From the Library of Congress, July 29, 1918.
The Tonopah (Nevada) Daily Bonanza:
PRO GERMAN GRABBED WHILE MAKING TALK
Bert Steinberger, lessee of the Casino, may have a German name, but he has nothing of the German nature as he is a 100 per cent American and wants everybody to know that before they set foot in his house. This afternoon Pete Kristich, who had been reading the bulletins and imbibing Dutch courage, floated into the Casino and engaged in a war talk during the course of which he remarked that he hoped the Kaiser would win the war and that he would win it anyhow. How much further he would have gone with his assertions and predictions remains unknown, for in about ten seconds the stalwart form of Jack Grant, chief of police, who had been summoned by phone, loomed up in front of the bar and Mr. Kristich was lugged off to the town Bastille.
TAKEN TO JAIL TO STOP HEMORRHAGE OF THE NOSE
Alex M Gibbons, recently released from the county jail, proceeded to celebrate the event in his customary style and was seized with a nose bleed so violently that Chief of Police Jack Grant thought he would be better off back in the old quarters on the hill where he could have medical attention.
EGG FAMINE IN HAWAII
Honolulu is threatened with an egg famine. Because of the high price of feed Japanese and Chinese poultry men are disposing of their hens. Eggs now are a luxury, selling from 80 to 90 cents a dozen with prices of cold storage eggs, imported from the mainland, almost as high.
IMITATION SHRAPNEL SHOWN ON MIZPAH
Saturday afternoon frequenters of Mizpah hill and residents along the trail leading to the property of the Tonopah Mining company were treated to an exhibition of war that threw a scare into the district. The powder gang working on the dump which is being shipped to the mill at Millers put in two shots that evidently were too strong for a surface display with the result that rocks as large as a man's head were strewn all over the neighborhood. Some fell on the firehouse and the gymnasium and the water office was peppered as though it was an outpost of Chateau Thierry. Fortunately no damage was done.
The Rogue River (Grants Pass, Oregon) Courier:
R.W. DE WITT ESCAPES FROM COUNTY JAIL
The Josephine county jail was the scene last night of another successful jail break, when R. W. DeWitt, who was held to await the action of the grand jury, escaped through a hole in the brick wall. DeWitt is the man held for the robbery of the Boswell mine near Takilma early in May, when about $6000 in gold was stolen.
Sheriff Lewis states that DeWitt had outside help, a confederate digging a hole in the brick wall on the Fifth street side of the jail, entering the corridor, picking the lock to the "tank," where DeWitt and four other men were confined, and releasing DeWitt. When the jail was opened this morning everything about the lock was found to be in order, but one prisoner was gone. The other prisoners say that they were awakened shortly before daylight by a scratching noise and the falling of brick, but they were afraid to make any outcry for fear of being shot in their cages.
Up to the present time there is no clue as to the whereabouts of DeWitt.