Snowy days spark sleighing hopes and state notes around Carson
A roundup of brief items from Nevada and California notes include Hon. William Woodburn arriving from the state capital, calls for sleighing after a snowfall, factory shifts at Pittsburg mills resuming, visits by Mrs. Vogel of San Francisco and Mrs. Carter, and various legal, political, and business tidbits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Woodburn
Pittsburg
Jane
A. B. Vogel
San Francisco
B. F. Carter
Honest Money and Silver Free Coinage Debate
A correspondent to the Tribune airs views on honest money. He argues government money must follow supply and demand, warns against excess or shortage, favors free silver at 16 to 1, and links monetary policy to tariffs. Positive note on open gold and silver coinage and mining protection. A Nevada railroad proposal and Adah Chapter No.4 installation are also reported with local details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coin
Chicago
Ita
Roswatt KE. Corcorp
R A M Installation and Fires Don’t Deter Reno News
At Reno Chapter No 7 R A M a convocation installed officers for the new Masonic year led by R L Fulton and others. A banquet followed at Arcade. A house near McFarlin ranch burned with no valuables saved and a Verdi ranch hay barn fire occurred later that night. The fires’ origins are unknown. Also noted is a New Year Almanac from The Osntani Company of New York City requested by readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adah
L. Booth
P. M
A. Cunningham
W. M
M. Williams
A. M
A. L. Crockett
W. P
J. Clemens
Ruth
J. Hobbins
Esther
Reno
R. L. Fulton
J. M. McCormack
B. B
L. L. Crockett
John Horn
H. P. Kraus
W. L. Bechstel
G. H. Fogg
A. D. Bird
T. K. Hymers
A. D
L. J. Flint
Srd V
Ligle Jamison
2Nd V
BR. D. Clark
1St V
QO. Courtois
Hiram Pantland
McFarlin
H. W. Roberts
Verdi
Osntani Company
New York City
Truckee Lodge
P. Gs
Peers
Bowman
Hammersmith
Jacoba
Ham
John Armatrong
J.G. B
Angus Robinson
N.G
Philip Jacobs
Fred Utley
J. H. Clark
P.S
Osburn
George Teasland
John Bowman
Cohn
Mackay and Flood Bond Mendocino Coal Fields to Fort Bragg
Mackay and Flood bond their Mendocino coal fields near Covelo to Fort Bragg Lumber Company for 400000 dollars. The fields, bought three years ago, extend along thirty miles and are said to be virtually inexhaustible with output potential of 8000 tons daily for a millennium. The coal is high quality with no cinder. A railroad will be built to connect with the North Pacific and San Francisco Railway, delivering coal to buyers at about 2 dollars per ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States sub-Treasury
San Francisco
Colcord
John H. Wheeler
Philadelphia
Nevada
Geo. M. Parsons
Storey County
County Recorder
Great Britain
Volga
Calcutta
Demerara
Windward Islands
Justice Court
C. H. Baker
Otto Schule
Oliver Roberts
Carson
Mitchell
Corbett
Theodore Winters
Washoe County
Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress
San Fransisco
Ward
Plamas County
NC O
Joseph Arighini
Susanville
Dickey
Reno
Southern Pacific Company
Journal Office
J. A. Huntoon
Dayton
Nashville
Tenn
Supreme Relief Board
Boca
State Board of Pardons
Carson City
Thomas Anderson
Chicago
Wells, Pargo & Co
S Express
Carson Valley Creamery
Salvation Army
Pana
Hoe
Megsie
Mackay & Flood
Mendocino County
California
Fort Bragg Lumber Company
Lis
Covelo
Ukiah
Noth Pacific and
Court-House Charity Meeting Forms Relief Committee
About thirty citizens gathered at the court-house to discuss relief efforts. M D Foley was elected chairman and Allen O Bragg secretary, with a five to fifteen member committee empowered to solicit subscriptions and organize the plan, including Judge Cheney A C Bragg J B Bray Mrs L D Folsom and Miss Eva Burna, with pastors added later. meeting adjourned at 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court-House
M.D. Foley
Allen O. Bragg
Cheney
0. L. Fitchett
John B. Bray
Maynard
Keiley
R D. Dodge
A. C. Bragg
J. B. Bray
Midwinter Fair Round Trip Rates in Nevada Districts
Official round trip fares to the Midwinter Fair are listed from Verdi Reno and Wadsworth with four coupons. Fares from east of Wadsworth include Lovelock Rye Patch Humboldt Mill City Winnemucca Elko and other towns. The article also notes lodge officer installations and mentions railroad manager changes amid a long, mixed text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Verdi
