A Democratic Protest Against Adams Candidacy for Governor
A Nevada pro-Democrat letter dated Eureka April 28 1882 argues Lieutenant Governor Adams should not seek the Governor’s nomination. It cites alleged eight year tenure and a back salary issue over 1875 76 Library Clerk payments and asserts Adams neglected duties and misused public funds. The writer urges the Democratic convention to reject Adams and recalls Kendall’s political fate.
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Eurexa
Eorrot Journeau
Jewett W. Adams
Adams
Mr. Adams
Senate
Jewatt W. Adams
Bartlett Mitchell
Mitchell
Congress
Democratic Party of
Nevada
C. W. Kendall
Kendall
George W. Cassidy
DeExwocnkat
Senator Blair of New Hampshire and temperance reform
Senator Blair of New Hampshire emerges as a leading social reformer aiming to amend the Constitution to ban distilled liquors after 1900, with extensive details on his temperance proposal and career. The piece notes his early life, education at New Hampshire Conference Seminary, war service, and political rise to the U.S. Senate. It also covers the Anti-Chinese Convention in San Francisco, its agenda, and a ratification meeting at Platts Hall with the League of Deliverance.
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Senate of the
United States
Blair
Senator Blair
Campton
New Hampshire
Crafton County
New Hampshire Volunteers
Port Hudson
State House of Representatives
State Senate
San Francisco
League of Deliverance
Platt’s Hall
The Chinese Bill Vote Reported in Washington
A Washington dispatch details the Chinese Bill vote with 82 Yeas and 15 Nays, listing many senators by name and party. It notes 22 Democrats, 9 Republicans, and 1 Independent in affirmative votes, and that 24 Republicans and 1 Democrat opposed passage. The piece observes New England provided eleven negatives, Hale of Maine the sole proponent from the region, and predicts House concurrence and presidential submission next week.
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Washington
Yeas
Beck
Butler
Call
Cameron
Wisconsin
Chilcott
Coke
Davis
Illinois
Fair
Farley
Garland
George
Grover
Hale
Hampton
Harris
Hill
Colorado
Johnster
Jonas
Jones
Nevada
Maxey
Miller
California
Muller
New York
Morgan
Pendleton
Pugh
Saunders
Slater
Vance
Mer Wyck
West
Walker
Williams
Allison
Blair
Conger
Dawes
Edmunds
Frye
Harrison
Hawley
Hoar
Ingalls
Lapham
McMillan
Morrill
Platt
Sherman
Cockrell
Missouri
Brown
Georgia
Mahone
Friends and Enemies of Restriction
New England
Maine
House of Representatives
Fair and Cassidy clash over Nevada judge retirement bills
A Washington dispatch says House action favors Cassidy's bill for 75 000 to retire Judge Hillyer of Nevada, while Fair's 100 600 plan from the Senate lingers. The piece argues amending Fair's bill to 75 000 would avoid delays and keep credit on both senators. Ormsby County Commissioners awarded county printing to the Nevada Tribune.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Cassidy
Hillyer
Nevada
Fair
Senate
House
Congress
U. S
Falr
Ormsby County
The
Nevada Tribune
Opals Abound in Yuma County Arizona
Among the many valuable minerals found in Arizona the opal is often overlooked. Yuma county holds an abundance of these gems with lime coatings and oval shapes.
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Arizona
Yuma County
Idaho Builds 300 Miles Of Roads This Year
Idaho plans 300 miles of new roads this year with 225 miles by Union Pacific and 75 miles by Northern Pacific, detailing major railroad–funded highway projects and regional expansion.
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Idaho
Union Pacific
The
Northern Pacific
President orders swift action against Arizona uprising
The President directs prompt, vigorous measures to quell the Indian outbreak in Arizona. Additional troops will aid existing forces, including the First Infantry from Texas, the Fourth Infantry on the Union Pacific, the Third Cavalry and Ninth Cavalry from the Platte and Missouri departments. A unified command under a Brigadier General is likely. The President notes press criticism but sees broad Pacific Coast opposition to the Anti Chinese bill veto.
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Arizona
First Infantry
Texas
Fourth Infantry
Union Pacific
Department of the Platte
Third Cavalry
New York
Pacific Coast
Union Con Mine Notes From Virginia Chronicle
The bullion shipped and stored in the company office totals over 51000 as the mill is cleaned today. Cleanup is expected to lift April bullion output to 70000 to 75000. Clean bullion will reach the city by Wednesday or Thursday. Superintendent Patton reports no notable changes at the Union mine with everything operating satisfactorily after returning from San Francisco. Stopes on the 2500 level are looking well and yielding, with ore output this week matching last week.
