Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-05-05
BRIEF MENTION.

| Va ASWkhSp was W NSWu
Thursday on wood business.
S. E. Burbank, Of Smiths Valley, was in
Dayton on business last Thursday.
A slight earthquake shock was felt here
last Saturday night about 9 o'clock.
Elk Governor Blssdel is DESTROYS Of going
as delegate the National Republican Con.
ventisn.
M. c. Tilden, a Virginia City lawyer,
was in town yesterday. He thinks some ef
locating here.
Senator Evan Williams and F. c. Wood.
bury, Of the Eureka Mill, were in Dayton
last Wednesday.
Lawyer Deale, Of Virginia. was in Dayton
Wednesday,. having seme probate business
in the District Court.
c. ]. Crowley. the leader Of the Sutro
Democracy, returned from a short visit to
San Francisco last Tuesday.
Mrs. Penter. Of Greenfield, is seriously III,
suffering with an abscess. A doctor Snyder
Of California is attending her.
The fruit in Mason Valley has nearly all
been killed by frost while that in this end
Of the county has not been damaged.
The Briggs mill, just below Silver City,
shut down the FIRST Of this we, K for want Of
ore. 1t had been running on Oest rock.
Humors run riot in the bleod at this sea
son. Hoods Sarsaparilla expels every I'M.
purity and vitalizes and enriches the bleed
Mrs. B. S. Mason, Sheriff Brann's ms,her's
eighty FIRST birthday was last Sunday. Gus
and his wife attended the birthday party Civ.
en- in her honor.
The Democrats hold their primaries TO-.
day to elect delegates 10 the State Conven.
ton. There will probably be NO contention
in any Of the precincts.
The cecil weather of this week has check.
ed the snow frsm melting in the mountains
and as a consequence the water in the river
has not rizen very much.
Charlie Watson is building an addition 10
his saloon on Pike street, the front part Of
which will be used as a shee shop and the
back part as storeroem.
1t is reported that there is to he another
change in the railroad Timetable. 1t is
feared that il such is the case the trains will
never reach Dayton at all.
George McMurray. the veteraniary sur.
geon, arrived frsm California yesterday,
and can be found at the Union Hotel by
those who require his services.
Send to Weinsteck, Lubin & Co., Sacra.
mento, CAL, for new illustrated Shopping
Catalogue Of Dry Goods. Clothing, Etc.
Interesting, valuable and free.
The combined weight of the FIVE men
working on the afternoon shift at the Rock
Point mill is just one half a ton. Let's
hear frsm the other mills, now.
The ore hoist at the Rock Point mill is
new in good working order, the ore dump
has been enlarged. and ore trains now run
down to the mill daily from the Mound
House.
"Old French. who has been prospecting
and working on some claims in the PRenut
hills. for months past. was brought to Day.
ton last Sunday in half paralyzed and half
famished condition. and is now an inmate
Of the hospital.
The Musgrove Bethune tsot.race was in.
tended to take place in Dayton. It can
readily be understood now why it did not.
Behune would not have had as easy chance
to get away from this camp after his dirty
work as he did from Reno.
At the special school election in Silver
City last Wednesday, it was voted to levy
the tax BY large majority. The trustees
will new be able to run the school the full
term. alss ha We the school house repaired in
the vacation, which it badly needs.
NJ Elmer and wife, formerly Of Sutro, on
the trst Of the month rented the St. Charles
Hs,el in Carson. Beth are old hands in the
hotel business, and will coAduct this we'll
known house in frat class manner. Lyon
county people Should give the St. Charles q
call when in Carson.
The Douglass mill, this place. made a
clean up this week after run Of six weeks
on tailings under the Rae System. and show
ed q saving Of over enc pound OF quicksilver
to the ton over the old system. The mill
will start again ts-msrrow msrning after
ssme repairs are made.
County Assessor CARING returned from
San Francisco Wednesday leaving his wife
and son Tommy in Oakland, where the lat
ter is being treated fer st. Vitus dance. In
San Francisco Hugh met several old reva
dams. J. S. Dallas, formerly County Clerk
Of Lysn, is conductor on the local read that
runs through Oakland to the ferry; Jack
Todman, formerly Of Carson and Candida.