Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-04-26
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The building boom still continues
in Tonopah.
No more laboring men or mechan-
les are needed in Reno.
Wool is arriving daily at the Elan
igan warehouse in Reno.
The snow is still about seven feet
deep on the summit of the Sierras.
A new hall is to be erected in Der
lin by the Miners Union of that
camp.
There are now over one thousand
people i'll Reno without any visible
means of support.
Eureka county sheep raisers have
disposed of 10000 pounds of this
seasons wool clip.
At Bunkerville. Lincoln county,
Nevada, the barley is headed out
and the alfalfa is in bloom.
W.. westerfeld has been grant
ed franchise to build street rail
way from Reno to Wedekind City.
Twelve thousand dollar ore is re-
ported to have been struck in the
Lady Bryan mine, on the Comstock.
The Reno bricklayers will not
strike on May Ist. as their demands
have been granted by the contract
ors.
Luke Kerr, convicted of burglary
in Humboldt county, has been SEN
fenced to four years in the State
prison.
Col. K. B. Monroe, a Civil War
veteran, and a surveyor by occupa-
ton. died in Reno the other day,
aged 81 years.
Cha rles Jones, serving sentence
of six months in the Tuscarora Jail
for beating squaw, made his escape
the other night.
1t is stated that the Southern Pa
citc Company will double-track 81
miles of its road between Sacra-
mento and Benicia.
Barney Gillon has brought suit
for divorce from his wife, who
eloped from Virginia City last week
with young Sheridan.
There is a brick famine in Reno.
The kilns there cannot turn out the
raw material fast enough to keep
the contractors going.
The strike in Tonopah is off, and
the resignation of Doc O'Toole as
President of the Tonopah Miners
Union has been accepted.
Andrew Martin, convicted of as
sault with intent to kill, has been
sentenced in Winnemucca to year
and a half in State prison.
John Sparks expects to have his
new mill ready for reducing ore in
Wedekind District by May 18th. 1t
will be of thirty tons capacity.
A lighted match dropped in the
bung-hole OF an empty whisky bar
rel at Phoebe caused an explosion
which did considerable damage.
The old Mexican mill, at Empire,
is being dismantled, and the vast
amount of old batteries. pans, ETC.,
shipped as junk to San Francisco.
A stock exchange has been organ
lied at Tonopah with Frank Butler,
Thomas Lynch, H. G. Cutting, Joe
Joseph and Thomas Kendall as trus-
tees,
A throat disease, closely resemb-
ling diphtheria, is raging among the
children in Paradise Valley, Hum
boldt county. The schools have been
closed.
The Reward mill and mine, in
1nyo county, was started up last
week The mill has been equipped
with new machinery an a $50 h. D.
engine.
An old man was knocked down
snd robbed of $I2o in an alley in
Reno the other night. Several peo-
pie witnessed the assault, but the
thug escaped.
Reno officers are working on what
they believe to be clew to the iden.
LITIGATION of the man who murdered
prospector in the hills near that
town recently.
The West Point committee decided
last Sunday that Edward Ardery,
of Virginia City, had the highest
honors in the competitive examina-
ton for the vacant cadetship.
The mail route between Junction,
in Smoky Valley, and Tonopah, has
been awarded to Thomas Tate. This
route, it is said, will deliver eastern
mail iii Tonopah three days ahead OF
the Sodavillc route.
A woman named Bonner has be-
gun an action asking to be declared
a one-third owner in the celebrated
Joanna mine in White Pine county.
She claims to have "grub-staked"
the discoveries of the mine.
The Silver Peak mines will not
pass into the hands of the Lane syn