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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-08

SAD DEATH OF AN INVENTOR
A lamentable accident occurred at
Toulon July 9th, by which M.
Leon Jacquemin, Sub-Lieutenant
in the French Navy, and two men
lost their lives. The young officer,
who had highly distinguished him
self in the service, and who fought
in the campaign of 1901 under
General Faidherbe, and received a
terrible wound at the battle of San
Quentin, had, since his recovery,
invented q projectile torpedo. This
terrible missile was to be fred
from a mortar and to explode by
simple contact with the water.
The sensitive substance which was
to fire the charge is phosphuret Of
calcium, which ignites simply from
the moisture in the breath. On
the day in question the deceased
was preparing one of the missiles
for a decisive experiment, and a
large number Of officers were col
lected to witness the result. He,
with his two assistants, was in a
room Of the arsenal completing his
preparation, when suddenly ter
rible report was heard, and the
building fell in heap of ruins.
When the rubbish could be cleared
away only few blackened scraps
Of burned flesh could be found,
except the head of Lieut.. Jacque-
min, which had escaped injury.
SOUND AND TRUE.-Ths Memphis
Avalasschs, speaking of the future of
the South, says: "The destinies of
the South have been transferred to the
keeping Of the younger men, most
of whom were not voters when
Sumpter fell. They have more i'm
portant tasks than brooding over
the past, and presaging evil for the
future. They have vast, almost
ruined, empire, to rebuild, beautity,
and enrich; q country to render
greater and more glorious than ever
before. Men charged with this
great mission have no time to listen
to the maunderings and jabberings
OF uncofaned ghosts"
Tho CaraOn AnnsnI aavo that the
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-08

WHY is IT?-Why is it that eve-
rybody goes to the Metropolitan boot
and shoe store, No los South G street?
1t is because they can get boots and
shoes cheaper and better than in any
store in the State. G. A. Noltemeier
knows how to please his customers. y
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-08
NIoTIcE mo- II. NJ. MoNTGoMERY: You

NOTICE TO II. NJ. MONTGOMERY: You
~ will please take notice, as co-owner.
that during aud for the year 1874. ! have
personally expended in labor and improve
ments upon that certain mining claim and
lode situated in DEVILS Gate and Chinatown
Mining District, in the County of Lyon, State
of Nevada. and known as the P. Il. 4 Mont
gomery Gold and Silver Mining Company, the
sum of $50, that your respective proportion
of such expenditure for labor and improve
ments as aforesaid is the sum of 800. and
that hereby demand of You the sum of 500
in gold coin, at or before the expiration of
30 days from date hereof, or your interest in
said P. r. & Montgomery claim will be
taken possession Of by me, as co-owner, in
said claim, according to law.
NJ. ID. DESOTO.
Silver City, Lyon Co.. New, May 10, 1875.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-08
Application sor Patent
To the South Buckeye Mine.
No. 2S2-U. s. Survey No. 1O6.


TT 8. LAND OFFICE, CARSON CITY,
u . New, July IL. 1575.-Notice is hereby
given, that H. X. MITCHELL, whose Post
Office address is Virginia City. Storey County,
Nevada, has this day filed his application
for a Patent for fifteen hundred tl50Dl linear
feet of the South Buckeye Mine or vein, bear
ing gold and silver, with surface ground SIX
hundred (60Ol feet in width, situate, lying
and being in DEVILS Gate and Chinatown
Mining District County of Lyon and State OF
Nevada, and known and designated by the
field notes and official plat on hle In this
office as Lot Number ore hundred and SIX
tl06). in Township Sixteen 16), North Range
twenty-one (2l) East of Mount Diablo Meri-
dian. The exterior boundaries OF said Lot
No. 106, being as follows, to-wit: Variation
10 degrees 30 min East; commencing at Post
No. /, whence bears the NE. coreer OF sec.
16, T. 16, N. r. 81 E., NJ d. NJ, N. 7sI deg.
z. 2207 feet, and running from said Post NO.
list course. S. 81 deg. W. passing through
North center Post at 1893 feet. whence bears
tallest smokestack Of Kossuth Hosting Works
s. 60 deg. As min. W, smokestack on Dayton
Hosting works s. SO deg. 81 min. W., Flag
staff ON Mount Davidson n. 2SH deg. W.
point of location S. deg. Z. $50 feet 403h
feet to Post No. 2; thence, I'd course, 5. deg.
Il. 1900 feet to Post No. 81 thence, Sd COURSE
N. "a deg. F.. 600 feet to Post No. 4; thence,
4th course, n. 6 deg. W. 767 feet to Post NO.
5; thence. 5th course. along the western
boundary Of the Franklin German claim n:
81 deg. W. 759 feet to Post No. /, the point
of beginning, containing nineteen Q9) acres.
This Claim is bounded on the East by the
Franklin German Company's mining claim,
on the North, South and West by unknown
claimants.
The location of this mine is duly recorded
in the Recorders Office of the Mining Re-
eorder of DEVILS Gate and Chinatown Mining
District, kept at his office, in Silver City, in
Book Z" :" folios AS and 446 of mining
claims.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said South Buckeye mine or said
mining ground as hereinbefore described,
are required to file their adverse claim with
the Register of the United States Land once,
at Carson City, in the State of Nevada, during
the sixty days period of publication hereof,
or they will be barred by virtue of the pro-
visions of the Statute.
A. Waltz, Register.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-08

