Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08

that taxpayers are unusually slow this
year in paying taxes.
A human head was found in a carload
of prunes that was wrecked at Montello,
Elko county last month.
1t is claimed that when finished, the
Western Pacific route will be $50 miles
shorter than the S. P. line.
California horse buyers have been in
Antelope Valley this week getting ami
mails for the San Francisco market.
L. L. Richard, familiarly known as
Montana, and an early day sheriff of
Humboldt county, died at Goldfeld last
week
Fish Lake Valley, near Silver Peak,
is attracting prospectors. Some high
grade rock having recently been found
there.
team and wagon, without driver,
costs $18 per day in Goldfeld. Hay is
$40 per ton and grain three cents per
pound.
Tex Richard offers a purse of $50, 900
if Jefries can be induced to pull off a
heavyweight fight in Ely, White Pine
county.
man named Murray, who owned a
fifty-acre tract west of Reno, has sold it
to real estate company of that town for
$50, 600.
The city fathers of Sparks have let a
contract to have the streets of that place
sprinkled with petroleum to keep the
dust down.
DIR. ]. Grant Lyman, Goldfeld pro-
moter, suddenly left that place last week
after doing up people there to the tune
of $1,000
A night train will shortly be put on
between San Francisco and southern
mining towns to accommodate the pas
sanger travel.
Tex Richard, the Goldfeld promoter
and all'round sport, was fined S26 last
week in Chicago for carrying a con-
cealed weapon.
Auto service on the road between Man
haitian, Tonopah and Goldfeld has been
temporarily suspended on account of the
heavy snow drifts.
Horses are starving at Goldfeld on ac-
count of a lack of fodder, and automo-
biles are out of commission owing to a
scarcity of gasoline.
A force of miners was shipped from
Salt Lake to Ely last Sunday by the Ely
Resurrection Company under engage
ment for six months work.
Deputy Constable ]. M Simmons, of
Fallon, Churchill county, skipped out
one day last week for parts unknown
He was short in his accounts 800
c. G. Face, the proprietor of saloon
in the free-and-easy district of Reno,
was arrested and fined 500 last Satur-
day for selling liquor without license.
The broker firm of Bond & Co., of
Goldfeld, ordered several carloads of
coal to be distributed to needy families
in that town during the recent cold con-
ditions.
While the Reno real estate dealers
were in semi-unconscious condition, Il
woman slipped in from the East and
tied up all the desirable property with
options.
The Sheriff of Esmeralda county has
offered reward of 500 for the arrest of
party calling himself l.. L. Gray or c.
Gray, claiming to represent the Guggen-
helm interests.
Clarence Mackay, head of the Postal
Telegraph Service, will be in Nevada in
few days to checkmate the plans of the
Western Union to herd his company out
of this State.
An attachment has been levied upon
the Longfellow Gold Mining and Milling
Company's property in Douglas county
by persons to whom amounts are due for
supplies and machinery
The Nevada Electric Power and Light
Company, whose plant is at Bishop, Cal,
has started lines south from Goldfield
and will be in position to serve the
Bullfrog district in short time.
The leading business houses of Tono-
pah have signed an agreement to close
their stores at s O'Clock every day ex-
cept Saturday, and have fixed the mini
mum awge scale at 500 per month.
The State Board of Pardons met in
Carson last Wednesday to hear the plea
for clemency in the case of Johnny and
Ibapah, Indians, who were sentenced to
death from Elko county for the murder
of white man. The Board refused to
interfere with the carrying out of the
sentence, and they were executed at the
state prison Yesterday