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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Mono County, California
(Items in Which No Definite Township is Named or Occurring Outside of a Township)

Newspaper Articles

1905

Inyo Register, November 16, 1905
Summary: Death of W.O. Lundy, of Mono Lake.

1907

Inyo Register, April 4, 1907
"DIED IN LOS ANGELES"
Summary: Death of Mrs. Marion Smith, wife of power plant operator at Green Creek, which supplied electrical power for Bodie. She was a Big Pine resident at death.

Inyo Register, April 18, 1907
"BURIED IN A MOUNTAIN OF SNOW"
Summary: Recovery of the body of a young man who perished last winter on the summit of White Mountain Peak.

Inyo Register, November 14, 1907
Summary: Mono County Grand Jury recommends prohibiting sale of liquor to the Chinese, because they suspect that these are persistent go-betweens in supplying liquor to Indians.

1908

Inyo Register, May 14, 1908
"ESCAPE CAPTURED."
Summary: A trustee of the Nevada State Prison at Carson City escapes and rides southward. The man was originally from Lander County, Nevada. The man rode south into California, through Mono County, then camped near Bishop. He was subsequently captured at Pine Mountain, near the summit of the White Mountains.

Inyo Register, June 4, 1908
"ANOTHER PIONEER GONE: FRANK SHAW PASSED AWAY AT NOON TUESDAY.”
Summary: Early resident of Aurora, Nevada; Adobe Meadows and Independence, California.

Inyo Register, July 16, 1908
"THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO."
From the Inyo Independent, July 13, 1872
Summary: Battle with escaped Nevada State Penitentiary convicts at what is now Convict Lake.

Inyo Register, July 30, 1908
"LEGALLY DEAD."
Summary: A young Connecticut man lost his life in the Sierra Nevada. A Connecticut court has declared him legally dead.

Inyo Register, December 10, 1908
"SERIOUS ACCIDENTS."
Summary: Fred Rambaud, brother of Mrs. F. Pellissier, will no doubt loose one of his eyes, outcome of an accidental blow from a pick. He was employed at the Casa Diablo Mine. In another accident, contractors of the Nevada-California Company suffered injuries in accident on the tramway at Plant 2 at Bishop Creek. The man fell under a car on the tramway, dragged along over rocks, obstructions of different kinds until his partner saw him and gave a signal which stopped the car. The ligaments of his shoulders were torn loose, one of his ribs were broken and he was badly bruised.

1909

Inyo Register, March 4, 1909
Summary: An infant, aged 14 days, dies at Casa Diablo mine camp.

Inyo Register, April 15, 1909
"MONO COUNTY HAS GAME WARDEN"
Summary: B.L. Simmons now game warden in Mono County, California, at a monthly salary of $50.00.

Inyo Register, April 22, 1909
"THROWN FROM A BUGGY"
Summary: W.H. Leffingwell and Edson F. Adams, of the Mono Power Company, were thrown from a buggy during progress of a runaway last Friday. They were coming to make an inspection trip when the runaway occured. They both escaped with no broken bones, but “countenances show the effects with violent contact with Mother Earth." Mr. Adams has a sprained wrist. They were driving through Big Pine, and near Charles A. Partridge’s place, one of the bolts holding the circle bar of the buggy came out. The erratic motion of the buggy frightened the team, which began to run, ultimately causing the upset. The occupants were thrown out and the upper works of the vehicle considerably damaged. The horses ran until they freed themselves, and they were later caught.

1952

Inyo Register, January 3, 1952
“ICE COVERED ROADS BLAMED IN ACCIDENTS.”
INDEPENDENCE – Icy roads over last weekend were blamed for one headon crash of cars in Mono county and for the overturn of another car, south of Bishop.
Last Thursday, about 4:10 p.m., a 1951 Chevrolet coupe being driven south by Lewis H. Walker, of Reno, and a 1952 Dodge sedan being driven north by Ronald A. Hudson, of Herlong, Calif., hit headon on an icy curve less than a mile south of Tom's Place. Both drivers and Doris Hudson received minor injuries in the crash.
According to highway patrol report of the accident, the Walker car struck the left front of the Hudson car as both were rounding the curve. Investigation showed that the curve was covered with rough ice and that apparently the Walker car went into an uncontrolled skid. Neither driver was held.
Sunday evening, Dan Jund, 64, of Independence, turned over in his 1940 Chevrolet sedan about one mile south of Bishop. The car broadsided on the slick pavement before overturning on the left side of the highway. He was not hurt.

Inyo Register, January 3, 1952
“VALLEY RESIDENT OF 57 YEARS DIES IN SOUTHLAND.”
INDEPENDENCE – Mrs. Georgia Mae Jones, an Owens Valley resident the past 57 years, died Monday, Dec. 31 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Maude A. Kemp, in Van Nuys. She was 77 years of age.
Funeral services for Mrs. Jones were conducted Thursday afternoon from Pioneer Memorial church of the Rev. Francis Baldwin officiating. Burial was at Independence cemetery. Pallbearers were Dave Ward, W.I. Bay, Ben and Frank Lawrence, Ed Austin and C.H. Walters. Vocal numbers were given by William R. Ray, with Mary V. Phillips accompanying.
Mrs. Jones was a member of the 1874, at Chicago, the daughter of George D. and Mary A. Calvert. As a baby she came to Virginia City, Nev., with her parents. She spent most of her life in Nevada and the Inyo-Mono area. In 1894 she was married to John I. Jones. There were six children, two of them preceding her in death.
She is survived by her daughter in Van Nuys, another daughter, Olive M. Reynolds, of Independence; two sons, William, of Chico, and John, of Mojave; her husband, and five grandchildren. Mr. Jones is a resident of Corona.
Mrs. Jones was a member of the Sheba Rebekah lodge 35, of Winnewood, Indian Territory, Okla., and the Sierra chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, Big Pine.
For some time during the family's early residence in this area, Mrs. Jones' father carried mail by horseback and snowshoe from Mammoth to Bodie. They lived at Pine City, north of Mammoth.

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.

Inyo Register, January 3, 1952
“DERRICK OPERATOR KNOCKED FROM HOIST DURING EARTHQUAKE.”
A derrick operator at the Owens Valley Gorge project suffered little more than burises last Thursday evening at 6:50 when a boulder, jarred loose by the sharp earthquake, rolled into the hoist he was operating and knocked him to the ground.
The quake occurred throughout the valley at 6:50 p.m. It was felt in the Fresno area approximately one minute later. The tremblor was recorded on the seismograph at Fresno state and at the University of California at Berkeley. It was reported to have centered here in the valley.
No damage was reported.

Inyo Register, January 3, 1952
“BURBANK WOMAN KILLED IN AUTO ON HIGHWAY 6.”
Mrs. Josetta A. Bourgeois, 27 year old Burbank woman, was fataly [sic] injured las Saturday afternoon in an auto accident on highway 6 during a heavy rainstorm.
The car, which was driven by her husband, Adolph P. Bourgeois, 21, went out of control and tipped over, throwing her out. According to a state highway patrol officer who investigated, the car skidded on the road, broadsided and flipped over on a bank alongside the road. The fatal accident occurred just north of the county line.
No other car was involved, he reported, and no citations were issued.
Mrs. Bourgeois was a French war bride. Her parents had arrived from France just six montths ago, it was learned. She was born in Cannes, France and is also survived by a three-year-old-daughter.

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