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Beatty Bullfrog Miner – Beatty, Nevada [was called the Bullfrog Miner during first two months of publication – not to be confused with the Bullfrog Miner, of Rhyolite, Nevada]
Inyo Independent – Independence, California
Inyo Register – Bishop, California
Rhyolite Herald – Rhyolite, Nevada

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Keeler, California

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Newspaper Articles
1899

Inyo Register, January 26, 1899
Summary: Marcus C. Hawley, president of the Hawley Brothers Hardware Company in San Francisco, has died in Connecticut on January 15. Hawley was the namesake of Hawley, which is now Keeler.

1904

Inyo Independent, July 8, 1904
“Died, Boland, at Keeler California July 3, 1904. Thomas Carrol Boland, a native of Pennsylvania, aged 61 years.”

Inyo Independent, July 8, 1904
Summary: Obituary for Thomas Carrol Boland.

1906

Inyo Register, November 1, 1906
Summary: Fatal shooting at Keeler.

1907

Inyo Independent, February 8, 1907
Summary: A Japanese worker at the soda works on Owens Lake was run over by a train that was hauling soda and had both legs cut off.

Inyo Register, December 26, 1907
Summary: A Greek man murders a Japanese man at Keeler.

1908

Inyo Register, January 16, 1908
"COMING TRIALS"
Summary: Trial for murder of Korean man by a man of Greek nationality. December 26, 1907 article incorrectly identifies murder victim of being of Japanese descent.

Inyo Register, February 27, 1908
Summary: Greek man, who murdered an Oriental man at Keeler, acquitted. Inyo Register can't seem to make up its mind if the murdered man is Japanese or Korean, this time stating that the victim was Japanese.

Inyo Register, June 25, 1908
"BLOODLESS SHOOTING AT KEELER."
Summary: John McLeod fires his gun at an unnamed Mexican man during a short affray at Keeler. The bullet did not strike the intended target.

Inyo Register, October 8, 1908
Summary: C.A. Stout, employee of the Four Metals Company at Keeler, has died suddenly of a heart attack.

Inyo Register, November 26, 1908
Summary: Death of James Barnes, 72 years of age, who died at the hospital in Big Pine. Mr. Barnes had been an Inyo County resident 30 years. Was a former owner of the Lone Pine Hotel, and also a proprietor at the hotel at Keeler. He was also a Democratic nominee for Sheriff of Inyo County.

Inyo Register, December 24, 1908
"STABBING AT KEELER"
Summary: Sam Allen stabbed by Joe King in a dispute over a property possession. Allen was seriously hurt, but getting along well at last account.

1909

Inyo Register, January 28, 1909
Summary: H.A. Jones, age 32, of Keeler, California, is dead. Bright's Disease was the cause of death.

Inyo Register, February 4, 1909
Summary: H.A. Jones, the Keeler man who died of Bright's Disease, is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. T.E. Jones, of Round Valley, Inyo County.

Inyo Register, February 11, 1909
"INTERNMENT OF H.A. JONES"
Summary: H.A. Jones, of Keeler, who died of Bright's Disease, is laid to rest.

Inyo Register, April 22, 1909
"BOARD OF SUPERVISORS: VIEWERS NAMED IN THE KEELER ROAD CONTEST"
Summary: Inyo County Board of Supervisors minutes for Thursday, April 8. H.D. Gill of Independence appeared under oath and made a complaint as to the violation of liquor ordinances by saloon keepers. He stated that in Darwin February 1909, he saw Henry Heitman, who is proprietor of a saloon, sell liquor to different persons who were intoxicated. At the saloon of George Mates at Keeler, he saw liquor sold to intoxicated men. Saloons of A.B. Elder, Bob Carrasco and Harry Reynolds at Lone Pine also sold liquor to intoxicated men; as well as the saloons of H. Leavy, Naylor & Maxwell, and C.H. Johnson in Independence.

Inyo Register, April 29, 1909
“TRIAL CONCLUDED.”
Summary: A case between the Four Metals Company (of Keeler, CA) vs Troeger and Clinton for possession of Cerro Gordo slag. Submitted before Judge Dehy of Inyo County. Each side has fifteen days in which to file briefs. And the court may then take 90-days in which to render a decision.

Inyo Register, May 27, 1909
“BOX CAR ROBBERY”
Summary: Reports of box car robberies come from Keeler, where a car was entered last week and several cases of merchandise stolen. A quantity of whiskey as well as articles of food. A short time later, cans and bottles of “abstracted brands” began to appear around a cabin occupied by a gang of tramps. Officer Oscar Dearborne made a roundup and arrested seven suspects.

Inyo Register, June 10, 1909
“THREE FEET OF $240 ORE: NEWSBOY MINE HAS SHOWING WORTHY CERRO GORDO’S LIVELIEST DAYS.”
Summary: An employee on the tramway to Cerro Gordo lost his balance and to save himself he caught the traveling cable. His finger was carried between the cable and the wheel and instantly cut off.

Inyo Register, June 10, 1909
“DEATH AT LAWS”
Summary: A young man named John Hjalmarsolini was found dead in a hammock at George Huckaby’s place at Laws, California. He had been working at Keeler, California, but recently came to Laws. Mr. Hjalmarsolini secured a room at Huckaby’s Hotel. Inquest held by Justice Shannon showed that he had probably risen very early in the morning, gone to a ditch nearby for a drink of water, and laid down in the hammock instead of returning to his room. Consumption was the cause of death. He held certificates as a stationary engineer for small engines, and papers on him showed he had ownership of land in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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