Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-09-09

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girl named Franchises was found with
q heavy chain fastened about her
ankles BY a paddock. Simons has
becn arrested for maltreatment to
the cl.ild,
A sergeant and two privates Of the
, fifteenth infsDtry, while travelling
from Las Vegas, New Mexico, to
Fort Stanton recently with carve.
yard of horses for the calvary service,
deserted the command at Alksli
Wells ana got of with several head
Of stock.
Metallic City boasts an unique sp-
pesring house. Its walls are made
of empty candle boxes filed with
sand and piled on each other. The
outside has been painted q brick col
or, and striped 90 that the structure
looks as though it was made of
bricks.
A Montana vigilance committee
postponed a lynching matinee for
two hours in order to allow the vic
tim to shake ID a rsff1, in which he
had taken and paid fo. a chance.
Thus doth the spirit OF christian
magnanimity crop out even in the
rough and uncouth wilds Of the west.
Nellie Morrell, the II months old
daughter Of Joseph Morrell. OF Hal
ley, Idaho, found box of morphine
pills last Thursday afternoon while
playing 10 the house, and swallowed
q NUN Der of them. The child ling
cred from 8 o'clock until about 10 in
the evenin7. and died.
News from Portland saws, w. c.
Rifev, car inspector of the Wes, Side
Marrow Guage road at Sheridan,
while working under the wheels this
morning. WAS caught by an unexpect-
ed move Of the train and received in
juries about the chest and shoulders
which will probably prove fatal.
News was received at Las Vegas,
N N, last week, that MARITIME Hope
Price, yosng Euglishman living on
Fred H"oper's ranch al Red Rover
Springs, was shot and killed 10y
Mexican herder, who then compelled
Mrs. Price to give him ell the money
in the house, aud taking Hooper's
best horse he escaped.
The track layers and sectionmen
on the Atchison road, from Conten.
iion to Calabasas, Arizona, are drop.
ping down like sheep 10 time OF
drought. There are now over fIty
men dnwn with the fever at Staff ,rd
Station, and many more are threaten
ed. The track is now laid within
four miles of Calabssas.
Forest fires are raging 10 all direc-
tons about Portland, and dense
smoke covers the city. No rain has
fallen for four weeks, and the timber
is very dry. Several farm houses and
thousands nf cords of wood have
been destroyed. The los,e are rough
~ estimated vt $4,000. There has
been mo loss of life aud no stock or
cattle burned.
The body of man supposed to be
Felipe Chaves, of Valencia county,
New Mexico, Was discovered lying
on the railroad track near Alan lilo,
by the engineer of freight tram.
The train could not stop and the body
was struck. When picked up the
remains we're cold which would in
dictate that Chaves had been murdered
and placed on the track.
A report from Nevada City says,
an old Scotchmsn named VIM. Clark
was found dead few days ago about
mile from You Bet. From indics-
uons he had been dead several days.
s M time ago his cabin was buro'd
dawn. and since then lie has csmpei
in the woods. He had been missing
several days. Deceased was quite an
eccentric individual. In early days
he started to walk across the plains,