Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-12-27
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| Five prospect shafts are being
Aunk on the MCGEE group OF mines
Il Silver King, the new mining dis
tret.in Lincoln county, where ores
! areaaieit to show gold value of from
SIS $3.50 per ton.
The sum of $500 has been secured
by subscription for the erection of
IAN Episcopal church at Tonopah,
ami work on the building will begin
shortly. The sum OF $50 per month
has been pledged for rcctor's sal
airy.
A Greek railroad laborcr attempt
ed to assault I5-year-old girl at Col
fax, Cal, the other night, but did not
succeed. The deed nearly created a
riot in that town, but luckily cooler
Judgment prevailed and the law will
take its course.
1t is reported that filibustering
party is being organized in Butte to
go to Venezuela. The company will
be made up of crack shots and old
mountain men, Spanish war vet
Grams and veterans of the Fenian
invasion OF Canada.
1t is reported that all the present
deputy State officers will hold their
jobs down for another four years,
and that there will be no changes in
the other departments, except possl-
bly, in the State prison, which Gov
ernor Sadler has longing tor.
The SedrchLigllt reiterates the
statement that the Oregon Short
Line road has been sold to the Clark
combination, and that the San Pedro
line will be pushed to completion as
rapidly as possible. 1t is hoped to
have the road completed in 1905.
Edward J. Daily, former Com
stock dancing teacher, who was
charged with the murder OF Charles
A. Ray, which occurred at Butte
City on the night of December Ist,
was found guilty of manslaughter
last week. Ray was sta bbed to death.
The Executive Committee of the
Western Federation of Miners, at
Denver recently, decided to create
a woman's auxiliary branch. 1t is
to serve, according to the explana-
t1ons of its members, as an educa-
tional feature in unionism and So
cialism.
Last Monday morning one of the
large barns belonging to Theodore
Winters, in Washoc Valley, was
totally destroyed by fire. The barn
contained about five hundred tons OF
hay and one hundred OF grain. 1t
was not learned whether the place
was insured or not.
AS a result of cut in wages at
Copper Flat, White Pine county, a
large number of the workmen threw
uptheir jobs last week, and although
good many have taken their de-
parture tor other fields, still consid-
cradle was added to the force OF
idlers about town.-NetUs.
The trainmen on the G. 4 c. will
come in for substantial increase of
wages beginning January list, the
raise lately given by the Southern
Pacific Company applying to this
branch line as we'll as the main lines.
A new schedule of pay for station
agents is already in force.
A Chinaman shot an Indian boy at
the wood camp near Bodie few
days ago. The Chinaman claims it
was an accident, while the Indians
claim it was done to save paying the
boy bill owed by the Chinaman for
labor performed by the Indian. The
Chinaman is now in Bodie and fears
retaliation at the hands of the In
dams.
"Diamondfield Jack" Davis who
was sentenced three times to be hung
for the murder OF two sheepherders
in Idaho about six years ago, and
whose sentence was finally commu-
ted to imprisonment for life, was
pardoned from the Idaho penitentia-
ny on the 18TH. His case went through
all the Idaho courts and the United
States Supreme Court, and is said to
have cost Governor-elect Sparks, of
this State, about $4,000
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