Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-04
NEVADA ITEMS.

The Battle Mountain Jockey Club
inaugurates the racing season on the
24th and 9th, inclusive, and 1880
in purses.
A fire in Elko on Tuesday last de-
stroyed three buildings, and for a
time placed the town in imminent
danger. Jacob Hufford loses his
feed stable, $4,000; John Hough,
dwelling house, 81 200; John Aims
ley, blacksmilhshop, $500; and J. B..
Rosenbury, tools, $3.50.
The Reno journal has worked up
history which proves that the
Truckee river obtained it's name
from party of California emigrants
in 1874, who thus named it in honor
of their Indian guide-Truck-ee.
We haven't a doubt of it, since we
have heard Pete Roman, of the
Rocky Mountain Gazette, (Helena,
Nj. ~ assert positively that the pic
turesque body of water at the foot of
Couer ID Alone mountains was
named after friend of his, one Pat
O'Reilly. 1t is spelled d" Pen d
Oreille," however, to this day.
The Eureka Sentinel, of April 30th,
says the Eureka Consolidated shipped
$4,000 pounds of bullion the day be-
fore. Pretty good for one shipment.
...... The Migrants of Eureka are
given notice to quit the town.
A Phoebe female celestial has been
robbed OF 1890 worth of jewelry.
The fact of her having it is a sad
commentary upon the morals OF that
town.
An Eastern pictorial has wood
cut of drowning man being helped
out of the Humboldt river by a
brave woman at Palisade. The
lofty forest trees on the hillside, the
wharf, the palatial residences, and
the immense public building in the
distance, are all truthful representa-
tons of the great railroad metropolis
of Eureka county and its surround
ings; but the principal feature by
which the locality is recognizable is
the lower limbs of the intrepid fe-
male. Such magnificent calves are
peculiar to Palisadean femininity
and are found in no other place on
habitable globe. They locate the
scene beyond the possibility of a
doubt, and we predict for the artist a
future no less brilliant than the
prospective career of the portrayer
of Elaine.-Eureka Sentinel.
THE ORPHANS HOME. - This
splendid institution, an honor to the
State, is looking better than ever.
Cowing brothers have painted the
house outside and in the color is
lively drab, and the facings a light
brown. Two outside stairways have
been built at either end of the build
ing, so as in case of fire the little
waits may slip down from their
dormitories without difficulty. The
finest clover patch in the United
States is on the west end of the home
grounds. How many acers there is
but it is certainly worth walk of
ten miles to look at. The general
verdict is that the last Legislature
did one just and proper act, and
that was raising the salary OF Mr..
and Mrs. Webb, Principal and Ma
iron of Nevada's best public institu-
ton.
STREET SCENES IN CARSON CITY,
NEvADA.-On one side OF the street
you may observe stream of miners
and workingmen crowding their
way to faro bank; on the other
side are fine ladies, with the wealth Of
an empire in diamonds and laces
upon their persons, moving in the
same throng with the successful
gambler and the dashing demi-
monde.
1t has been the boast Of the peo-
Pile that the streets of their city are
paved with gold, and you may easily
demonstrate that the boast is not a
vain one. So much quartz has been
crushed in hauling it through the
streets that you may at any time
wash gold from the very dust that
clings to the soles of your boots.-
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