Reno
Wadsworth
Lovelock
Rye Patch
Humboldt
Mill City
Winnemucca
Golconda
Battle Mountain
Beowana
Palisade
Carlin
Elko
Brevities from Saturday's Daily Chronicle
A long list of brief items notes river ice and sleighing good for winter, local travel from Garson City and Comstock, public notices, midwinter fair plans, and health ads. Mentions Panchen at Carson Opera House, Oregon and California claim figures, local church services, and a mix of weather, crime, and social notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenmor Coffin
Garson City
A. D. Griffin
Toledo
Ohio
Carson Opera House
Col
F. O. Lord
Comstock
California
M. E. Church
Chronicle
Mercury
Virginia City
Alvaro Evans
San Francisco
Humboldt
Board of Commissioners
Nevada
Oregon
Ayer
Bodie Camp Describes Hard Winter of Gold Town
A Mason Valley Tidings correspondent details Bodie California as a harsh gold camp where horses wear snowshoes and women gumbooted. miners vanish near town in heavy snows. bullion is silvery yet insufficient to sustain operations. mills run erratically. climate and tough residents deter new arrivals. the town seems played out and only a population swap might save it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bodie
Mason Valley
Miss Curnutt Seizes Outlaws In Oklahoma Town
Miss Curnutt a Norman district court clerk 20 years old rode to arrest two desperadoes Reagan and Dolezel in a saloon. She cuffed them and escorted the pair to the train, turning them over to a U S marshal, proving women can enforce law and order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Una
Ada
Miss Curnatt
Norman
Oklahoma
United States
Miss Curnutt
Mass Curnutt
Reagan
Dolezel
China
New York Sun
The Sword Pin Fashion and Other Parlor Notices
Fashion notes survey the shift from heart motifs to sword and dagger pins in shop windows, then discuss rush bottomed chairs, luxury dress gifts to a Russian empress, a young American artist in Paris, royal domestic life, a North Dakota congressman’s wife as farm manager, Spain’s only woman lawyer, Phi Kappa Beta badges at a reception, and a reform dress by Laura Lee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper’s Bazar
Mary Hughitt Halliday
Cairo
Ills
Vassar and
Packer
Woman’s Art Club of Sculptors and Painters
Paris
William M. Chase
New York
New York Advertiser
Spain
Manuela Y Palido
Madrid
Lon Casagemas
Julia Ward Howe
Phi Kappa Beta Society
Score Lee
Laura Lee
Borton
Miss Lee
Boston Globe
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. C. H. Martin
Archie McDonnell
Thomas P. Hawley
Massachusetts State Prison
Boston
John Sherman
Washington, D. GC
Coleman
W. H. Chedic
The
Tribune
Sacramento River
Ghodic
R. A. M. Installation
Mackaws Coal
Ike
Riverside Council No. 2
Order of Chosen Friends
J.C. Shaver
Grace Haydon
Roy Heese
M. Kornmeyer
T. E. Haydon
Eailroead
Seaturday
A. Towne
Southern Desia
W. G. Curtis
A. D. Wilder
Freaqoland
Tod Angeles
Oakland
Fresno
Pitcher’s, Castoria
John A. Sands
Bend
Chris Evane
Morell
Hall
Grace Davis
Ocaraon
Palo Alto
Stanford University
Elko County
Humboldt County
Senate
W. P. McLaughlin
Baptist Church
Cairns
Wadsworth Dispatch
Virginia Chronicle
Midwinter Fair Commissioners
Cochran
Ways and Means Committee
W. Harris
Harris
Washoe City
Litster
Boone Canyon
Lander County
Reveille
Vaughns
Rast
J.P. Foulks
Essex
Pontis Accelerating Airmotor Co
Multi-Motor Co
Griffin
John Young
Young
Leister
Austin
Masonic
Journ
Sacramento
the Independent
Hoosier Country
Percy
King
Empire
San Francisco Chronicle
Hood’s
Cherlin
Beolbers
London
Marion Harland
Holy Land
Louisiana
Merick
Supreme Court of the State
Minneapolis
the Duchey of Sutherland
Georgiana Lady Dudley
Brooke
Countess of Warwick
Henry FitzGerald
Powis
de Trafford
Princess Henry of
Press
Hanbury
Chelsea
Rossmore
Lancelot Lowther
Ulrica Duncombe
Sophia Cadogan
Maurice Wilson
Helene d’Orleans
England
London Letter
Khergeti
Helen Keller
Tuscumbia
Als
Working Women’s Protective Union of
Queen Victoria
Wri Lces of
Bedford
Duchess of Stoveland
Jane Ellice
Lyons
Russia
Lyona
Princess of Wales
Duchess of York
Johnson
North Dakota
Congress
Taranto
Italy
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