Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-10-04
ABOUT the STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
items of Interest Clipped from Our tx
changes, Without Credit.

The hSh law was out on the ISt OF
Oct No more fishing now.
Joseph Berry, one of the oldest pio-
neers of Reno, committed suicide
last Friday.
Reno boasts of the largest camp of
Woodmen of the World in the State.
1t has 225 members.
1t is expected to have the Buffers
plant in Sixmile Canyon running in
about seven weeks.
Tonopah stock is selling for S22.5o
per share, an increase of $3.50 per
share during a week.
The ground has been broken and
is now being put into shape for the
building of Palisades new hotel.
The honey crop on the Truckee
meadows will be the largest this
year ever in the history of the coun-
ty.
A big reception was rendered
President Stubs in Reno last Sun
day on his return from San Fran
cisco.
1t is reported that Jimmy New
lands lost his fine team of thorough
breds by the burning of the steamer
Modoc.
On account of feed being so high,
the milkmen of the Comstock will
not sell milk hereafter for less than
10 cents quart.
An assessment of fifty cents per
share has been levied on the capital
stock of the Carson Valley Smelling
and Refining Co.
The Union Pacific Co. will begin,
about the first of next year, to
double-track it's line of road between
Omaha and Ogden.
Holdover Senator's will be elected
in ten counties of Nevada this Fall.
Elko will have two, making total
of eleven in the State.
Luke Kerr, State prison convict,
escaped last Saturday evening, but
was caught at the Indian camp south
of Carson the next day.
The payroll at the Wedekind mine
near Reno, averages $4,000 per
month. There are sixty men en-
ployed on the property.
Reno is infested with a gang of
highway robbers, and there are
holdups, robberies and assaults al
most nightly in that town.
The case of Hazel VS.. the N. c. O.
Railway company has come to an
end. The jury awarded plaintiff
damages in the sum of $3.50.
Major. F. NJ. Huffaker, a lifelong
Democrat, and heretofore d leader in
the Democratic party, has taken the
stump for the Republicans.
Z. Stanton, who was convicted of
forgery in the District Court at
Winnemucca, has been sentenced to
two years in the State prison.
David Hunter, who met with an
accident in the Burning Moscow tun-
mel on the Comstock last week, died
from his injuries last Sunday.
NJ. Scheeline, of Reno, has pur-
chased the famous sulphur mine
near Steamboat Springs. 1t was
worked to some extent years ago.
A laborer on railroad construction
was robbed in Wadsworth a few
days ago, in broad daylight, of $500.
The robber has not been apprehended.
All of the Southern Pacific engines
are to be transferred into oil burners
in the near future. The experiment
al engines have proven big success.
Sunday afternoon the body of
man was found beside the railroad
track three miles east of Reno. There
were no means for his identification
A cash prize has been offered for
the best yell for the University of
Nevada, and the competition has
brought out a number of good yells.
Mrs. Matthew Mulcahy died Satur-
day at Elko, aged 6S years. Mr.. Null
cahy died the next morning, aged r..
They had been married thirty-eight
years.
Joe Carpenter was arrested at Car
lin few days ago on charge of
stealing coal from the railroad COM
pany and was fined 500 or so days