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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-03-06
THE GOLD CANON PLACER
MINES.
More Ground Taken Up.-GOOd
Prospects In DaneY Canon.

The Gold Canon Placer Company
have taken up an addition
to their previous location, ex-
tending from Park Barnes's claim up
to the Silver Hill mine, including all
ground not already claimed by other
parties. The company now have
men employed wherever required,
doing the work necessary to hold
the ground. Excellent prospects
have been found in Daney Canon;
the dirt ranging in some places, from
one to two bits to the pan. M. j.
Henley, of Virginia, on behalf of the
company, is negotiating with the
patentee of the Colorado dry placer
amalgamator. A scheme is also on
foot TO organize a joint stock COM
pany, to work all the pay gravel on
Dayton Flat. 1t is claimed by the
owners, that this machinery will
work $50 cubic yards of dirt in
"a hours. The name explains that it
is not a dry amalgamator; but an
amalgamator for dry placer fields.
The quantity of water required, how
ever, is very small as compared with
that needed in sluicing. Two miners
inches are said to be an ample sup
ply for the above amount of work.
The promoters of the company have
strong belief 10 the merits of the
invention, and entertain very hope
full views as to the ultimate success.
Should their estimates of the per-
formvnce of the amalgamator be
proved to be correct, an immense
impetus will be given to the business
activity of this city and Dayton.
There is large territory in the
vicinity available for work, almost
all of which would pay if water could
be taken to it, or means discovered
of handling it without water. The
amalgamators, if they justify the
promises made for them, can be
placed almost anywhere, and worked
proftably, if the ground will yield
even few cents 10 the pan. The
water needed in the process is not
required to have any fall; it may be
pumped from we'll, or from the
flow in the ground being worked.
II one cent TO the pan is realized
from $50 cubic yards per day, the
returns would amount to several
hundred dollars. Where it would
be impossible to obtain two miners
inches of water, the results would be
proportionately less; but a very small
quantity would still suffice to run
the machine prefitably. They claim
also that the same water can be used
two or three times.
The change in the appearance
ana prospects of the country should
their hopes be fulfilled, will be so
great as scarcely to be realized as
yet.
Pending the negotiations relative
to testing and working the amalga-
mator, arrangements have been made
with the Lyon Mill and Mining Com
pany by which water for washing
the gravel on Dayton Flat will be
furnished from their ditch, and in a
short time active work will be COM
mence.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-03-06
BRIEF MENTION.

Professor Jessup was in town yes
terday.
Sleighing in town on Wednesday
and half of Thursday.
The hearing of c. H. Aitken wa
postponed on Thursday, until March
18Th.
Henry Fisher has transferred his
interest in the Eureka mine, of Como
to Doc. Sims.
In the COW counties out east, they
fog schoolchildren in puris natu'
rslibus, so to speak.
G. E. Caukin, of Virginia, was in
town yesterday, on the lookout fol
accidents to life and limb.
In the District Court yesterday in
the suit of Thos. Woolley vs. VIM
Penn NJ. & NJ. c., to foreclose me
chanics' lien, judgment was rendered
in favor of plaintiff for 1851.
Our citizens had an opportunity
of witnessing the mild brutality of
cock fight on Thursday night. Three
hard battles were fought, one o.
which was remarkably long anc
gsmy fight, fand very entertaining
or pitiaUle, as the case may be.
A. NJ. Cromer says that the Cole
Hill News was misinformed as tc
his having been partner with Nc
Ginley aud Colwelt in the arrastra
He denies ever having anything tC
do with it, except when he and Pau
Bray rented it, aud worked some
ore from the Pioneer mine.
About eleven tons of ore were
stolen from the Flora Temple mine
owned by George Cook. The mel
who took the ore out say it was
hauled to the Mckinley and Colwel
arrastra. 1t is also claimed by some
that it was the proceeds of this ore
which was the bone of contention be-
tween the partners, in their late diff
ficulty.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-03-06
Election OF Officers.

At the semi annual election of the
Silver City Miners Union, held last
Tuesday evening, the following off,
GERS were elected: President, w. H,
Atkinson; Vice President, George
Sherman; Recording Secretary, NJ.
j. McManus; Financial Secretary
Joe Hebert; Treasurer, G. Lawson;
Conductor, N. Lsnctot, Warden,
VIM. Langridge; Trustees-A. viii.
son, Fred Langabeer, James Biggs,
VIM. Donnelly and Thomas Rowe;
Finance Committee-Henry Meyer
VIM. Youren and N. Hebert.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-03-06
MINING AND ENGINEERING.

