Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-06-27
State News


Trout fishing is reported to be excel
lent at Bonner Lake.
The strike situation at Searchllght
remains about the same.
diamond drill is to be used at
Steamboat to bore for ore.
And now a petrified man has been
found on the shore of Mono Lake.
A Tuscarora case will test the new law
against carrying concealed weapons.
The farmers of Paradise Valley are
still kept busy fighting grasshoppers.
A test is being made of the lime reef
near White Plains, Churchill county.
Two carloads OF horses were shipped
from Winnemucca to San Francisco last
Monday.
The furnace at the soda works at
Keller is reported to be running on full
time again.
\ dog poisoner in Winnemucca killed
ten fine dogs owned by residents of that
town last week.
1t is stated that the Southern Pacific
Co has taken over the Tahoe railroad
built by the Blisses.
The mines at Eagleville, Churchill
county, have been sold to Eastern and
San Francisco parties for 10000.
C. C. Wells, a Tonopah restaurant
proprietor, skipped out recently leaving
creditors iii the lurch to the extent of
$500.
A baby elk was born at the home OF
Governor Sparks last week Wednesday.
This is said to be the first elk ever born
in Nevada.
\ dynamo and power plant is to be
installed on the grounds at Bowers
Mansion and the building lighted by
electricity
Drgnken Indians are creating disturb
ances in Reno daily and the police are
kept busy rounding the dusky brothers
and sisters up
Frank Brundage, a former police Off
the tenderloin, where he was living with
negro wench.
Ore is now being taken out of the
Alpine mine, near TOnopah, which
ASSAYS $1,000 per ton. The ore is being
shipped to Salt Lake.
The Inyo Independent reports deficit
of over 81, 600 in the accounts OF County
Treasurer, W. T. Bunney, who disap-
peared last February.
over 100000 pounds of wool were sold
at The Flanagan warehouse, in Reno,
last Saturday, at prices ranging from IA
to Is cents per pound.
The Reno city fathers have granted
the ~ c. & 0. railroad company fran
chise to run branch track from the
city to the fair grounds.
The Miners Union OF Tuscarora adj
vises men looking for employment to
give that camp a wide berth, as the
labor market there is overstocked.
The big ball game between Winnie
murca and Lovelock mines for 81 900 a
side is off, the Lovelock boys failing to
come to the scratch with the coin.
Drunken Indians around Sheridan are
causing the people of that burg much
trouble. They seem to be able to obtain
the red water whenever they desire
Oregon cattle thieves have swooped
down ON Paradise Valley, getting away
with considerable stock. Rewards have
been offered for the arrest of the thieves.
A railroad, probably broad-gauge, is to
be built from the boraX works in Death
Valley to Ivanpah. The Calico property
OF this company will probably be aban-
doned.
The two-year-old son of Ida Matthews,
a fallen woman Of Reno, has been taken
away from her by the authorities, and
will be sent to an Oakland home for
foundlings.
The Sheriff OF Lincoln county fought
a long range duel with drunken Indian
last week. The Indian was finally cap
tured. He had three bullet wounds, but
will recover.
Frank Campbell fell from an 5. p.
train near Anthony last Thursday and
was killed. His remains were horribly
mutilated, the body being almost cut in
two at the waist.
Experts found that warrants aggre-