Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-09-02
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A carload of Idaho lambs recently
sold in st. Joe, Mo, for S6S5 per
head.
The telegraph line between Hazen
and Fort Churchill has been COM
pleted.
Car robbers are again getting busy
on the S. P. between Reno and Win
nemucca.
Robert Elliot committed suicide at
Tonopah Thursday afternoon by
taking strychnine.
The Columbia sampler has run
through over 100000 worth OF ore
in the last two weeks.
H. B. Maxon, of Reno, has again
been chosen Secretary of the Ma
tional Irrigation Congress.
An Ogden broker was buncoed
out of $40 few days ago in Reno
by the old coin matching trick.
w. A. Cain, foreman at the Stand
ard mill, at Bodie, stepped into the
flywheel last week Thursday and
was instantly killed
There are approximately 800 men
at work underground in the Tono-
pah mines. This is exclusive of
men in the surface works.
Sheepmen of Idaho, Utah and
Nevada are contracting future wool
clips for 20 cents per pound, and
in some cases more than that.
Mrs. Welch, who was taken to the
Insane Asylum from Goldield last
week, and who escaped from that
institution, has not been found.
A "Peeping Tom" was discovered
in an clubhouse by woman of Glen
dale a few days ago, and was or
dered out of the community by the
officers.
Last Friday tramp took a shot
at conductor of a freight train
Just after it arrived at Elko. The
shot missed its mark and the tramp
escaped.
A new dining hall is to be erected
Immediately at the State Univer-
sity, bids for the work being opened
last week and the contract awarded
at $5,625.
A Eureka woman of the tender
loin. named Rose Carlett, was beaten
almost to death one night last week
by fellow named McNichols, of
Hamilton.
The San Francisco business mems
visit to Tonopah and Goldfeld has
been postponed until the 18th of this
month, by which time the road into
Goldfeld will be completed.
The failure of Nevada to make
any exhibit of the States mineral
resources at the Portland Exposi-
ton has been the subject of consid-
cradle untavorable comment.
H. H. Becker, of Tonopah, offers
reward of $500 for the arrest and
conviction of the party or parties
who poisoned valuable dog in his
charge owned by ]. Kitchens.
The Government has disbursed in
the canal zone, extending from Der
by to Fallon, Churchill county, dur
ing the last year and half, over
two million dollars for all purposes.
The new State we'll at Carson is
now down distance OF $50 feet, but
a flow of water which will come to
the surface has not been encoun-
tered. Kight-inch casing is now be-
ing used.
The automobile lost the race be-
tween Carson and Sacramento with
the S. P. train, An accident occurred
to the machine SO miles this side of
Sacramento, or the tale would be
different
All the power, light and water
companies OF Reno have been con-
solidated in one big company incor-
porated tor 100000. The Flei-
shackers, of San Francisco, are said
to be at the head of the new concern.
Report says that it has been dis
covered that no patent was ever OBJ
tanned for one of the best mines at
Silver Peak, upon which lots of
work has been done, and that the
property has been relocated by S. A.
Knapp and others.