Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-04-25
State News

DuHy CydlIuC plelht
Ranch hands are scarce in Humboldt
county at $35 and $40 per month
The Pittsburg & Montana Copper Go.
will erect a million dollar smelter at
Butte
Surveyors are at work at Beckwith
Pass on the new line of the Western
Pacific.
The flow of Reese River will reach the
Humboldt this year for the first time
since 1890.
The Wadsworth Dispatch has es-
tablished carrier pigeon service with
Olinghouse canyon.
There will be no money in the Storey
county treasury to pay salaries and cur
rent expenses until June LIST.
The remains of the late Flo Layton
have been disinterred in Reno and sent
to San Francisco for incarceration.
John O. Brooks was drowned in the
Humboldt river last Friday and so far
no trace of the body has been found.
Mrs Mary S. Doten has resigned her
position as Vice-Principal of the Reno
public schools on account of ill health.
The $15, 900 donated by Andrew Car
negie for library in Reno is now at the
disposal of the Board OF Library Trustees
1t is understood that the new -four
mill to be erected in Carson City will be
built short distance from the freight
depot.
Edwin S. Archer, a prominent resi-
dent of Winnemucca for many years,
died at Kennedy last Saturday, of pneu-
monia.
Senator Hardin OF Humboldt county
has been admitted to practice before the
United States Circuit and District
Courts.
At Mono Lake, Mono county, Cal, the
Illinois claim is showing up ledge of
$l5 rock The new tunnel is now in
500 feet.
A splendid flow of artesian water was
struck on the Marquart ranch, near
Genoa, last week The flow per minute
is IS gallons.
A prisoner in the Elko county jail
came near destroying the court house
the other day by setting fire to the mat
trass in his cell.
Another rich strike has been made in
Tonopah, this time in the Desert Queen
mine, one of the company's mines To-
Gated east of the Mizpah.
w. II. Osborne, of Bodie, had his hand
so severely crushed in a rock-breaker
one day last week that it was necessary
to amputate it at the wrist.
Mrs. link was fined 81 and costs last
week for raising a rumpus in the Tono-
pah public school because her refractory
son received deserved thrashing.
Phillips and Butts, accused of robbing
the Reno office of the c. P. Co., have
been indicted by the grand jury, and
their trial is expected to speedily take
place.
The $50, 900 of bonds, which are to be
issued by Reno school district, were
awarded to the Washoe County Bank.
The bank paid premium of $3.50 for the
bonds.
Last Sunday the little three-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dresso, who
live on the Pat Mccall ranch west of
Elko, fell into slough near the house
and was drowned.
Robert Hamill was thrown from a
horse into a wire fence the other day at
Benton, and received some severe cuts
on the hands and arms. He is in Bishop
for medical treatment.
A damage suit for $24, 1000 was settled
in Carson a few days ago in Is minutes.
The jury was secured and the decision
rendered within that time. This is the
shortest case on record
The best evidence of the attention
Reno is claiming from all over is the
fact that all of the hotels of the town are
crowded nightly and it is with difficulty
stranger finds a room-or even bed.
Papers have been filed in Reno in the
case of Hattie Lake VS.. Chas. Lake, in
which the plaintiff has sued for divorce
ON the grounds OF cruelty,'namely stay
ing out late at nights, and failure to pro-
vide.
The plans for the new yard of the
Snntha Pacific Comnanv east of Rann