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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18

ne Passes Away After a Lingering
Illness.

James Scott, who has been con-
fined to his home for some months
past, with consumption, died sur
rounded by his family at 1890 p. M.
last Monday night. His death had
been expected for some weeks past,
and although it was not sudden, it
was not the less sad to relatives and
friends. Mr.. Scott was a native of
the Isle of Jersey, and came to Cal
ifornia from Australia in sos. He
came to this county in 1857, and
took charge of the Leete grade toll
road for number of years. Some
years after this he was employed in
the Birdsall mill in Dayton, and re-
manned there through the change OF
management until the mill ceased
operations. While employed in this
mill he secured control of the Day
ton water works, and owned them
up to the time of his death. In 1872
he married Miss Mary Cooper, a
sister of s. E. Cooper and also Of
Mrs. H. F. Bartine. Mrs. Scott
survives her husband, and three
children also are left to mourn bis
death, Mrs. Lillian Written, and
Miss May and Master Willie Scott
James Scott was an honest, upright
man, in whom all could place con-
fidence; he was a prominent mem
Der of Dayton Lodge No. 5, |. O O.
f., and under the auspices of this
Order his funeral took place from
the Court House on Thursday. Rev
Whitaker preached the funeral ser.
mon and the Odd Fellows and Re
bekahs turned out in uniform and
marched from the hall to the Court
House, and thence to the cemetery
The funeral was largely attended
by friends and relatives from this
place and surrounding towns, and
the floral decorations were numerous
and beautiful. Despite the inclem-
ent weather a large concourse OF
friends followed the remains from
the Court House to the grave. The
family of deceased have the sympa-
thy Of the entire community.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18
EARLY Buyers.
ting in

Several beef buyers have visited
Smith Valley already this season
and have bought from S. M. Bur-
bank so head, D. G. Simpson 200
head, Doc Hutson 100 head. The
price paid was in the neighborhood
of 81 C. The price of beef is ad-
vancing and some of the valley
people, among them T. B. Smith
are buying hay and feeding cattle
vet.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18
meat Market.

Following are the rates for whole
carcasses from slaughterers to deal
srs in the San Francisco market:
BEET-First quality, 5@54c. %
ID; second quality, 4@44c.; third
quality, 34@4c. % ID.
PoRK-Live hogs, 4@44c. for
hard; 3t@34c. for soft; dressed do
b4@64c. % 10.
MUTToN-4@44c. % ID.
CALvEs-4@5c. for large, and
5@7c. % fb for small.
Handspring, 5@6c. - fb.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18
BRIEF MENTION.
Bar silver, 664.

~A oANCI) OO4.
Gold Canyon creek is booming.
H. M. Schooley was in from
Smith Valley on Thursday of this
week.
Il. L. Crockett was over from
Reno to attend the funeral of Jas.
Scott.
John Scott, a brother of Jas.
Scott, deceased, returned to his home
in Sacramento Thursday evening.
The Smith Valley creamery
has put up its ice crop. S. M. Bur-
bank had the contract to put in the
ice.
The Wadsworth Dispatch says
a peat mine has been discovered in
that vicinity. It burns better than
wood.
The family of III. F. Bartine and
G. w. Likens were over from Car
son to attend the funeral of Jas.
Scott last Thursday.
"A son of Hank Blanchard, well
known here, died recently in Mex
leo, and his remains were shipped
to this country this week.
j. G. Kaufman, formerly of
Mason Valley, was in town We'd
nesday. He is now travelling for a
San Francisco liquor house.
The Inter Mountain Mining
Revies0 is the name of a new min
ing weekly started at Salt Lake.
1t is a bright, readable and clean
little journal.
Hank Mather, of Smith Val
ley, lost some wood he had cut in
the hills some weeks ago, and
finally he caught the parties who
stole it and made them pay for it.
Fifty taels of bogus opium were
found buried at the Carson race
track Monday. 1t was secreted by
men who have been trying to work
the opium swindle on Cinnamon in
Carson.
Jim Townsend speaking of the
Brown scandal remarks: If he
was too thick with the lambs of
his flock he was chump to tell of
it. Particularly to a garrulous old
woman who wags jaw like rock
breaker.
L. L. Crockett, who acted as
Chaplain for. the Odd Fellows at
the funeral of Jas. Scott made some
touching remarks about the deceas-
ed brother which will be published
in full next week, lack of space
preventing this week.
"A Mrs. Lewiston, of California,
was visiting the La Grande Orc
Co.'S. property in this county last
Monday. The lady represents Cal
ifornia capital, and was highly
pleased with the prospects she saw.
She thinks the parties she repre-
sents will be willing to take hold of
the enterprise, if satisfactory ar
rangements can be made all around.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18
All Free.