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Virginia Chronicle
Patton
Union
San Francisco
Carson Methodist Popular Lectures Series
The Carson Methodist church announces a second series of popular lectures and concerts. An organ concert features local talent on May 4. On May 16 Senator J. D. Hammond talks Pioneers and Pioneering. May 23 Col. Henry G. Shaw speaks Scarletts Three Hundred the Charge of the Heavy Brigade. Tickets for the three events are 50 cents. Doors open 7 p.m., concerts and lectures begin 8 p.m.
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Carson Methodist Church
J. D. Hammond
Postwar Pay Benefit Expanded for Officers Below Brigadier General
Comptroller of the Treasury adopts a ruling applying the Act of March 2, 1867 to officers below brigadier general who served between July 1 1866 and July 1 1868. Those in service on March 3 1867 have been paid. the new ruling benefits only those who resigned or were honorably discharged between July 1 1866 and March 2 1867.
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Comptroller of the Treasury
Carson election yields quiet three-trustee vote
In Carson three trustees were chosen with little turnout and no opposition to Republicans. The next Board will include Jacob Mulier John G Fox RB W Bollen and holdovers Benton and Bray. Analysts say Judge Davis counsel swayed the President on the Chinese bill, voting for it.
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Carson
Jacob Mulier
John G, Fox
W. Bollen
Benton and
Bray
David Davis
Davis
Irwin Declines Governor Run Aims for Congress At Large
A private letter from ex Governor Irwin to a Sacramento delegation member states he will not seek the governorship but plans to campaign for the congressman at large. The California Democratic State Convention convenes in San Jose on June 20.
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Irwin
Sacramento
California
San Jose
Savoy Theatre Drops Curtain Noted World’s Prettiest
The Savoy Theatre in London features a white satin drop curtain, elaborately hand quilted and claimed to be the prettiest in the world, with a cost of 5000 dollars.
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Savoy Theatre
London
Freight rails link Chicago and Denver fast line
Railways Chicago & Northwestern and Union Pacific establish a fast freight service between Chicago and Denver. Cattle marketing in southern Kansas improves as grass is good. First wheat sold in St Louis at No. 2 grade from Johnson Kansas.
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Chicago & Northwestern
Union Pacific Railways
Chicago
Denver
Kansas
Brewster
St. Louis
Johnson, Phansas
State News Recap Amid Church Departure and Fire Loss
Rev. E. F. Walker of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia City plans to leave for Ohio. Gardelli's hotel at Genoa burned completely between midnight and 1 am Friday, about $3,000 loss, $2,000 insured, cause undetermined. C Derby is Central Nevada’s chief refrigerator boss, five new refrigerator cars arrived at Winnenmmccca for dressed beef shipment.
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E. F. Walker
Presbyterian Church
Virginia City
Comstock
Plac
Ohio
Gardelli
Genoa
C. Derby
Boss
Nevada
Winnenmmccca
Derby
Million Bushels Wheat Hopes Stir Colusa Grower
Dr Glenn of Colusa California aims for a one million bushels wheat harvest this year. He promises his foreman a ten thousand dollar bonus if the target is reached on his branch, a prospect likely to be earned. He manages about sixty thousand acres, implying a possible yield of around sixteen hundred thirty four bushels per acre. The idea of a million bushels captures farming imagination.
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Glenn
Colusa
Cal
Arizona Sentinel Cartoonist Sends Skeletons to Congress
A Tucson dispatch by Tom Fitch, famed as the Silver tengued Orator of Nevada, reports that after a meeting adjourned he proposed a resolution unknown to the Governor that could embarrass him, urging Arizona representation for the Fortress Monroe display as a grand military event.
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Tucson
Washington
Tom Fitch
Nevada
Arizona Citizen
Rgular
Fitch
Assembly of People
Fortress Monroe
United States
Congress
Arizona
Dog Trains in Wood River Snowbound Route
Snow wrapping the Sawtooth range traps wagons for three to six weeks with five to six feet of snow on a level. Communication relies on snowshoes or dog teams. Dow's stage driver Mr. Smith sent six dogs and five hundred pounds of bacon and sugar on a toboggan to Ketchum, reaching nine miles before crust failed. The dogs are untrained and will improve with use. they eat oatmess mush. On return he will carry red fish.
