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Law & Order Life and Death In the Great Basin – Mammoth Lakes, 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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Mammoth Lakes, California
(Includes Mammoth City and Mill City, California)

Newspaper Articles

1908

Inyo Register, June 18, 1908
"SEVERAL ACCIDENTS."
Summary: John E. Meroney felling into a machine at a Mammoth lumber mill and lost some of his fingers.

Inyo Register, July 30, 1908
Summary: Death of Calvin B. Whitacre. He had lived in the region for eight years, coming from Enterprise, Oregon. He was 56 years of age. He was on a camping trip in Mammoth when he died, presumably of a heart attack.

Inyo Register, August 6, 1908
"MAMMOTH MUSINGS."
Summary: Death of C.B. Whitacre.

1920

Inyo Register, September 2, 1920
"BACK IN THE NINETIES"
From the September 5, 1895 Inyo Register
An O.H. Hill was dropped into the mush pot at Casa Diablo Hot Springs last Friday by the breaking of a board in the floor. Both feet were severely scalded.

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