Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-06-07
ABOUT Tnt STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
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DIX 1DCHeS Vi BlO iCiA CT q
last Saturday night.
Grasshoppers are doing great dam
age in some parts of California.
Truckee meadows ranchers will
harvest a light first crop of alfalfa.
Hadley, the supposed murderer OF
Nora Fuller, has been located in
Chile.
There was an eruption OF Mount
Blackburn, southeastern Alaska, on
May nth.
There was not single delinquent
taxpayer in Elko county on the first
of this month.
Six hundred head of horses were
shipped from Elko to South Omaha
the first OF this week.
The salt works at White Plains,
in Churchill county, are again in
operation after ten year shut down.
The N. c. Q. railroad, running
north from Reno, is to be broad
guaged soon according to all reports.
Oregon elected Democratic Gov
ernor and the balance of the State
ticket is Republican by large ma
jority.
The salary of the Reno postmaster
has been raised SIoo and he has been
allowed an additional 5000 year for
clerk hire.
The Southern Pacific overland
trains between San Francisco and
Chicago are now supplied with
electric lights.
An ice plant is to be established at
a spring near Tonopah, and il ex-
pected to be in running order inside
OF thirty days.
Sam Longabaugh expects to fluIne
several thousand cordsot wood from
his camp at Ophir to the V. 4 I. rail
road this year.
Trade dollars are being circulated
in Tusca rora at par value. Merch-
ants are now looking Tor the man
who passed them.
Z. 7. Dupuis, prominent young
attorney OF Carson, died quite sud-
denly Tuesday morning OF hem
orrhage of the lungs.
1t is reported that mill will be
built at the Stella mine, in Alpine
county, and a number of men en-
ployed there this Summer.
Leo Strausman, dangerous in.
sane patient, escaped from the Reno
Insane Asylum the first OF this week
and has not yet been captured.
Kd Wheece, who is under indict-
ment at Tonopah for assault with
intent to kill, will be tried at Bel.
mont, Nye county, OH June 10TH.
A Tonopah jury rendered YER
dict acquitting I'D Hummel of libel
ing Doc O'Toole. the deposed Presi-
dent of the Tonopah Miners Union.
The Tonopah Water Company
will commence the work of piping
water to town in a few days. ]. r.
Dutfield is manager of the company.
1t is now stated that the Southern
Pacific Company will be running
trains over the new grade between
Reno and Browns by the first of
September.
Bodie is to have a ten.round glove
contest between G. A. Lundy and
James Ford on June 2Sth. The match
is for $IOo side, winner to also take
gate receipts.
An artesian we'll has been struck
on the desert near Winnemucca,
and other wells are to be sunk and
the water used for irrigation and
stock purposes.
John S. Mayhugh, formerly agent
at the Shoshone Reservation, died in
Klko Tuesday from injuries received
by falling from horse recently. He
was Is years of age.
1t is expected that rich body of
ore will be reached shortly in the
mine at Steamboat, Nevada, which
is owned by the Western Develop
ment and Compound Company.
In the District Court, in Carson,
divorce was granted Saturday,
to Carrie Roschon from her husband
Max Roschon, OH the grounds of
desertion and failure to provide.