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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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Lone Pine, California

Newspaper Articles

1871

Inyo Independent, August 19, 1871
"DIED"
In Lone Pine, August 12, after a lingering illness, Charles Rhodes Nichols, aged about 30 years.

1872

Inyo Independent, January 6, 1872
"LIVELY"
May Merritt, the noted "Fenian," of Los Angeles celebrity, has been making things lively in Lone Pine, especially in the Justices' Court.

1899

Inyo Register, February 2, 1899
"TABOOSE"
Summary: Rumor has it that smallpox is spreading in Lone Pine, but source can't be verified.

1906

Inyo Register, January 11, 1906
Summary: Harry Lockett died in Lone Pine.

1908

Inyo Register, October 22, 1908
Summary: Miss Antonia Carrasco, of Lone Pine, was fatally injured by an exploding kerosene lamp. The lamp exploded, causing kerosene to splash on her, and ignited. She died as a result of her burns.

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.

1909

Inyo Register, January 21, 1909
"THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO"
From January 18, 1872 Inyo Independent
Summary: Dan Moore found human remains, along with clothing, saddle and other articles near the Owens River northeast of Lone Pine. They were the remainders of Charles Packwood, of Swansea. Packwood was feared to have suicided.

Inyo Register, April 22, 1909
Summary: John R. Ryan was arrested at Lone Pine, charged with burglary.

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, May 13, 1909
“DISAPPEARANCE CASES.”
Summary: A.M. Chene, recently arrived in Bishop. Mr. Chene borrowed a team of mules to drive as far as Lone Pine, he being on his way to Mexico with his family. At George’s Creek he sold the mules, wagon and the whole outfit, pocketed the proceeds and disappeared. No trace has been found. It is felt that he is probably in Mexico by this time. The mules and wagon were restored to their owner, leaving the purchaser at George’s Creek the looser.

Inyo Register, May 27, 1909
“THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO”
Inyo Independent, May 24, 1873.
Summary: On May 12, a shooting affray occurred at Lida, in which two inoffensive citizens and a gambling house rough were killed. A gambler named George Chiles turned on W.B. Harbin without provocation and drew a revolver. Harbin floored Chiles with his fist. As Chiles rose, he fired at Hugh Scott, inflicting a fatal wound, and shot Scott again as he fell. Chiles fired again, the bullet striking John Duffey, a bystander, severing the femoral artery and causing his bleeding to death. Several persons had a hold of Chiles by this time and during the struggle another shot was fired by someone unidentified, killing Chiles almost instantly. He had been in Cerro Gordo and Lone Pine previous to going to Lida, had a bad reputation. And he was considered a cowardly, would-be badman.

1952

Inyo Register, January 3, 1952
“DOUBLE TRAGEDY HITS FAMILY OF LONE PINE RESIDENT”
LONE PINE – Double tragedy hit the family of Mrs. Tisbie Lawson, of this community, this week when her brother, Edward E. Stewart, of Renton, Wash., died Monday morning, and then the dead man's widow, Florence passed away Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Lawson said her brother had been hurt at his home in July and that complications set in. His spine was injured when he fell while removing the back seat from his car. Mrs. Stewart, who recently had been released from the hospital following a serious illness, died Wednesday as a result of the shocking news concerning her husband. Mr. Stewart was 68 years of age. Until last July he had been a time keeper at the Boeing Aircraft plant in Seattle.
Mrs. Lawson's son, Clifford, a resident of Walla Walla, Wash. Attended double funeral services held at the home Wednesday afternoon.

Inyo Register, January 3, 1952
“LONE PINE WOMAN DIES FOLLOWING ACCIDENT SUNDAY.”
Mrs. Login Hansen, 66, of Lone Pine died Wednesday morning of this week as the result of injuries she sustained last Sunday morning when the car she was riding in overturned near the Jeffry ranch on Highway 6 during a heavy snow storm.
According to state highway patrol officers who investigated, the 1936 Ford car, which was being driven by her husband, overturned when it hit a dirt shoulder after skidding off the road. She was taken to the Northern Inyo hospital.
No other car was involved in the accident and no citation issued.
Hansen suffered minor cuts and bruises.
Tentative funeral arrangements are being made in Lone Pine, it was announced.

Epitaph on the headstone at the grave of Pete Aguereberry in the Lone Pine Cemetery
“Pete Aguereberry born in the Basque region of France on Oct. 18, 1874. Jean Pierre ‘Pete’ Aguereberry was a renowned Death Valley prospector who mined gold for more than 40 years. Aguereberry and fellow miner Frank ‘Shorty’ Harris struck gold at Harrisburg Flats, 55 miles southeast of here on July 1, 1905. Aguereberry transformed that claim into the Eureka Mine, which he worked until his death on Nov. 23, 1945 at Tecopa Hot Springs at age 72. Aguereberry is perhaps best known for the road he built to Aguereberry Point so visitors could enjoy its spectacular view of Death Valley. Though he wished to be buried at the point, government officials, siting the 1933 monument status of Death Valley, denied his final request instead, Father Frank Crowley, brother of beloved ‘Desert Padre,’ Monsignor John J. Crowley, interred Aguereberry’s remains here in Lone Pine. This plaque honors the life and memory of Pete Aguereberry. An honest, hard working and honorable man.”

Grave, Lone Pine Cemetery
James Grant Pipkin.
Born June 20th, 1930.
Died July 12, 1931.

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