Il MOSHEIMER. IN SAN FRANCISCO.
eBe in cooperation with Society of En-
gineers. is publishing monthly journal. THE
ENGINEER OF THE PACIFIC, devoted to
the advancement of Mining. Engineering. Me-
chanical Arts, etc. onducted on strictly
scientific principle rice, 81 SO per
year.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-03-06
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.

Chester Williams 95, Henry Fote
90, Lutwig Foote 95, Charlie Geyer
95, julius Geyer 95, Freddy Kelly
95, Johnny Kennedy 95, Maurice
Lucas %, Arthur Mack 90, Willie
Moyle 95, Harry Sabin 95, Freddy
Scheel %, Minnie Griffin 80, Ethel
Hornick %, Rose Kllday 80, Josie
Kennedy 90, Lizzie Stock 90, Maggie
Mack, 80, Florence Young 90, May
Williams OIL, Minnie Ferguson OIL,
Estela Ferguson OIL. Charlie Black
mer 81, Johnny Allen 81, Harry
Aubin 81.
l.. A. PLuMMER, Teacher.
INTERMEDIATES DEPARTMENT.
Lucy Geyer 81, Alice Henry 90,
Emma Gilbert 90, Mary Foote 95,
Carrie Durrenberger 90, Bertha
Young 90, Henry Stock 90, Tommy
Bickford 90.
Mrs. N. @. HoRNIcK, Teacher.
GRAMMAR DEPARTMENT.
A Class.-William Youren 90,
Cora Angel 90, Walter Hill 9S,
Horatio Angel 81, George Hill 81,
Wenzel Stock 90, Lizzie Durenberger
9s, Fanny Mullard 81, Emma Geyer
81, Annie Henry 96.
b Class.-Caroline Sabin 81.
G Class.-Eugenie Geyer 81, Will
lie Stock 80.
NJ. VAN WAGENEN, Principal.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-03-06

Ofice-At Breed Il Crosby's, North street.
Opposite the International, where passage and
transportation can be secured.
JOHN n. DALLAS. Proprietor.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-03-06

THE ROLL OF HONOR.

A List of Pupils Who Distinguished
Themselves During the Month OF
February.
The following is the roll of honor
for February, of the Silver public
school,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-03-06

George Emmett has received the
Sheriff's deed for the Succor mine,
the time allowed for redemption
having lapsed.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-03-06
POCKET BOOK FOUND.

~ the Leete Grade, February 0. pocket
oot containing valuable papers. The owner
can have the book by calling at this office
proving property, and paying for this ad.
versisemsat
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-25
The Trapper Trapped.

Every war furnishes occasion for the
display either of honesty or dishonesty.
Our civil war was no exception. 1t
called forth the cheating contractor,
VIII 50 shoddy garments fell TO pieces at
the first rain, and the faithful manufac-
turer, whose cloth stool the wear of u
campaign. Among the officers We're
Lien whom bride OF u hundred thou
sand dollars would only expose the Of
ferer to punishment. Bat there were
also those who would sell them selves
for few hundred, if the same sum
was slyly tender ed.
The "old capitol" prison, at Wash
ington. was used as place of confine
ment for prisoners OF State aud for o
few Of the better class of prisoners of
war. The authorities once become sus-
picious of the fidelity of the officer in
Charge of the prison, and laid u trap"
for him.
On one occasion, he was standing in
TIE prison yard, watching O detach-
ment of prisoners taking their daily air-
ing. Suddenly, one of them, approach
lug him, begged few moments private
conversation.
He was INDUCED. The substance of
his conversation was that he would give
the officer five hundred dollars (whieh
he held the officers RECEIPT for, having
given it up on entering the PRISON., if
he was allowed to forward letter un-
real to certain address.
The officers answer was to confine
the would-be writer alone in o window
less room and feed him on bread and
water. In few days he was released
from prison upon an order from the
War Department..
lie was a Secret Service Agent, and
had been imprisoned specially to try
the officer with bride. When he re-
ported his failure and its personal con-
sequences, it was received with shouts
Of laug ster by his suporiors.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-25
Nordenskjold. A Pen-Picture the Of
Famous Arctic EXplOrer.

