Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-02-28
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brook is now open for travel.
Four feet of snow is reported in Lake
Valley, while the Summit has six.
Again it is reported that Reno is to
=, have another daily morning paper.
Winnemucca is to have sanitarium.
Miss Inez Laveaga is at the head of the
project.
The bill providing that peace officers
be compelled to wear badges has passed
the Senate.
Matt Kyle has been re-appointed as
, U. S. Surveyor General Of Nevada by
the President. 1
A reduction of fifty cents is to be
made in railroad fare between Reno and
San Francisco.
Reno is threatened with a wood fam
inc, owing to lack of transportation facil-
tiles from the north.
Editor Booth promises that the Tono-
pah Bonanza shall be issued daily in
the very near future.
Miss Weda Higley was quite seriously
injured in coastlng accident at Austin
one evening last week.
The Carson Dramatic Club is busy re-
hearsing for the Burglar" which is to
be given early next month.
A new Orphans Home is to built ON
the site of the old one, which was some
months ago destroyed by fire.
The Truckee River General Electric
Company will have its line into Carson
in working order in few days.
A Reno paper says that some of the
high school boys and girls of that town
frequent side-entrance saloons.
Several companies of the Fourteenth
Infantry passed through Reno this week
on their way to the Philippines.
The United States Senate last week
confirmed the appointment of w. w.
Booth as postmaster at Tonopah.
Congressman VanDuzer fell down on
San Francisco sidewalk one day last
week and fractured two of his ribs.
The inaugural ball in Carson last Mon
day night was a grand affair, There
were IT'S couple in the grand march.
1t is reported that strike of 10O-oz.
silver ore has been made in the Wede-
kind mine, near Reno, at depth of 140
feet.
Numerous parties are being organized
in Tonopah to prospect the country
south of Silver Peak as soon as the snow
disappears.
The case of the Tonopah & Salt Lake
Company VS.. the Tonopah Company has
been submitted to Judge Hawley for
final decision.
Echo Canyon, about six miles east OF
Searchlight, midway to the Colorado
River, is beginning to attract the atten-
ton of mining men.
The Luvelock Commercial Company
has arranged to ship 100 tons of gypsum
per week to San Francisco this Summer,
from the Humboldt deposits.
The Orpheum theatre, at Reno, has
been closed by the authorities. The
managers left town in a hurry, leaving
many creditors behind them.
The Radcliffe mines, comprising 20
claims in the Panamint mountains, Inyo
county, have been sold for $250.000, The
new owners are eastern people.
An Elko farmer narrowly escaped
cremation last week through carrying
a patent heater in the bottom of his
sleigh, his clothing being set on fire.
The ''full crew" bill introduced in the
Senate at the request of the railroad
men has been defeated. The railroad
BOYS will remember this in future cleo
tions.
Herman Stager, who recently had
both feet badly frozen near Winnemuc-
ca, had both members amputated this
week, and is in very preca. ious con-
dition.
Stockholders of the Crystal Water
Company, Of Tonopah, re the recip-
tents of their first dividend last week. 1t
is promised that others will follow in
rapid succession.
An attempt at suicide was made by
one of the red-light fraternity of Tono-
pah one night last week. Her hand was
too unsteady, however, to furnish the
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