather, market goods, legislative moves, and travelers. Mentions Governor Hogg, Senator-elect John M. Stewart, and various Nevada officials. reports on rail service, broadcasting rumors, and a traveling stone curiosity. includes personal vignettes about Eddie Walsh and a family tale of a Westward move and pride.
John F. Martin, a native of Portugal, aged 27, is reported in Battle Mountain. The brief notice records his name age and origin without further detail of circumstances or date.
The death of 25 year old John F. Hale, a Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation School teacher, is linked to pine nut poisoning after he fell ill within twenty minutes of stomach pain and convulsions. He ate pine nuts that morning and showed no other food intake before dying. Piute informants report fatalities from large pine nut meals, supporting the poisoning theory.
The note describes foggy weather and good river fishing, a school dinner for Supt. Phipps, Mr C J Lowery's ten days of confinement with a cold, and various local anecdotes about residents including Big Month Jim and Windy Bill. It also mentions a thoroughbred horse, a political election prize, and a public school attendance plus state budget figures for 1893-04.
A Popu lar Science News article describes a remarkable witch-tree near Tugcarora, noting it rises six to seven feet tall with a trunk three times the size of a wrist and many branches resembling barberry. locals call it witch-tree and it is linked to Indigenous superstition.
A strange luminous tree near the Tanit Mi Library Association prompts wonder reports says its glow comes from a rubbing transferable phosphorescent substance while a director proposes a literary program featuring readings addresses and recitations to engage members and attract youth a Shakespeare talk may draw students interested in literature and Nikthes.
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