Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-11-17
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own use. Wood has gone up from S14 to
$40 and good dry wood is hard to get at
that figure.
E. J. Walsh, S. l.. Lee and Alfred
Chartz, of Carson, filed notice with the
secretary of state of their intention to
construct and operate a telephone line
between the new town at Dutchman
Greek and Hawthorne. This is the second
telephone line planned for the reserva-
| ton by this group of men.
The overland train on the S. P, was
held up by armed bandits near Carlin
last Saturday night, and the passengers
robbed of about 81 900 and jewelry. One
of the robbers is said to be deaf and
dumb man, They all escaped, and while
some shots were fired to iftimidate the
passengers nobody was injured.
Frank c. Everett, ''lifer' in the Car
son state prison appeared before Judge
Murphy in the district court, a complaint
having been made by H. c. Kiessel, EN-
ployed at the prison, that Everett was
insane and should be so declared and
transferred to the state hospital at Reno
instead of being allowed to remain in
prison,
The trainmen running on the Tonopah
and Goldfield railway have taken up with
their organization the action of the COM
pany in dismissing from its service En-
gineer Payne and suspending Conductor
Polkinghorn for disobeying orders in
connection with the wreck that occurred
between Mclean and Blair junction last
summer.
If half the stories are true, Nevada
will in 1907 resume her place as the fore
most mineral producing state i'll the
Union. She threatens to be again to the
mining world what she was between 1859
and 1876. We suspect that it will be as
it was before-that it will be Nevada that
will rebuild San Francisco. San Fran
( cisco was but a clump of low houses and
was really but big village until Nevada
bullion transformehth the city
The Frances Mohawk was robbed of
$40, 900 worth of high-grade ore last
week, and the job was done in rather a
novel way Knockout drops had been
put i'll the guards coffee, and when the
coast was clear for the robbers, they act
ed quickly Five hundred pounds of the
choicest sacked ore was loaded on burros
and long before the men who were safe
guarding the treasure regalned con-
seriousness the high grade was disposed of.
Greenwater two weeks ago had only
one woman resident, but now, notwith-
standing the desolate surroundings on
the verge of Death Valley and the sug-
gestive name of Funeral range at the
base of which the town is situated, there
is fair percentage of the female contin
gent. This is verihcation of the veneer
able axiom: IF all the men in the world
were on one island and the women on
another how many poor women would
be drowned
For years l starved, then bought a
50-cent bottle of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure,
and what that bottle benefited me all
the gold in Georgia could not buy. |
kept on taking it and in two months l
went back to my work as machinist. In
three months l was as well and hearty
as / ever was. | still use a little occa-
sionally, as l find it fine blood purifier
and a good tonic. May you live long
and prosper. &C. A. Cornell, Roding,
Ca, Aug. 81 1906. Kodol is sold here
by G. /. Leavit & Son.
Never before in the mining history of
the United States has there been such an
amazing tale of suddenly acquired riches
as are being told in Goldheld. A par
ticularly interesting case is afforded by
Tommy Nugent, the l7-yearold Office
boy employed by Sullivan Trust Com
pany. About year ago he invested $500
of his four years earnings for 1000 shares
of Mohawk. Last week this Office boy
sold his Mohawk holdings for $50, 900.
Mary Ryan, servant girl, who had
saved up $500 from her sixteen years of
toll, and who said she had bought Mo
hawk because she got such lot av ut
for tn money" sold her little block of
500 shares for $4,000.