Sacramento Daily Union, 10/24/1861:
An Affray at Aurora. – A correspondent of the Placerville News, writing to that paper October 10th, relates the following incident: Quite a deplorable circumstance occurred here on the night of the 8th instant, at Teal’s (sic) Saloon. A person by the name of McCarty, while under the influence of liquor, got into a personal difficulty with someone present. Hughs, one of the proprietors, interfered and took a pistol from McCarty, which he had drawn at the commencement of the difficulty. After keeping the pistol for a short time, and thinking the matter was settled, he returned it to the owner, McCarty. But it appears the quarrel was only quieted for the moment. In a short time the pistol was discharged, whether intentional or not, I am not able to ascertain. The ball struck Hughs in the knee; the wound was not considered any way dangerous. To-day, about five o’clock, Hughs died. It is very doubtful as to the pistol shot causing his death. Hughs has formerly resided in Nevada county, and, I am informed, has held the office of County Treasurer.
Daily Alta California, 9/4/1863:
Our Letter From Esmeralda. [From an Occasional Correspondent.] Aurora, August 31st, 1863. …Health of Aurora, Etc. The health of our town has never been better than at present; but as there has been so much said outside Esmeralda in regard to the number of deaths which have taken place since the location of the town of Aurora (in the month of October, A.D., 1860) and the organization of the county of Mono in June next following, at which time there was a population of one thousand persons, I will state the inhabitants have been on the increase, until they now reach the number of about three thousand five hundred. Out of this population, during a period of thirty-five months, there have been only seventy interred in the new and old cemetery – fifty-three by natural death, and the other seventeen by the hand of violence, or otherwise. The following named persons have been shot since October, 1860, to the present time, nearly three years: Webber, Dr. Chorpening, HUGHES, Burton, Gepheart, McLaughlin, Bill Brady and Vining, making nine shot by the Indians. Sheriff Scott, in the spring of ’62, brought from other portions of the county and interred in the cemetery, as follows: From Monoville, 2; from Walker River, 3 (drowned); from Bloody Canon Trail, 2 (frozen); making a total number of 17 deaths not chargeable to Esmeralda. And, after deducting that number, it reduces the actual deaths by disease to 58, which makes an average of about one and one-half death(s) per month.
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Aurora – Nevada’s Ghost City of the Dawn, (2004); Stewart, Robert E., Nevada Publications, Las Vegas Nevada, (p. 6):
Five acres north of the town proper were formally set aside as a graveyard. A Mrs. Howard and a MR. HUGHES had already been interred there.
Minutes of the Mono County Board of Supervisors, 11/4/1861:
Mr. Green presented the following Resolution which was adopted:
RESOLVED: That a tract of Land to contain Five Acres, be and the same is hereby condemned for the purpose of a Grave Yard and for no other purpose - And the County Surveyor be instructed to Survey the Same, by locating its boundaries and Surveying and Staking out the walks and Streets through the same - Said Survey to include the graves of MRS. HOWARD and MR. HUGHES now on Said ground - and that the Surveor file the plat and a copy of his field notes in the County Clerk's office. - adopted.
Ira P. Hale Notebook, p.320:
“Editor Cal. C. Adv: ~ …” (extract text) “We wish to state a few incidents with which we have been cognisant (sic) or which have come in the sphere of the experience of other.
A thrilling chapter might be written of crimes and deaths by violence and causality. But we do not intend to disturb the doubtful history of those passed away before our arrival, whose friend may have heard to weep, or enemies to exult. On the afternoon of [no date included in text/ss] as we came into town from the south down Esmeralda Gulch, a funeral procession was moving out to the cemetery on the North. MR. HUGHES died from being shot a few days previous.
An Affray at Aurora. – A correspondent of the Placerville News, writing to that paper October 10th, relates the following incident: Quite a deplorable circumstance occurred here on the night of the 8th instant, at Teal’s (sic) Saloon. A person by the name of McCarty, while under the influence of liquor, got into a personal difficulty with someone present. Hughs, one of the proprietors, interfered and took a pistol from McCarty, which he had drawn at the commencement of the difficulty. After keeping the pistol for a short time, and thinking the matter was settled, he returned it to the owner, McCarty. But it appears the quarrel was only quieted for the moment. In a short time the pistol was discharged, whether intentional or not, I am not able to ascertain. The ball struck Hughs in the knee; the wound was not considered any way dangerous. To-day, about five o’clock, Hughs died. It is very doubtful as to the pistol shot causing his death. Hughs has formerly resided in Nevada county, and, I am informed, has held the office of County Treasurer.
