Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-01

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| Tex Richard has had Billy Nolan, Bat
ting Nelson's manager, arrested at Gin
cinnad for alleged embezzlement of S.
600. The trouble grew out of the recent
| Cans Nelson fight at Goldfeld.
The various attorneys and District
Judges of the State are complaining of
overcowded court dockets, and will de-
mand that the next Legislature create at
least three new judicial districts.
Mayor Schmitz, the indicted Mayor of
San Francisco, and who has just return
ed from trip to Europe, was arrested
on train yesterday between Reno and
Truckee and taken on to the Bay city.
The Indian police of the Walker Lake
Reservation stopped train at Schurz
last week and searched it for brake
man, who is alleged to have assaulted a
squaw on the Reservation a few days
before.
On account of the high wages paid
clerks in banks and other business
houses in Tonopah and Goldfeld. the
Wells-Fargo Express Company has found
it difficult to keep an agent in any of
these towns.
During the cold wave at Goldfeld the
residents of the redlight precinct made a
raid on the tie-pile of the Goldheld rail-
road and got away with a considerable
portion of them. They are also accused
of taking telephone poles.
George c. Ross, a Colorado mining
man, was found frozen to death ten
miles west of Rhyolite last Sunday. He
left the town to go to the Gold Bar
mine, four miles distant He missed
the trail and travelled until overcome BY
the cold.
In pistol duel at Goldfeld last Friday
week, Tim Mccarthy, miner, was shot
and killed by Deputy Constable lack
Spaulding. The men had been drinking
together when Mccarthy became abusive,
and made gun play, wien Spaulding
shot him.
!, The Hickey Land and Cattle Company
has offered for sale all its vast holdings
in Antelope Valley, amounting to thous-
ands of acres. Mr.. Hickey stated that
several sales had already been made.
The land may be bought in either large
or small tracts.
The authorities in charge of the irriga-
ton canal work in Churchill county have
made a raise in the wages of their en-
ployes. Instead of paving S2.2S a day
as formerly, and requiring the men to
pay their board out of this sum, a fat
wage is now being paid of S175 per day
and board.
Two men got on train at Verdi last
Tuesday night and when the conductor
asked for their fare they pulled guns and
held him at bay until near Reno, then
ordering him to slow up the train, they
jumped of. Later in the evening they
were ARRESTED while in the act of gar
roting pedestrian.
of Moapa, Lincoln county has been ar
Indians there and will be taken to Car
son. The woman was arrested several
years ago on three such indictments and
coveted and sentenced to years i'm
prisonment. She created considerable
excitement at the time by fainting before
the various court officials.
When the calamity visited San Fran
cisco last April the citizens of Search
light subscribed something over a thou
sand dollars for the people of the ILL.,
fated city. Since then it appears that
the money has not been accounted for,
and the people of Searchlight have made
a demand for its return. They will do
nate it TO a church; that is, if Ruef and
Schmitz have not cabbaged it.
Of its own volition the United States
government has taken a hand in the
townsite troubles that have been hover
ing over Goldfeld for more than year
past. Uncle Sam says the squatters are
entitled to the land now in dispute be-
tween George Phoenix and scores of
others who settled on land claimed by
Phoenix. The decision reached by the
Interior Department affects 1900 lots
and improvements thereon, valued at
half million dollars.
Patsy Dwyer, the Manhattan gambler.
convicted of shooting to death A. c.
Williams, of Austin, some months ago,
has been sentenced to hang at the State
prison at Carson. January l9. DIVER, il
will be remembered, quarreled with an
other gambler, and later mistaking Viii
liams and companion named Dyer for
his enemies. opened FIRE, killing VIII
liams instantly, and seriously wounding
Dyer. An appeal will be made to the
Supreme Court for a new trial.
STATE OF OHIO, Cry OF ToLEpo,
LUCAS COUNTY. So
! Frank ]. Cheney makes oath that he is
senior partner of the firm of F. 7. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the City of To-
ledo, County and State aforesaid, and
that that said firm will pay the sum of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of Halls Catarrh Cure.
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