Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-08-16
ABOUT THE STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
Items of Interest Clipped from Our tx
chances, Without Credit.

The Nevada Jurisdiction OF the "A.
o. U. w. has paid $4,000 in death
claims the past year.
Work in the new coal fields, thirty
miles from Tonopah, is progressing
without intermission.
Fire at Floriston the other day de-
stroyed the Paper Company's stables
and burned three horses.
An A. o. U. w. Lodge has been in
stituted at Ely, White Pine county,
with a membership of sixty.
Charles Day, who accidentally
shot himself at Bridgeport last
week, is now reported to be out of
danger.
AS a result of the fire in the United
Verde mine, in Arizona, eight hun
bred men have been thrown out of
employment.
Less than nine acres of land on the
Truckee Meadows seeded to potatoes
and onions, produced a crop that
yielded $4,000.
The new ice plant q few miles
from Tonopah is now turning out
frozen water and selling it for five
cents pound.
In boring for artesian water in
Great Salt Lake sagebrush was
found at a depth of ITO feet below
the lake level.
The boundary line between Nye
and Esmeralda counties is to be de-
termined by government observer
now in Carson.
A survey for the extension of the
Nevada, California & Oregon rail-
way, north of Reno, to Lakeview,
Oregon, is in progress.
The rumor is again circulated, and
generally accepted the new line of
the Southern Pacific will cut Battle
Mountain out by three miles and
half.
A nitrate of potash deposit has
been discovered in Nye county,
which is considered very valuable.
Preparations are being made to
work it.
At Vegas, Lincoln county, a few
days ago, Bill Adkins shot a pros
pector named James in the leg, in
flicting a serious wound. Adkins
made his escape
J. L. Roberts, of Carson, has chal-
lenged G. A. Lundy for ten-round
glove contest for $500 side, to take
place in Bodie on August 10th, and
Lundy has accepted.
The injunction restraining John
w. Kelly from extracting ore from
the Monday mine, at Bodie, has
been dissolved. The suit was
brought by Haggin & Hearst.
The employees of the Chairman
mine, in White Pine county, struck
last week for an eight-hour day.
The demand was complied with and
the work went on without inter-
ruption.
A force of ninety men is at work
constructing the first four and one
half miles of the new Money osem-
lite wagon road. Another appropri-
alton will be necessary before the
road can be completed.
A surveying party is at work on
the upper San Joaquin River, near
Mommoth, and it is supposed the sur
vey is for railroad to Iron Mount
ain, where there is an unlimited
quantity of iron ore.
Dick Ballestero, accused of rape
and planning to send young girls
from Grass Valley to Tonopah for
immoral purposes, was arrested on
the desert near Tonopah last week
and taken back to California.
In the past thirty days there have
been only three deaths of adults in
Tonopah, and the Miners Hospital
contains only one patient. Rumors
of an epidemic of sickness in Tono-
pah seem to be groundless or grossly
exaggerated.
John Lowe Dutch Chris has been
placed under $1,000 bonds to explain
to the Nye county grand jury why
he should not be indicted for assault
with intent to kill Charles Mcleod
by striking him with an axe, at To-
nopah, last week.
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