Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-01-24
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Max Lambert, one of the men who
was shot by uperintendent Traylor
at Ely, has been taken to San Fran
cisco for an opera ton upon the
wound. He will live.
L. A. Taylor, of the United States
geological survey, reports the esti-
mated cost of storing sufficient water
to irrigate 10000 acres of land along
the Carson river as a trifle over So
per acre.
While driving a tunnel on the
Crystal Springs mine, in the San
Jacinto mountains, ore was encoun-
tered which assayed as high rs 5000
ton. The property is owned by
Boston parties.
a lone highwayman entered the
Reno depot Tuesday morning, held
up agent Phillips with gun and
took $500 or 5000 from the safe and
made his escape. The robber has
not yet been captured.
Word has been received in Carson
from Tonopah that the individual
who attempted to jump Frank Col
denis claims in that district, accept
ed an invitation of the citizens COM
mittee to walk out of town.
Garfield Doane, a Carson raised
hoy, was run over by train in the
Sacramento yards the other day.
He had leg amputated as a result
of the accident, and may lose his life,
as he was otherwise injured.
The expert sent from San Fran
cisco to open the Inyo county safe
was successful ami the books of the
missing treasurer were found to be
straight and in perfect order. Treas
urer Bunny has not been seen since
December 10th.
The Stratton independence Com
pany says the famous Independence
mine, of Cripple Greek, was sailed
when sold to the company, and
makes that allegation the basis of
suit for six million dollars against
the Stratton estate.
The store of Dave Hayes, of
Bridgeport, was robbed the other
night of some jewelry and watch.
Tom Dunn, Chinaman, was discov-
cred to be the thief, and he now Ian
guishes in the county Jail at Bridge
port doing I5o-day sentence.
The strike at the Keswick copper
mines is about over. A large num-
Der OF non-Union men have been put
to work without any demonstration
from the Union. The Union claims
the company cannot secure enough
non-Union men to operate it's prop
erty full handed.
Two masked men held up ten men
in the saloon of Elliott x Cole late
Monday night and robbed the faro
and roulette bank and escaped with
5000 or $500. Cole attempted to give
an alarm and was shot IN the head,
but not seriously wounded. There
is no trace of the robbers yet.
Hancock, who murdered Engleke
and Edmiston on the desert in Lin
coin county some years ago, has
made a confession, but states that
the woman who was travelling with
him as his wife, was the one who
planned the deed and killed one of
the men. Hancock is now in San
! Quentin for ten years.
The belief is pretty general in the
southern part of the State that rail
road building will begin there with
in reasonable time. Inquiries for
land are frequent. They come from
all quarters, indicating general be-
| lief in railroad work and a willing
ness to take chances on the benefits
to this section to follow.
Quite little camp is springing up
in Antelope Valley near the Wede-
kind and Blackburn mine. The en-
CINE tor the mine is now in place and
the mill will soon be started up.
John Mckay is putting up store
building and lodging house. The
Lee Bros. have bonded their three
claims for $4,000 and have received
$4,000 as the first payment.