Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-06-28
ABOUT TINE STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
Items Of Interest Clipped from Our tx
changes, Without Credit.

cents.
A Miners Union with rs members
has been organized at Searchlight,
Lincoln county.
The Sparks mill, at Wedekind, is
running smoothly and reducing 80
tons of ore per day.
1t is probab BILE that Congressman
Newlands will return to Nevada
about the Ist OF July.
Congressman Newlands has Of
fered lot to the committee as site
for the Reno Public Library.
The mines in Pyramid district,
Washoe county, have been closed
down on account of the wage ques-
ton.
The Tahoe Tavern has been opened
ut Tahoe City, and it is said to be one
Of the finest hotels on the Pacific
coast,
a steam shovel, capable of doing
the work of City men, is doing con-
struction work on the G. P. at Clark
Station
Chas F. Geyer, of Silver City, and
Miss Eva Thompson, of Bodie, were
married in the latter place last week
Wednesday.
Mrs. John Martinez, daughter of
Senator and Mrs. T. ]. Bell, died at
her home on Reese river, Nye coun.
ty last week.
The ranges in eastern Nevada are
said to be in better condition than
they have heretofore been for the
past twenty years.
The wild duck crop this year on
the Carson Sink will be tremendous.
The grain and alfalfa fields are liter
ally covered with nests.
John Sparks paid for the Wede-
kind mine last Saturday SI5o,ooo.
All litigation has been settled and he
is now the sole owner of the prop.
erty.
The SeorchLtgEt is the name of a
new paper published at the town OF
the same name, Lincoln county, Ne
vada. Lincoln is coming to the front
by strides.
Reno citizens have selected the lot
at the south end of the Truckee
bridge, opposite the Riverside hotel,
as the site for the public library
building.
The Davis drill, on the Comstock,
has reached a depth of $50 feet,
thirty feet more than was thought
would be necessary before an ore
body was tapped.
The Flanagan Warehouse Com.
pany now has its name on number
of Southern Pacific cars which are
used to ship Nevada meat prod
to the outside world.
Tonopah will have big Fourth of
July celebration, about on thousand
dollars having already subscribed
tor that purpose by the patriotic
citizens of that camp.
The case of Thomas Burns, for at
tempted robbery OF the retort house
of the Standard Company, at Bodie,
has been dismissed, the second jury
trial failing to convict him.
Henry Farrell, of Carson, was ac
cidentally shot in the arm the other
evening by the discharge of a revol-
yer which fell from another mans
pocket. The wound is not serious
Colorado will have a miniature
model of an irrigated farm on exhi-
dition at the St. Louis Exposition in
1904. This would be great dispia y
for Nevada and the ether se.ni-arid
States to make, also.
Henry Whistler, an old resident
of Washoe county, died at Glendale
last Saturday. Death was the re.
suit OF blood-poisoning, due to hav.
ing his thumb bitten by neighbor.
ing rancher in fight several weeks
ago.
1t liz said that many OF the farmers
in Paradise valley have commenced
cutting their hay. The crop was not
ready for harvesting, but they found
it necessary to begin haying if il
was TO be saved from destruction by
grasshoppers.