Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-10-26

l. L. Crockett is seriously i'll at his home in
Reno.
Henry Baker was in from Mason Valley
this week
Nevada will soon have a State Council of
the a. PA
Mrs. w. W. Coffin is quite seriously i'll with
typhoid fever.
The moose is gradually tightening around
Durrants neck
Mrs. Tom Sullivan. of Reno, is visiting her
parents in Sutro
Miss Finck, the Silver City school teacher.
is quite i'll, from vaccination.
Lieutenant Governor Millard of California,
died yesterday in Los Angeles.
Capt. Davis has been absent this week in
Sacramento on dredge business.
To-day is the goth anniversary of the big
fire that destroyed Virginia City.
Assessment work is being done in quite
number of Como mines this year.
Sheriff Littell and John Lothrop left here
Thursday morning for Mason Valley.
Mrs. G. w. White and daughter, of Haw-
thorne, are visiting friends in Carson.
"A. J. Newman and family have moved up
to the old Franklin mill site to reside.
The sale of the Buckeye mines in Douglas
county has already brought forth lawsuit.
Mrs. Church. of Hawthorne was passen-
ger for San Francisco last Saturday evening.
Jim Yerington expects to sell the Elko
county natural soap mines to an eastern syndi
cate.
H. Dunn. who went to Santa Cruz to en-
bark in the newspaper business has returned
to Carson.
Man argues that woman cannot be trusted
too far: woman feels that man cannot be trust
ed too near.
There is a possibility of the Rock Point
mill being put in repair to work Como ore in
the near future.
Wesley George. an old time Carson sport
and foreman. died in San Francisco last Sun
day, of paralysis.
The funeral of J. W. Mackay, who was
place in Paris Tuesday.
There is prospect of sale of half In
terest in one of the Como mines for very
snug little sum of money.
&C. W. Legg and family have moved to Car
son to reside permanently. C. w. is now en-
ployed in the Mexican mill.
Eight hundred head of cattle belonging to
Miller & Lux will be wintered in Mason Valley
The cattle are now en- route.
The Holiness Band" passed through here
Wednesday. bound for Carson. They think this
place is all right, so did not stop.
Col Boyle and VIM. Sharon visited Como
this week Wednesday. They brought back a
fine deer they shot while up there.
Will Savage returned from San Francisco
last Sunday morning to accept position of book
keeper for the Comstock Tunnel Co.
DIR. W. L. Moore, of Hawthorne. is think
ing of locating in Dayton to practice. He was
in looking over the field last Saturday.
IS. Pedroli, of Silver City, had another lot
of ore from his mine worked this week. There
were forty tons crushed, and the returns were
$500.
The funeral of Mrs O. W. Whiting took
place from the home of her parents, in Mason
Valley, last Sat urday, and was very largely
attended.
Miss Lena Brophy and a dentist named
Hubbard were married in San Francisco last
Saturday. The bride formerly resided on the
Comstock.
"A carload of machinery was shipped this
week from the sutro Tunnel to DeLamar A
large exhauster was the principal piece of
machinery.
The Supreme Court has filed a decision in
the State militia case. 1t is against the mill
tary companies and to the effect that they must
hire their own halls.
The once prosperous mining camp of
Phoebe is nearly deserted. there being only q
few leasers at work in the mines, and some
assessment work being done.
The fight between Corbett and Fitzsimmops
has been declared Off The Athletic Club now
offers purse of $4,000 for the match three
weeks la ter than the original date
H. w. Ely returned from Salt Lake We'd
nesday, where he had been on business con-
nected with Como mines. He will begin the
development of some of the Como claims very
soon.
The Orc Elmo mine, at Meadow Lake, has
been sold to a Colorado company for $50 co.,
The new owners think they have process by
W hich the Meadow Lake ote can be worked at
profit,
John M. Dormer, formerly Secretary of
State of Nevada, has been dangerously ill for
the past five weeks in San Francisco with a
complication of diseases from which it is
thought he cannot recover
The Dazett mill in silver City. started up
this week on 1OOton lot of ore from the Hay
ward mine. If the run proves satisfactory the
mill will be leased for considerable length of
time to work ore from this mine.