Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-10-14

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I A drunken Jap in the employ of
the railroad company at Cal1ente
attempted to carve another Jap with
razor few nights ago, says the
Express, but was arrested before he
did any damage and was let off with
light fine.
The property of the Chairman
Mining Company, of Ely, White
Pine Co., has been sold by U. S. Mar
shall Grimmon to satisfy a judgment
of $4,000. The property was bid in
by the Salt Lake Hardware Co. for
$4,000. The mill alone cost over
SI5o,ooo.
Henry G. Cutting, graduate of
the State University, and who has
made fortune in Nevada mines, has
headed a $4,000 subscription list
with cash donation of $1,000 to be
used in the erection of library
building upon the University
grounds.
The Commissioners of Washoe
county have passed resolution
changing the open season for fishing
in the Truckee river in Washoe
county from June Ist to the first OF
each and every other year, instead
of from April 18th to October 18th of
each year.
T. F. Quinn, mining man of Gold
field, was held up and beaten and
robbed by thugs at Hazen Monday
night. Quinn put up hard tight
and saved $4,000 in money and lot
of diamonds he wore in a belt about
his body. The thieves have not yet
been arrested.
1t is reported that a scheme is on
foot to colonize a large tract OF land
in Pahrump Valley i'll the southern
part of Nye and Lincoln counties.
Twenty or thirty families will ar
rive in that section within month.
The railroad from Las Vegas to
Bullfrog will pass through this sec
ton.
Charles I. Payton arrived in Reno
Saturday last from Sonora, CAL, re-
porting that he was looking for his
wife and daughter whom he claimed
had LETT him, taking $500 of his
money with them. He found Mrs.
Payton that night and the two have
apparently made up their trouble,
says the Journal.
Engineer Taylor says that work
is progressing satisfactorily in
Churchill county and that next
Spring $4,000 acres of land, in addi-
ton to the land now under irriga-
ton, will be supplied with water
by the government. OF this land
10000 acres is public domain and the
remainder is held by private parties.
Peter F. Gilroy, State Organizer
for the Woodmen of the World, ar
rived in Reno Friday of last week
from San Francisco and will i'm
mediately start crusade for new
members and assist the local lodges
in strengthening their organiza-
tons. The Woodmen of the World
now have lodges at Carson, Yering-
ton and Reno.
The town of Toano is no more.
Everything movable in the former
shipping point has been transferred
mile and half east to the junction
of the Nevada Northern with the
Southern Pacific. There is not even
a freight house or telegraph Office
there now, and the water tanks and
railroad switches will be moved. No
freight is allowed to be billed there
except such as is to be used in con-
structing the new road, the switches
at Omar, the junction point, not be-
ing completed yet.
G. O. Whittemore arrived in Las
Vegas last Monday, ending trip
from Goldfeld via. Beatty over the
route of the proposed new railroad
announced by the Salt Lake inter.
ests. He is emphatic III his state
ments that the road from Las Vegas
to Tonopah will be built, and assur-
ed number of Las Vegas people
that construction would begin at an
early date. In Beatty Mr.. White
more made the statement that trains
would be running to that point in
six ths.-Age.