Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1885-09-26
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

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ed near Shoshone, Idaho, on the road
to the falls.
The fourth trial Of Frederick Hopt,
for murder, began at Salt Lake the first
Of this week.
Wages have been reduced in the
mines in Garfield. The result is very
much dissatifed community.
Cottonwood, which is used principal
ly for domestic fuel, is selling at Tus-
carora at from 50 to $II per cord.
A meeting has been called for the
28th of this month at Seattle, to devise
means to rid the Pugit Sound country
Of the Chinese.
The quarters of the Chinese, who
had been working at the Black Dia-
mond mines at Seattle, were burned by
mob Sunday night.
A find of gold and silver ore near
Ophir Canyon, Nye county, Nevada, is
claimed to exceed in richness anything
yet found in the State.
A prospector writing from the new
mines in Oregon says that all the ore
yet discovered there would not run a
hand mortar one day in the week.
Thomas Smith was shot in the right
arm at Candelaria last week by the ac-
cidental discharge Of his revolver. He
has gone to San Francisco for treatment.
The Stanislaus and Tuolumne rivers
are exceedingly low. Not more than
fifty inches of water is running in the
South Fork Of the Stanislaus at Straw.
berry.
A general overhauling and reitting
of the mills at Bellevle, this State,
will soon be commenced, and prepara-
lions for long, continuous run are con
templated.
Waterman Junction, new town on
the Mcjave Desert at the junction of the
California Southern and Atlantic and
Pacific railroads, is being rapidly built
up and promises to be place Of cor
siderable importancer
Many horses have died the past sea-
son in Pahranagat Valley from the ef.
fects produced from the eating Of the
"loco" weed, which abounds in that
Valley. A. W. Geer has lost forty
head of horses so far.
A new steam hosting engine has
been placed over the Eureka Consoli-
dated mine at Eureka, New. When
completed, in conjunction with neigh,
boring mines, Ruby Hill will be drain
ed and prospecting resumed.
Seventeen divorce suits have been
commenced in the District Court which
convenes at Butte City, Montana, next
Monday. Fifteen Of them were begun
by the feminine part of the house, and
but two by the male members. Verify
this is positive proof that the men are
all bad.
A large body of graphite reported to
be discovered on the west side of Para
disc Valley about a mile and a half
from the Emma Nevada mine, was made
by Chris. Rabe, an old California
miner, is thirty feet wide in some places
and remarkably free from foreign sub.
stances.
The murder Of DIR. Powers in Bear
Valley has created intense excitement
in the surrounding country, and the de
sire to have thorough investigation Of
the affair is popular among the masses.
1t is believed when the facts are fully
ascertained, that prominent citizens will
be found implicated and that the mur,
der was instituted by private malice.
The unpopularity of the doctor was
created through land disputes.
The Spring City Miners Union, at a
meeting held last week, disbanded their
organization, and decided their hall and
other property to the public school of
the district. The miners notified Super
intendent McCurdy. OF the Paradise
Valley mine, that they would work for
$3.50 per day after October Ist. The
great depression in the mining industry
caused by the unprecedented heavy dis
count on silver bullion, induced this
action on the part of the miners, and
only four members dissented from the