Professor Nordenskjold, like other
men, has to pay the penalty Of great
ness. He has, since his arrival, been
mercilessly lionized. The remoteness
of his temporary residence ia the
Avenue Malakoff has not protected him
froza the visits of lion hunters. Invita-.
tions crowd upon him, and he has
hardly minute to enjoy the hospital
ity of Mr.. Nobel in peace. Peace, by
the bye, is the last thing to have been
expected at the house of Mr.. Nobel,
the very man who invented dynamite.
and thus introduced a new horro- into
modern warfare. Yesterday moeuing,
when had, AZ I concluded, allowed
the professor fair time to recover from
the fatigue of his journey and to enjoy
his breakfast, | called on him at Mr..
Nobei's, where I found several early
visitors already. His secretary and
members of the Geographical Society
we're waiting to help him prepare his
lecture for the Cirque, and every five
minutes there was u ring at the bell.
Nordenskjold was still at dejsuner, but
he presently came in, AMI, apoligizing
for being unable to give me many min
utes, inquired what he could do to
serve the Herald. Gong straight to
the point, 1 asked him for some details
OF the new expedition which he il said
to he preparing. H. replied that he
had objections to talking about new
expeditions which might be uusuccess-
full. However, he did not mind telling
me that he did propose going on another
Arctic journey about tht ee y years honce.
The object would be the exploration of
Siberia, seas, bnt not u voyage TO the
North Pole. II believe" eald Nordensk'
jold, "that the North Pole will never
10 reached unless sUme man begins to
attenpt it when he is twenty and con-
tinues till heis fifty" Wny?" asked l.
"Because," he replied, tue travellers
must be familiar with the peculiarities
of Arctic seas, aud fully that time is
necessary to gaia the requisite expert
ence. But pray excuse me," he added,
II have to attend to my lecture. y
Thinking the request very natural l
at once excused him aud left him to
his laburs with NJ. MaunoIr, not without
having good look ut him first.
Nordenskjold is worth looking AZ. He
Is broad, strong maa of fOrty-eieht,
with determined expression, firm mouth
high and rather stern forehead, acqui-
liue nose, thick moustache and eye
brows, both like his hair, which II"
wears cut SHORTY of the disagreeable
sandy shade 30 common in Scaudiuavi-
aus. There is o word of energy and
power in his face, aud perhaps touch
Of cynicism. He is very short sighted,
aud Uses glasses. Though he writes
English we'll he prefers French, which
hc speaks with tol-rable correctness,
but some effort.-Paris Special to New
York Herald.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-25
Exploring Mexican Ruins.

NJ. Desire Charnay arrived in this
country the other day. Many people
may desire to know who M. Dasi,e is.
He is Frenchman who aspires to be an
American Schliemann. He intends to
dig and grub among the ruins left by
the Aztecs in Mexico. The French
Government pays part of the expenses,
and tho rest of the bill is footed by
Lorillard, the American famous in
Europe for his fast horses. Charnny
would like to get scientific man who
is not afraid of pick and spade. He
says: 81 shall need a man of action,
and not an Office theorist, for during
several months we shall have to work
rs hard as common laborers." Nj.
Charnay will 60 to Washington in O.
few days. and probably obtain letters
from the administration to the Mexican
authorities, and he may have Mn inter
view with Senior z imacona. the Mexican
minister in this country. He will then
return to New York, and fortnight
thereafter will start for his field of la
bors. His travels there will cover
1 $50 miles along the Valley of Mexico,
to Yucatan and Guatemala. When
asked whether he thought the Mexican
Government would permit him to re-
move any OF the antiquities that he
might come across in his excavations,
NJ. Charnay said he hoped it would.
If he did receive permission he would
make very thorough researches, which
would benefit scientific circles in Next
co as we'll as in the United States and
France; but if they were to withhold
the permission, he would confne him
self to taking photographs, impressions
OF the hieroglpyhics and engravipgs,
and making fac-similes of the antiaui-
ties. Should he make any excavations,
under these circumstances, it. would be
only in the interior and far from any
city. NJ. Charnay was over the ground
in 1857, and he wrote book of his OBJ.
seryations entitled, "Cites ct Ruins
Americaines. Detroit Free Press.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-25
In Vision.

Thou art not miRe--another sI esks
The name yearn to cali;
TAou Novest in another sphere.
Thou spsakest in auother's car,
Words which on me should fall,
Thy gentle ministries Of love
Are balm for others woe,
Another form close clasped is held.
Oh errands sweet by love impell,d,
Thy t,nder grace and pity go.
This wien wake, but when sleep
Ny dreams have power TO hold:
/ clasp thee in sweet embrace.
Ipress to mine thy pityi. 6 face
Then smilest when my arms enfold.
Iwake to loneliness and grief,
Life holds us far apart;
Bat when dream thy love is mine,
Sweet letters bring that soul of thine
In .ondage to my happy heart.
The dark horiz N shutteth close
Ar ,und the life of sight;
Our dream-life stretcheth far away
With portents Of unending day,
Aud CLEANS Of hope dispel the night.
WdpTiey
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-25
Woman as a Census Taker.

