Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-10-07
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An ore chute seven feet wide in
thirty-foot wide vein, carrying an
average value of $500 per ton in
gold is reported from the Gold Crest
property, located halt way between
Brllfrog and Goldfeld, which makes
it one of the very richest properties
of that section.
Al. McNaughton was beaten and
robbed in Reno Sunday by a fellow
called Blinker. McNaughton lost
S23o and says he was doped. Vim.
Smith also says the same man rob
bed him OF $40. Both men came IN
from Churchill county and were
followed in by Blinker.
Jim Bryant has quit running the
stage on the route to Ash Meadows,
Pahrump and Manse, says the Beatty
Miner. He claims to have lost 81, 800
in four months and can't afford to
keep it up at his own expense.
Travel is insufficient to make the
stage pay on that route.
The Inyo Register reports fatal
accident at the Nevada Power House
at Bishop last week. Henry Osborne
fell from a scatfold onto the cement
floor IS feet below. His skull was
badly fractured and his shoulder
badly broken. He lived but a few
hours after the accident.
Someone set fire to the Times office,
Hotel D, the storage house OF Z. w.
Clark Forwarding Co. and a tent
house at Las Vegas last week Wed
nesday. The greatest damage was
to Clark's warehouse. A reward of
$500 is offered for information lead
ing to the conviction of the culprits.
The Bodie Miner-Index of last
week gives Masonic district much
space in it's columns, and evidently
the new district is conner. Devel-
opment work is being done on sew
eral claims, the most prominent of
which is the Jump-Up-Joe. Lorena
is the name of the town in Masonic
District.
The Tonopah Miner is authority
for the statement that the Tonopah
Mining Co. let contract last week
to the G. G. Moor Co., of San Fran
cisco, for the construction of 100
stamp mill. The mill will be oper-
ated by electric power, and have a
capacity of reducing 45o tons of ore
daily. The plant will be in opera
ton by next June.
Joseph Mulholland, night police
man at Las Vegas, was shot and
killed last Sunday night by VIM.
Mccarthy, better known as "Anheu-
ser Kid" The men had trouble early
in the evening and later on McCar-
thy entered a saloon where Mulhol-
land and some friends Were drink
ing and fired three bullets into Null
holland. The shooting created much
excitement and there was talk of
lynching. Mccarthy surrendered
to the Sheriff and is in Jail.
A party of French capitalists have
been in camp this week looking over
the distrist for the purpose of decid-
ing as to the feasibility of putting in
a large mill at this place. They Wis
tied the Oddie ranch and are sup
posed to have taken a ten days OPP
ton on the ranch and water rights
at a figure in the neighborhood of
$4,000. The gentlemen are inter
ested in mill at Columbia and have
other extensive interests in this
country.-Rhyolite Herald.
The office of District Attorney of
Esmeralda county has been declared
vacant, and three indictments have
been brought by the grand jury
against Justice of Peace Bell and
Constable Russell of Goldfeld.
There was a conspiracy between
District Attorney Davidson and the
Justice and Constable to levy tribute
upon the fallen women of Goldfeld,
and the trio secured many thou
sands of dollars in this way. They
will most likely spend some time in
Jail now.
A shooting scrape took place at
Cherry Greek last week. The shoot
ing was the outcome of drunken
row between two prospectors. Pete
Thomas shot and probably fatally
wounded Jack Harvey. The men
had been friends and meeting after
number Of years started to cele-
brate the event. After fist fight in
which Thomas was badly used up,
he secured rifle and sent bullet
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