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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
Advertising Swindlers.

There is a class of business men
in the east who evidently think that
the average country editor is born
idiot, willing to work for nothing and
pay for the privilege. These bust
ness men manufacture a poor quality
Of sewing machine, piano, or per
haps paint or jewelry. 1t must be of
poor quality or legitimate adver-
Using would sell it. In order to
effect sale they propose to have
their inferior wares advertised, the
advertisement tc be paid for in trade
on receipt of certain sum of mon
ey, which sum usually amounts to
the value of the article advertised.
The object of the tradesmen is not to
get cheap advertising so much as to
effect a sale of their wares. The de-
luded editor sees the price list sent
on with the advertising prospectus,
and thinks he can make profit after
sending the cash required. He does
not know that these lists are usually
about one hundred per cent. above
the selling price, and it is not until
he tries to dispose of a piano or
sewing machine that he discovers
that the same article can be laid
down in Nevada, freight paid, for
about the amount he had to send his
generous patrons. The last swlndle
proposed to this office came from
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
An Alarmed Mother.

A few days ago the wife of one of
our prominent citizens went to Car
son on shopping excursion, and
left the usual motherly orders to her
hopeful son relative to a strict avoid
ance of the dangerous river during
her absence. The boy as a matter
of course went swimming as soon
as he could find a companion, and
together they played around in the
water all day, coming home at night
with backs Redeemed and smarting
from the effects of the bright sun.
The mother returned in the evening,
and when the apple of her eye nm
dressed to go to bed she noticed the
red blotches on his back, and imme-
diately,there arose before her, troub-
lous visions of scarlet fever, small
pox, measles and other maladies &C.
companied with disordered appear
ance of the cuticle' Nearly every
i'll which flesh is heir to arose and
gravely walked minuet before the
perturbed mothers imagination and
after each had performed his distress
ing pas selJ thewhole band of demons
of ill health Joined hands in dis
tracing walk around over the pros
trate body of the sun burned boy.
All of this mental panorama was un-
rolled while the alarmed mother
was nervou sly fumbling through a
homeopathic chest, and in an agony
of apprehension she grabbed hand :
ful of the pellets and administered
in rapid succession remedies for
scarlet fever, tooth ache, measles,
catarrh, small pox, corns and chill
| blanes. Although this allopathic
application of homeopathic remedies
produced nausea very disagreeable
to the boy, who dare not explain the
real cause of his symptoms, but
somewhat comforting to the mother,
an uneasy night was passed, and
another toy drug store would prob
ably have been poured into the
patient had not the practical father
taken a look at the case, and
prompted by ford recollection put
some judicious questions, which re
suited in a revelation of the true
state of affairs, and the the sudden
enlargement of the inflamed parts,
and it is perhaps needless to state
that the additional inflammation was
not relieved by the application OF
cold cream.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
A Blast From Phoebe.

The Phoebe Record blows as fol-
lows: "Western Nevada may blow
about her crooked railroad, but Lin
ccln county can boast of the longest
ana crookedest smokestack that is
IN existence. AS for crookedness,
why, bless us, many members of
the late Nevada Legislature will not
begin to compete with it. 1t is near
ly six hundred feet long and has
twenty seven elbows in it. 1t starts
from the engine placed back in the
tunnel. The pipe first runs in a
northerly direction about rs feet,
then it goes up chute so feet. AT
this point it takes a southerly direc-
ton 2l25 feet and then dives down a
winze 81 feet, and then starts off in
westerly course, and after running
through the various drifts, chutes
and wines in the mine at all the
dips, spurs and angles imaginable,
the end of the pipe finally makes
its appearance above ground. When
fire was started in the engine it was
discovered that the down cast In the
pipe was so great that it blew the
fire out. The whole Day mine force
was summoned to the engine, and
headed by the foreman, they all be-
gan blowing in the fire place, and
after an hours blowing an up draft
was finally obtained and the engine
is now running lovely"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
SUTRO TUNNEL.
Report For the Week Ending June
18th, 1881.