In many parts of the country women
will be appointed as census enumera.
tors. with tho probable result some.
thing like this:
Neatly-dressed woman OF an uncer-
tain age, with big book ander her arm
aud pen in hand, rings the door.bell.
Young lady appears at the door.
Census enumeration Good morn
ing. Lovely morning. I'm taking the
census. You were born"
Young lady" Yes'ra."
Census enumcrator Your name,
please. What q pretty dust-cap you
have on. Can I get the pattern? It's
just like the one the lady in the next
house has. Let's see. your name p
~ haven't the pattern. Don't you
get awful tired walking round taking
the census ?"
sou, yes, it's wearisome, but I pick
up great deal of information. How
nice your dinner smells cooking.
Plum pu iding?"
I'm Maine. No, haven't plum
pudding to-day. I'm looking for q
new recipe"
"I've got one that took down from
q lady's cook book across the way. Are
you married ?"
"No Want an invitation to the
wedding, don't you? 1t will be a long
time before you get it. You ca1 keep
your plum pudding recipe, thank you"
shd tuink twould be some time.
Have you Gull 0, of course; l for.
got. This hall carpet is just the pat
ssrn of Aunt Prudy's. She had it
more than twenty years. How many are
there in the family?'
IF this hall carpet don't suit you
you can get off from it and go about
your censusing.
Well, you're an impudent jade, any
how. You haven't told me when you
were born, or what's your name, or
when you expect to get married, and
there's ten dollars fine for not answer
lug census takers questions, and if
was you wouldn't be seen at the door
in such slouchy morning .dsess, so
there"
"Oh. you hateful thing. You can
list go away. Ill pay $40 just to get
rii Of you, and smile doing it. It's
none of yonr business, nor the CEN
sus either, No. 1T isn't. You eau keep
your pattern aud your plum pudding
aud your saucy. impudent questions to
yourself IL"
Good morning. must be getting
on. haven't done but three families
all the forenoon" and an energetic
bang Of the door just missed catching
IL foot of her trailing dress. Skirts
Nw Urve~ Register.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-25
Capt. Pilsbury's Latin.

The stery is an old one about the
enterprising shoemaker who saw. 'meas
comscia recti" on hiS rivals sign one
morning, and. determined not to be
out done, wrote "men's and arOmea' =
concis recti r. on his own. The Cleve-
land Penny Press tells another:
Upon the declaration of war in 1912
the town military companies re-organ.
lied by the election of new officers aud
general brushing up of Announcements.
just before the battle OF Plattsburg, u
town company in that vicinity elected a
stalwart but ratAer illiterate fellow by
the name of Jonathan Pilsbury, captain.
He felt that the eyes of the whole
State o: New York we're upon him. He
encouraged his company to be brave in
the coming BATTLE He assured them
that he would "behead them as long as
there was a man Of them left, and that
his own name hould 60 down to pos
terity."
The banner of the company had en-
blazoned upon its folds, in addition to
the stars and stripes, the emblematic
eagle. holding in its talons the legend.
airy scroll, re Pluribus Unum."
The captain eyed the eagle with
admiration, but was puzzled as to the
Significance of the motto. Seeking
light upon the subject. he was Informed
by wag that it was the name of the
first captain of the company.
A bright thought dawned upon the
uncuitivated mind Of Capt. Pilsbury.
He quickly took the Gag to sign
painter and had tho name of the first
captain" obliterated and his own substi.
tuted. and that company rushed bf.vely
iuto the fight bearing the banner with
that strange device, "E. Jonathan Pills.
bury"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-25
A Remarkable Case.

