Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-05-23
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A Degree of Honor Lodge was organ
lied at Bodie last week.
Balloting for the queen of the carnival
has begun in Virginia City.
Cherries have been ripe at 1ndepend-
ence for the past two weeks.
The Grand Lodge of Knights OF
Pythias will meet in Reno June nth.
The work of preparing to pipe water
to Tonopah from Rye Patch wells has
begun.
Thomas McClain, employed at Ryn-
don, Elko county, has become violently
insane.
1t is said that an opposition stage line
will be put ON between Carson and
Gardnerville.
The n. C. & o. railroad company
transports ore samples free over its line
for prospectors.
Butte, Montana, is famed throughout
the northwest from the fact that it has
but single tree.
Three shifts are now employed in
driving a tunnel on the Great Western
mine at Steamboat.
1t is reported that the Golconda smelt-
er is now in readiness to be fired up and
may be started most any day.
Carpenters are not plentiful in Tono-
pah, and those contemplating building
are compelled to wait their turn.
Two men were fined $50 each at Aus
tin, Lander county, for grazing sheep
within three miles of the post Office.
The Floriston Pulp and Paper Com
pany has just let contract for $4,000
cords of wood to D. j. Smith of Truckee.
1t is rumored in Reno that P. L. Flan-
igan has purchased the stock of the Ne
vada Power, Light and Water Company.
W. l.. Scott was sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary, for assault
with intent to kill, committed at Phoebe
recently.
In the District Court at Genoa last
Friday Frances Willis was granted a
divorce from Hugh Willis ON the grounds
of cruelty.
Churchill county lie to issue bonds for
$1,000 for the purpose of building new
Court House at Fallon, which is now the
county seat.
John Melin, Band Instructor of the
Nevada State University, has been APP
pointed Second Musician on the battle
ship Wisconsin,
Will Cam and o. Heiser, of Reno,
have secured bond on Churchill county
mine property carrying gold values from
500 to $50 per ton.
The 4O-stamp mill on Capt. DeLamars
Gold Mountain property in San Bernar-
dino county, Cal, has been closed down
pending negotiation for a sale.
The Buffers Co has sampled the Hale
u Norcross waste dumps at Virginia
City, which will be fiumed to the cya-
hide plant in Six Mile Canyon.
Jack Christensen, of Empire, who
was recently injured while coupling cars
ON the c. & c., is recovering and will be
able to resume his duties shortly.
The Chinaman who attacked Sheriff
Newman in the Jail at Ely, White Pine
county last week, died from injuries re-
ceived at the hands of the Sheriff.
Miners are warned to keep away from
the Century mine in Park Valley Utah,
on account of the existing trouble be-
tween the miners and the company.
The two-year old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Scott was drowned at Dis
aster Peak, Humboldt county, May II,
through falling in an irrigating ditch.
Dominica Frugolia, an Italian section
man, was run over by three cars at Wells
last week Thursday and fatally injured,
both legs being cut off. He died Friday.
The Elko Free Press says the fish law
as changed by the last Legislature is all
wrong. Now is the time fish ought to be
protected as they are going up stream to
spawn.
Judge S. j. Bonnifield, Jr., was run
into and knocked down by carelessly
driven horses at Winnemucca last week
and sustained two broken ribs and other
bodily injuries.
Joe Cross, who robbed and beat a
Chinaman almost to death at Reno, has