Daily Alta California, 9/4/1863:
Our Letter From Esmeralda. [From an Occasional Correspondent.] Aurora, August 31st, 1863. …Health of Aurora, Etc. The health of our town has never been better than at present; but as there has been so much said outside Esmeralda in regard to the number of deaths which have taken place since the location of the town of Aurora (in the month of October, A.D., 1860) and the organization of the county of Mono in June next following, at which time there was a population of one thousand persons, I will state the inhabitants have been on the increase, until they now reach the number of about three thousand five hundred. Out of this population, during a period of thirty-five months, there have been only seventy interred in the new and old cemetery – fifty-three by natural death, and the other seventeen by the hand of violence, or otherwise. The following named persons have been shot since October, 1860, to the present time, nearly three years: Webber, Dr. Chorpening, HUGHES, Burton, Gepheart, McLaughlin, Bill Brady and Vining, making nine shot by the Indians. Sheriff Scott, in the spring of ’62, brought from other portions of the county and interred in the cemetery, as follows: From Monoville, 2; from Walker River, 3 (drowned); from Bloody Canon Trail, 2 (frozen); making a total number of 17 deaths not chargeable to Esmeralda. And, after deducting that number, it reduces the actual deaths by disease to 58, which makes an average of about one and one-half death(s) per month.
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Aurora – Nevada’s Ghost City of the Dawn, (2004); Stewart, Robert E., Nevada Publications, Las Vegas Nevada, (p. 6):
Five acres north of the town proper were formally set aside as a graveyard. A Mrs. Howard and a MR. HUGHES had already been interred there.
Minutes of the Mono County Board of Supervisors, 11/4/1861:
Mr. Green presented the following Resolution which was adopted:
RESOLVED: That a tract of Land to contain Five Acres, be and the same is hereby condemned for the purpose of a Grave Yard and for no other purpose - And the County Surveyor be instructed to Survey the Same, by locating its boundaries and Surveying and Staking out the walks and Streets through the same - Said Survey to include the graves of MRS. HOWARD and MR. HUGHES now on Said ground - and that the Surveor file the plat and a copy of his field notes in the County Clerk's office. - adopted.
Ira P. Hale Notebook, p.320:
“Editor Cal. C. Adv: ~ …” (extract text) “We wish to state a few incidents with which we have been cognisant (sic) or which have come in the sphere of the experience of other.
A thrilling chapter might be written of crimes and deaths by violence and causality. But we do not intend to disturb the doubtful history of those passed away before our arrival, whose friend may have heard to weep, or enemies to exult. On the afternoon of [no date included in text/ss] as we came into town from the south down Esmeralda Gulch, a funeral procession was moving out to the cemetery on the North. MR. HUGHES died from being shot a few days previous.
Sacramento Daily Union, 10/24/1861:
An Affray at Aurora. – A correspondent of the Placerville News, writing to that paper October 10th, relates the following incident: Quite a deplorable circumstance occurred here on the night of the 8th instant, at Teal’s (sic) Saloon. A person by the name of McCarty, while under the influence of liquor, got into a personal difficulty with someone present. Hughs, one of the proprietors, interfered and took a pistol from McCarty, which he had drawn at the commencement of the difficulty. After keeping the pistol for a short time, and thinking the matter was settled, he returned it to the owner, McCarty. But it appears the quarrel was only quieted for the moment. In a short time the pistol was discharged, whether intentional or not, I am not able to ascertain. The ball struck Hughs in the knee; the wound was not considered any way dangerous. To-day, about five o’clock, Hughs died. It is very doubtful as to the pistol shot causing his death. Hughs has formerly resided in Nevada county, and, I am informed, has held the office of County Treasurer.
Daily Alta California, 9/4/1863:
Our Letter From Esmeralda. [From an Occasional Correspondent.] Aurora, August 31st, 1863. …Health of Aurora, Etc. The health of our town has never been better than at present; but as there has been so much said outside Esmeralda in regard to the number of deaths which have taken place since the location of the town of Aurora (in the month of October, A.D., 1860) and the organization of the county of Mono in June next following, at which time there was a population of one thousand persons, I will state the inhabitants have been on the increase, until they now reach the number of about three thousand five hundred. Out of this population, during a period of thirty-five months, there have been only seventy interred in the new and old cemetery – fifty-three by natural death, and the other seventeen by the hand of violence, or otherwise. The following named persons have been shot since October, 1860, to the present time, nearly three years: Webber, Dr. Chorpening, HUGHES, Burton, Gepheart, McLaughlin, Bill Brady and Vining, making nine shot by the Indians. Sheriff Scott, in the spring of ’62, brought from other portions of the county and interred in the cemetery, as follows: From Monoville, 2; from Walker River, 3 (drowned); from Bloody Canon Trail, 2 (frozen); making a total number of 17 deaths not chargeable to Esmeralda. And, after deducting that number, it reduces the actual deaths by disease to 58, which makes an average of about one and one-half death(s) per month.
*****
Aurora – Nevada’s Ghost City of the Dawn, (2004); Stewart, Robert E., Nevada Publications, Las Vegas Nevada, (p. 6):
Five acres north of the town proper were formally set aside as a graveyard. A Mrs. Howard and a MR. HUGHES had already been interred there.
