Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-05-02
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The Nevada Engineering Works, of
Reno now has 81 machinists on its pay
roll
Last Friday Reno, Carson and Virginia
were shaken up quite lively by an earth
quake.
Somebody broke into the Reno Jail the
other night but found nothing worth
stealing.
Monday last four trainloads of soldiers
passed through Reno on their way to the
Philippines.
Tonopah is to have frst-class vaude-
vile theatre as soon as the artists can
be imported.
The Humboldt Sink is reported to be
drier this season than it has been before
for fifty years.
1t is estimated that over one hundred
tons of trout are taken from the Truckee
river each season.
An Elko opium den was raided by the
officers the other day and three white
''fiends" were arrested.
A few days ago a fire destroyed a
thousand cords of wood belonging to the
Floreston Paper Mill Co.
T. A. Milne is developing what he ex-
poets to become valuable coal mine in
Lincoln county, near Phoebe.
A Seattle Chinaman is suing his wife,
who is squaw, for divorce, and the at
torney in the case is negro.
1t is expected that the Walker Lake
Reservation will be thrown open to set
Element in about six months.
The assessed valuation of Washoe
county property this year, it is esti-
mated, will be close to 81, 100000.
George Palmer, of Reno, and Henry
Shonerd, of Elko, are to be Nevada Ca
diets to the Annapolis Naval Academy.
The Reno Pressed Brick Company has
Just installed some machines which are
capable of turning out 10000 brick per
day.
Irving M. Scott, builder of the cele-
brated battleship Oregon, died suddenly
at his residence in San Francisco Tues
day afternoon.
DIR. Johnson, veterinary surgeon of
Reno, committed suicide last week Sat-
urday by severing the arteries in his leg
below the knee.
II is expected that the free rural de-
livery will be established in the Love-
lock Valley, beginning with the new
quarter, July LIST.
There is rumor that the smelter
men in Anaconda will strike for IS a
day on May l. Those receiving $3.50 and
$2.75 will ask for 50 day.
Both of Tonopah's papers have been
enlarged to eight pages, and are chuck
full of local ads. Tonopah business
firms believe in advertising.
Dispatches from Palisade state that
the body of John o. Brooks was found
Tuesday morning in the Humboldt
river, about four miles below that town.
A sagging wire of the Truckee River
General Electric Company electrocuted
pet horse and three COWS on the ranch
OF Jacob Rendey, near Carson, the other
day.
The Southern Pacific Company is con-
templating abolishing the flyer service,
as it delays freight and regular passen-
ger trains-the flyers having the right
of way.
1t is reported that a number of men
who have been interested in Reno
bank will withdraw from that institu-
ton and build and start new bank in
Carson.
Next week, it is said, the passenger
trains will begin to run over the new
cut off into Reno, giving Wadsworth the
go by, and Reno will become the end Of
passenger division.
w. Kidd Lewis, who married Mrs.
Gonzales in Reno, April LIST, has been
sued for a divorce on the ground of
cruelty. He beat his wife after being
married to her two weeks.
A. C. Bradley, of Reno, has been sem
fenced to one year in Warden Consi-
dimes hosiery. Bradley plead guilty to
embezzlement of funds from the Nevada
California Oregon Railway.
The Reno papers are filed with IL
counts of robberies in that town. From
the number of hold-ups reported The