Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-07-15
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The boom at Sparks seems to De on
the wane. Several business men
have gone through insolvency others
have been closed out and one or two
have gone out of business of their
own accord.
Jim Sabin and Tony Christie, two
Sparks toughs, have been held to ap-
pear before the Washoe county
grand jury on charge of robbery.
They stood up ex-Sheriff Hays and
some other men in saloon in Reno
one night last week.
The Santa Fe sent a special train
over its road from Los Angeles to
Chicago in a hours and 54 minutes.
1t carried Walter Scott, a cowboy
prospector who has discovered a
rich mine in Death Valley and has
more money than sense.
The townsite of Hazen is being
moved quarter of a mile from its
former loca ton, owing to the bull
headedness of one man, who would
not deal fairly with the railroad COM
pany Town lots in the site are
selling from $500 to $4,000.
The borers of the artesian well in
Carson have dropped number of
tools and the big drill into the well
and are having hard time fishing
the articles out. The well is now
down about z22 feet and the water
stands within ten feet of the sur.
face.
Mrs. Farvoid, of Reno, went on
spree the other night and in the
morning woke up to find her a.
months-old baby dead in bed with
her. She was arrested, but as no
evidence could be produced that she
killed the child she was released
from custody.
An old prospector, named Huff,
was brought into Bodie the other
day nearly persisted from hardships
in the snow in the Tioga section.
Huff and his pack animals had be-
come separated, and he was COMPEL
ed to kill and eat his dog. With
care the old man will recover.
The Age says forty men and fifty
horses are now at work on the
grade for the Borax Smith road be-
tween Las Vegas and Ash Meadows.
Work is not progressing as rapidly
as wished for owing to the contract
ors not being able to get men and
teams during the hot weather.
Margery Stuart, young actress,
died last week in Goldfied as a result
of the criminal carelessness of two
unknown doctors, who caused her
death by administering chloroform.
They were unable to bring her out
of the stupor, and disappeared as
soon as her friends broke into the
room where the body was.
1t is reported that Judge Hawley,
United States District Judge for
Nevada, will retire from the bench
in the near future. Age is creeping
upon the eminent jurist and he is
talking seriously of laying aside the
ermine. If he does, Hon. z. S. Far
rington, the distinguished lawyer of
Klko, will be his logical successor.
Morris Isaac, a rancher living
near Cortez, Eureka county, shot
and killed an Indian, named Joe
last week for clipping
with I4-year-old Kdna Isaac. The
Indian had been arrested at an
Indian camp at Roberts Creek.
Isaac gave himself up, was taken
to Eureka, and is now out on bonds
to await the action of the grand
jury.
A man named Chas Parks has
just been released from San Quen-
tin prison, after spending FIVE years
of his life there charged with rape.
The girl who made the charge now
declares she committed perjury, and
Dan Regain, now in the State prison
at Carson for killing his mother-in-
law at Sparks, has made a confes-
sion that he was the guilty party,
and was instrumental in sending
Parks to San Quentin. Parks
young wife secured a divorce from
him when he was convicted and he
is now broken and desponde