Those who have used DR.. Kings New Dis
covery know its value. and those who have
not. now have the opportunity to try it free.
Call on the advertised dealer and get a trial
bottle free. Send your name and address TO H.
Z. Bucklen & Co., Chicago. and get box of
DR.. Kings New Life Pills free. as well as q
copy of Guide to Health and Household In
structor free All of which is guaranteed to
do you good and cost you nothing. Flaws.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18
Tickled Nearly 20 death

You will be by taking bath in
Shaw's Hot Springs, near Carson.
When you drive over from here
take the branch road at Empire.
Charlie Slingerland is the genial
boniface at the resort, and he will
treat you just right. Go and wash
your sins away.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18

MRS WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP has been used
for over fifty years by millions of mothers for
cess. 1t soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain cures wind collie, and is the best
remedy for Diarrh9a. 1t will relieve the poor
little sufferer Immediately. Sold by Druggists
q bottle Be sure and ask for ''Mrs. Winsl0w's
Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18

The best salve in the world for cuts, bruis-
es, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tet-
ter, chapped hands. chilblains, corns, and
all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles
or no pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price IS cents per box. For sale by Flaws.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18

The Worlds Fair Tests
showed no baking powder
20 pure or 50 great Ia Ieav.
eailg power Gs the Royal
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18

The Wife-Listen to the baby
whistling like railroad engine!
The Editor Lord; if he only
turns out to be a conductor I can
ride freel-AtLantG Constitution.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18

Is due to impure blood and cannot be cured
with local applications. Hoods Sarsaparills
has cured hundreds OF cases of catarrh because
it purifes the blood and In this way removes
the cause of the disease. II also builds up the
system and prevents the attacks of pneumonia.
diphtheria and typhoid fever.
Hoods Pills become the favorite cathar.
tic with everyone who tries them. 25c.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18
No. 1.

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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18
ADVERTISING RATES

AWVENHABHNU K1AAE1Bs
,aoal advertising, per square of ten lines
~ nonpariel. .................. 80 so
rsch subsequent insertion. ............... l 90
Commercial advertising, single column,
Der inch per month 1900. ;. 90
Double column, per inch .................. / so
Discount of 10 per cent. on commercial" ads"
standing three months; Is per cent. on lads"
Standing six months; 40 per cent on ads
standing one year.
local notices, per line of nonpariel, first
insertion ................... -. - 10
zach subsequent insertion, per line. .Ob
No deviation from above prices.
In Memorium Resolutions published in the
TIMES will be charged for at the rate of ten
cents per line.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-12-03
Takes His Own Life.
Afraid Of Losing His Mind.

Robert f. Marshall, superintendent
of the Altoona division of the Penn
sylvania railroad, committed suicide
Monday forenoon at the residence Of
his brother, DIR. Charles Marshall, in
Washington City, by shooting himself
through the head with a revolver
Only one chamber of the weapon was
found to be loaded, and though Mr..
Marshall had been for long time in
a condition of health bordering almost
upon nervous prostration, and seemed
badly depressed by the gloomy weather
of the past two days, added to the fact
that the present is near the anniver-
sary of the death of his wife, over
which he was brooding sadly, it does
not appear that his suicide was mat
ter of much premediation, but was
rather the result of a sudden depression
of feeling and an impulse that he
could not resist.
Mr.. Marshall had evidently feared
just what happened to him, and for
some time past had been under treat
ment of specialist on brain and
nervous diseases IN Philadelphia, and
is said to have sometimes expressed
the fear that he might become insane.
Mr.. Marshall has no doubt that the
cause Of his brothers suicide was mel
ancholia brought on by i'll health.
Robert E. Marshall was born in Leeds,
England, in 1862, while his father was
United States Consul at that port.
He was graduated from the Columbian
University of Washington City, and
began life in the machine shops Of the
Pennsylvania railroad at Altoona, in
March, 1881.
He was successfully promoted from
roadmaster to more important posi-
tions until at the time Of his death he
was the general superintendent of the
Altoona division. He leaves two
children, now at his late home in AL
toona, the youngest little gnl about
two years old.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-12-03

