Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-07-19
ABOUT THE STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
items of Interest Clipped from Our tx
changes, Without Credit.


race track near Klko.
Owners of Tonopah mining stock
are now refusing SIS per share for 1t.
A railroad is talked of from Love
lock to the salt mines in Churchill
county.
There is talk of forming company
and building an opera house IN
Gardnerville.
A mating furnace is to be install
ed at Spruce Mountain, New, by the
owners OF group OF properties IN
that locality.
Owners of Meadow Lake mining
property claim they are satisfied
with the bullion returns of that re-
fractory ore.
The Rabbit Hole Sulphur Com
pany, whose works are in Humboldt
county, has declared a dividend OF
fifteen cents a share.
The Southern Pacific will give
round.trip rate of SIoo5 to those at
tending the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
fight in San Francisco.
The Reno wheelmen defeated the
San Francisco boys, supposed to be
an all California team, last Sunday
by two miles and fifth.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Col. w. G. Cody, Buffalo Bill" as
buffalo warden of Yellowstone Park,
at a salary of $500 per year,
Water has been struck in the
Searchlight mine at depth of 800
feet. Electric drills are also now
being used in exploiting work.
Miss Nettie Selby, of Genoa, has
commenced an action for divorce
from VIM. Selby, on the ground of
desertion and failure to provide.
A big volumne OF inflammable ma
tural gas was tapped in boring for
artesian water al Keller, the south
ern terminus of the G. & c. railroad.
About twenty leases have been let
on claims at Gold Mountain, near
Tonopah, and the owners expect big
results as soon as depth is attained.
1t has been reported that eighteen
million dollars are on deposit in Reno
banks. The Assesse of Washoe has
overlooked big thing if this is the
case.
An unknown man was murdered
in S. p. car near Lovelock few
days ago. His skull was crushed
with blunt instrument, and his
body lett on fiat car.
The new Orphans Home building
at Carson will be started immediate
ly and be built OF stone from the
State Prison quarry. 1t will be a
handsome and comtortab bic structure.
A six-inch streak of ore in the She
ba mine near Unionville, Humboldt
county, IL said to show sensational
values ranging from 1870 to eI5 ounces
in silver and from $40 to S24 per ton
in gold.
Tom Mcdonald, a Southern Pacific
section employee, at Reno, who was
injured through being thrown from
his tricycle. some time ago, died in
the railroad hospital at Sacramento
this week.
A fire i'll Reno last week Friday
consumed tenement house. The
infant child OF Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
was burned to death. The fire also
demonstrated that Reno's water
supply is not adequate.
An oil excitement is on in the vi
cinity of Thistle Springs, about II
miles from Searchlight. The dis.
covery of oil was made in sinking a
new well, and the prospects are good
for rich oil district to be developed.
The body of c. w. Perkins, aged
about IS years, was found lying
alongside the railroad track at Osino
Saturday morning. The remains
were horribly mangled and We're
strewn for some distance along the
track.
The dead body of ]. I. Reed, an old
resident of Paradise Valley, was
found in ONiel Canyon few days
ago. Reed was an old settler and
lived the life of hermit in a small
cabin, although Possessed of consid-
cradle means.