"UCKEYE GOLD 4 SILVER MINING
ID Company-Location of Principal Place OF
Business, San Francisco, California. Location
of Works, Devils Gate District, Lyon County,
Nevada-Notice is hereby given that at
meeting of the Board of Directors, held on the
LIST day of July. 1875, an assessment. tNo. III
of Twenty Five cents per share was levied up
on the capital stock of the Corporation, pay
able Immediately in United States Gold Coin,
to the Secretary, at the Office of the Company,
Room 20, No. 33l Montgomery Street, San
Francisco, California. Any stock upon which
this assessment shall remain unpaid on the
It'll day of August, 1875, will be delinquent,
and advertised for sale at public auction and
unless payment is made before will be sold on
Thursday, the 2rth day of August, 1875. to pay
the delinquent assessment, together with costs
of advertising and expenses of sale. BY order
of the Board of Directors.
C. A. SANKEY, Secretary.
Office-Roon 90, No. 331 Montgomery Street,
San Francisco, California.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-08
N O r I G. E.

vulo JAMES II. THOMAS, VIM. W. SIR
lott, Alexander Warield. WIN. d.
Brown, G.. NJ. Greene, Il. Il. Greene, Sol.
Lewis, S. d. Corderay, f. A. White, Annie
E. Irwin, /. NJ. Anderson:
You are hereby notified, that we, the un-
dersigned, co-owners with you OF that GER
tain Mining Claim on the Mount Hope Ledge,
otherwise called the Dios Senior, or Senores
Ledge or Lode. consisting of eight hundred
linear feet thereon, situated at Spring Valley,
so-called. in DEVILS Gate Mining District, in
Lyon County, State of Nevada, have, during
and for the year 1874, performed the amount
and value of labor and made the improve
ments 5qured by the Act of Congress, en-
titled IAN Act to promote the development of
the mining resources of the United States, "
approved May 10, 1872, upon and for the
whole of said Mining Claim And you are
further notified, that If you should fail or
refuse to contribute within the time pre-
scribed by said Act, your several parts or
proportions of said amount and value OF
said labor and improvements, each of your
interests in said Mining Claim Will become
the property of the undersigned.
JAMES MORGAN,
NJ. KIRKPATRICK.
Silver City, June %, 1875.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-08
SHERIFF'S SALE.

"Y VIRTUE OF An EXECUTION, IS
MD sued ont of the District Court of the
third Judicial istrict of the State of Neva-
da, in and for the County Of Lyon, and to me
directed and delivered, for Judgment rem
dered in said Court on the 30th day of June,
A. d. 1915, in favor of WEBB 4 MULLARD,
Plaintiffs, and against
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-08

The Carson Appeal says that the
EVENING Herald, the new paper
which IS announced to appear In
that city this week, will be publish
I'd by Wells Drury q Co., with ex.
State Printer Putnam as sditor'in'
chief.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-08
Assessment Notices.

X7IRGINIA CITY COAL COMPANY
v Location of Principal Place of Business,
Virginia City, Nevada. Location of Works
FL Dorado Canyon, Lyon County, Nevada
Notice is hereby given, that at meeting OF
the Board of Trustees of said Company, held
on the twelfth 12thl day of july A. ID. 1870,
an assessment (No. 81 of ten 90 cents per
share was levied on the capital stock of
said company, payable Immediately in United
States gold coin, to the Secretary, at the
office of the Company, Room. No. Medin
Building, No. 16 North street Virginia
City, Nevada. And any stock upon which
this assessment shall remain unpaid on
WEDNESDAY. the Eleventh 11th) day of
August, A. d. 1875, shall be deemed delln-
auent, and will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment is
made before, will be sold on SATURDAY,
the Eleventh Q1thl day of September, a, ID.
1875, to pay said delinquent assessment, to-
gether with costs of advertising and expenses
OF sale.
F. c. LORD, Secretary.
Office-Room No. Z, Medin Building No 10
North Street, Virginia City, Nevada.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-08