Main Tunnel-Three carpenters
have been employed during the week
finishing the drain boxes and making
the connections.
Ga the 11th inst. the water from
the Combination shaft was turned
into our new line Of large boxes and
on the 18th inst. the drain boxes car
rying tn, water from the North and
South Lateral boxes were connected
with the large boxes.
Our drain boxes are now receiving
from the Comstock mines over four
ana a half millions of gallons of
water per twenty foBr hours, and
have a capacity to carry over double
that amount.
The small sub-dra leading from
the Combination connection to the
South Lateral junction is now exca-
waited for total distance of 130tt.
Additional t. the usual work along
the main line, considerable repairs
have been made this week on tim bers
in the Main Tunnel.
North Lateral-A portion of the
week two repairmen have been en-
played in the drift relagging, repair
ing etc.
South Lateral-Number of feet
driven last report, 1891; since last
report, 76 feet; total, 1857.
The II o'clock shift on the night
of the 10th inst. commenced work
with drill carriage again in the face.
This weeks progress has been run
without timbers.
During the week the repairmen
have lowered the track at the Yellow
jacket turning point for distance
of 100 feet, finished tagging at the
carriage station and cut small
ditch from the turning point to the
face; also extending the second line
of blower pipes II the carriage sta
ton and making the necessary re-
pairs in the drift.
The following temperature was
observed
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18

the Madison Sewing Machine Com
pany, of New York. The TIMES
charges nothing for this notice, but
claims the privilege of remarking
that the machines offered for sale by
this company must be of very in
ferior quality or it would not be
necessary to resort to this method of
making sales. 1t is no worse than
numerous others, but is the last hair.
No advertising is done by this paper
for trade. 1t is true that an electric
belt "ad." was accepted, but the
Office dog is about as large as an
overgrown mule, and if the belt is
not saleable it can be used as dog
collar.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
Como Briefs.

Mohawk--The incline is now down
1873 feet. A drift has been started
on the ledge in both directions. Good
ore is being found in each branch,
and about ten tens hoisted every
day, winch is assorted before beng
taken to the mill.
May Day-A station has been es.
tablished at the 100 foot level, and
drifting for the ledge begun. 1t is
estimated that it will require about
go feet OF drift to cnt the ledge.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
A Pizen Switch Deadlock.

Pizen Switch has just recovered
from a sensational row among the
Good Templars of the neigh borhood
and is now the scene OF squable
over school matters. The teacher
in district No. IL was not giving
satisfaction to one of the trustees
and he sent to Virginia for young
lady to come and supersede her.
The young lady arrived but could
not get possession of the school, as
one of the other trustees favored the
old teacher and insisted upon re-
tanning her, while the third trustee
preserved a strict neutrality. The
old teacher having both possession
and equal amount of authority, re-
tains he school, while the new young
lady puts up at the Switch occupying
a position slightly similar to that of
Judge Robertson before the dead
lock was broken. In the mean time
the two opposing trustees are set in
their ways, and the third PERSISTS IN
riding the fence. The deadlock
will only be broken when the now
dormant trustee makes up his mind
to poll the deciding vote.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
BRIEF MENTION.

The Dayton bridge was repaired
this week.
Old Haynes says that he is not
going To he married.
There is forty stamp mill on the
road for the Big Indian mining com
pany.
Fifty tons of bOrax came in from
the South on the c. & G. Oh Monday
evening.
There is a great deal of respecting
going on in the mountains around
Mason Valley.
Hon. James Crawford, Superin-
tendent of the Carson Mint, was in
Dayton on Sunday.
Fred w. Birdsall, President OF the
Lyon Mill and Mining Co., left for
Lake Tahoe Oh Wednesday.
Hugh CARING has in his saloon a
white winged woodcock which WAS
captured on the Ophir Flat.
Hugh CARING supplies his patrons
with lemonade made from Sicily
lemons. No lime juice imitation.
Judge D. c. Mckinney, of Austin,
NJ lsonic Grand Master of Nevada,
was in towa on Saturday and sun
day.
Work has been commenced on the
foundation for the Round House of
the Lyon Mill and Mining Co.'S
X. Il.
A number Of Mason Valley ranch
ers have sCfTered severely from grass
hoppers. The crops of A. j. Barrett
have been almoat entirely destroyed.
Engiue No. /, for the Lyon Mill
and Mining Co.'S r. r, arrived in
San Francisco last Monday. 1t is
being overhaued and put in run ming
order, and will arrive here early next
week.
Daniel J. Robb, Sheriff of Esmer
aida county passed through Dayton
on Monday with Cinnamon whom
he arrested at Austin, for murder
committed in Aurora about five
months ago.
The Comstock Prospecting Assoc
citation held meeting in Sutro on
Tuesday evening. No business of
importance was transacted, but very
favorable reports from their agent in
New Mexico were received and read.
Big Sam, the head washee man,
said, on being interviewed relative
to the Chinese taking hand in put
ting g stop to the opium trade in San
Francisco, that they might do as
they pleased in San Francisco, but
that the Chinese authorities of Day
ton did not care whether the young
hoodlums smoked or not.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
They are All Alike.

