Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report is current in the New Haven and New York press to the effect that Albert Muller, a Yale student from Nevada, has turned adventurer. He has succeeded in swindling Lawyer Bennett out of $1000, and a New Haven bookseller has suffered to the extent of $300. He has fled and his whereabouts are unknown...
There are said to be over fifty applicants for the office of president of Nevada University conditional on $5,000 salary being voted by the legislature...
Students have been received at Wesley College from all the states and territories excepting Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and New Mexico. They have been received from Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Mexico, Chili, Turkey, India, Siam, China, Japan, South Africa, Micronesia, and Sandwich Islands. The number of students registered the present collegiate year is five hundred and one. Over eighteen hundred have registered since the college opened. [Wesley Courant...
WHILE I was knocking about among the California and Nevada mining camps, fascinated by this feverish life, I chanced to hear of Bodie, "the latest strike," as they called it. Not far from Mono Lake, in the great desert that lies to the east of the Sierra Nevadas, and more than a hundred miles through the sand from the nearest base of supplies, some one had found a rich deposit of gold. At once miners, merchants, gamblers, and all the male and female floating population of the Nevada mining camps made a rush for the spot. In three months arose...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - 7. 45 P. M., Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2. Mr. J. B. Polk appears as Christopher Columbus Gall. in "A Gentleman from Nevada," for the last times, to-night and to-morrow afternoon. To-morrow night, benefit of Miss Clarke in "The School for Scandal." Monday next, "Our Boarding-House...