Town note
Elko is named for Charles Crocker, a railroad superintendent; by the legend he loved animal names for towns, loved elk and added an O to make Elko.
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FILE 432 / 14 October 2023 / 71 MIN / express
So this is Elko Nevada we're doing here. Elko, Nevada. We've done Elko, the county is Elko as well. about 0:03:29
Elko is named for Charles Crocker, a railroad superintendent; by the legend he loved animal names for towns, loved elk and added an O to make Elko.
about 0:04:28In 1925 the Kelly Act, the airmail act, authorised the US Postal Service to contract with private airlines for feeder routes that fed the main transcontinental routes.
about 0:05:20The first commercial airmail flight in the US was on the 487-mile airmail route number five from Pasco, Washington, to Elko Regional Airport in 1926.
about 0:05:54Elko is named for Charles Crocker, a railroad superintendent; by the legend he loved animal names for towns, loved elk and added an O to make Elko.
about 0:04:28In 1925 the Kelly Act, the airmail act, authorised the US Postal Service to contract with private airlines for feeder routes that fed the main transcontinental routes.
about 0:05:20The first commercial airmail flight in the US was on the 487-mile airmail route number five from Pasco, Washington, to Elko Regional Airport in 1926.
about 0:05:54"about 20,391"
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"$80,148 a year"
Comparison: "described as high". Direction: above.
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"less than 400,000"
Direction: below.
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3.0 / 5 · average of 3
“Elko is an amazing place; the culture, the cowboys and the friendly community make it great; restaurants such as the Star and Toki Ona are excellent; housing in Elko is expensive but much cheaper just outside town.”about 0:06:20
“Heard about reviewing small towns from his favourite podcast; grew up in Elko and is trying to get out; it is not the same town, the mines brought in transplants who wish they were elsewhere; the police are a joke, one applicant took the written test five times before being hired; cost of living is high, people are rude, Mormons and gambling go hand in hand; if you like the backward thinking of North Idaho, this is your place.”about 0:06:56
“The landlord yells at his tenant, calls her a liar, makes verbal deals then negates them with threats and demands for money, and believes it is legitimate to treat a certain gender that way; if you have a family, stay away from this cess pool.”about 0:09:04
Yaromir Polensky, known to everyone as Turkey, was born in the Czech Republic on 24 September 1942 and emigrated to the United States in 1969, aged twenty-seven. He settled in Carbonville, Utah, and from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s drifted between Utah and Nevada as a miner and ranch hand. He never married and had no children.
On 14 January 2004 a bird watcher reported a body in a rarely accessible stretch of the Jordan River about 15 miles outside Salt Lake City, Utah. It was Turkey, wearing two pairs of underwear, two pairs of socks and overalls, no shirt and no shoes. His blood alcohol was 0.07 with amphetamine in his urine. The autopsy found multiple skull fractures from blows to the front and back of the head swung like a baseball bat. Lividity on his back showed he had lain on his back for ten to twelve hours before entering the water, so he was dumped, not drowned.
Detective Adamson rang the number and drove to Elko. The case went cold.
The prosecutor said the wallet replaced neatly in the pocket and the stopped watch were her mistakes, the watch fixing the body's entry into the water at 19 December 2003, and that four blows to the back of the head showed premeditation.
December 2003 / the Adobe Hills Ranch outside Elko, Nevada; his body was found in the Jordan River near Salt Lake City, Utah
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