EsTRAY.-Two gray work horses
branded on the shoulder, strayed
from me at this place about three
weeks ago, and the last seen of them
was on the White Plains, following
the railroad. Anyone giving inf r.
nation of their whereabouts will be
literally rewarded.
ANDREW WEsTFALL.
Rye Patch, Humboldt Co., New. CIV
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-06-16
ISAAC COOK AND DOUGLAS.

Cath in the st. Louis Times, relates
a conversation with Hon. Isaa. Cook.
now OF st. Louis, at one time prominent
in politics. Mr.. Cook talked about wine,
of which he Is manufacturer, and of
Douglas, of whom Cook was once the
manager" He first saw Douglas in
1888, when the latter had been nomina.
ted for Congress i'm Springfield.
Douglas was beaten by few votes, ant.
Cook Induced him to make no contest
for the seat. Cath" asked Mr.. Cook
what circumstances attended Judge
Douglas rupture. with, buchanan admin
lstration, and she related the matter near
ly as follows: :"
douglas would have been nominated
~ place OF Buchanan ut Cincinnati in
1917, btt Tor one of his friends, who had
ietter Withdrawing his name In q Ger.
lam event, becoming intoxicated. This
irichd, whose cornwall habits were widely
known, was taken out by the Bucl,anai /,
ana breckenridge men the night before
the nomination and filled up with good
treatment. lie therefore PRODUCED thu
letter from Douglas, withdrawing
the latter's name prcmaturcly and
Buchanan got the presidency. douglas
was embittered but he presented IN.
name OF Mr.. Richardson, Of Illinois, /,
he postmaster-ge general. Buchanan re
Piled that II Mr.. Douglas would nam,
any other person the office would be con
coded to him, but as Buchanan had beef
ID the diplomatic service for many years
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and WAS nice about personal appearances,
he refused to appoint Richardson on the
ground that he dropped too much to-
bacco juice ovefeehis shirt and spit too
freely into the faces of those with whom
he was convcrsIng. Douglas insisted on
his appointment, swOrc after hi, fashion
and q,larrelcd with the Administrations
When he supported the Topeka constitu-
ton. and. after having broken up the
Missouri compromise to get the vote OF
the South, wheeled in favor of the Re
publican policy, Cook became FESTIVE.
He stated his views to Mr.. Douglas. who
replied that Cook had got to be- despotic.
Douglas intimated that he would not be
dictated to. and Cook plainly avowcd his
belief that II man who would go
back on his party for personal
ambition would naturally 20 to ruin.
Soon after this Douglas ordered meet
ing to be held In Chicago to back him IN.
Cook appended a resolution to the calI,
which the meeting adopted. At this time
Douglas was drinking hard and de-
nounced Cook ficrcely. His words were
repeated and got into the newspapers,
and hence the long mooted rupture came
to pass. Cook supported Buch-
anan's administration and Doug
las friends pressed his name ut
Charleston and Baltimore. la the course
of the campaign, MIR. Douglas. who had
lost his restraint IN the Use of brandy,
overstimulated his system, and his RI
tons being cut of by his physicians. he
died from system which naturally
needed sufficient stimulation to have car
ried him over the war period. In his
closing days. when he was delirious. he
spoke much of Ike Cook, aud requested
to have him brought to his bedside. but
the doctors waited for convenient day
which never came.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-06-16
ILLINOIS WIFE MuRDERERs.

wife-killing has been no uncommon
amusement in Illinois for some time past.
Several husbands have been hung in the
State at recent periods, for anticipating
the course Of nature In the case of their
wives and sending them to eternity in
advance of their time. Next Friday,
Paris, Illinois, will punish, by hanging. a
man named Casey for numbering his wife,
and Joliet will probably do the same
thing.
Henry Jacobs is now an inmate of the
county Jail at Joliet. Henry has been
placed In durancc vile for chopping his
wife INTO several pieces, putting her into Il
box and burying the box In one of his
own cornfields. Mrs. Jacobs had been
missing for some days, and the discovery
of her body was the result of a search in
stituted by the neighbors Of the family.
The murdered woman was the second
wife of Jacobs, and their domestic life
had been stormy.
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THE CAIRO 4 ST. LOUus r, n.

