Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-02-01
ABOUT TINE STATE AND ELSEWHERE.


continues to improve.
The yellow flag denotes case of
smallpox at the fremont hotel in
Reno.
The bonanza warns people look
ing for work to stay away from that
camp.
The thermometer registered AZ de-
prees below zero at Klko last Satur-
day night.
The roof OF the water tank at
Wadsworth was burned off last
sunday night. 1 !
The big force OF railroad graders
on the $. P. il making Wadsworth
quite lively town.
Captain De Lamar sold his interest
in the Con. Mercur mine, in Utah,
last Saturday for 100000.
The Standard Mining Company,
operating at Bodie. has declared a
dividend of ten cents a share.
A rich strike has been made ten
miles north of Tonopah, and a rush
to the new find has taken place.
Alex. Dromiack has sold his saloon
in Reno, to California parties, for
$1,000. He is building h new hotel.
Klko's new opera house is to be
built of brick or stone, and will cost
between six and seven Thousand dol
lars.
A miner named Clancy was crush
ed to death by fall of rock in a
mine at Typo, Nye county, last
week.
1t is reported that Frank Golden
and some Grass Valley, Cal, parties
will soon build modern 2o-stamp
mill in Tonopah
The trial OF the Alturas lynchers
drags along and the lawyers and
the Judge have daily war of words
just to keep life in the case.
1t is said that half million cattle
are threatened with starvation, in
California for lack OF rain. The price
of beef next year may be very high.
General Post, attorney for the
prosecution in the Modoc lynching
case, declared, Wednesday, that the
jury had been packed against con-
viction.
A man has been arrested IN Love-
lock on the suspicion that he is one of
the thugs implicated in the murder
of police officer in San Francisco
recently.
Jack Patrick, formerly of Carson
City, who has at various times been
reported as dying in Tonopah, is con-
valescing and past all danger. Hang
on, Jack!
The intelligent mechanics who con-
structed the new Jail in Reno. put
the cell doors on wrong.side-to, and
it will cost $3.50 to change them 80
they will be right.
A man named Tonkin, who secured
divorce from his wife in Eureka
on the 24th of last month, celebrated
the event by giving the town wine
supper the same night.
Six more deaths occurred in Tono-
pah last week and this. John Cahill,
formerly of Kmpire and Silver City,
and well-known here, was the last,
he dying Tuesday night.
DIR. Bergstein, formerly of Reno,
has been sued by his former wife for
alimony he has refused to pay as di-
rected by the Court which granted
his former wife divorce.
There is quite an epidemic of
smallpox in Indian Valley among
the Indians. The Reno authorities
are taking precautIon to prevent the
disease spreading to that place.
Mrs. James O'Toole, an old resident
of Virginia City, died last week
Thursday. Her husband, James
O'Tooie, died last Sunday night from
pneumonia, contracted in Tonopah.
Six car loads of heavy ordinance
passed through Reno last Saturday
billed for San Francisco. The ship
ment consisted in part of disappear
ing guns, which will be used for
coast defense.
On Sunday night last an explosion
at the Ophir mine, in Lincoln county,
occurred. The ma chinery was con-