Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-04-06

~ a. ". ". =. PSoPiS uau SoIne SpeC-
ial work last Saturday evening. A grea,
many members Of the Order were present
from Carson, Virginia City, Gold Hill and
Sutro.
Ed Hamilton, is now At Spokane City.
Washington Territory, where he is in the
lumber and wood business. Mrs. Hamilton,
who is still in Silver City, will leave shortly
to Join her husband.
Foote'S little cannon. ball ore crusher il
running on ore from mine leased by the
Foote boys, and loca'ed near the Occidental.
The mill is doing good work. and has proved
a better method Of working rock than the
stamp process.
L. c. Hobart, Of Smiths Valley. was in
town last Wednesday. He has leased his
ranch in the Valley to Paul and
Seth Ames for period Of three years, and
has taken position with the Virginia City
Water Company.
The electric plant in the Douglass mill
still continues to do good work, in fact the
low. grade tailings that are now being work
ed At the mill could not be made to pay un.
less it was for the saving in quicksilve,
made by this plant.
The Plzen Switch brass band has made
excellent Roadway during the last few
months under the leadership Of Prof. B. A.
Downey. He leaves the boys with the be
lief that they will get along nicely for some
time without a teacher.
Silver City is quite dull At present
Many Of the mines are shut down, and Others
are tied up by law suits. Things will re.
main this way probably until a decision i,
rendered in the Grubei Oest case. This de
cision will be rendered sometime this month.
The LYON COUNTY TIMES is in error
when il says that the irrigation bill appropri.
ates 81, 200. 900 from the School Fund for irri.
CATION purposes. The amount is 500, ooo.-
INDEPENDENT.
Correct as = wheelbarrow. 1t was a
typographical error, overlooked.
The Reno Journal has turned another
volume and celebrates the event by widening
and leng,henlns its columns to the standard
measure. The Reno CaseU< has also begun
another volume. Both are excellent papers
They labor faithfully for Washoe county.
Reno especially.
"A. G. Berry is rigging up a hydraulic
mac hine in Gold Canyon 10 work on his
placer claim. This claim is owned by
Messrs. Berry, Cooke and Haines, and some
good gold prospects have been found on it.
Quite large ditch has been constructed to
bring water onts the claim.
1t is the opinion Of our District Attorney
that the law made at the last session Of the
Legislature izing the appointment OF
another District Judge. is unconstitutional.
The new state Of things entails q draft on
our County Treasury Of $336.as per quarter.
whereas $s7s per quarter fooled the bill here
tofore.
Preparations are already being made to
have the Reno State Fair prove more attrac-
tive this season than ever before. The ap
Precipitation Of $4,000 by the State will
square up all Indebtedness. and Washoe
county proposes to issue bonds to the amount
Of $4,000 to help the institution along,
maybe.
A. Livingston, proprietor Of the Ozark
saloon, Carson, has been arrested on q
charge Of keeping his saloon open after
midnight. This is done to make test case
and obtain . decision as to the constitution
ality Of the new I7 o'clock closing law
The Courl had b-tter decide it constitutional
or it will be liable TO receive special mes
sage from the Governor.
Asa Mitchell and Bill Foster, both en-
plsyed on the Mason ranch in Mason Valley,
had an alteration last Sunday about some
trivial matter and the former was shot through
the left arm above the elbow. Asa came 10
Dayton Monday and Or. iazle.t dressed the
wound, and Tuesday returned 10 the Valley.
A peculiar thing about the shooting was that
the bullet, although it did not pass clear
through the arm, came out Of the flesh and
was found. The way this is accounted for is
that the two men scuffied around considers
bly, after the shot was Tired. and the bullet,
which probably struck the bone, must have
been worked cut by the muscle. OF the arm.
The DR.. says the bone is not fractured, and
A.