Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-11-29
State News

pah during the late storm.
The Truckee Lumber Company
has clos, Z down its logging camps
for the season.
The milkmen of Carson have form
ed trust and raised the price OF
milk to all consumers.
Out of 1873 widows left by the mine
disaster at Schofield, Utah, two
years ago, all but three have remar-
ried. a
The State Board of Canvassers
will meet on December 18th to can
vass the election returns for State
officers.
A new mill is to be built by the
Quartette Mining Co., OF Searchlight,
Lincoln county. 1t will be ten
stamp one.
1t is reported that Mcssrs. Windel
and Bracket will start new Demo
cratic paper in Winnemucca about
january Ist.
The Crnmps, of Philadelphia, have
purchased the old Liberty mine,
about as miles northwest of Tono-
pah, for $4,000.
There is more snow at the present
time in the Sierra Nevada Noun
tains than for a number of years
past at this date.
Frank Golden has brought suit for
$4,000 damages against O. A. Turner
for failure to deliver Tonopah stock
as contracted for.
Vast numbers of cattle have died
in California from malignant form
of anthrax, as pronounced by the
State Veterinary Surgeon.
The N G. o. company has officially
announced that it will extend its
Sierra Valley line from Moha wk
Valley to Quincy next season.
The Southern Pacific Company de-
MES that it has sold to Senator Clark
the Oregon Short Line road running
south from Salt Lake into Nevada.
Crit Williams was seriously and
probably fatally injured by the ex-
of the Mizpah shaft at Tonopah last
week.
Carson people are shy numerous
shekels loaned one Kayser, who dis
appea red from there after promising
to bore several oil gushers i'll the
valley.
John Taylor died in Butte City,
Montana, this week, aged 6o years.
He was the man who killed Prentiss,
the bad man of Virginia City, i'll the
early 7o's.
Grass hay is now selling at Sac
and $25 per ton in the stack in Smoky
valley, Lander county. The great
demand tor hay in Tonopah is the
cause Of the advance in price.
A Bodie squaw wagered her pap
poose against three sacks of pinenuts
in a poker game the other day, and
lost. She remarked that she could
"get plenty pappoose, but pinenuts
heap scarce"
Chas. kaufman, an old Bodieite,
died In Tonopah last week Thursday
of apoplexy. H. was in business in
Tonopah. He was a native of Ger
many, aged SIS years. and leaves
wife and tour children.
lanes Burke, of Steamboat Val.
ley, has bonded to G. M. Sain so acres
adjoining the mining ground OF j.
w. Hopkins, at Steamboat, for 500,
600. The first payment of $4,000 is
to be made in six months.
A fierce FIRE is still raging in Sena.
tor Clark's famous United Verde
mine, in Arizona. Carbolic acid is
being forced into the depths in great
volume, but it has not yet had any
apprcciable effect upon the flames
A man named Maxwell has been
arrested at Tonopah on a charge OF
robbing Frank Golden's jewelry
store. The prisoner was II clerk in
the store. Evidence against Maxwell
is said to be strong enough to war
rant his arrest.
N. p. Dooley, well kp9Wn lip saFtl
ern Nevada, and at one time owner
of the famous Johnny mine, in Lin
coin county,died inGSak M Ike last
week Friday. He We aketts5 years.