Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-03-14
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was acquitted of the crime, is again in
trouble, having been indicted in Elko on
charge of assault with intent to kill.
The remains of man were discovered
in Death Valley last week, where he
evidently died from thirst. The man is
supposed to be from Nevada, and the in
dications are that he died six months
ago.
Ed Swift lost couple of valuable
horses in teaming accident near Silver
City last week. The accident was caus-
ed by the breaking of an eye in the
brake lever while coming down steep
hill.
The will of Mrs. Daniel Crawford,
better known as Mary Wall, who recent
ly died in Reno, it to be contested by a
brother from Wisconsin. Mrs. Craw-
ford willed quite fortune to her hus-
band.
The Yellow Aster Company, of Rands-
burg, has declared its regular monthly
dividend of $4,000 for January. Both
mills are running constantly, and last
1oonth was one of the best the company
ever had.
The wife of W. S. Brigham, miner
working property near Randsburg, put
six sticks of dynamite in the oven of
her kitchen stove to thaw. The coro-
ner's jury rendered a verdict of acct
dental death.
The Keystone Exploration Company's
mine, 80 miles south of Douglas, Arizo-
ma, has recently been sold for $l00, 900,
cash. The purchasers are Philadelphia
parties. who are organizing company
to work the property.
John Muse, aged 40 years, car in
spector, shot and killed himself at Hated
few days ago. He had been hurt by
an exploding torpedo and went to Reno
for medical treatment, returning to Ha-
fed in an intoxicated condition, where
he killed himself.
The Legislature has granted c. S.
Lemon and associates right of way for
railroad from Tonopah to a point on
the C. & G. near Rhodes Salt Marsh. 1t
is said this new road will be completed
before July next. Whether it will be an
electric line or steam is not stated.
The immense electric plant of the Bay
Counties Power Company, of Colgate,
on the Yuba River, not far from Nevada
City, was DESTROYED by fire one day last
week. The fire was caused by a short
circuit, and the loss will reach close to
million dollars. The plant will be re-
built as soon as possible.
The Southern Pacific railroad employ
es recently asked for an increase of pay
amounting to about 25 per cent. 1t is
redorted that a compromise will be ar
ranged whereby the company will give
the freight employees an advance of 20
per cent. and the passenger employees
an advance of IL per cent.
For over twenty years the Copper
Queen mine, near Bisbee, Arizona, seven
miles north OF the Mexican line, has
been producing an average of more than
$1,000, 900 pounds of copper annually.
In 1880 the output was l, 1879 $40 pounds,
and this has increased to maximum of
40, 600, 900 pounds per annum.
Two Phoebe prospectors returning
from Death Valley last week found the
body of man some distance above the
road and about twenty miles from Anvil
Springs. The body was that of a man
about thirty years of age, black hair
and sandy mustache. The shoes were
off of the feet and the body was partly
covered with sand.
John Hastings, who had been em-
ployed to look after saloon in East
Reno during the proprietor's absence in
California, was found dead in the build
ing last Sunday morning with a bullet
through his head. 1t was evidently
case of suicide, and the man had proba-
bly, been dead for several days before
the body was discovered.
E. T. Lothrop, for many years the
proprietor of the leading saloon and
gaming establishment of Wadsworth,
and well known throughout the West
from Santa Fe to the Klondike, has as
sumed charge of the games at the But
Ter, in Tonopah, and opened up with
sufficient capital to excite the cupidity
of ali the hinh rollars in thu nann Cau