The sum OF $4,000 is a good price
to pay for single horse, but that
amount was paid by Lewis G.. Tewks
bury for the "John r. Gentry" horse,
at the auction sale of horses in New
York recently: Before the largest
crowd ever seen at horse sale IN this
country and after a most sensational
auction, John R. Gentry, the champion
harness horse of the world, passed into
the hands of Lewis G. Tewksbury, of
New York city, for $4,000 at Madi-
son Square Garden Thursday night of
last week. Bids came in with such
rapidity that the auctioneer could
scarcely keep track of them. Four,
six, eight, ten, and eleven thousand
dollars were offered from different
parts of the house with scarcely breath
ing time between. But the real battle
was to come when the struggle mar
rowed down to two-Louis w. Worm.
ser and Lewis G.. Tewksbury. Mr..
Wormser came into the battle at $I2-
600 and the crowd applauded.
Promptly Mr.. Tewksbury went $500
better. Thus the battle continued be-
tween the two with scarcely moments
hesitation up to $4,000, which was
Tewksbury's bid. Theh there was a
pause, followed by round of hand
clapplng, which greeted Wormser's
jump to $4,000. Scarcely had it
died away when the other came back
at him with HIS favorite rise Of $500.
There was another short pause and
Wormser shouted $4,000, being a
raise of a thousand dollars. Mr.
Tewksbury raised it $500. The
auctioneer turned to Mr. Wormsel
expectantly. There was no reply ant
on the "three" the auctioneer's gaveI
fell and the gallant son of Ashlant
Wilkes and Dame Wood became the
property of the owner of Robert J.
the only horse who has shown himself
dangerous rival to the king, anc
who will in future be his comrade
With Gentry, Robert J., (a:oI I-a,
and Mascot, (a:o4) Mr.. Tewksbury
has stable of phenomenal greatness
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-12-03
" Mugwump's " Legal Status.
Court Holds That the Term is Not an Epithet,
but Compliment.

The word " Mugwump" was de.
fined in Court of Justice at Wilkes
Barre on Saturday. Thomas Johns,
a well-known resident Of the city, and
a Republican, became convert to
the silver cause in the last campaign.
He wrote a number of articles for the
newspapers. Recently Johns met
Editor Flick, of the Daily Times.
Flick SAID Hello. Mugwump."
This angered Johns. He upbraided
Flick, and then had a warrant issued
for the editors arrest.
At the hearing there was much dis
cussion as to the meaning of tie
word " Mugwump.' Justice Donahue
finally decided that 1t meant res
pectable Republican inclined to kick
over the traces The editor was
discharged, and the costs were put
on Johns. the Justice claiming that
Flick's sautation was complimentary,
not insulting
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-12-03
Free Silver Forces to Unite.
Conference Of the Leaders 10 be Held Soon
in Washington.

An important conference of leaders
in the late campaign for the free coin
age of silver-Democrats, Populists,
Republicans, Silver Party and Amer
ican bimetallic union representatives,
will be held in Washington about
December 10. The call for the con-
ference was issued this week by Gen.
A. J. Warner, president, and G.. +.
Bowen, secretary of the bimetalllc
union.
Secretary Bowen said to reporter
that he was waiting to receive the
form of the call from General Warner
or instructions to issue it himself
He said it wrs expected Mr.. Bryan
would be present to offer advice and
be consulted regarding the best plan
to solidify the free silver forces and
conduct an aggressive educational
campaign under one organization, if
possible.
The idea is to hold the silver forces
together and lose no ground during
the next four years, besides making
new converts to the cause. Senators
Jones, Butler, Teller, Dubois and
Pettigrew, Governors Altgeld and
Stone, Messrs. Washburn and Towne,
and the executive committee of the
bimetalic union are expected to be
present.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-12-03
FIGHT WITH A MAD DOG.