John Lothrop is laying the foun-
dation for an edifice of anecdotes
concerning the hard working, unas.
sumlng mining millionaire, LA
John Mackey. While in Como he
did some manual labor in the May
Day mine, and on his return went
around with magnifying glass
proudly exhibiting small blister on
the ball of his RICH thumb.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18

observed,
Hotel Arrivals.

Following is the list of arrivals at
the Union Hotel during the past
week:
G w. Robinson, Mason Valley;
L. II. Hall, San Francisco; A. New
man, FIT. Churchill; Jno. CARING,
Fit Churchill; S. S. Buckland and
wife, FIT. Churchill; ]. b. Hammond
Carson; d. G. McKenney, Austin +;
James Crawford, Carson; Lizzie
Crawford, Carson; Jas. II. Donovan,
Sutro; 0, II. Smith, Gold Hill; G.
NJ. Davis, Carson River; T. B. Davis,
Mason Valley; Robt. Grlmmon,
Hawthorne; John James, Genoa;
Andrew Fraser, Reno; G. Schmidt,
Carson.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
Art Gallery Changed.

John S. Noe has purchased the in
terest of F. w. Lee in the photo
graph gallery No. SO South G street
Mr.. Noe will continue the business,
and is prepared to supply his Gus
toners with as speaking a likeness
as can be desired.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
Closing Week.

The Dayton public school will
close next week Friday with an ex-
hibition in the evening. Written
examinations will commence next
Tuesday and continue during the
week. All are cordially invited to
attend the examinations and the
closing entertainment.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
The Hawthorne Pioneer.

Bob Grimmon has sold his interest
in the Pioneer saloon at Hawthorne
to his former partner, Dave Graham.
Mr.. Graham will carry on the saloon
and is authorized to collect all out
standing accounts aud will pay all
bills.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
Fourth of July.

There will be citizens meeting in
the Court House this evening at Z
o'clock to take into consideration the
celebration of the Fourth of July.
Everybody who can attend is re-
quested to be there.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
Lyon Lodge No, IL, X. Of Z.

The regular conventions of Lyon
Lodge No. IL, X. of p. are on We'd
ncsday evening of each week, COM
mencing at 80.
JOHN E. BRAY, Q. q.
RUEL LoTuRoP, X. of Il u 5.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
Teachers Examination.

| will hold an examination for
applicants for teachers certificates
in Lyon county, in the school build
ing, at Dayton, beginning at nine
o'clock p. NJ, Wednesday, June Goth,
1881. The examination in arith-
metic and grammar will embrace all
subjects discussed by Robinson and
Harvey. JOHN Il. BRAY
County Superintendent.
DAYTON. New. June II, 81.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
Married.

In Dayton, Juno 18th, by the Rev.
j. H. Hammond, Miss Matte E.
Newman and Mr.. W. r. Davis, both
of Dayton.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
A SPECIALITY IN WARM WEATHER
DAVE GRAHAM.

Outfit furnished free, with full In
structions for conducting the most
profitable business that anyone can
engage in. The business is 80 easy
s,' P e.: =: !:
start. No one can fail who 10 viii
ling to work. Women are as sue
cessful as men. Boys and girls can
earn large sums Many have made at the
business over one hundred dollars in single
week. Nothing like 1t ever known before. AL
who are engaged In 1t airs surprised at the
ease and aapidity with which they are able to
make money. You can engage in this bust
ness during your spare time ct great pront.
You do net have to invest capital m it. We
take all the risk. Those who need ready mon.
ey, sh ould write to us at once. All furnished
free Address TRUE &C.,, Augusta, Maine.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
Bullion Shipment.

