Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-08-09
ABOUT Tmt STATE AND ELSEWHERE.


Ore sampling works are said to be
assured for Reno.
Another small prize in the lottery
has been landed in Carson.
Kx-Congressman H. T. Bartine has
arrived in Ca rson from Washington.
The town of Palisade was almost
completely wiped out by fire few
days ago.
Sheriff McInnis, of Reno, is a very
siok man, and there are doubts of
his recovery.
A find of platinum in paying guam
titles has been made thirty miles
north OF Reno.
A traction engine is to be used for
transporting freight from Winnie
mucca to Kennedy district.
Alex. Folger, editor of the Chroni-
Gle Union for many years, died at
Bridgeport, CAL, last week.
1t is pretty well understood that
A. c. Cleveland will be the Repub-
Ecan nominee for Governor OF Ne
vada.
I'd Stanley. of Reno. and Jack
Wing, of Carson, will ride five
mile match race at the Reno track
on August 3rd.
A telegram from Tonopah says the
labor market there is over-supplied
and warns people looking tor work
to steer clear of that town.
1t is reported that the disease
which was 30 fatal in Tonopah last
Winter has again broken out there
and that the hospital is full of pa
TENTS.
Dick Ballestro has been arrested
at Tonopah for completely in an at
tempt to bring young girls there
from Grass Valley for immoral pur-
poses.
Amateur and immature sportsmen
are slaughtering the meadow lark
in the neigeborhood of Reno. The
law forbids this and arrests are
likely to be made.
A new strike that promises to de-
velop into something rich has been
made at Tonopah. The strike was
made on the Bertha claim, two miles
north of Tonopah.
Artesian water has been struck on
a ranch near Reno and a number OF
other wells will be bored in the
neighborhood with the hope of strik-
ing flowing water.
1t is said that Carson is to have
another bank known as the Peoples
Savings Bank. Several Carsonites
and some San Francisco people are
at the head OF the enterprise.
About twenty men consisting Of
surveyors and laborers passed
through Gardnerville last week on
their way to Mono Lake, to COM
mence work on the Yosemite road.
Ida, the old mining camp in south
ern Ksmeralda, has taken on a new
lease of life and is now lively little
burg. New discoveries are causing
mining men to investigate its rich
ness.
Fifty thousand dollars has been
appropriated by the miners of Colo
RADIO to aid their fellow workmen
who are thrown out of work by the
rece-.t strike in the Indiana coal
fields.
Fire has appeared at the fourth
level of the United Verde mine at
Jerome, Arizona, and the property
has been closed down. 1t will be
month and probably more before the
plant will start up again.
A P. Mcmillan, the musician who
committed suicide recently at Col
conda left letters telling of long
career of crime. and that he killed
himself because he could not keep
from living criminal life.
A man named Wilmington and
woman named Kitty Smith were
shot and killed in Bakersfield last
Saturday by man named Kid Rob-
bins. All three were prominent in
the Reno tenderloin district.
A swarm of bees last week found
resting place in the town lookup.
They were given sulphuric acid
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