Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-11-10
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money order advices.
Two aged negroes, living at Bay City,
Michigan, are the owners of s, 500 shares
of Mohawk stock, which their son pur-
chased for them for a song They have
sold out and realized S125, 900
The Star Smelling & Refining Com
pany, of San Francisco, are preparing to
enter the Nevada field for anthony.
They now have an expert travelling in
the State gathering in good propositions.
The two Indians, convicted of murder
ing white man i'll Elko county year
ago, and who appealed their case to the
Nevada Supreme Court and lost, have
been sentenced to be hanged at the State
Prison December 7.
Inspector Babson of the United States
Department of Agriculture, has been de-
posed from his position as Livestock In
spector of Elko county. The trouble
grew out of Babson's report that sheep
leaving the State should be dipped first.
Judge Ross, of the Federal Court of
San Francisco, has issued an injunction
against both the Goldfeld- Mohawk Min
ing Company and the Combination Mines
Company, preventing either of the cor
porations from working the ground in
dispute.
Editor Garrison, of the Phoebe Record,
has been bound over to the grand jury
on charge of criminal libel. The case
arose from an article that Garrison pub
, lished about DR.. Murray of that place.
The case will come up at the December
term of the District Court at Phoebe.
Crazed with jealousy over the loss of
his wife's affections, Charles Kuchs, a
former theatrical manager of Oakland,
California, last Tuesday night, at Reno,
shot and killed Ed Terrell, gambler,
Terrell put three bullets into Kuchs, but
they are only superficial wounds.
Jack Hobbs, of Goldfeld, last Friday
week, had $500 volts of electricity pass
through his body without fatal result.
Hobbs was fixing transformer when he
came in contact with live wire. After
receiving the shock he fell a distance of
fifteen feet. Two fingers of his right
hand were burned off and he will be a
cripple for life.
A cold blooded murder was committed
at Keller last Monday morning. The
victim was young man named Miller,
known as Shorty" a saloonkeeper
The shooting was done by William Lewis,
a miner The men had been gambling
and had some difference, which, appar-
emily, had been amicably settled. A few
hours later the men met, when the quar-
belly and groin, dying shortly after.
! A double-header extra train on the
Nevada and California half mile from
Laws, a small station between Nina and
Keller, was wrecked Saturday, result
ing in the death of Engineer Walsh, a
son of Conductor Moody, and the severe
injuring of Engineer Spencer, Brakeman
McCarty and one fireman. The other
persons on the train escaped injury by
jumping. One of the engines was COM
pletely demolished and the other badly
crippled.
AS result of a quarrel over a letter, a
Chinaman, whose name is unknown,
was shot last Wednesday at Silver Peak,
and probably fatally wounded. The
Chinaman was employed as cook in
one of the eating houses at Blair. A
man named McCune entered the kitchen
and an argument over the possession of
a letter ensued. McCune became angry
at the Chinaman and shot him in the
back, the bullet penetrating the kidneys.
Mcclure was arrested and chained to a
tree for safekeeping until an officer ar
rived from Hawthorne to take him into
custody.
Sherman Parker, Goldfeld assayer,
and James Smith employed i'll the assay
office, engaged in street duel at Gold
field last Friday week, which resulted in
Parker receiving a load of buckshot
from which he later died. The two men
had trouble, disputing over financial af-
fairs and during the argument Parker
accused Smith of stealing $500 worth of
high grade ore. Revolvers were then
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