GBR Law & Order, Life & Death Series

Great Basin Research

Law & Order Life and Death In the Great Basin – Laws, California Historical News of Misdemeanor, Felony and Internment Death and Near Misses by Natural Causes, Accidents and Human Hand compiled from newspaper research by David A. Wright

Newspaper List
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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Laws, California

Newspaper Articles

1904

Inyo Independent, October 28, 1904
Summary: Death of R.J. Laws. Reprinted from Walker Lake Bulletin.

1908

Inyo Register, July 23, 1908
"GREEK DYNAMITER HERE-NOT."
Summary: Man arrested at Laws, charged with the alleged dynamiting Supervisor's Gallegher's house near San Francisco. Though arrested at Laws, it has became apparent that he had spent time in Keeler and Fallon, Nevada before his arrest and was also a documented American instead of a Greek.

1909

Inyo Register, April 29, 1909
"TABOOSE"
Summary: Two horses belonging to D. Rupp, of Laws, were killed by lightning on the 17th.

Inyo Register, May 6, 1909|
“ADOLPH GERCKENS DEAD.”
Summary: Death at Laws May 4, 1909, W.D. Adolf Gerckens, a native of Germany. He was 60 years of age.

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Page Revised: 05/03/2007