Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-29

Nina, Esneralda county, has entered
the lists and is bidding for the county
seat.
The abandoned mines at Belmont, Nye
county, are to be opened up by outside
capital.
Joseph Grandelmeyer, pioneer resi-
dent of Nevada, died at Eureka last
Thursday week.
Governor Sparks has been asked to
use his influence to settle the labor trou-
BILE at Goldfeld.
The State Lawmakers will be asked
this Winter to pass bill abolishing cap
ital punishment.
Reno's free library has been donated
1000 volumes of reading matter by an
anonymous friend.
Wingfeld has applied to the Nevada
courts for an order to enjoin miners from
stealing Mohawk ore.
Eugene Alice, native of France, lost
his life at Reno last Monday by falling
down fight of stairs.
Near Corn Creek, Lincoln county,
large deposit of prehistoric bones and
sea shells has been found.
Jack WEIGH, of San Francisco, has been
fight at Tonopah January /.
The next Legislature will be asked to
change the name of the Nevada State
University to University of Nevada.
Thomas Ramsey, mining man has
been appointed State detective by Gov
ernor Sparks, to reside at Goldfeld.
Charles Blower, an S. P. brakeman,
committed suicide at Winnemucca last
Saturday by shooting himself through
the heart.
George H. Bodine, prominent stock
broker, died in his berth on train last
Friday week while en- route from Tono-
pah to Reno.
The Central Nevadan, published at
Battle Mountain, had to skip an issue
last week on account of the force being
laid up with the mumps.
Sheriff Johnson, of Lincoln county, re-
turned to Phoebe last Monday with
Korean, who is wanted for the murder of
a Japanese in that county.
Owing to the poor mail service at Gold
field citizens of that camp will employ
extra clerks at their own expense in or
der to improve the service.
Mrs. Margaret Scanlon, of Des Moines,
Iowa, died on a train last Sunday at Co
bre, Elko county. She was on her way
to California when the end came.
Donald Chisholm was killed at Green
water last week Wednesday by William
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did not know the gun was loaded.
Mrs. Silva, an old resident of Reno,
was run over bya switch engine last Sat
urday at that place, and had her neither
limbs cut off. The unfortunate woman
died later.
The Regents of the State University
have decided to ask the Legislature this
Winter for an extra appropriation to
make Improvements to the grounds of
the college.
1t took Bullfrog citizens just five min
utes, after they got together, to raise
sufficient funds to build a school house
to take the place of the one recently de-
stroyed by storm.
The treasure box of Wells-Fargo Co.,
containing $50, 900, was stolen from the
express car at Reno last Saturday night.
Up to the present time no clue of the
money has been found.
Twenty passengers were seriously in
jured last Saturday at Harvey, Elko
county, on an S. p train. Two trains,
one passenger and the other freight,
tried to pass on the same track.
Jack Thompson, recently found guilty
of murder at Hawthorne, has been grant
ed new trial. 1t seems that one of the
jurymen was of unsound mind, having
been an inmate of an insane asylum.
The sale of the Nevada Central rail-
road, running from Battle Mountain to
Austin, to the Western Pacific, has been
confirmed. 1t is the intention of the
new owners to extend the road to Los
Angeles.
Governor Sparks and State Fish Com
missioner Louis S. Finnegan, of Gold
field, have cor .racted to have one humid
red pairs of pinnated grouse sent from
Nebraska to Carson for distribution in
the State.
The grand jury of Nye county acquit-
ted Sam Spears for the killing of Fred
Purdy at Rhyolite two weeks ago. The
dead man had been paying obnoxious at
tentions to Spears mother and had been
warned to desist.
Two men wearing masks of handker-
chiefs, entered the gambling room of
the Merchants hotel at Columbia, Es-
meralda county, last Monday night and