Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-02-28

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The Southern Pacific Company is hav-
ing constructed hospital car, which
will be equipped with all the necessary
appliances for the first care of injured
passengers or employees.
Owing to the change in management,
the Bull Run mines, in Elko county,
ave been closed down. They will start
up again when the new management
completes the necessary arrangements.
Lem Allen, Jr., and a bucking bron-
cho mixed up one day last week with a
barbwire fence at Jimtown, Churchill
county. Lem was badly cut by the
wire and is threatened with blood-poi-
soning.
The Nevada Mining Company has $50
men on it's payroll at Berlin. Develop
ment work is being carried on and rs
tons ore is being put through the mill
daily, netting the company a handsome
monthly profit.
While on prospecting trip to Death
Valley last week w H. Ramsey and A.
Lewis, of Independence, found the body
of an unknown man which they brought
in to Ballarat. No further particulars
are obtainable.
After masquerading for nearly four
months as a messenger boy in Seattle,
in order to make an honest living, Maud
Coxhead, 16-year-old girl, has been
arrested. She has concluded to stick to
skirts in the future.
The strike at the Mountain Copper
Company's mines, near Redding, Cal,
which was recently settled, is on again.
This time the trouble is said to be on ac-
count of the company showing a pref
erence to hiring non-nnion men.
Howard McKissick committed suicide
at his home in Long Valley Tuesday by
taking carbolic acid. He was aged AZ
years. The remains were taken to Reno,
where they were inferred Thursday. No
reason is given for the rash deed.
The upper Carson River is frozen solid
to the bed, and farmers in that vicinity
fear much damage to their property if a
warm rain should carry the snow off
from the hills with rush They think
of blasting the ice out of the river to
make a channel.
A large tract of land in the Carson
I nd HI on ut hae hoo,
settlement for irrigation purposes. Fol-
lowing are the Townships: Fourteen
and Is south, range IS and 66 east;
townships Is and Is south, range 81
east townships Is and II south, range
So east.
Bald Mountain, situated in the range
of hills between Carriers Station and
the Mountain House, is said to be liter
ally covered with gold-bearing float rock.
The country will be thoroughly pros
pected this Summer by Gard4erville
people. Scarcity of water is drawback
to the country.
Mary Wall, the pioneer ranch woman
of the Truckee Meadows, died last Sun
day morning. She was aged SO years,
and had been a resident of the State
since 1853. Although al ways known as
Mary Wall, she was married last De-
cember to Dan Crawford, to whom she
willed comfortable fortune.
Ed Burrows, who carries the mail out
of Wells, to the north, narrowly escaped
freezing to death one night last week.
He dismounted from his horse to cinch
the saddle, when the animal ran away
Burrows followed the animal about in
the snow for many hours, and finally
reached house, after travelling over 20
miles.
There is gang of mining spectators,
having their headquarters in Cleveland,
Ohio, who are sending circulars to catch
suckers. They are selling stock in the
Ethel mine, and they don't even tell
where the great bonanza of wealth is
situated. This is only one of hundreds
of wildcat mining schemes for swindling
the public, made possible by the desire
of the public to invest in that industry.
delegation of Beers passed east
through Reno last Monday morning.
They are touring the country to make
arrangements for the settlement of large
numbers of their countrymen in the
United States. 1t is said that Boer
colony will be established in the Bear