Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-07-20
BRIEF MENTION.

Travel over the c. It c. has been light
for the past week or two.
Senator Gallagher made flying trip to
Carson this week Thursday.
Lyon county has 4S6 school children
between 6 and IS years OF age.
- Jim Yerington was passenger on Wed.
nesday's train bound for Hawthorne.
r.. W. Davis drove over from Carson
Wednesday and returned on Thursday.
w. H. M. Cobb, now of Grass Valley,
CAL, was in town day or two this week.
Stock is suffering for wan, Of water and
feed in The northern portions Of Nye county.
Mrs. James Bradshaw and Mrs. I.eper,
Of Reno, have been visiting friends in Dayton
this week.
Thursdays souhbound train was late
over an hour and half, owing again to delay
on the c. P.
Alec Dodd, an old time Daytonite was
in town this week shaking hands with old
acquaintances.
The new State Of Montana will require
become office holders.
Miss Eta and Fred Sims leave the latter
part OF this monthfor Napa City, where they
expect TO spend several years at College.
Judge M. A. Murphy was a passenger
on Wednesdays train on his way to Carson
after visiting Candelaria and Columbus,
Esmeralda county.
Charles Hunt and Charlie Kinds brought
in a drove Of beef cattle last Wednesday
from T. B. Smiths range in Pirennut. They
report feed pretty short in the hills.
The E.meralda base ball nine offers to
give the Virginia City nine $3.50 to pay ex
penses, If they will come to Hawthorne and
play game for $500 side within thirty
days.
Rev. c. E. Gault and son, from Arkansas
and Rev. T. E. Sisson. OF Mason Valley,
paid Dayton q short visit Tuesday. The
former gentlemen are looking about the
State for a place to locate.
The water in the Carson River in Church.
i'll county is nearly all gone. Haying is in
full blast, and crops Of alfalfa are enormous.
and the barley and wheat crop will be fair.
There will be no water for a second crop.
--Slogger Sullivan Got drunk the other
day and knocked pugilSt Brown across the
room in a saloon in Chicago. Brown, Jack.
son. and few more, ought to double. bank
the big bruiser and give him thorough
mauling.
A Georgia farmer prevents his cows
from jumping fences by cutting off their
lower eyelashes, which makes fence seem
three times as high as it is. n the upper
lashes are cut, he says, a reverse delusion
will follow.
Col. A. c. Ellis. of San Francisco, was
passenger on Tuesdays train bound for
Hawthorne on legal business. He is also
negotiating with capitalists to start up his
mining property al Gold Mountain. This
property is valuable one, and il is hoped
that the Col. will succeed in starting up the
mine.
James Meehan, foreman of the Sutro
Tunnel, was in town last Thursday evening
shaking hands with his numerous friends.
Those who became acquainted with his
sister, Mrs. w. W. Cain, of Los Angeles,
while she was visiting James at Sutro, will
be pleased to learn that the lady arrived
safely at her home and is now enjoying ex.
c-llent health.
The average rainfall of the State for the
month Of June indicates deficiency Of ten
hundredths Of an inch. The rainfall was
heaviest in Elko and Douglass counties and
least in Lincoln county. The effect Of the
drouth is again being felt in all sections;
farmers and miIlmen still complain Of the
scarcity Of water in the streams, which are
lower now than for several Yeas past.
Five or six men are kept at work on the
Haywood mine in Silver City. Abou, every
o'her month a working Of rock is made at
the Taylor mill that averages we'll. In the
rock formerly worked from this mine, gold
predominated. As depth is attained the ore
carries more silver. and there are indication
Of an immense body Of low grade silver ore.
The lnyo independent says: Messrs.
Croker. Nc Murray, Thomas, Tibbetts.
Herod and others have located two lakes
situated some sixteen miles west OF Big Pine.
the water Of which they intend to impound
by means OF two Jams about seventy and
fifty FIVE feet long. The lakes are about two
hundred yards apart and cover about eighty
acres. The estimated cost Of the work is
$4,000, and operations will be commenced
in a few days.
While returning from lodge last Tues
day night Mrs. Styles was accosted by a
strange r, as she was crossing the lot back OF
the corner saloon. The man spoke in a
rough voice and said, ''Madam, wish 10 see
You imme diately." The old lady was very
much frightened and told several parties
about the occurrence, as soon as she could
reach Pike street by running. No stranger
could be found in the town, and it still re-.
mains a mystery who the man was.
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