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NEWS
February 22, 1903

The mercury, or rather the spirits, in the thermometers of Deeth, Nevada have dropped to 50 degrees below zero this winter.

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SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
February 18, 1903.

BOYS SENT BY EXPRESS.

Made the Trip Across the Country Tagged Just Like Other Freight.

New York, Feb. 17. -- Tagged as express packages and labled "Handle with care," J. Elliot Whitbeck, aged 10, and his little brother Charles Henry, 8, had arrived in New York from Oakland, Cal., after seeing their mother buried in a California Grave. The children made the trip of 3404 miles unaccompanied, and come into care of the Wells-Fargo Express company.

The lads had $50, paid for everything as they went along, and had only $10 left when they reached New York.

They said the passangers treated them nicely and took much interest in them. Charley said: "Say, I could make that trip again, if papa would let me, but he says no."

They made the trip across the continent in four days, twenty hours and fifty-three minutes.

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NEWS
February 20, 1903

Observer Hayden of the Winnemucca weather bureau says the present cold spell is the most severe since 1877 and attributes it to the great amount of snow covering the country West of the Rocky mountains, preventing the earth absorbing the usual amount of heat during the day, and radiating into the atmosphere during the night, which would prevent the temperature falling so low.

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NEWS
February 20, 1903

James Morris a well-known printer of Reno, has purchased a half-interest in the Tonopah Miner and will shortly begin the publication of a daily paper in the new El Dorado.