Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-05-17
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A band OF horse thieves is reported
to be operatin in the eastern part OF
the State.
The Tonopah school will probably
close next month for lack of funds
to pay the teacher.
A large steam hoist is to be erected
by the Great Western Company at
its Steamboat Springs shaft.
Miss Blanche Sharon, the second
daughter OF w. z. Sharon, is to be
married at Piedmont, Cal, June I'd.
A divorce was granted to Brooks
MaClane at Reno, last Saturday.
His wife did not test the proceed
ings. /
A force OF 100 men and 40 teams is
employed i'll the extension OF the
Mohawk valley railroad north of
Reno.
George Archer fell into culvert
at Carson last Sunday night, break
ing his leg and sustaining other sc.
rious injuries.
A fight to finish has been arrang-
ed between Oscar Gardner and Jack
Root, to take place in Reno during
Carnival week.
Charles Biggers, a timberman,
was caught in a cave in the Ophir
mine, at Stateline, last week, and
crushed to death.
A charter was granted at Dover,
Del, last week to the Tonopah Water
and Power Company, of Carson City,
New, capital stock, $I,5oo,ooo.
John 7. Jones, lately released
from the State prison, will leave
next month for Alaska where he
has secured lucrative position.
A assure made in the bottom of a
water ditch by an earthquake at
Osceola. White Pine county, swal-
lows up all the water flowing in the
ditch.
A miner working in the Steamboat
Springs district was badly scalded
by hot water Monday, and his con-
dition is considered serious by the
physicians.
A commitment by Lovelock JUS
tice of the Peace records the tact
that the prisoner was arrested on a
charge of petty larceny and convict
ed of vagrancy.
A dispatch from Austin, Texas,
states that o. H. Perry, of Reno, has
instituted suits for holdings en-
bracing nearly all of the lands in the
Beaumont oil fields of that State.
Daily, the tramp who murdered
another unknown man near Haw-
thorne, some weeks ago, has been
found guilty, and was sentenced by
Judge Mack to life Imprisonment.
A force of Southern Pacific sur
veyors is at work between Mohave
and Keller. and the INDEPENDENT
predicts that the e. 4 c. will be ex!
tended south before great while. u,
Clarence Spaulding, young Com
stocker, had narrow escape from
death at Sodaville the other day,
due to taking morphine while suffer
ing from inflammatory rheumatism.
A man named Powell, employed as
a time-keeper at the Southern Pacific
construction camps, died on the
train last Sunday while on the way
to the railroad hospital in Sacra-
mento.
1t is rumored that the G. & c. rail.
road will make Candelaria its law
over point, instead of Hawthorne.
BY this change the Sodavllle stage
will arrive in Tonopah early in the
morning.
Mrs. Annie Garrard, wife of A.
Garrard, died in San Francisco on
May 9th. The remains were ship
ped to Carson where the funeral
took place from the Catholic Church
last week Friday.
The Wells Herald says a CRATER
giving the name of "Rev. William
keen," who claims TO be Baptist
minister, is headed toward the west
ern portion of the State, and warns
the people to look out for him.
The Southern Pacific Company has
decided to take under its own man
agement all the eating houses on its