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Saturday, March 1, 2008
100 years ago in Nevada County - March 1908


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Fredrick Brough was arrested for killing his brother Walter in cold blood on Winchester Hill. There's been bad blood for years between them stemming from a fistfight.

Pat Garrett, the slayer of Billy the Kid, was shot and killed by J. Wayne Brazel near Las Cruces, New Mexico in a dispute over a ranch lease.

Rain and cold at the first of the month than dry until heavy rains at month's end.

Thirty-five Nevada rangers have been formed in Carson City. Their first duty will be to bring peace to Goldfield.

Mrs. Nora Macarthur was attacked on Spring Street last night by Jack the Hugger. She managed to escape from him.

The Nevada Theater will be modernized with a larger stage and a new theater front and entrance way.

The raids on poker have caused the fan-tan games to close down, also.

In the suit of the estate of George Fletcher vs. Mrs. Kidder over Narrow Gauge stock, Mrs. Kidder wins.

S. E. Wannamaker's truck was damaged when a couple of narrow gauge cars backed over it at the depot.

Scores of school children die in a school fire in Cleveland - an overheated furnace is to blame.

The Peter Martell's celebrate 60 years of marriage. They came to California in 1850.

Two of A. J. Bovey's boys, delivering papers on Prospect Hill, where chased by a man, either drunk or insane.

Robert Richardson and wife have returned to U-Bet where Richardson will work for Jerry Goodwin and his wife will be Goodwin's housekeeper.

A woman "hophead" is in jail for tapping the till in Gee Dot's place in Chinatown.

The deaths in the Cleveland school fire stand at 174 children, one third of the school's students.

The woman and her accomplice were run out of town after Gee Dot refused to prosecute.

Nathan Tolgate of Camptonville died of a heart attack while riding the stage.

The new theater owners will present their first play - The Cowpuncher - featuring a cast of 14.

The Grass Valley city charter must be revised - does not provide enough revenue to run the city.

Six people injured when two autos collide in Pittsburgh.

The Englebright bill is before the house - it will provide for investigating mining safety and accidents.

Natives in the French Congo are in revolt.

John Noell, 78, of Truckee died of paralysis.

Mark Stuart, who was recently shot from ambush, lost his cabin on Kentucky Ridge to fire.

Only two local schools conform to state fire safety laws concerning door opening directions, fire drills and fire escapes.

In Mobile, Alabama, four Negroes who admitted setting fires were hanged by a mob.

A woman of the Truckee's half - world, Bessie Carpenter, was arrested for "touching" a man for $50 and passing the money on to one Tuttle who was also arrested. This is the same woman shot by a sheriff in Rawhide awhile ago.

Due to the purchase of Nevada telephone systems by a Utah system, there will soon be direct calls to the east.

The problems controlling the Protection Company's fire horse during a recent fire raises suspicion that the other horse would also be uncontrollable. Each horse must practice being harnessed every day without fail.

Black Chambers, the world's greatest lariat spinner, will give a demonstration on the corner of Broad and Pine tomorrow as an attraction for the play, The Cowpuncher. He used to be with the 101 Wild West Shows.

The U.S. car in the New York to Paris race enters Tonopah, still in the lead. The French car is in Wyoming.

People are getting anxious for the baseball season to start and wonder who will manage the Grass Valley club.

Chief Ahern found enough firehose so that new hose will not be needed this year. Ahern also said the fire horses will be trained to respond to gongs.

Posey Canyon has struck paydirt - the gravel channel is rich in gold.

George Sontag, one of the notorious Fresno outlaws, was pardoned and released.

Local sheepmen will be required to dip their sheep again this year to eradicate scabies.

A new Internal Revenue law says a saloon may not borrow five gallons or more of beer from another establishment.

America's White Fleet will visit Japan.

The Marysville to Camptonville stage did a roll-over on the Bullards Bar grade, a brake giving way - no bad injuries.

Only 6 josses showed up to compete for joss keeper. The event lacks the splendor of former years as the Chinese become Americanized.

Fred Sandow of Alpha Hardware married Lizzie Phillips.

Kentucky nightriders, in a dispute between the American Tobacco Company and the Society of Equity, killed a farmer there.

Camptonville is laid low by a fire - business section wiped out.

Three bandits took $47,000 belong to the Colton Mining company and are being pursued across the Walker Lake reservation by Indian police.

The mare at the Eagle Hose company had a colt!

A Montana horse thief named Ryckford preferred suicide to surrendering to a posse.

Dr. Sylvan Haas' son of Mayor Haas, will work at a Cleveland hospital after graduation from John Hopkins.

The North Star put out almost $1,000,000 in 1907. Now down to 5,000 feet.

In Chicago, Henry Edwards said his wife is actually a white woman and not black as she claimed and he wants a divorce.


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