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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Nye County, Nevada

Newspaper Articles

1905

Inyo Register, January 12, 1905
A published statement that Jack Longstreet and Jack Maney, both men well known through the Nevada and eastern California mining camps, had been killed in a battle in the Kawich range is emphatically denied by the Tonopah Bonanza.

1908

Rhyolite Herald, September 16, 1908
“PIONEER DIES AT BUTTE.”
Summary: Death of Frederick Macdonald, father of Malcolm Macdonald and Irving Macdonald of Nye County. Their father died in Butte, Montana. Frederick Macdonald used to live at Mound House, Nevada. Death came at 81 years of age.

Rhyolite Herald, December 23, 1908
“WILLIAM ROGERS LOSES MIND.”
William Rogers, a Smoky Valley rancher, who was formerly a county commissioner for Nye county, has been adjudged insane and committed to the Nevada insane asylum. Mr. Rogers is an aged man. He recently fell from his horse and injured his head, which is believed to have been the cause of his losing his reason.

1909

Inyo Register, January 28, 1909
"THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO"
From Inyo Independent, January 25, 1872
Summary: Enterprising horse thieves, having recently stolen Inyo County horses, have transferred their operations to Nevada. They were captured near Belmont, Nevada, but made their escape from the Nye County jail. A thieve named Morecio was supposed to be making his way back home to Montana, however decided to come back to Inyo County and resume his horse-thieving operations, stealing two more lots of loose horses. He is once again being pursued.

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.

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