Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-09-27
ABOUT the STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
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changes, Without Credit.

The Lovelock Argus now comes
out as six column paper.
The postoffice at Searchlight will
soon be made money order office.
John Sparks Hereford cattle cap
tured first prizes at the Oregon State
Fair.
Alt Doten is Republican candi-
date for Assemblyman in Ormsby
county
Nevada's percentage of divorced
people is higher than any other State
in the Union.
The Elko oil we'll is down 600 feet
but the rumor that oil has been
struck is premature.
There are ITS civil war pensioners
in Nevada, the smallest number of
any State in the Union.
Reno now has fifteen labor and
trade unions and will establish an
affiliated trades council.
Ormsby county this year will have
from fifty to one hundred more
voters than two years ago.
1t is reported that President Roose-
welt will speak in Elko, Reno and
Carson during the campaign.
1t is claimed that this years State
University football team will be the
strongest in the history OF that insti-
tuition.
There are sixty men employed in
Kennedy district, Humboldt county,
producing seventy-fve tons of good
ore daily.
The new brick-making industry
recently established near Gardner
willie is proving a bonanza to its
projectors.
There are more prospectors in the
hills of Esmeralda county now than
at any time for the past twenty
five years.
w. ]. Campbell has started new
paper at Stateline and named it the
Mining Times. The field is said to
be good one.
Mrs. John Z. Jones, widow of the
late Governor John Z. Jones, was
married last week to j. E. Stafford,
of Churchill county.
The San Jose bicycle team defeat
ed the Reno team last Sunday by
the distance of one mile. The race
was run in San Jose.
The Republicans and the Labor
Party of Nye county fused, by a
fair division of county offices, unit
ing on Assemblyman.
Roulette Wheel, one of the race
horses managed by Hugh Willis,
was killed a couple of weeks ago by
wild animals, near Bodie.
Prospects are now bright for the
construction of a smclter to work
the ore from the rich mineral district
around Marvel, Lincoln county.
The new mill at Loope is completed
and about one hundred men are at
work about the camp. Work on the
dam and ariel tramway is progress
ing rapidly.
There is a possibility that the
Santa Fe road will soon run a
branch line from Purdy to the new
camp of Searchlight, a distance of
twenty-six miles.
A head-on collision occurred Tues
day, near Carlin, between the east
and west bound flyers. No passen-
gers were injured, but one of the
engineers was probably fatally in
jured.
During recent storm lightning
struck ledge of rocks close to the
wagon road near Loope. A man and
team Were on the road, not fifty feet
from where the lightning struck,
but were not injured.
A ledge of ore which is reported
to averge 500 per ton has been dis.
covered on the trail between Union.
willie and Rye Patch, in Humboldt
county. The ledge has been traced
for a mile on the surface
Last Saturday the first Republi.
can county convention to be held in
Lander county for twelve years met
at Austin and nominated a legisla
tive ticket, consisting of State
Senator and two Assemblymen.