The Lyon Mill and Mining Co.
shipped sixteen bars of bullion val
ued at seq, 500 last Monday.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNER-
SHIP.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL
~ whom it may concern that the co-part-
nership heretofore existing between ALBERT
PERKINS and JOHN STUbBE, at New Je-
near Dayton, Nevada, under the
firm name and style of AL. PERKINS Co,
has this day been DISSOLVED by mutual
and ALBERT PERKINS. one of the
is to collect all debts due said firm
and pay all debts of their contracting.
ALBERT PERKINS,
JOHN STUBBE.
Dayton Nevada. May Is, 1881.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-18
Dayton, New, June II, 81.
SutrO School Report.

Following is Prof. Booher's re-
port of the Sutro school for the
month ending June 10th 1881
No. of boys enrolled ...........39
No. of girls enrolled ........... 81
Total number enrolled rs
Average number belonging ......e7
Average daily attendance. ....63
Per ceat. of attendance .........93
School closes the 23i day of this
month.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-09-01

little hope for the recovery Of any Of the
party.
At Plano, Texas, fire swept away fif.
ty-onc buildings in two hours, causing loss
or &loONoc.
The hurricane at Charleston caused q
loss Of el40OO0. A son Of Chancellor I.cse-
sue was swept from the sea-wall, and three
colored persons were drowned at Suliyan's
island.
Consul Grinnell, 1t Bremen, reports
TO the Department Of State that during tho
past six months 100000 bushels Of Indian
corn were imported into Germany, and that its
use Ii growing. The duty 10 cents per 100
pounds.
Three hundred Germans Of Leaven-
werta, Kansas, met the other day and resolved
to place men At every poll to work against the
prohibition candidates.
Lieut.. Shoemaker, of the Fourth
United States cavalry, has arrived at Fort
smith. his company being encanped across the
river In the Choctaw Nation. He reports that
tho white intrnders are leaving the Indian
Territory peaceably, but he experiences great
difficulty In determining the rights Of those
negroes who were held ~ slaves by the Indians
before the war.
The Queens speech on the prorogation
Of parliament expresses the hope that complete
self-government IN the Transvaal will contrib
ute to the tranquility Of South Africa, and that
the Irish Land bill may produce benefits com.
nlensurate with tho care bestowed upon It.
A meeting which waste have been held
At Dcrne to protest against the expulsion Of
Prince Krapot Kline, the Nihilist, was forbidden
by the police, who would not allow the bill call
ing the meeting to be posted.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-09-01
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The works Of the Union Stove Com
pany at Everett. MAss.. have been swept away
by tire, causing loss Of t6s,000.
Water has become 80 scarce in the
anthracite region Of Pennsylvania that il has
been sold It - cents per barrel. The output
Of coal has heen greatly lnterfered with.
Sitting Bull and 18l Of his band are
still located near Fort Yates, and = guard il
regularly detailed for duty It his camp.
From San Francisco COMES the bold
announcement Of a fearful Indian horror--lhe
massacre Of seventy people reading in Eureka,
N. NJ.
BY the burning Of John G. Aldean-
der's house at Carter's Creek, Tenn, ave
eolorea children were crsmated. Three colored
children were cremated It Boonsllle, Miss, BY
the burning OF cabin.
AT Forest City. Ark, late Wallace in
slted 4 d. Apperson. City Marshal, 70 take =
cigar While standing at the counter OF 50
loon App.rsen drew pistol aud said, = be-
lieve III shoot you-" Tate, Thanking Le ~,
jes,ine. replied. "Shoot away" Appersol
,ired. killing him instantly.
4 family Of seven persons, living neal
X unmsn. Texas. has been poisoned by eatius
,oosrd peaches eonsainins srssn,s, sad shsge i
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-09-01

Gen. Swain and Col. Rockwell have tcle-
graphed to their friends that the President has
not been 40 well for week. Secretary Blame
has sent cheering message to Europe, and the
physicians all speak words OF hope.
1--WE are exceedingly hcpeful.' said DR..
Agnew, as lie and DR.. Hamilton were leaving
the White House grounds after the evening
dressing. I've are exceedingly hopeful.
There must be turn IN sll eases. and il may
be this Is the CRISIS and that > favorable turn
has come DR.. Hamilton expressed similar
views. DR.. Agnew earlier In the day had said :
"Thc President now has more than al even
chance"
WARRINGTON, Aug. 29.
The Presidents condition this morning Ii
decidedly encouraging, and the feeling among
physicians, nurses and friends 10 that II this
Improvement can be maintained for forty -cight
hours there will be reasonable ground for con-
fidence In ultimate recovery. The one draw
back to this hopeful outlook consists IN the
fact that fears are entertained Of the
formation Of abscessos upon the lungs =
Z complication that has been dreaded ever
since the existence Of bl0od-poisoning became
fully established. One OF the surgeons il re-.
ported a. having said that in sounding the
Presidents chest . somewhat dull response waa
produced BY the percussion, and that there wal
reason 70 fear that this was indicative Of alb.
scess formation On the lnngs--a state n things
certain TO prove fatal unless speedily checked
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-09-01
The Nealthicst Chinaman n New
York.

