Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-11-17
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An Indian squaw was murdered near
Carln, on election day.
An ASSAY Office has been established on
Walker reservation near Schurz.
tits predicted silver will reach Is cents
per ounce, says the mint director.
Charles M. Schwab and party goes into
Greenwaty in train of ten automobiles.
Wonder has a saloon which is desig-
signated by big sign THE Road to
Ruin"
Robert Stein, miner, and George
Wilson, teamster, died in Tonopah
last week.
1t is beyond question of a doubt that
the Bodie and Benton railroad will be ex-
tended to Tonopab
A Sparks woman robbed mining man
Of $500 in cash, representing the saving
of several years of hard work.
Miners are offered IS per day at Won
der, Churchill county, with no takers on
account of high cost of living there.
The desert country about Hawthorne
is experiencing brisk showers, quite an
unusual thing for this time of year.
Laborers are in demand for work on
the Truckee- Carson irrigation project
Days pay ranges from 81. rs to SIS.
A miner named Peter Pielick was crush
ed to death by falling rock in the Miz-
pah mine, at Tonopah last Saturday.
Don c. Butterfeld, pioneer, path
finder, in Utah, California and Nevada,
died i'll Ely, New, last week, of pneu-
monia.
An Indian runner employed to bring
election returns from Wonder to Fallon,
was giving up for lost last week, but f.
nally showed up.
Prospectors and miners on the reser
walton have organized an arbitration COM
mttee for the settlement OF differences
which may arise.
Peter Mccoy, aged sixty-six years,
succumbed to heart failure last week
while sitting in the Miners Exchange
saloon at Tonopah.
Reno has the banking fever. In adj
dition to three old banks, three new ones
were recently organized and are now fit
ing up elaborate quarters.
VIM. Whalen, an aged mining pros
pector of the State of Nevada was SEN
fenced to ten years imprisonment in
California for sailing mines.
Charles Williams and +. l.. Triple,
charged with horse-stealing, are being
tried at Eureka The case is being con-
Quoted behind closed doors.
Charles Kuchs, accused of the murder
of Ed Ferret, was bound over to the
grand jury. His bonds, amounting to
$4,000 are still unfinished.
At Bellehelen last week a miner named
Jerry O'Donnell was blown to atoms at
4. e Oh he
was working, by the explosion of blast.
The government has plans under way
to reclaim Peaceful Valley, Lincoln
county. The area of agricultural land
to be put under cultivation is $1,000
acres.
Burglars dynamited the safe in the
Miners Union Hall in Goldfeld on the
morning of the 18th, and secured over
81 900 in coin. There is no clue of the
robbers.
T.. II. Nevin bullion tax collector of
Nevada, reports that the state of Nevada
is producing over 81 900, 900 per month
in ore and the output is becoming great
er each month.
Secretary Hitchcock states that the in
attractions of the opening of the Walker
Lake Indian Reservation were not serious
enough to warrant a recommendation in
favor of invalidating it.
A refined woman on the Reservation
wears the regulation khaki coat and
trousers of the miner. Through her
efforts a ledge of copper, galena, lead
and gold ore has been discovered.
The Indian police of the Walker Lake
Indian Reservation stopped No. IA at
Schurs last week and searched it for a
brakeman, who is alleged to have as
saulted a squaw on the reservation few
days before.
Fifty cases of champagne were drank
at the Mizpah Club rooms in Tonopah
last Wednesday night to celebrate the
election of Judge Brissell, independent
candidate. The cases contained two
dozen bottles each.
The Cans Herman fight, for the light
weight championship of the world, is
now assured and it will take place in
Tonopah on January l. The SO, 600 in
forfeit money has been posted with the
Nye-Ormsby County bank.
Robert Gordon who was shot during
quarrel over a women in Tonopah last
week, died Saturday morning and John
Burnell who shot him was held to answer
before the grand jury on charge of muir
der Both men are colored.
James Quirk, for fourteen years sheriff
of Storey county, is slated for warden of
the state penitentiary, to succeed Mr..
John l., Considine. Mr.. Considine, at
the expiration of his term will likely en-