Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-09-23

Items Of Interest clipped
from Exchanges and Con.
densed for Quick PeruSaI.


I The new district of North Canyon,
about eight miles from Ha wthorne,
is showing up some good strikes.
AL Wilde has claim there with
! six-toot ledge OF ore that goes up IN
| the hundreds Calvert, Box, Cru
Der and a number OF other railroad
boys also have some promising
claims.
H. A Waldo, Commissioner of
Chancery, was in Reno this week
taking testimony in the suit OF the
State OF Nevada VS.. Floriston Paper
Company. So far the testimony has
proven the fact irrefutably that the
acid and refuse from the mill Is kill
ing the fish and vegetation below
the mill.
While crossing the Y. & T. track
near Washoe City last Saturday
]. ]. Cooper was struck by the
| southbound passenger train and 50
| badly injured thot he died. The
cart in which he was riding was
smashed into kindling wood and the
horse was thrown so feet and in
stantly killed.
The International Power Co., a
Nevada corporation, organized by
Salt Lake people, have incorporated
with capital OF sI,5oo,ooo, it's pur-
pose being the construction and op
GRAFTON OF electric power and light
plants, electric railways, telephone
and telegraph lines. Elko, New, is
the principal location OF the com
pany's proposed activities.
The contractor who has been work
ing a large force of men on the gov
eminent dam at Lake Tahoe has
discharged his men, stored his
dredger and other machinery and
quit work for the winter. 1t Is be-
lieved that he is acting under orders
from the interior department on ac-
count of the litigation over the
head waters of the Truckee.
| lie III u MA LCN Ills OI n " Ollldll
were found by A Bass. a prospector,
near Tonopah one day last week.
The legs, arms and head had been
sawed off. The remains were in a
| badly decomposed condition. 1t
TRANSFERRED later that the corpse was
one which had been operated on bv
medical men. No murder was com
mitted, the authorities contend.
The Bodie Miner-Index is much
improved OF late geographically,
and contains some live news. 1t
promises soon to become an all home
print sheet. The last issue reports
some good mining news in that sec
ton, and there are indica tons that
the old camps of Bodie and Aurora
will come to the front again as bull
lion producers in the very near
future.
A young woman named Hazel
Deane, who supposed her mother
dead years ago, found her in dance
hall in Goldfield one night last week.
The younger woman was masquer-
aiding in male attire. After the rec
ognItion she tried to get her mother
to leave the life she was leading, but
the elder woman said it was too late
and mother and daughter parted for
the timebeing.
Mrs. Fermina Sarrias has entered
suit to have the sale of her Esmer-
aida county mines to Henry F. Quint
of Boston set aside. She claims that
Ouint negotiated the sale by means
of fraudulent representations, and
that unless the deeds and contracts,
held in escrow by the Merchants
National Bank of Reno. are set aside
that she will be detrauded out Of a
valuable property.
After being pigeon-holed in the
wrong department of the U. S. Land
Office for thirty-fve years, patent
from the government office issued tc
G. II. Light and A. II. Emanuel for
the Badger Hill mining property IN
Churchill county, was received by
H. b. Maxson last week. The old
age-worn document bore the sigma
ture of U. S. Grant, then President
Of the United States.
Last week "Wednesday two motor
cars, bought on trial by the Tonopaf
railroad from Fairbanks, Morse 8
Co., arrived and We're tested. A
speed of thirty miles an hour was
attained on the stiff grrde into To
nopah, and the sho owing made by the
cars was entirely Satisfactory. The
machines are 10 h. p. and each will
hold twelve passengers. 1t * the
intention of the railroad to run