Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-02-14
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A Kinkead mill passed through on the
C. q c. this week for parties in Tono-
pah.
An Elko man has been fined $40 for
stealing coal from the Railroad Com
pany.
There has been considerable ''601'
talk INDUCED in on the streets of Reno
of late.
Two buildings were blown Gown in
Aurora during the big windstorm last
month.
Hiram Cole, former we'll known Ne
vada gambler, died at Bisbee, Arizona,
last week.
The Carson Valley smelter has been
sold to parties who are arranging to
start it up.
The ores at Hanapah district, Nye
county, are said to carry $2.40 per ton
in platinum.
DR.. W. H. Patterson has been re-elect-
ed Superintendent of the Nevada State
Insane Asylum.
The South End mine at Bodie shut
down last Saturday, throwing IS men
out of employment.
The Dexter mine and mill, at Tnsca-
rora have been closed down, throwing
thirty men out of employment.
A young would-be Carson sport got
Respondent few days ago and attempt
ed suicide-all on account of grass
widow
The snow and cold weather has been
rough on cattle and sheep in the north
eastern portion of the State, and many
will perish.
Fred " ilton, of the U. S. survey corps,
was poisoned by eating canned tomatoes
at Reno, and is dangerously i'll from
that cause.
The trial OF Frank Kenney, the colored
man who shot and killed VIM. Lamb at
Truckee, began at Nevada City, Cal,
this week Monday.
The Washoe County Bank, of Rene,
has filed articles of incorpor alton at Ne
>ada City, CAL, also the Verdi Lumber
Company, of Verdi, New.
The recent storm has compelled the
Truckee meadow farmers to feed all the
live stock, thus making a market for
what little hay there was.
A man named F. F. Berger was crush
ed to death by large timber striking
him in the head at the DeLamar mill,
Lincoln county, last week.
Some weeks ago it was reported that
the Goulds had purchased the N. G. q
o road running north out of Reno.
This rumor is again afloat.
A itch strike has been made in the
Advance mine, in Siskiyou county, Cal.
In three days the owners of the claim
took out $28 900 with hand mortar.
The sporting men of the State are not
little exercised over the rumors that
the Legislature will move all gambling
to the upper floors of the different build
ings.
Judd, of White Pine, has introduced
bill providing for the taxation of tran
silent sheep in every county of the State,
in which they may be herded for any
length of time.
The Reno Meat Company has just
finished building new slaughter house
about one and one-half miles from Reno,
and furnished it with all the modern
improvements.
Forty years ago, this month, in the
Florence, Idaho, gold rush, butter
brought 80 per pound, cheese $50,
sugar $l25, -four 81, coffee 81. The gold
brought $12 per ounce.
The Slip mine, at Olinghouse, is ex-
tunnel is in $40 feet. There are sixty-five
men working in the mines at Olinghouse
and three mills running.
Senator Jackson, of Washoe, has in
troduced bill which makes the Assess
ors commission officers, The more prop
erty the Assessor can find to assess the
larger will be his salary.
John N. Mullins, the man who muir
dered William Eide on the Esd of last
October, near Vinton, Plumas county,
Cal, has been sentenced to life impris-
onment in San Quentin.
The United States Supreme Court has
inst rendered decision that in effect