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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Miscellaneous, Nevada
(Items In Which No Township is Named, Locations Outside of Townships or Generic Nevada News)

Newspaper Articles

1908

Las Vegas Age, January 18, 1908 [Courtesy of John McCulloch]
HOLDS UP TRAIN LEGALLY - "LIMITED" TRAIN STOPPED ON DESERT BY PROSPECTOR - DEMANDS THAT WATER BE GIVEN TO HIM UNDER OLD LAW IN ARIDSTATES, UNKNOWN BUT STILL IN FORCE.
LOS ANGELES, Cal. - Stories of how the limited train was stopped out in mid-desert and held for twenty minutes while a thirst agonized man obtained water were related by passengers who arrived in Los Angeles, Saturday evening.
"The peculiar feature of it was, the holdup was perfectly legal and nothing whatever like a holdup." Explained George R. Daly, a well know broker of Chicago, who was one of the
passengers on the train.
"We were stopped about sundown, where there was no station. The afternoon had been a glorious one and several of us had been standing on the platform of the observation car."
"The ladies at first grew a bit nervous, thinking that another holdup was being hatched up in front at the baggage and express cars. But at my first view of the stranger who was talking with the conductor I jumped to the ground and allayed their fear entirely."
"He was an elderly man and apparently in some distress - which I could not make out at first, of course. I heard him explaining to the train crew who gathered about him, together with the men from the smoker, that he needed a supply of water."
"The man gave his name as Frank C. Walker and stated his legal right to flag our train there, in the center of nowhere, for he had been an attorney and had known of the law on which he based his extraordinary action."
LAW IN DESERT STATES
"It appears, as he pointed out, that there is a law compelling all railroads running through desert land anywhere in the southwest to stop their trains when flagged and either furnish water to the party who has run out of his supply or carry him freely to the first station where his needs may be supplied."
"The former course was the one our conductor chose and they soon had his two empty water kegs on his little burro filled with the coolest water the diner could afford.."
"The conductor told me afterward that to his knowledge this law had been resorted to only once in the past five years, but that he knew the old prospector was right."
"It was worth the lost time to see that old fellow stand in front of the ice cooler on one of the Pullmans and drink his fill while they repleted his kegs."
"I've seen champagne dinners, watched clubmen wash down some of the fanciest drinks that even Chicago and New York barkeeps could concoct, but none of them seemed to get the real satisfaction out of it that this old fellow did from that ice cooler combination. Why, you couldn't have made him take a 'chaser' for a dollar a second."

Rhyolite Herald, May 27, 1908
“HONEST JOHN SPARKS IS NO MORE.”
Summary: Death of Nevada Governor Sparks.

Inyo Register, May 28, 1908
Summary: Nevada Governor John Sparks has passed away.

Inyo Register, September 10, 1908
"RICKY MUST STAND TRIAL."
Summary: Thomas B. Rickey charged with embezzlement. Rickey a wealthy Carson Valley land baron, mining speculator and banker; and who is often found throughout Nevada.

Rhyolite Herald, December 30, 1908
“RENO.”
Capt. Cox, superintendent of the state police, with a squad of men, left here for Pyramid lake to drive out and capture a gang of cattle rustlers, which has been causing much trouble to stockmen.

1909

Inyo Register, January 21, 1909
"DAVID OLDS IS NO MORE"
Summary: David Olds, resident of Round Valley (Inyo County, California) since 1866, is dead at age 85 years, three months, 22 days. Native of New York. Well known in region from Mono County to Owens Lake. He first arrived in California in 1850, then settled for years in Nevada Territory in Carson Valley.

Inyo Register, January 21, 1909
Summary: Editorial. Upon fifth conviction for a man selling liquor to Indians, Nevada has a heavier penalty and that California should do the same.

Inyo Register, January 28, 1909
Summary: Editorial on the Supreme Court of Nevada upholding the validity of what is known as the Payne Banking Law. The effect was to remand Thomas B. Rickey to the custody of the sheriff's of Nye and Ormsby Counties. Rickey has enough funds to keep up his legal fight and plans to carry the issue to the United States Supreme Court to stave off punishment as long as possible.

Inyo Register, April 22, 1909
"WANTED TO SHOOT RICKEY"
Summary: At Carson City, news has gained circulation that there was an attempt to kill T.B. Rickey at the Virginia & Truckee depot about two months ago. It appears that a man was sitting in one of the hotel buses, which was drawn up to the depot. As Rickey came along, the man pulled his revolver and was about to shoot Rickey. Just as he was about to pull the trigger, a boy overtook Rickey with a message and walked by his side, and the avenger was afraid to fire for fear of hitting the young man. Rickey is in daily fear of being assassinated by depositors from his defunct banks, many of whom are now penniless. It is also said that Rickey confided to a friend that it would be his funeral to make a trip into southern Nevada, where hundreds of depositors have lost their earnings.

Inyo Register, April 29, 1909
Summary: William M. Stewart, ex-senator of Nevada, died in Washington.

Inyo Register, May 27, 1909
“AN ACTIVE CITIZEN GONE: A.S. KILPATRICK SUCCUMBS TO INSIDIOUS AFFLICTION.”
Summary: A.S. Kilpatrick died at his home in Bishop after months of illness with cancer. Funeral occurred at the Winedumah Lodge in Independence. He was also a member of the Mount Whitney Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star. Kilpatrick was also a Knight, a Templar and a Shriner. His full name was Alexander Sanderson Kilpatrick. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1842. He worked in a foundry and printing press in his native city as a youth. When he was 20 or 21 years old he came to New York. He traveled westward a few years later. He was also in White Pine, Nevada during the boom. He was also in Bodie in the best days and he and a partner owned the Bodie Foundry. From there he went to Sweetwater, Nevada, where he engaged in mining. About 15 years ago he and his family came to Bishop, he buying the flouring mills. And he was active with that until last year. He was also one of the original promoters and owners of the Bishop Light & Power Company. Surviving him are his wife. His son A.F. Kilpatrick. A daughter Genevieve.

Inyo Register, May 27, 1909
"Ex-Senator W.M. Stewart died owing $25,000, but owning only personal property inventoried at $1,500."

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