Minutes of the Mono County Board of Supervisors, 11/4/1861:
Mr. Green presented the following Resolution which was adopted:
RESOLVED: That a tract of Land to contain Five Acres, be and the same is hereby condemned for the purpose of a Grave Yard and for no other purpose - And the County Surveyor be instructed to Survey the Same, by locating its boundaries and Surveying and Staking out the walks and Streets through the same - Said Survey to include the graves of MRS. HOWARD and MR. HUGHES now on Said ground - and that the Surveor file the plat and a copy of his field notes in the County Clerk's office. - adopted.
Ira P. Hale Notebook, p.320:
“Editor Cal. C. Adv: ~ …” (extract text) “We wish to state a few incidents with which we have been cognisant (sic) or which have come in the sphere of the experience of other.
A thrilling chapter might be written of crimes and deaths by violence and causality. But we do not intend to disturb the doubtful history of those passed away before our arrival, whose friend may have heard to weep, or enemies to exult. On the afternoon of [no date included in text/ss] as we came into town from the south down Esmeralda Gulch, a funeral procession was moving out to the cemetery on the North. MR. HUGHES died from being shot a few days previous.
An Affray at Aurora. – A correspondent of the Placerville News, writing to that paper October 10th, relates the following incident: Quite a deplorable circumstance occurred here on the night of the 8th instant, at Teal’s (sic) Saloon. A person by the name of McCarty, while under the influence of liquor, got into a personal difficulty with someone present. Hughs, one of the proprietors, interfered and took a pistol from McCarty, which he had drawn at the commencement of the difficulty. After keeping the pistol for a short time, and thinking the matter was settled, he returned it to the owner, McCarty. But it appears the quarrel was only quieted for the moment. In a short time the pistol was discharged, whether intentional or not, I am not able to ascertain. The ball struck Hughs in the knee; the wound was not considered any way dangerous. To-day, about five o’clock, Hughs died. It is very doubtful as to the pistol shot causing his death. Hughs has formerly resided in Nevada county, and, I am informed, has held the office of County Treasurer.
Daily Alta California, 9/4/1863:
Our Letter From Esmeralda. [From an Occasional Correspondent.] Aurora, August 31st, 1863. …Health of Aurora, Etc. The health of our town has never been better than at present; but as there has been so much said outside Esmeralda in regard to the number of deaths which have taken place since the location of the town of Aurora (in the month of October, A.D., 1860) and the organization of the county of Mono in June next following, at which time there was a population of one thousand persons, I will state the inhabitants have been on the increase, until they now reach the number of about three thousand five hundred. Out of this population, during a period of thirty-five months, there have been only seventy interred in the new and old cemetery – fifty-three by natural death, and the other seventeen by the hand of violence, or otherwise. The following named persons have been shot since October, 1860, to the present time, nearly three years: Webber, Dr. Chorpening, HUGHES, Burton, Gepheart, McLaughlin, Bill Brady and Vining, making nine shot by the Indians. Sheriff Scott, in the spring of ’62, brought from other portions of the county and interred in the cemetery, as follows: From Monoville, 2; from Walker River, 3 (drowned); from Bloody Canon Trail, 2 (frozen); making a total number of 17 deaths not chargeable to Esmeralda. And, after deducting that number, it reduces the actual deaths by disease to 58, which makes an average of about one and one-half death(s) per month.
*****
Aurora – Nevada’s Ghost City of the Dawn, (2004); Stewart, Robert E., Nevada Publications, Las Vegas Nevada, (p. 6):
Five acres north of the town proper were formally set aside as a graveyard. A Mrs. Howard and a MR. HUGHES had already been interred there.
Minutes of the Mono County Board of Supervisors, 11/4/1861:
Mr. Green presented the following Resolution which was adopted:
RESOLVED: That a tract of Land to contain Five Acres, be and the same is hereby condemned for the purpose of a Grave Yard and for no other purpose - And the County Surveyor be instructed to Survey the Same, by locating its boundaries and Surveying and Staking out the walks and Streets through the same - Said Survey to include the graves of MRS. HOWARD and MR. HUGHES now on Said ground - and that the Surveor file the plat and a copy of his field notes in the County Clerk's office. - adopted.
Ira P. Hale Notebook, p.320:
“Editor Cal. C. Adv: ~ …” (extract text) “We wish to state a few incidents with which we have been cognisant (sic) or which have come in the sphere of the experience of other.
A thrilling chapter might be written of crimes and deaths by violence and causality. But we do not intend to disturb the doubtful history of those passed away before our arrival, whose friend may have heard to weep, or enemies to exult. On the afternoon of [no date included in text/ss] as we came into town from the south down Esmeralda Gulch, a funeral procession was moving out to the cemetery on the North. MR. HUGHES died from being shot a few days previous.
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