Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-01-31
State News
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

5. Senator from COLORADO.
Alex. Harris, q well known Carson
barber, committed suicide in Oakland
few days ago.
w. w. Booth, editor, has been APP
pointed postmaster at Tonopah. good
appointment.
Bad water and an imperfect sewerage
system is said to be the cause of so much
sickness in Reno.
The Reno public schools have been
opened again, the diphtheria scare hav-
ing somewhat abated.
Jerry Connolly, who robbed Andy
Todd's saloon in Carson, recently, has
been sent up for one year.
There are four feet of snow in Sierra
Valley and the N. G. o. railroad is
blockaded in consequence.
Ex-Constable, CHARLES Leeper, of
Reno, mas accepted a position on the
detective force in San Francisco.
Electric power is to be substituted for
steam in operating the DeLamar mine
and mill plants in Lincoln county.
w. ]. Harris has resigned his position
as cashier of the Tonopah bank to look
after his own interests in that camp.
Roland Roy, OF Carson, is down with
smallpox, and his home is under quar-
antine He contracted the disease in
Reno.
Ex-Governor Sadler in his last mes
sage suggests that the State rate Of taxa
ton be reduced to 50 cts. on each 800
valuation.
The Tombstone Consolidated Mines
Company is expanding about $500, 600
in reopening and equipping the famous
old mines.
Charlie Epstein, of Carson, has been
assigned to duty as a mail clerk on the
C. & G. railroad, making six clerks now
ON the road
Frank Dudly, teamster, had his foot
run over by heavy wagon near Carson
the other day, and the foot may have to
be amputated.
1t is reported that the Bodle paper
has been purchased by Warren Keith
who will improve the sheet and conduct
it in the future.
J. w. James, of Sodaville, and Miss
Maud H. Gibson, of Carson, were mar
"Wednesday,
ing of last week
In the Cutting 4 Griffin property, at
Lone Mountain, AZ foot ledge shows
ore assaying 1876 ounces in silver and $l4
in gold per ton.
An Indian named California Bill fell
into shaft at Tonopah one day last
week and his remains were not found
until several days after.
The Douglas county flour mill will
probably be moved to Carson when the
Trnckee River Electric Power Company
gets its line into Carson.
George Cole, who was shot in the back
of the head in the recent hold-up in the
Butler saloon, at Tonopah, has almost
Iully recovered from his injury.
Cactus Lodge No. %, A. o. U. W.,
was organized at Searchlight, Lincoln
county, last week, with So members,
and quite number more applicants.
The Legislature will be asked to es
tablish State Industrial School for the
confinement of hayward boys and girls
the State prison.
Alfonzo A. Evans died in Reno last
Saturday from pneumonia. He was a
veteran of the civil war, and was with
Sherman in his famous march from
Atlanta to the sea.
The Ely Miners Union has secured
the services of a prominent Denver law
yer to look after its interests before the
grand jury now investigating the recent
trouble at that place.
Work has been suspended on the Elk s
new building in Reno for at least three
months in order to allow the Reno Brick
Co. to get in working order, which will
be about the first OF April.
Deer, driven % the lowlands by want
of water, have been seen along the
Humboldt River endeavoring to quench
their thirst This is a sure sign of a
scarcity of snow in the mountains.
The case of the Salk Lake va Tonlnah