Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-04-05
BRIEF MENTION.
Bar silver o5%.

visit to Mason Valley.
County Assessor CARING took business
trip to Mason Valley this week.
"A good chicken ranch would be pay
ing institution at Wabuska, Mason Valley.
w. r. Davis left for Mason Valley last
Thursday, and they do say it is on political
business.
--Spuds are being shipped from Mason
Valley to Candelaria by the ton at m cents
per pound.
Constable McNeely was in from Pizen
Switch on business last Wednesday. He re-
turned Thursday.
Joe Downey and Bill Witherow, Of Ma
son Valley, have gone to Hawthorne to en-
gage in the saloon business.
Stephen Hilburn has moved to the
Switch from his ranch in Mason Valley and
is running first-class restaurant.
Johnny Rogers. Of Smith Valley, has re.
ceived $3.50 insurance on his house which
was destroyed by fire short time ago.
j. L. Cambell returned from his north
ern trip last Tuesday. He reports the north
ern country booming with water and bust
ness.
j. A. Bonbam has just received fresh
lot Of flower and vegetable seeds. new bird
cages and baby carriages, etc. Call and see
them.
A couple Of wandering musicians struck
this Office last evening and entertained US
with sweetest music, both grave and gay.
Call again.
Larger crops Of alfalfa will be raised in
Mason Valley this year than ever before.
Considerable more grain is also being put in
this season.
Joe Seaman was brought back from the
Plnenut hills last Sunday. When found he
was digging for roots upon which to feed to
keep himself alive.
Mrs. Chas. Barlow left here last Wednes.
day for Nevada City, California, where she
will visit her parents for few days before
leaving for Mexico to join her husband.
-Rondo, race horse which was greatly
admired at the State Fair last Fall, died re-
Gently at lone, Cal. He was fast short
distance horse and was valued at 81, 500.
The sheep shearcrs began barbering in
Mason Valley last Monday. They will be
at work several weeks as it is estimated that
20, 900 head will be sheared there this season.
Not pound Of hay will be carried over
by any Of the Mason Valley ranchers.
There are about 400 tons now left, and the
owners Of that are holding it for pretty stiff
figures.
Mason Valley ranchers are now busy
building levees to keep the water out of their
bitches while last year they were having be-
cause there was not enough water ir their
bitches.
Mrs. Jack Barton, Of Greenfield, is in
San Francisco having her son Jimmy treated
for hip disease. The little fellow has been
under treatment now for about three weeks
and is getting along nicely.
--"Newspaper men are the biggest liars
on earth," said stove-herder the other day.
This fellow never studied tombstone litera-
ture in a crowded cemetery-thus his un-
Here is the way a Texas Jutice con-
cludes marriage ceremony: "Them that
this Court has joined together let no man put
asunder. and suffer little children to conc
unto them-so help me God"
A. J. Littell and J. G. Kaufman, Of Ma
son Valley, were in town this week on law
business. Mr.. Littcll has purchased Mr..
Kaufmah's interest in the Greenfield store,
and the latter gentleman will 60 to travelling
about the first Of next month.
John Dobbins, the inveterate whisky
consumer of Pizen Switch, was arrested last
Friday for being drunk and disorderly. Con-
stable McNeely packed him of to the cooler,
but Dobbins soon paid his fine Of $a7, and
was allowed to GO. He says the boys put
up just such jobs on him whenever he has a
payday, but wants them to understand that
he is still staying with the pot.
There is more Catarrh in this section ofthe
country than all other diseases put together,
and until The last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For a great many years doc
tors pronounced it local disease, and pre-
scribed local remedies, and by constantly
failing to cure by local treatment, pronounced
it incurable. Science has proven calarrh to
be a constitutional disease, and therefore re-
quires constitutional treatment. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. ]. Cheney
n Co., Toledo, o.. is the only constitutional
cure on the market. tits taken int inaliy
in doses from 10 drops to teaspoonful. 1t
acts directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces OF the system. They offer one hundred