Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-05-03
ABOUT TINE STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
items Of Interest Clipped from Our tx
changes, Without Credit.

Hay is selling for $40 per ton at
Austin.
A man named Guthrie, of Elko,
lost 81, 100 at a Reno faro game the
other night.
7. K. Kmmitt has been reappointed
United States Marshal for Nevada
by the President.
Over three feet of snow tell on the
Tuscarora road summit during the
recent snow storm.
The county hospital, at Reno, is
crowded with patients, and larg' r
quarters may have to be secured.
The placer mines in Spring Val
ley, Humboldt county, are to be
worked by the hydraulic system.
The proposition of the V. & I. Co.
building a branch line OF railroad up
through Carson Valley is again being
talked of.
The Reno Morning Star, a new
daily paper, will issue on the Sd OF
June, in Reno, with ]. F. Haley at
the helm.
A couple of iron mines have been
opened up in Antelope Valley which
may prove to be valuable to the
owners.
Two faro banks, a roulette wheel
and several poker games are now
numbered among Kly's sporting at
fractions.
The old Court House at Aurora is
for sale. Bids are to be received by
the County Commissioners OF Esmer
aida on June 2, 1902.
A man by the name of Snyder was
seriously stabbed in Reno Sunday
morning by a miner named Johnson.
johnson is under arrest.
About $50 California valley quail
were turned loose in Lamoille and
Pleasant Valleys, Elko county, last
week tor the purpose of propagation.
A young woman of Reno swallow
ed hat pin the other day and the
physicians had hard job to get the
pin out OF her throat. She is recov-
ering.
The Southern Pacific Company has
been boring for water at Browns,
but when they struck it discovered
that it contained too much salt and
other alkalie.
A Lodge of the Degree of Honor
will be instituted in Winnemucca
next month by Miss Kate Kelly, OF
Virginia City, Deputy Superior
Chief of Honor.
Andrew Scufert, indicted at Ku-
reka for assault with intent to kill
William Whalen, was found guilty
five years in the penitentiary.
The tusk OF mastodon eight feet
in length was unearthed while en-
ployes were excavating cut
through Browns hill, east of Wads-
worth, at 20 feet below the surface.
Dwight A. Dawson has been ar-
pointed postmaster at Reno to fill
the vacancy caused by the death OF
II. p. Kraus. Dawson was recon-
mended by Senator's Stewart and
Jones.
Forty-six mining claims near the
Copper Queen property, Arizona,
were sold 10 Gordon r. Campbell. OF
Calumet, Mich, tor 81, ZOO, 600 $4,000
cash and the balance within two
years.
1t is said that the campot Klondike,
located twenty-five miles southeast
OF Tonopah, il in Esmeralda county,
which would make it reasonable TO
suppose that Tonopah is also in KS
meralda.
Two men were found dead in Reno
one day last week. One was d drowned
in ditch close to town and the other
was lying along side the railroad
track, and probably had been struck
by train.
1t is said that a. Livingston, OF
Carson, has offered II $1,000 purse to
have finished fight in Nevada be-
tween George Goddard and Joe VOL
colt, ami that arrangements tor the
mill are nearly completed.
The Comstock was visited by u
terrific wind storm Monday night.
Houses and fences were blown down