Payne Pettebone of Wilkes-Barre
had desperate fight with mad dog
Saturday afternoon. He went to
feed valuable pup, which was kept
tied in a kennel. 1t did not come
out as usual, but Pettebone heard
swapping and shaking in the kennel,
and upon investigation found that
strange dog was inside. He had
killed the little one and had it in his
teeth shaking it.
The dog came out and made for
Pettebone. The latter ran, secured
a root cutter, and then began a des-
perate fight. One of Pettebone's
wrists is crippled so that he could use
only one hand. Several times the
dog was cut and slashed and driven
back, only to renew his attack. Final
ly the young man ran into the barn
and closed the lower half of the door.
continuing the fight over it until the
dog retired. Then Pettebone went
into the house and got gun, but was
too exhausted and nervous to use it,
Stanley Schooley came to his help,
however, and killed the dog.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-12-03
DEATH OF JOHN sJ0TT, LAWYER
AND POLITICIAN.
Ex- United States Senator and Former Gen.
eral Solicitor Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Passes Away in Philadelphia.
DECLINED A CABINET POSITION.

Hon. John X. Scott, ex-United
states senator from Pennsylvania and
formerly general solicitor of the Penn
sylvanla railroad company, died last
Monday at his residence in philadel-
phia after a brief illness. He was
seventy four years of age. Mr.. Scott
was born in Huntington county and
had little to aid hun in winning the
distinction he attained as a politician
and lawyer, his educational ad-
vantages being confined to the primi-
tive district schools of his day. He
studied law with Judge Thomson at
Chambersburg (who was also the legal
preceptor of Senator Hendricks, of
lndlana), and after his admission to
the bar he located in Huntingdon.
He was devoted to the law and at an
early age he took a high rank among
the more prominent legal minds Of
the interior of the state.
Mr.. Scott was originally Demo-
crat and the implacable foe of Mr..
Buchanan in the latter's presidential
aspirations. In 1886 he gave reluctant
support to Buchanan, but earnestly
resisted his Kansas policy. In 1860
he was the Democratic candidate for
state senator in the hopeless Hunting
don district, but in 1861 both parties
voluntarily presented him for the legis-
lature and he was unanimously elect
ed. In the Legislature he acted with
the Republicans and became one of
the most ardent and effective Re-
publican campaigners in Pennsylvania.
In 1862 he was rendered the Republi-
can nomination for state senator, when
nomination was equivalent to an
election, Dut he declined it.
In 1868 Mr.. Scott was elected
United States senator to succeed
Charles r. Buckalew. He served
one full term, retiring from the senate
in 1875. In 1857 Mr.. Scot entered
the Pennsylvania railroad company's
service as a special counsel for the
district comprising Cambria, Blair
and Huntingdon counties, taking
charge also of the questions arising
out the transfer of the canals and
railroads of the state to the company
and continued to serve the company
until his connection with it was sever
ed by his election to the United States
senate.
At the expiration of his senatorial
term President Grant rendered him
the post of secretary of the interior in
his cabinet. Mr.. Scott, however de-
clined the cabinet position and re-
entered the service of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad as legal adviser to
Colonel Thomas A. Scott, then the
president Shortly afterward he was
made general solicitor ofthe company
and its allied lines and remained in
that position until his resignation in
February, 1895, when he was succeed
ed by Hon. James a. Logan, then as
sistant solicitor but previously COM
mon pleas judge of Westmoreland
county.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-12-03
An Astonished Telegrapher.

The Philadelphia Record says that
the late Charles L. Chaplin, the old
time telegrapher, was probably the
dscoverer of the modern method Of
reading telegraph messages by sound.
1t occurred to him while in charge of
Cornell's line from New York to Erie,
that the sound made by the instru-
ment for each separate letter were as
distinctive as the letters on the dial.
By careful study he enabled himself to
read messages altogether by sound,
and one day he surprised some of the
operators under him. They had been
in the habit of sending private mes
sages over the wire, and it was i'm
possible to stop them. Finally an
operator down the line somewhere
tried to work an old trick of his and
get excused for days fishing. He
telegraphed 20 the operator in Mr..
Chapin's office, asking to get Mr..
Chaplin TO let him off. Mr.. Chaplin
was sitting with his back to the instru-
ment when the message came IN, and,
without turning around, he said to the
operator, "Tell him no. The man
was SO surprised that he almost fell
off his chair. Eventually Mr.. Chaplin
divulged his secret, and in time the
knack of reading by sound became
generally known. Now it is used
entirely.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-12-03


