Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-12-13
Items Of Interest Glipped
from exchanges and Gcn.
deased for Quiek PerNsal.

| Nye county, through it's contract
ors and agents, is engaged in the
work of placing one hundred guide
posts or sign boards on the public
roads in many parts of her great
I,domain.
The State Board of Canvassers
will meet next Monday to canvass
the election returns for State offlc-
ers. We may soon thereafter be
able to tell whether Bray or Ring is
elected Supt. of Public instruction.
The Vulcan Copper Mining Com
pany, in Ksmeralda county, has paid
off the attachment of $4,000 placed
against it by N. A. Dunyon, it's for
mer superintendent, and has re-
sumed operations with a force of ten
men.
1t is reported that Phil McGrath,
Superintendent of the e. & G. rail-
road, will succeed I. r. Jones, of
the Sacramento division, as assistant
to Mr.. La WIS and that w. A. Meow
ern will be Superintendent of the G.
& G.
The railroad reconstruction work
between Klko and Carlin is rapidly
nearing completion. By the 2oth of
this month the new tunnel will be
finished and by the Ist of the new
year the balance of the grading will
be completed.
H. e. Cutting and Sam D. Forman
contemplate opening brokerage
office in San Francisco. They will
make speciality of handling Tono-
pah stocks, and will conduct bu-
reau of general information concern
ing Tonopah and that district.
Miss Nora Quinlan, of Virginia
City, will leave for New York about
the 2oth inst. to accept a lucrative
position in a photograph gallery to
be opened by Marceau, on Broadway.
The establishment will be one of the
largest of the kind in the world.
Several Tonopah people will leave
Los Angeles on the 18th with COM
pany which goes to Tiburon Islands,
in the Cult of California on a pros
pecting trip. These Islands are said
| to be rich in mineral lands, but are
inhabited by race of cannibals.
Aft Chartz, the Carson attorney,
has attached almost everything in
sight and out OF sight, purported to
be owned by the Comstock Tunnel
Co., to secure judgment of S2Ioo.
This will make legal trouble galore
for the company.
"Babe" Mayer and Bob Caldwell
ran Ioo-yard foot race in Elko Mon
day afternoon for a $2Io purse.
''Babe" beat his man fifteen feet and
pulled down the money. 1t is said
that between six and eight hundred
dollars changed hands on the race.
r. Clcator, formerly of Virginia
City, who received injuries by being
put off of Southern Pacific train a
year or more ago, and who sued the
company for $4,000, had the case de-
cided against him ia the U. S. Dis
trict Court at Carson, last Saturday.
Governor John Sparks has been
elected President of the Hereford
Cattle Breeding Association which
was in session in Chicago last week.
No man in the United States has
done more for the improvement of
Hereford cattle than has Governor
Sparks, and the honor has been just
ly earned.
Rewards aggregating $4,000 have
been offered for the arrest and con-
viction of the murderers of Arthur
L. Collins, General Manager of the
Smuggler-Union Mining Company,
and of w. G. Marney and Wesley F.
Smith, miners who mysteriously
disappeared and are believed to have
been killed previous to the assassina-
ton of Collins.
A son was born to the wife of w.
A. Clark, Jr., about the first of the
month, and wins million-dollar
gift Senator w. A. Clark offered to
his sons and daughters year ago
for the first grandson presented to
him. His youngest daughter, Mrs.
Morris, in New York, recently gave
birth to daughter. Senator Clark,