Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-08-23
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ABOUT TINE STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
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game the other night.
Winnemucca has been made a
train-dispatching office.
The postoffice at Tonopah has been
made a money order office.
Sarah K. Phillips has sued Chas.
Phillips, Of Reno, for divorce.
The White Pine NeuOs says that
wild horses are becoming nuisance
in that part of the State.
An effort will be made to have the
next session of the international Min
ing Congress held in Nevada.
U. S. Marshals and rangers are re-
ported to be forcing sheepmen OFT
the reserve in Alpine county.
The new Wynn and Lasher mill
at Kennedy, Humboldt county, IS
running on ore from that district.
The Keora mine near Bernice,
Churchill county, shows four-foot
vein of ore worth $40 per ton in gold
The annual session of the Nevada
mission conference of the NJ. K.
Church will be held at Reno August
28th to 3Ist.
Frank Dolan, one of the most popu-
lar engineers on the S. P. was killed
in collision east of Wordsworth
last Sunday.
Albert Lackey, ex-superintendent
of the Overman and Caledonia mines,
died at his home in Oakland last
week Thursday.
The Verdi box factory was de-
stroyed by fire last Friday night.
The loss is estimated at $4,000. The
company will rebuild.
A picked team of all the best bicy
Gle riders in California is soon to try
and wrest the championship from
the Reno boys in a 5o.mile relay race
at Reno.
An attorney representing the Ris-
don Iron Works of San Francisco,
arrived in Gardnerville last week
and placed lien of $500 on the Car
son Valley Smelling Cos plant
1t is said that the new railroad
shops to be constructed at East Reno,
for the Southern Pacific Company,
will be more extensive than are those
at Wadsworth, and will cost about
100000.
Surveyors are being sent out to
determine the location of Donnelly
mountain, the scene of the new min
ing strike. 1t is believed to be very
close to the Humboldt and Washoe
county line.
Oil tanks have been placed at all
fuel stations between Sacramento
and Wadsworth on the S. p. and en-
gines can load up easily on the fuel.
Several oil burning engines have
made successful trips.
William Gentry and Charles Juett
have been placed under $1,000 bonds
each to answer before the Elko
county grand jury on a charge of
horse stealing. They failed to find
bondsmen and went to Jail.
Loyalton is a factory town of some
seven hundred people and now en-
joys the distinction of having good
water system, well equipped with
electric light plant, wide awake, en-,
ergetic citizens and no saloons.
On request of William H. Mills and
Superintendent Laws, of the South,
ern Pacific Company, Division Agent
Prentice has sent to the California
Board of Trade rooms a handsome
exhibit of Nevada grown vegetables
Great Roadway is being made on
the first tunnel east of Carlin, which
is to be 1000 feet long, and at the
present rate of progress will be com.
pleted in three months. This tunnel
cuts out the biggest curve in Moleen
Canyon.
A conflict occurred last week be.
tween Forest Rangers and sheep
man who resisted ejectment from
the reserve at point on MCGEE
Creek, above Long Valley. The sheep
herder was shot in the shoulder but
not fatally injured.
John Stanton, the copper statistic.
ian OF Boston, says the consumption
of the red metal since January has
increased more than 2S Der cent
while the production has increased