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Sawtooth
Mr. Smith
Dow
Lake Tahoe narrow gauge road opens to summit
The Carson Index notes the Lake Tahoe narrow gauge line began summer service yesterday, with the first engine reaching the summit and Carson to the lake now connected. Glenbrook mills to start operations Thursday and Smart & Reynolds to start furning wood from the summit next Wednesday. prospect for a busy summer looks strong.
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Carson Index
Lake Tahoe
Carson
Glenbrook Mills
Messrs. Smart & Reynolds
Oregon Pacific Railroad prospectus described
A San Francisco Bulletin excerpt details the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company prospectus. The plan includes Yaquina Bay as a sea outlet in Benton County Oregon, with an 1880 Oregon Legislature memorial for 200000 dollars to improve the Yaquina entrance for large ships. The route aims to serve Willamette Valley traffic, claim a shorter distance to San Francisco, and notes 70 miles of track already funded with 130 more planned this year. The state offers a 20 year tax exemption, and the line would reach Boise City Idaho and connect with the Northern Pacific at Umatilla.
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Oxecon Pacific Railroad
San Francisco Bulletin
Oregon Pacific Railroad Company
Yaquina Bay
Benton County
Oregon
Legislature of
Congress
Yaquima Bay
Willamette Valley
San Francisco
Columbia River
Boise City
Idaho
Northern Pacific
Umatilla
Strike at Grand Central mine Revives Tuscarora Prospecting
Goop news from Tuscanona reports a four foot thick high grade ore vein at the Grand Central mine in Tuscarora. The Elko Independent notes a new discovery in a Basin mine tunnel run for the Ford brothers. the blind lead is described as large and rich, encouraging renewed local mining interest and support for further discoveries.
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Tuscanona
Grand Central
Tuscarora
Elko Independent
Basin
Ford Brothers
Iyet
Weather Keeps Farms Cold and Mills Discuss Changes
Goose Lake Nols notes persistent cold weather hindering farming though much grain sown. Fish run poor with few catches. A man paid L Cannon 60 for fishing access two years ago. this year was charged 2 per day. C A Snider contemplates less farming. A Snider arrival may bring grinding rate reductions. No belief Suider will permit another mill despite higher rates. Mail to Alturas remains slow. postmasters not to blame.
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L. Cannon
C.A. Snider
A. Snider
Suider
Alturas
Cedarville Notes From April 25 1882
Cedarville reports several snow storms this week as farmers near seeding completion. Dr. Patterson returns from San Francisco. J C Welcome plans to buy horse saddles and gear below. July 4 festivities planned by locals. Teams head to Reno for Haynes Co Kistler Bros and a new cedar firm. J Monchamp now runs his hotel and invites patrons. Cedarville Cornet Band travels to Bidwell for S O O F celebration. Many locals travel to Alturas next week to serve as jurors and witnesses.
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Cedarville
Dr. Patterson
San Francisco
J. C
Reno
Haynes & Co
Kistler Bros. & Co
Correspondi nt Critique of the Silver State Letters
The Carson Appeal ridicules a Silver State correspondent for fabricating letters from abroad. It accuses the paper of accepting dubious contributions and questions the integrity of anti monopoly rhetoric from a bribe-seeker with worn boots and crooked knees.
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Carson Appeal
Carson
Silver State
Labor Versus Capital Predicted in San Francisco Daily Report
The San Francisco Daily Report forecasts a national clash between labor and capital driven by wage workers and bondholders. It warns the moneyed class aims to enslave labor and widen the wealth gap, while urging scrutiny of politicians who favor corporations as the ballot becomes a decisive weapon.
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Tae Comino
San Francisco Daily Report
Lsbor
Jeck
Kirkwood for Congress Candidacy Rumors Stir Iowa
The Chicago Tribune Cedar Rapids special notes speculation on Kirkwood seeking Congress. While not announcing, he may accept a nomination if tendered, following past patterns of reluctant journeys to office. Two rivals plan to withdraw in his favor if he agrees.
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Kirkwood
Congress
Chicago Tribune
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Denver's New Bargosp East Progress Hails Denver Reach
An Omaha dispatch from the 28th reports the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy will start track laying eastward from Denver next week. A large force will lay about one mile of track daily with steel rails from the Pueblo works, the first steel rolled in Colorado. Track laying here advances at two miles daily, six miles remain, and Denver is expected to be reached on or before June 1.
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Denver
Bargosp
Omaha
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Publo Works
Colorado
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