Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-11-24

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county could not rent building in Gold
field for voting booth and had suit
able building put up in the middle of
the main street.
/ A costly wreck occurred at Nina last
Tuesday morning on the branch of the
S. P, freight train jumping the track
and the cars piling up in a bad mess. No
one was injured.
Robert Gordon was shot and killed
last Friday week by John Burnell. The
tragedy was the outcome over the pos
session of fair Tonopah charmer Both
men are negroes.
William Whalen, the Nevada mine
wildcatter recently convicted of peddling
worthless stock at Sacramento, has been
handed out sentence of ten years in
San Quentin, Cal.
DIR. J.. E. Stubs, president of the
University of Nevada, has notified the
board of regents that he has received
promise of an endowment of $3.50, 900 for
the new university.
County Clerk Charles Bevis, of Nye
county, who was reelected at the recent
election, will not take the Office on Janu-
airy l, having decided to devote his time
to private business.
F. c. Everett, the man who killed Ma
lone at Nina last Spring, and whose peo-
pie have been trying to get him out of
the penitentiary on plea of insanity,
has been declared sane.
The stockmen of this section of the
State have met with the stock raisers of
California, Nov 10Th to oath, at Nevada
City to arrange for the grazing on the
Tahoe and Yuba reserves.
Jack Allison, former Elko county
resident, but recently saloon keeper at
Boise, Idaho, was shot and instantly
killed at that place last week by an Off
Ger while resisting arrest.
Attorney General Moody has instruct
ed United States District Attorney Plat
to thoroughly investigate the charges
that the eight-hour law on work being
prosecuted by the government is being
violated.
G. w. Rouse, postmaster at Lane City,
Eureka county, skipped out with 81 900
belonging to the Williams Meat Co. last
Tuesday, but was later captured at Co.
bre. The funds of the postoffice were
found intact.
There is no coal in either Tonopah or
Goldfeld. Wood is selling at $40 and
SIS per cord, and if there comes a cold
wave, succeeding the present warm
weather, hundreds of families in Gold
field will suffer.
A fire at Goldfield last Saturday in the
Goldfeld Hotel caused the death of
three persons and the total destruction
of several other buildings. For time
it seemed as though the whole town
would be wiped out.
The Secretary of the Interior will soon
bring suit against the Southern Pacific
for the recovery of 49, 900 acres of min
eral land in the White Horse mining dis
trict, Washoe county, said to be illegally
held by that company.
The Sheriff of Elko county and his
deputy last Monday brought to Carson
and placed in the penitentiary bunch
of eight prisoners. 1t was the result of
general cleanup. Their sentences
range from one to two years.
Two other counties in Nevada, besides
Lincoln, are discussing the question of
changes in their status. Some of the
citizens of Nye want a division, and Es-
meralda will ask change in the county
seat from Hawthorne to Goldfeld.
The round house at Winnemucca was
completely destroyed by fire at an early
hour last Monday morning. At one
time the fire threatened to burn the en-
tire town. This will probably hasten
the removal of the division to INLAY.
Last Monday morning gas heater in
one of the coaches on a westbound pas
senger exploded at Lovelock. Mrs. ID.
+. Parker, passenger, jumped through
a window and was so badly cut by the
broken glass that she was taken to Reno
and placed in hospital.
David H. Casey, a Goldfeld miner,
was killed in the shaft on the Rose-Mo-
hawk lease last Wednesday while de-
scending in the bucket. He had de-
scended half way to the bottom when
the bucket parted from the rope and fell
to the bottom, killing Casey instantly.
A. kirkpatrick and Walter Abels, two
Sparks men, were placed under arrest by
Marshal Maley, of Sparks, on charge of
completely in the recent robbery of the
Sparks postoffice The police also assert
that the men are implicated in the re-
cent robbery at Goldfield of the min err S
union.
The Southern Pacific and the Oregon
Short Line are short of firemen. Men
to go on both freight and passenger en-
gines are badly needed. The regular
men are complaining of overwork but
are unable to obtain relief while the
present heavy traffic and shortage of
men prevail.
| Jerry O'Donnell, miner, who was en-
gagged in working on a claim in the