Messrs. PaysOn 4 Co., contractors to
build tho Cairo ~ -. I.o.si, rs.i'.-,sss, ~"d
Mr.. Smithers, agent Of the bondhOlders,
having failed to induce the board Of direc-
tors OF the company to settle with the con-
tractors to the disadvantage Of the COM
pany. have, with other stockholders. also
friends of the contractors, called a meet
ing Of the stockholders of the road for the
purpose of electing new board of direc-
tors. 10 say the least of it, tins action on
the part Of the contractors suggests the
suspicion that, to the disadvantage OF the
counties and cities owning stock, they
wish to obtain board of directors that
will settle with them on their own terms.
Mr.. Smither's action is open to
the objection that it is adverse to the in
terests of the company, and consequently
Of the European interests he represents.
He Is evidently friendly to the contract
ors. He wrote the Murphysboro con-
tract, to which certainly the contractors
could offer no objection, but which, in
our opinion, flies in the face of the inter-
csts OF the company, the bondhOldcrs,
and the counties and cities owning stock
is this road. lie is moving in very
mysterious way.
If the meeting Of stockholders Is held
on the 2Sth, and takes the proposed
action, the new board will accept the
road as completed, issue to the contract
ors the stock yet in the hands
OF the company, and pay the com.
pany for advances made to the contract.
Ors with the promises Of county bond,
the company will never obtain.
In a communication to the City Coun
Gil, and which will also be laid before IN,
County Commissioners, Mr.. Oberly, tn,
director representing Alexander county
ami city OF Cairo, has called attention
to the proposed action Of the contractors
We hope that his communication will b,
thoughtfilly considered, and that til,
city and county may take action to pre-
vent their interests from being sacrificed
We believe the matter shoul,
be taken into the courts. an,
the affairs OF the compan,
investigated. We know the road ha
not been completed according to con
tract We believe that the stock. in ex
cess of 5000 900, is null and void; W
believe Payson d Co. have received al
anu probably more than they hay
earned IRON the company and we hay
no doubt that the proposed new boar
being composed Of their friends, will Sc
tie with these contractors on their ow
terms. 1.-THE county and city wish
submit to this scheme OF Payson a Co.. a
right. II may be wise to do 50, but "
are OF the opinion that the contrac,o,
aud the company ought to be taken int
court.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-06-16
TROrBLOrs TIMES N THE ST.
LOUIS TINES OFFICE.

The 81. Louis Times, which has been
in rather shaky iinaHcial condition for
some time past, had also some domestic
trouble day before yesterday. Three of
tho board OF directory or the Tunes COM
pany met and summarily voted Stilson
IIutchins, managing editor OF the.paper,
out of the position. and Senator Celeus
Price into it. The Times has a floating
Indebtedness Of over a hundred thou
sand dollars. and was steadily
losing one thousand dollars a week.
This Is the cause assigned by the Ill
rectors for their disposal Of llutchins.
Mr.. Hutchins, however, refuses to be de-
posed. and continues to run the Times.
The affair has created considerable ex-
element in st. Louis circles, and thu
outcome is looked for with interest.
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ticlc Of merchandise and Offering twenty
five cents load for its delivery at a GER
tain point. Ia the saii,c way. the grass.
hopper has been made an article of mer-
chandise III Minnesota. lie has
ASSUMED money value IN the eye of the
farmer to whom he has so long been a
scourge. lie is worth from ten to twenty
cents quart, and all hands on the farm.
men, women and children. are catching
him and taking him to market. The
"market" is a long deep ditch into
which the hoppcrs arc thrown, and when
a sufficient quantity are emptied in, the
torch Is applied, the flames burst up and
the grasshoppers. thousands of bushels
Of them. take their departure, not for
fresh fields and pastures new, but from
the face of the earth forever. The
curling smoke and the ashes in the
trench tell the tale of their ere
nation. The cxpedicncy Of the
plan OF putting price upon
the grasshoppcrs and paying so mucl, n
bushel for them is demonstrated by its
results In the counties where 1t has been
in operation. Blue Earth county up to
last Monday. had destroyed ten thousand
bushels at cost of fifteen thousand dol
lars, and other counties were doing rs
well. The people enter into the grass
hopper trade with enthusiasm. The
"grasshopper sufferer" has become the
grasshoppcr merchant and the transform
alton is as gratifying to his pride as ii is
rcmunerativc TO his pocket. BY pressing
all hands into service. some farmers have
made as high as fifty-iivc dollars per day.
Others have had steady income OF from
six to ten dollars day since the counties
first advertised for grasshoppcrs. At the
present rate of determination, the trade
will not last long, but when the season i,
over the farmers will not be cmpty-hand-
ed. An effort is being made to have the
State assume the grasshoppcr debt of tn,
counties
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NARROw.GArGE AFFAIRS.
CAIRO, ILL, june 9th. 1915,