Tom Lee is . short, slender man Of
modest manner, and of an extremely re-
tlring disposition. He wears q stiff
Derby hat, into the crown Of which he
pokes his queue. This causes the hair
on the back Of his head TO stand ont like
the aG;lls Of an angry porcupine q the
hair on . cats back rubbed the wrong
wsy. He has tiny black mustache, and
. sparse growth Of wiry black hair on
his chin. He wears diamond pin inan
old-fashioned scarf, and an eight-ounce
gold watch chain bangles from the third
button of his waistcoat
He ID well-to do |; owns three tea farms
In China. snd Ii worth few thousands,
perhaps. He Ii = very influential man
among Cinnamon. He Is = Christian, >
citizen, deputy sheriff, and n married
10 girl who was born down town some
where in that ncighborhood She has
borne him 3 lovely little daughter, Of
whom Tom Lee is justly very proud. He
talks pigeon English, but he dresses as
You and I do, except that he wears his
aueue. Very many amsng the 1900
Chinese In New York retain their pig
tails. not becsuse they cannot 90 back to
China without them, or because Of any
heathen notion abont them, but because
. good many Cinnamon who were cigar
cite OF cigar makers in China have come
here from Cuba without their queues.
They were rid Of those appsndages in
Cuban prisons, where they wore sent for
vrong-doinR, and il is considered best
by respectable Chinaman not to cut of
the quene, 30 . 70 obviate the necessity
Of explaining where and how it disap-
neared
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-09-01

Gen. Leslie Coombs died few days
ago at his home a Lexington. Ky, in the ssth
year OF his age The deceased General served
with distinction in the War Of lsla and in tho
Mexican war. He was : stAnnch Union man.
and helped to keep Kentucky from seceiing.
Attorney General Macveagh decides
that, although the Law gave preference to ex-
soldiers n candidates for Government posl-
tions, the right for preference could not be
observed until they had passed the same exam
nation prescribed for other candidates IN tho
avil service.
4 Washington dispatch to the Chi
ago Times says that Capt. Howgate's emhex.
element bids far to show mp $1,000 ON the
hooks. The Attorney General has caused him
to be rearrestei and held m go. 900 bail Gen.
Haxen believes that HowEats has fol
four years appropriated 70 his own use
about one-tourth of the ugnAl-servics
fnnd, over which he had absolute control
h.s private yacht IN tho Potomac VA
actually constructed with Government money
in the back yard Of the signal Office Hi.
method Of securing signatures 70 blank vonch'
ers was audacious enough TO entitle him to =
premium. He owns real estate in Florida, vir-
ginia and the District Of Columbia. and ].
known to hold large quantities of stocks, from
which the public treasury may possibly rcaliz,
something.
A special attorney for the Government
has entered suit at Washington against Capt
II. w. Howgate TO recover $l0l, ,257, aud al
tho property Of the latter has been scixed OF
mrits of attachment.
George w. Riggs, the well-knowl
Washington banker. is dead.
Daniel C. De Jarnette. a member q
la. Thirty-sixth Congress, and afterward !
| member Of tho Confederate House of Repre-
| sentatiyes from the Richmond lva.) district
!, has lust died at Fredericksburg, Va.
The value Of the exports from thi'
cenntis during the month Of July Of this yea
vas Slo.l99, i60 in excess Of the value OF tn
! imports. For the corresponding month Of las
year the value of the exports exceeded tn
raiue OF the imports BY sis,7io,ss7. The vain
OF the exports for the year ending July 81
1871, exe> c,led the value Of the imports b
sa56, ,Gai, ,59l. The excess for the year eniin
July A. lssD was sl5i1SO.l5N