Advertisement in the Nevada State Journal / February 17, 1883

Are you disturbed at night and broken of your rest, by a sick child suffering and crying with the excruciating pain of cutting teeth? If so, go at once and get a bottle of MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP. It will relieve the little sufferer at once — depend upon it: there in no mistake about it. There is not a mother on earth who has ever used it who will not tell you at once that it will regulate the bowels, and give relief to the mother, and relief and health to the child, operating like magic. It is perfectly safe to use in all cases, and pleasant to the taste, and is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in the United States. Sold everywhere. 25 cents a bottle.

Note: The secret ingredient in Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is morphine.

Some of the Money Said to be Buried in Washington.

Possibility that a Third Man Was Engaged with Williams and Brady in the Hold-Up.

Published in the Woodland (Cal.) Daily Democrat, December 11, 1898

“In the telegraphic columns today," says the Record-Union, "will be found a dispatch from Spokane telling of a confession made by a bandit in jail there regarding the caching of some $40,000 alleged to have been stolen from Wells, Fargo & Co. in a train-robbery in Montana and another on the Southern Pacific near this city.

December 1942 photograph by Andreas Feininger of the lead mining town that at one time was the haunt of the notorious con man Soapy Smith. I've been there a couple of times and it looks much the same. Beautiful scenery, now a fly fishing mecca. View full size. Update: As the comment below points out, a fire in December took out four stores along the main street (to the left, where the Coca-Cola sign is). Luckily it was not as bad as the fire of 1892 and most of the business district survived intact.

A roundup of news items from the Nevada State Journal / Saturday, August 27, 1887

A TERRIBLE MISTAKE. Two tie-cutters Carter and Smith, while hunting bears in Price Canyon near Salt Lake, Friday, became separated. Smith hearing the bushes crack, and thinking be had found a bear, fired in the direction of the noise. He was horrified to find that he had shot Carter through the body inflicting a wound which caused death in a few hours.