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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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Tecopa, California

Newspaper Articles

1908

Inyo Independent, June 5, 1908
“FOUND DEAD.”
Sheriff Naylor is in receipt of a letter from his deputy, R.D. Morrison, at Tecopa, informing him of finding the body of Newton Bare, who left Sarta Springs about April 30th to find some horses that had broken loose. Not returning, a searching party started out and found the remains of the unfortunate on May 11th, about 20 miles from Sarta Spring and within 1½ miles of the Old Conference mill. The deceased was aged about 35 years. The remains were buried where found as it was impossible to remove them.

Inyo Register, August 13, 1908
"WRECK IN EASTERN INYO"
Sheriff Naylor received word from Ryan, on the Tonopah & Tidewater railroad in the eastern part of the county, that a locomotive had run off the track and that the engineer had been killed in the wreck. No other particulars.
Later information is that the south-bound passenger train from Tonopah struck a washout near Tecopa. The engine was derailed and several coaches smashed. Engineer Wm. P. Hamilton and a passenger named Moore were killed.

Inyo Register, August 20, 1908
H. Broadwell, fireman on the engine wrecked last week on the Tonopah & Tidewater road, died from injuries received in the accident.

1952

Inyo Register, January 31, 1952
“ROGER MOUDY, INYO DEPUTY SHERIFF, KILLED IN ACCIDENT”
Roger Moudy, deputy sheriff of Inyo county at Tecopa, was instantly killed about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in an auto accident 51 miles south of Beatty, Nev. On Highway 95.
According to reports from the Sheriff's office he was returning from a trip to Las Vegas when his car struck a post while rounding a curve and rolled out of control about 300 feet up the side of a hill throwing him out and crushing him.
Undersheriff Verne Branson went to Las Vegas Wednesday night upon hearing of the accident. The body was taken to Las Vegas.
His wife, Dorothy, was in Whittier at the time of the accident. He had been deputy sheriff about two years. Funeral arrangements were not known at press time.

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