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Nevada Check Signed by Silver Lick Mine Supt. James Adams who was Shot in Saloon Fight

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Nevada Check Signed by Silver Lick Mine Supt. James Adams who was Shot in Saloon Fight
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Paxton & Co. Bankers, Eureka, Nevada, August 31, 1880. RN-G revenue imprint. Signed by James Adams. Adams was the superintendent of the Silver Lick Consolidated Mining Company in Eureka, as well as an assemblyman for Nevada. In March of 1881, Adams met two other people connected to the mine (Adolph Schandler and James Oliver) at Collin & Barry's Saloon in Eureka. Oliver and Schandler wanted Adams to step away from the company. After heated discussion, Adams was fatally shot by Schandler. The newspaper accounts (see March 15, 1881, Oakland Tribune) convey his ante-mortem statement as the surgeon told him he would not survive the wounds. The Silver Lick Mine was a producer as early as 1871. It was located on the famed Adams Hill (same name as the murdered man?) in the Ruby Hill District. Complete coroner's inquest notes included as well as more historical information on the mine and Adams. City: Eureka, Eureka State: Nevada Date: HWAC# 99868