Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-02-22
ABOUT TINE STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
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doing three years time in Folsom.
A fast freight and stage line is now
in operation between Tonopah and
Ray.
Horse buyers we're in Reno this
week looking for horses for the Kng-
-lish army.
A rich strike has been made in
Surveyor-General Kelley's mine, i'll
Humboldt county.
A Nevadan has purchased 1000
tents at the Preside TO take to Tono-
pah in the Spring.
The mills on the Truckee river
will resume cutting lumber about
the middle OF April.
A big roundup of wild horses will
be made in Reese River Valley,
where $500 are at large.
J. A. Yerington is said to be will
ing to be the candidate for Governor
on the Republican ticket.
The new flour mill that is to be
erected in Reno will be of one hun
dred barrels capacity daily.
Three deaths occurred from vacci-
nation in Quincy, Cal, Saturday, but
none are reported from smallpox.
John Bradley. an old and respected
citizen of the State, died at his home
in Reno last Friday morning of ap-
oplexy.
1t is rumored that the Short Line
will commence work next week and
push the line from Calientes to
Phoebe.
The Bonanza says wild cat
scheme is soon to be toisted upon the
people of that camp, and proposes to
bust it.
"Scotty Cohn," one of the best
known sporting men of the palmy
days OF the Comstock, died in Reno
last Saturday.
The Reno Chief OF Police has is
sued an order prohibiting all public
gatherings in that town during the
smallpox scare.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Williams were
poisoned by eating some canned
goods at Elko the other day. They
both recovered, however.
A squaw in Winnemucca is I'M
der arrest tor stealing valuable
dresses, in one of which she was ar
rayed when apprehended.
A San Francisco paper says that
John Mackey, the greatest miner OF
them all, Is negotiating for the en-
tire bunch OF Tonopah mines.
Lots in Tonopah are increasing in
value rapidly. One on Main street
was sold tor $1,000 recently. Resi-
dence lots sell from $3.50 to $500.
A fire did considerable damage to
the famous Tread well mine build
ings on Douglas Island on the nth
inst. No lives are reported lost.
The new town OF Ray, near Tono-
pah, has forty tents and a couple OF
wooden buildings. Two saloons and
bakery have begun operations.
Paradise Valley farmers are being
offered $40 per ton for hay, and are
not anxious to sell at that price, as
they anticipate light crops this year.
The Western Union claims to have
lost $4,000 in Nevada last year,
while the Southern Pacific contesses
to having cleaned up half a million.
The Tonopah Bonansa has new
office in course of construction, and
some new machinery on the way
from San Francisco to add to its
plant,
Harry Tonkin, an old resident Of
Virginia City, was found dead in his
room in the Black building Tuesday
morning. He died from hemorrhage
OF the lungs.
Howard Boyce, head of the West
ern Federation of Miners, in company
with his father-in-lsw w, wife and
others, has struck a 100000 mine
IN the Occur a. Alenes.
Reno is rapidly becoming labor
union town, Carpenters and Paint
ers' Union having recently been
formed. Bricklayers and stone ma
sons are also preparing to form a
union.
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