Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-07-01
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brated Mizpah mine, at Tonopah, Is
showing up ore that goes $500 to the
ton.
The big areno at Rena has been
completed and everything is in
readiness for the big fight between
Root and Hart on the sd next Mon
day.
Barber, who shot and killed Adam
Voor, in Carson Valley, couple of
months ago, has been declared in
sane and acquitted of the charge of
murder.
Report says that Malcolm McDon-
aid, one of the recent purchasers OF
the Montgomery-Shosh mine, at
Bullfrog, has refused 5000, 900 for
the property.
Steamboat Springs, near Reno,
were in eruption again last week
and the flow OF hot water has been
increased considerably by new fs-
sures opening up.
"A. Ia. Mauk, SIlOS ISpd1AeA III
Klko, has received warning to
leave the town. 1t is not signed and
the picture of coffin is a conspicu-
Gus part of the article. u
Prospectors returning from the
Funeral range say the thermometer
in Death Valley registers 40 above,
and that the atmosphere is like the
hot blast from furnace.
The 5o-mile relay race at Reno last
Sunday between the Reno Wheel
men Club and the New Century
Club, of San Francisco, was won by
the Reno team by nearly mile.
Toano, point on the S. P. from
which great amount OF freight is
shipped south to White Pine and
Lincoln counties, is to be abandoned
and all freight shipped from Wells
hereafter.
a.. The well being bored for artesian
water at the capitol grounds in Car
son, is now down over 200 feet. No
flowing water HAS yet been struck,
but there is fine supply of water
for pumping.
Convicts at work in the prison
quarry at Carson uncovered the
petrifed jawbone of a mastadon a
few days ago. Ii is believed that
further excavation will uncover the
entire skeleton.
The charge is now made against
Dan Regain, who is serving time for
killing his mother-in-law, that he
was the means of sending an 1nno-
cent man to prison in California on a
charge of rape,
The WesternsOre Purchasing Co.
has begun the erection of Soo-ton
plant three miles from Goldfeld
Junction and thirteen miles from
Tonopah. The plant will be COM
pleted in few weeks.
The Southern Pacific is looking
for a power site on the Truckee
River to supply its shops at
Sparks and also to furnish power to
run trains through the big tunnel to
be built through the Sierras. !
An unknown man jumped into the
Truckee River at Reno Monday
from the railroad bridge in an at
tempt to commit suicide. He was
fished out by couple of tramps and
went off cursing his benefactors.
A movement is said to be under
way for the purchase by the city of
Reno of the electric lighting plant
of the Washoei Power and Develop
ment Company, which recently was
built on the Truckee River west of
that town.
A woman named Phenix shot an
attorney named Hayes in Goldfield
Monday over an alteration about
lot. Hayes is shot through the groin
and may die. Mrs. Phenix has been
held in $1,000 hail To appear before
the grand jury on a charge of as
sault with intent tokill.
The eight-hour law case has been
occupying the atteation OF the SUI
preme Court in Carson this week, a
re-hearing having been granted ow-
ing to a recent decision of the Su
preme Court of the United States
which declared the eight-hour law
of New York State unconstitutional.