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Show PORNER NEVADA EDITOR IS" DEAD Col. Shaw, of Virginia City During Stirring Times of the ComstocK Lode, Succumbs Suc-cumbs in California. SAN FRANCISCO, March 12. Col. Henry G. Shaw, formerly a newspaper man and of late years connected with the custom-house, is dead. He was 65 years old. During the stirring times on the Comstock lode Col. Shaw was editor edi-tor of the Virginia City Enterprise. He was city editor of the Call, was writer for the Stockton Independent, and earlier was on the staff of the New York Sun. . Col. Shaw was a veteran of the Civil war, and was wounded at Chickamauga. He afterward served as inspector of rifle practice in New York. |