To the Mayor and City Council -
GENTLEMEN Under the provisions of
an Act in force April lG, 1869, Twas COM
missioned by the Governor Director of
The Cairo Il st. Louis Railroad Company,
to represent Cairo and Alexander
county on that board until the compile
ton of the road, and until the condi-
tons Of the subscriptions of the city and
county had been compiled with and
fully settled.
have occupied the position of Dircc-
tor since Dec. %, 1871 {; and now, in view
of certain actions taken and about to be
taken by the contractors to build the
road. | deem it my duty to call your at.
tention to matters bearing upon the inter
est Of the city and county in the stock OF
the said company.
The charter Of the company provides
that the "capital stock shall be 81, GOV, OOO
which may be increased to $1,000, 900. "
BY action of the Board of Directors.
before became member of it. the
capital stock was increased TO $1,000,
600. a contract to build the road for
this stock, and other considerations, was
made with "IIowland and associates
Messrs. Payson 4 Co. On their part.
the contractors were to complete and
fully equip the road within specified
t,s..c. 9vssy- sso.suso embarrassed rs"s"
ainiIv tho enmnanv hnn a
the time of completion and lend them its
credit. At last the rails were laid along
the whole line, and the contractors de-
manded that the company receive the
road as completed, and issue, in addition
to the about S2,3OO,9OO stock then in
their hands, 81 100000. This the COM
pany refused to do, holding that the
road had not been completed according
TO contract, and that, since there had been
no settlement with the contractors, there
was no way to ascertain what amount Of
stock was due to the contractors. But
the company accepted the road condi-
tionally, and ordered 81 100000 OF stock
to be issued to =. 4 Co.
AS soon as the contractors obtained
the stock, they had certain amounts OF it
transferred to friends of theirs, and called
a stockholders meeting to elect board
of directors. They have majority OF
the stock and will elect their own board.
That this board will accept the road as
completed and equipped, settle with
Payson 4 Co. on their own TERMS and
issue the balance of the S., 100000 stock
have no doubt.
At the last meeting Of the present
Board Of Directors attempted to induce
the company to resist this very discrcdit-
able action of the contractors, but | was
not successful. II they succeed in the
movement they are making, the interests
of the cities aud counties owning stock in
the company will be injured. can do
nothing to prevent the success OF this
scheme, which will not characterize us
| would like TO, and therefore call the
matter to the attention OF your honora.
Bile body. Respectfully,
,JoVN H. OREVIy
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-06-16
A CENTENNIAL sCARE-CROw

FOTeWarNed Is 1OfcNrmcd, IL VIC IHII'
adelphla hotel and boarding house keep
crs do not observe a little prudent silence
concerning the scarcity Of provisions and
the high price Of boarding which will be
the consequence Of II about the time of
the centennial celebration. the people
who are contemplating visit to the city
of Brothcrly Love in July, 1876. Will
either reconsider their determination or
carry their provisions along with them.
The prospect Of paying five dollars per
day will frighten away very large num-
Der Of would-be centennial visitors.
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TME 0RASsnOPPER IND,-srRy.

bIue Earth, Br0wn and other counties
OF Minnesota, infested by grasshoppers,
have struck upon plan OF exterlnina.
ton which gives every indication Of
proving eifectual. Some years ago, we
remember that the New York Herald.
recognizing the mightiness of the al.
mAgh'y dollar, recommended, as the
pess p'sh 70 get the streets cleaned In the
spring, making the street rubbish an ar.
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It.ODe inch is square
Hi.To regular advertisers We Oder superior in
duceinents. both rs to rate OF charges and man
ner Of displaying their iavors.
S1-Notices in local column inserted for Fiji
teen Cents per line for one insertion, Twenty
Cents u line FOR two insertions, Twenty-Five
Cents line for ihre insertions. 1hirty-fiyc
Gents line for one week, aud s-N.nty-fNe
Cents line for one month,
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John II. osERLY, Bditor.
A MYAIERY.

st. Louis has case OF hydrophobia
khich it's not sure Is kydrophobia. II
The patient, young man, had died, the
doctors would have been sure the disease
was hydrophobia-the young man lived
and the doctors are all at sea.