Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-08-26
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A gasoline motor car Is soon to be
put into commission on the Eureka
4 Palisade railroad.
Klko is said to be infested with a
tough lot OF hobos and holdups are
of nightly occurrence.
A negro beat chinese woman
nearly to death in Elko few days
ago. He is in Jail for 40 days.
Indians are dying at Fallon from
the Disease prevalent at that place,
and many are hiking for the hills.
Senator Geo. K. Nixon says that
the Tonopah railway will be extend
ed on through to Bullfrog in short
time.
1t is reported that negotiations are
being made for the purchase of the
Va T. railroad by Western Pacific
people.
The hay crop on the Miller Il Lux
ranch at Quinn River has been put
up and is only halt crop this
season.
A fraud order has been issued
against the Grand Oil Company and
H. Pennington, president, of Reno,
Nevada.
Several hundred Nevada Indians
have been engaged to harvest the
hop crop in the Sacramento Valley
in California.
Somebody bored holes into a slot
machine in Hawthorne last week
and robbed the continuance of $50
worth of nickels.
1t has been decided to build the
new State library on the Capitol
grounds in Carson, in the rear of the
Supreme Court rooms.
Government engineers are to be
placed in the Humboldt River Valley
next month to run surveys tor an ir-
rigation reclamation system.
What is said to be good quality
of coal has been discovered near
Eureka, this State. The ledge is
four feet wide on the surface.
1t is understood everything is now
in readiness to award contracts tor
the construction of laterals aggre-
eating 100 miles in length in Church
ill county.
The last payment of $1,000 on the
Big Indian mines, near Hawthorne,
has been made and development
work will be commenced on an ex-
tensive scale.
A sawmill is being operated in
Sheep Mountains, forty miles west
of Moapa, Lincoln county, and some
of the pine timber being cut is from
two or three feet in diameter.
Curley Williams, who was shot
in the forehead by a young woman
of Reno last week, may now have
to answer to Uncle Sam tor sending
abscene letters through the mails.
A hobo at Reno won $500 shooting
crops at game few days ago from
a quarter he had bummed to eat on.
He stuffed the whole wad off inside
of a few hours at other gambling
games.
A. Carter, a Reno bicyclist, has
issued challenge to ride against
any amateur in the world from a
distance of one-quarter of a mile to
ten miles for any suitable mer
chandise prize.
Chas. ID. Lane, the millionaire min
ing man, formerly of Nevada, has
lost his eyesight, and is being
brought to San Francisco from
Alaska, where he has been operat.
ing valuable mines.
I. ]. Brice, mining expert, arriv'
ed from Denver, Col, the first of the
week and spent Monday and Tues
day examining the Snow bound zinc
mines near Alpha, Eureka county,
tor eastern people.-Sentinel.
Letson Ballet, who has been ac.
cused by the Postal Department OH
many occasions of using the mails
for fraudulent purposes, is said to be
at Tonopah, where he is launching
another get-rich-quick swindle.
Peter Heidtman, a Douglas count y
rancher who defed the government
authorities by using more water