One Of the most remarkable legal
records of cases OF circumstantial evil
dence is that of Soren Qvest, q Danish
pastor. No mans life ever showed
more dramatically the effects of I'M
governed temper and the justice of
Gods dealings. The story is almost
unknown, we believe, to American
readers.
Soren from his berth was victim to
q fiery temper. When but child he
killed dog that provoked him. When
at college he killed comrade, in q
burst of passion.
He became clergyman. and was q
devout, estimable man, but for this one
uncontrolled fault. A man named
Morten Burns, whom Soren rejected as
o sutton for his daughter, vowed to be
revepged on the old man.
He sent his brother, Niels Burns, to
work as a servant on the pastors farm.
Niels was stupid, and very soon SOren
and he quarreled, the clergyman as
usual INDUCED in abuse, threats, and
even blows.
AT last Niels disappeared, and Morten,
his brother, accused Soren of the
had heard the pastor abusing Niels in
frantic rsge; that he cried out, II will
beat thee dead. dog T. and struck him
with spade twice, and that Niels fell
dead as she supposed.
Another man depOsed that on the
same evening he saw man carrying O
heavy stick to another part of the
pastors grounds; and Screens own
servants testified that they saw him by
moonlight in his green dressing gown
and white cap digging hole in cab
bage bed.
Tue hole was opened, and Niels' body
was found there. Soren was tried and
sentenced to death. Before his execu-1
tiOn he confessed that his rage was SO
great that he had struck Niels, fully
intending to kill him, but that the man,
frightfully wounded, had run away.
"if," said Soren. II found his dead
body and buried it, it was in my sleep.
God has brought me to this punish
ment: Murder was in my heart. He is
just"
Twenty-one years after Soren was
executed, Niels Burns returned. He
testified that he had gone, when wound.
cd, to his brother, who dug up body
buried recently, dressed it in Niels'
clothes, and buried it himself III the
garden. wearing the pastors dressing
gown and cap. The chain of evidence
was thus complete against Sorcn, and
he WAS punished, illegally, yet justly,
for the murder he had purposed to do.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-25
The Digging Up of Troy Completed.

We have received letter from the
famous archie ologist, Schliemann,
dated Athens, March 14.h. We print
this extract:
II have just returned from Asia
Minor, where 1 have at last finished
that digging out of Troy which began
in 1870. During ten years have strug-
gled with great difficulty, among which
perhaps the most troublesome has been
the large amount of debris under which
the ancient city was buried. 1t has
been necessary to dig down and dig up
the ground for moro than sixteen yarde
below the surface. But l am fully
recompensed for all my trouble.
found the remains of seven different
ancient cities; the last of them was the
lion OF Homer. That city was built
by the E,lians, banished from Greece
by the Dorians in the eleventh century
before our era. In one of the buried
cities found many statues of Minerva
with the owls head, whence her name
of Gloucopis. In another city were
found many images Of the divinities.
But the most interesting and important
of all the discoveries is, OF course. the
city of King Priam. Every article
found in the ruins of that city bears
unmistakable signs of having been de-
stroyed by fire and in time of war.
There were discovered many remains
of human bodies in full armOr. dug
out and cleared away the debris from
the entire wall that surrounded the
city, and also from all the principal
buildings; Now am finishing large
volume in English, describing. with fpll
details all my discoveries, and contain
ing 200 illustrations of the most i'm
portaut OF the discoveries. My Trojan
collection is now in London, but at the
end Of this year shall take it to my
villa in Athens, which is tireproof,
built only of marble and iron. l have
recei, ed large offers for my collection
from the United States, England,
France, and Germany, but 1 can not
part with it for any money in the
world."-St. Petersburg GOlos.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-25

ANGLING FOR A DRAGON FLY. DO
mitian caught. and killed flies. But what
that wicked Emperor did fer pastime,
Sir Humphrey Davy did for sciences
sake. Temple Bar tells the following
quaint anecdote of the great natural
philosopher:
He was once discovered by somS
friends, sitting ON stile. rod in hand,
and flashing the air with his fishing
line. At the approach OF his friends,
he entreated them to stay back while
he continued the aerial sport. Their
patience exhausted, they went up to
him, aud were saluted with the .excla-
nation
WAS there ever anything so provok-
ing!' If you had only remained quiet
another minute, I should have caught
him; it is most vexatiousr
On being asked 10 explain, he added,
II have been amusing myself watching
the feeding. habits of the dragon-fy; he
snaps up the midges voraciously; sol
baited my hook with one, and have
had good sport trying to hook him,
and if you had kept back little longer,
| am sure would have got him."
The HoUND.-The hound is most
interesting animal. How solemn and
long visaged he is-how peaceful and
we'll disposed! He is the quaker among
dogs. All the viciousness and currish.
ness seems to have been welded out OF
him; he seldom quarrels or plays like
other dogs. Two strange hounds,
meeting for the first time, behave as
civilly towafd each other as two men.
I know hound that has an ancient,
wrinkled, human, far away look that re-
minds one OF the bust of Homer among
the Elgin marbles. He looks like the
mountains. towards which his heart
yearns 30 much.