Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-10-18
ABOUT the STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
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There are eight cases of smallpox
at Floriston.
Senator ]. P. Jones is expected to
arrive in Nevada next week.
The next session of the Irrigation
Congress will be held in Ogden.
A new road is being built through
lacks Valley for the Anderson trac-
ton engine.
Three new passenger coaches have
been added to the G. < G. railroad
rolling stock.
The Great Western mine at Steam
boat has been drained and work in
the shaft resumed.
Miss Mabel Stanaway of Reno will
soon leave for Germany to complete
her musical education.
A letter from Butte City says the
hospitals there are filled with people
suffering from typhoid-pneumonia
John Dwyer, an inmate of the State
IL,
and committed to the asylum at
Reno.
The Virginia City Miners Union
is raising funds by subscription for
the striking Pennsylvania coal
miners.
The Ruth group of mines, at Ely,
have been bonded by NJ. l.. Requa,
President OF the Eureka 4 Palisade
Railroad Company.
J. G. Harlow, ex-State Printer, has
arrived from Oakland, and will make
Reno his future home. He will be
employed on the Gazette.
Foreman Glass, of the Hickey Cat
tie and Land Company succeeded in
killing a grizzly bear and two cubs
in Antelope Valley last week.
Captain S. T. Burton, for many
years proprietor of the Weber Lake
summer resort, died at that place
last Friday, after brief illness.
Horace Greeley, an old resident of
Esmeralda county, died on the train
of consumption last Thursday while
being brought from Luning to Haw-
thorne.
Mrs. Sarah Stonehil1, widow of the
late Major Stonehill, died in San
Francisco on October 9th. She was
the mother of George w. Adams, of
Sutro, Nevada.
Phi Bates, an old resident of Wa
shoe county, committed suicide Mon
day by shooting himself through the
head. He was suffering from cancer
of the stomach.
Two engines are now required to
draw the local train between Reno
and Mound House, owing to the large
increase in traffic for the camps on
the G. 4 c. road.
The wife of Judge Henry Rives,
formerly of Nevada, has sued for di-
vorce in Salt Lake on the ground of
habitual drunkenness. She claims
and asks for reasonable alimony.
The State Orphans Home directors
have accepted the plan of architect
Wilkins, of Reno, for the new build
ing to replace the one destroyed by
fire. Wilkins re ceived 5000 premium
for his plan.
Truckee meadow ranchers have
raised 1000 tons of onions this sea-
son and are holding them for better
prices. They now bring $40 per ton,
and may reach double that during
the winter months.
John Forbes, a well known mining
man from Nevada, died at the Fabo-
liz Hospital, in Oakland, on the 10th,
after long illness. He was largely
interested in the mines of Haw-
thorne, Esmeralda county.
A disastrous wreck occurred at
the tunnel near Bonner Lake last
Saturday night by freight train
running into an open switch. En-
gineer Jodoe was killed and his fire.
man was quite badly hurt.
Esther Coronado, woman of the
town, well known in Reno, Carson
and elsewhere, committed suicide in
Elko last Saturday by taking NOR
phine. Her remains were shipped
to her home in Carson for burial.
An uncon6rIned rumor has it that