Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-05-16
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Andrew Frandsen, the sheepman, is
seriously ill at his home in Reno.
Hattie M. Lake has been granted a
divorce from M. c. Lake, in Reno.
Close to 800 miners are now employed
in the mines in and about Tonopah.
A stack of hay containing 80 tons was
sold in Gardnerville last week at SIT a
ton.
An opposition fast freight line is to be
put on the road between Tonopah and
Sodaville.
1t is said that the constitutionality of
the Reno incorporation act will be tested
in the courts.
The automobile line between Wells
and Ely will be in operation next week,
it is expected.
Should no frosts occur from now on
the fruit crop of the State will be the
largest ever known.
The Kinkead mill recently erected in
Tonopah is proving a success at working
the ores of that camp.
A man handling counterfeit $40 and
$40 greenbacks did thriving business
in Reno last Saturday.
A number of towns in the State have
begun to make arrangements for a
Fourth of July celebration.
The Flanagan Warehouse Company,
of Reno, will dispose of over 100000
pounds of wool this season.
The Nevada Sulphur Company is ship
ping 25 carloads of the crude material
from Humboldt county weekly.
Olives, pomegranetes and grapes are
in bloom in Lincoln county, and there
is good outlook for the fig crop.
Nick Hummel and Dave Leisham, two
hustling criminal lawyers of Washoe
county, have formed a partnership.
A horse buyer has purchased 500 head
of range horses in Humboldt county this
week and will ship them to Omaha.
fifty-mile relay race between Gard
nerville and Carson teams will take
place at the latter city on the 10Th inst.
Grasshoppers are Matching rapidly in
Paradise Valley, and farmers who have
put in grain fear they will lose their
crops.
The mail clerks who have been laying
over in Reno for the past year, will here
of Co ~ foI
Ogden.
Advices from Indian Territory state
that half a million dollars worth of live
stock persisted there during the recent
blizzard.
About fifty men arrived in Carson
Monday from California, bound for Blue
Lakes where they will be employed this
Summer.
John Austin, after whom the capital
of Lander county was named in 1868,
died last week in the Sisters hospital at
Los Angeles.
Bert Lundy, the Bodie pugilist, was
defeated in Sydney, Australia, recently,
by Blackmore, the middle weight cham
pion, in three rounds.
Mrs. Nellie Garrison was granted a
divorce from her husband, George Gar
rison, in San Francisco, last week on
the grounds of desertion.
Will Mather, of Carson, had narrow
escape from drowning in the Walker
River few days ago while fording the
stream with a pack train.
A Chinaman who paid $3.50 for
boarding house at Gold Mountain last
week, was notified to leave the camp a
few days later, and he left,
1t is reported that Eugene Howell
former Secretary of State, has disposed
of his mining property in White Pine
county for a quarter of million.
Col E. p Hardesty, of Elko county,
has sold to NJ. Badt & Co. his extensive
land and live stock interests near Wells.
The deal involves large amount.
Red, white and blue have been de-
cided upon as the Official colors of the
Comstock carnival. Seems as though
the combination is sort of familiar
Crops and trees in Starr Valley, Elko
county, are threatened with destruction
by crickets, and public meeting has
been called to devise means to fight the
pests.
Nelson's Jackson Creek copper mines,