Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-01-17
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Tonopah has organized temple
of Rathbone Sisters.
The Ophir mine and mill, at State
line, ceased operations last week.
The Reno Journal is now taking
a portion of the daily press dis
patches.
: Thomas Groton had his leg broken
in teaming accident at Tonopah
a Jast Sunday.
Chas. L. Hays, of Bridgeport, has
shown up some excellent values in
his claim in Antelope Valley.
BE- Fifteen men are now at work on
the Vulcan Copper Cos. mines near
Luning, in Esmeralda county.
The money transactions of the
Tonopah postoffice for the last month
of 1902 aggregated over $II,ooo.
A townsite has been laid out at
Silver Peak and several hundred
lots have already been staked off.
Smallpox has again broken out in
Plumas county, case IS reported
between Beckwith and Clairville.
Washoe county onion growers are
letting their crop go at $40 per ton.
Last year they got double that price.
Geo. w. Randall is now proprietor
of the Temple saloon, in Bodie, for
merly conducted by Jack Kitchens.
Carson City business men have
subscribed money so literally that
the proposed inaugural ball is now
assured.
An addition to the State Library
is now required as there is a lack of
room for the $1,000 volumes it now
contains.
The first carload of pipe for the
Twin River water project, which is
to supply Tonopah, has arrived on
the ground.
Orlando K. Jones, formerly news
paper man of Bodie, is seriously ill
at his home in Oak Park, a suburb
of Sacramento.
The State Prison Board will meet
on the 23d inst, and it is likely some
action will be taken on the Warden
ship on that date.
A group of nearly twenty mines
in Kennedy district, Humboldt coun-
ty, has been purchased by Phila-
delphian for 100000.
The Carson Appeal is authority
for the statement that fthe State tax
rate for this year will be reduced to
6oc. on the SIoo valuation.
Will Whitesides, Jack Kitchens
and Oscar King are now conducting
the roulette wheel and faro game in
the Nucleus hotel, Hawthorne.
Alex. Whitman, who was shot a
few weeks ago by May Howard, at
Tonopah, has so far recovered as to
be able to leave for San Francisco.
Pneumonia is raging in Reno at an
alarming rate. The disease has
claimed many victims already and
there are still many cases about the
town.
Frank Kenney, the negro who
killed Will Lamb at Truckee some
weeks ago, was arrigned on charge
of murder in Grass Valley last
Wednesday.
Mrs. c. NJ. Peterson became vio-
lently insane at Ely, White Pine
county, last week, on account of her
self and children being in state of
semi-starvation.
The Bull Run mine and mill, i'll
Klko county has been sold to east
ern parties for $4,000, and $4,000
has been paid down. The property
contains ten stamp mill.
After some correspondence and in
vestigation it is now settled that
Mrs. Frank LIE Grande, OF Truckee,
has fallen heir to one-fifth share in
an estate worth $25,ooo,ooo.
The work at present being pushed
ON the Mendha mine, in Lincoln
county, by Superintendent Tom
Osborne, shows regular bonanza.
The ledge of ore averages $50 in
gold.
j. K. Harper, the popular travel
ing man, who has been with Baker
x Hamilton, of Sacramento, for the
past ten years, severed his connect