The fact that you are worth some
property is no argument at all why a
newspaper man should send you a
paper for all eternity without your
paying for it. 1t is very common
occurrence after we have sent out a
lot of statements, for some person
worth anywhere from $1,000 to $ao,-
900, to come in boiling with wounded
vanity ard tell us that he guesses he
is able to pay little bill of $3.50,
and that we are getting in an awful
hurry for our money. You may be
worth a million dollars and not have
as good credit as man not worth a
cent. The man that pays his bills
when they are due, pays them willing
ly and acts like gentleman is the
man we like to trust. We don't like
to trust a man who never pays until
we ''dun' him, and then gets mad.
We know hundreds of poor men whom
we are perfectly willing to trust be-
cause we know they will pay promptly.
We know a number of men in COM
Portable circumstances that always
make trouble if you ask them to pay.
-DHShOre Re7feao.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-03-26
NOT GUILTY..
The Jury In tho Millikon Case Returns
Its Verdict.

The Jury In tho Milliken Case Returns
Its Verdict.
WASHINGTON, March S3.-When the
jury in the Milliken case came in
and announced that after 24 hours
deliberation they had reached YER
dict, the crowded courtroom was In 81
lent expectancy. The announcement
of not guilty was met with an outburst
of applause from the spectators that
shook the east end of the dingy old
courthouse. The bailiff raped and
cried for order but to no avail. Amid
the din and confusion Judge Cole
ordered the bailiff to arrest the
enthusiastic persons who were dis
turbing the court. The bailiff was
too much confused to single
out but one person who was yelling at
the top of his voice and waving his hat
high in the air. He, after q severe ad-
monition from the Judge, was set free.
Mr.. Milliken, the defendcnt, his broth
er, counsel and friends, received the
verdict quietly. The acquitted man
left the courtroom and went to his
brothers office where he held recep-
tion, his friends crowding in to con-
gratulate him.
Miliken was tried on the charge OF
housebreaking with intent to commit
q criminal assault on Miss Gertrude
Phillips, daughter Of Ex-Solicitor Gen.
eral Phillips.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-03-26

Y.nwpo,r Naoch 0a-rovd 9u1Ss1,v,spv
--,.xr. 1.sx.. =. Ct 1.r,.. ct.,,s.
4elas VINO was cnoIrmsn u tne E0cens
demonstration in Queens hall In favor
If tho prinOiple Of arbitration In all
disvutes between Great Britain and the
United States, acknowledging the re-
ceipt of the memorial adopted at the
meeting. In his letter Lord Salisbury
saws:
~ am slsd 70 be sp,. TO inform ven that thu
Qusstion is reoeivins the consideration Of her
matesty's Governments and that proposals IN
w G,rscuo1 az ,no,osvSu ~ sne % memol EN- IIn,..S ~.
ss~..s SSisned1 ..sA,IspuRY"
m. r,sr,o-;.l ,,.farroa a. oont.,rea
a.. 4o,,o,u;nr.
IN. sontrovsrsies' vs would earnesslv press
the sdvisability Of promptly concluding some
treaty arrangement by which all disputes be-
tween oress briss,n m ana s,.,a sne unisea sssse.
oermansnt % M tribuna, re- representinS both n.tions ,
and uniting them in the common interest Of
Justice and peace"
n moving tne aoopsion OF me memorial n
All sovsrsmsn. hoard. submittsd the so,iovins
resolution, which was adopted:
"That the chairman bs instructed to forward
ne memonM s wnen sHneo 70 tne presiaens Q,
- \. !. ,ssasv ~ The Sos,se ~ sonrnons vitS
an earnest desire Of this meeting that NO time
may b lost in taking sotioa thereupou.
He said that almost twenty-eight
years ago he enlisted the almost unani-
NOUS vote Of tho house Of commons in
favor Of arbitration on the Alabams
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-03-26
LAMP EXPLOSION.

Five Colored Persons Badly Burned In .
Fire That Followed.
New YORK. March 23.-Five colored
persons were burned early Saturday
morning in a fire caused by the explos-
ion of lamp at 1875 West Twenty-sixth
street. One of the Ave, Mrs. Lucy
wilkins, was SO badly burned about
the face, neck and hands that she died
several hours later at the Now
York hospital. The others are
suffering from burned hands and
arms. There was a big fright
while the fire was on, nearly hun
dred colored persons being in the tene-
ment, five-story brick building, and
leaving their rooms and swarming out
ON the landings, all shouting and
screaming. All reached tho street in
safety, however. The fire was extin-
guished with trifiing loss.