Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-08-02
ABOUT TINE STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
Items Of interest Clipped from Our tx
changes, Without Credit.

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doing much damage to crops In
Churchill county.
The Reno and San Jose Wheelnen
will have a 5o-mile relay race in
Reno August 10th.
There are forty prisoners in the
Washoe county Jail, twenty being
charged with felony.
Will Stumbo, formerly of Virginia
CITY, was drowned in Prosser Greek,
near Hobart Mills, last Sunday.
Louis Dunkle, formerly of Eureka,
this State, was killed in cave in
mine at Rosland, b. G., the other day.
Reno has been made headquarters
for a postoffice inspector The in
spector stationed there is Mr.. Dris-i
coll.
The new State Orphans Home at
Carson is to cost $4,000. not lnclud-
ing the stone, which is to be furnish
ed by the State.
L IC llIdlv VI 4 otSJ OOAANA
ty, formerly of the @. & c., will re-
greet to learn of his death, which &C.
CURED at Verdi last month.
Last Saturday bricklayer by the
name of Breen fell into an untln-
ished cellar in Reno and broke his
neck, dying almost instantly.
Two squaws engaged in a fight
over comedy Piute buck in Tusca-
rora, recently, resulting in one OF
them having her skull caved in with
rock.
A man named Freeman, book-keep-
err for Fitzpatrick Bros, railroad con
tractors, has been arrested in Reno
on charge of forgery and embez-
element.
The Reno Journal is putting in
new and up-to-date Cottrell power
press, which will be run by electric
power, and is otherwise making i'm
provements to its plant.
A big I2-inch or I3-inch gun went
west through Reno the other day for
the battleship Iowa. 1t weighed
$4,000 pounds and was loaded on
specially constructed car.
Emigration is vending it's way
westward. Three different parties
of emIgrants passed through Carson
this week to settle in and around
Wellington and Mason Valley.
The Southern Pacific Company is
going to dismantle and destroy the
park near the depot in Reno. The
reason given is that it il allowed to
be loatng place for hobocs, etc.
A $1,000, ooo American depa rtment
leo, which is center OF vast indus
trial population, American methods
all through are to be introduced.
1t is reckoned that the United
States Government owns enough
arid land west OF the Rocky Noun
tains, if irrigated, to provide homes
tor the total present population OF
the country.
During the month of June the
Quartette Company milled BOO tons
of ore which netted sag ton. The
total cost of mining, transportation
over sixteen miles of railroad and
milling was $500 per ton.
A drought is on in Arizona. The
grass on the ranges has all dried up
and cattle are dying by the thou
sands, while stockmen are shooting
down the horses to preserve the
water and feed for their cattle.
Judge Massey of the Supreme
Court has filed his resignation with
the Governor to take effect Septem-
Der Ist. He has formed law part
nership with A. K. Cheney and o. ].
Smith of Reno and will reside there.
Jeffries defeated Fitzsimmons in
the eighth round at San Francisco
last Friday night. Eight thousand
people witnessed the fight and the
receipts were estimated at $4,000
Some claim the fight was fake, but
Fitz strenuously denies this.
Monday young man named Chas
Day accidentally shot himself in
Bridgeport. Two physicians were
telegraphed for from San Francisco
and were taken from Carson to
Bridgeport by fast relays OF teams.