Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-08-19
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Cal, on the 9th of next month. The
fight will be limited to so rounds and
will be for $4,000 purse, winner
take all, and $4,000 side bet.
| Mrs. Marion Bryant, whose hus-
band was killed in railway ac-
cident on the Los Angeles, Salt Lake
and San Pedro road some months
ago, has sued the company tor $4,000
damages. This is the first suit of
this kind the new company has had.
The Piute and Washoe tribes of
this State have patched up their
differences of a hundred years
standing, buried the Ratchet, and the
first of the week held big peace
dance at Sparks where in the neigh
borhood OF a thousand Indians were
present.
While prospecting in the hills
west of Rye Pacth, in Humboldt
county, last week, a party of pros
pectors discovered small volcano.
Smoke and steam were issuing from
the mouth OF the crater, and the
rocks and earth near by are so hot
they cannot be touched.
The Southern Pacific Co. lays
claim to all the mining ground in
O1inghous and White Horse dis
tricts and will try to drive the min
ers who have located rich claims in
these districts off the ground. The
mine owners are going to fight to
the best of their ability to hold their
claims.
The Tonopah Sun says the Utah
smelters have increased the price of
smelling ores from the southern
Nevada mines 50 per ton without
any warning to the mine owners.
This action may lead to the con-
| struction of independent reduction
works in the southern Nevada
country.
On Wednesday of last week the
biggest flood that was ever known
in Panaca reached there from the
country north east of town, and it
did considerable damage. washing
away fences, destroying a number
of gardens and covering the floors
of dwelling houses with mud
| Phoebe Record
The two-year-old daughter of Ben
iamin Raggio and wife, who reside
near Reno, drank quantity of gas
cline Sunday from a saucer, and
was dead inside of an hour. The
gasoline was being used by Mrs.
Raggio to clean some clothing, and
the child swallowed the stuff while
it's mother was not looking.
The government is pitted against
the American Paper Trust in a fight
for the use of the waters of Lake
| Tahoe and the Truckee River. The
government won the first skirmish
last week when the California courts
modified the restraining order so as to
| olApN tAAS S,ONSA W within 1AN
work on the Lake Tahoe dam.
According to the Goldfeld Review
big do1ngs are to take place in the
old Tule Canyon district. A bred
ing company is to work the placer
ground, which it is said will go so
cents to the cubic yard, water is be-
ing brought into the town, and the
streets piped, and other improve
ments and enterprises are projected
A Goldfeld dispatch says Judge
Berthume, of California, has probab-
ly persisted on the desert in Death
Valley. Three of his burros have
been found loaded with food and
water, but no trace of the man can
be found. 1t is feared that he has
become lost in the hills and persisted,
or possibly been murdered for what
little money he had on him.
The assessment of the Salt Lake
railroad in Lincoln county for the
year 1905 is az follows: Real estate
and improvements, SI,o65,635; per
sonal property, $II2,7oo; total, Sits
335. This is at the rate of less than
$4,000 per mile on the main line,
81, 900 less than the valuation made
by the State Board of Assessors last
year, before the road was complet-
ed.-Las Vegas Age.
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