Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-01-05

Tor 10 day.
Fire in Rhyolite last Sunday caused a
loss of $4,000
The newly-elected State officers will
take their seats next Monday.
It is authoritatively stated that Harri-
man has purchased the Tonopah road.
Woo Lock, Chinese, was fined $3.50
in Reno last Saturday for running an
opium den.
Eureka public school teachers have
abolished the practice of receiving gifts
from scholars.
Joseph Thompson was run over by an
engine at Winnemucca last week Thurs
day and killed.
1t is reported that the Western FEEDER
alton Of Miners will assist the striking
miners at Goldfeld.
Tonopah is on the verge of a fuel FAM
Inc, only enough coal and wood being in
sight for few days.
Residents of Reno's tenderloin district
pay one-half of the misdemeanor fines
collected in that town.
AS soon as the lands on the Pyramid
Reservation are ready for irrigation the
whites can settle them.
The delinquent tax list Of Esmeralda
county occupies twenty-four columns in
the Goldfie1d Chronicle
L. J. Whistler, Goldfeld stock brok-
er, left there last week with a large
amount Of his clients coin.
James Flynn, miner recently from
New York, dropped dead at Silver Peak
the latter part of last week.
The Reno postofice is swamped with
business. Five days mail has accumulated
and there is no relief in sight.
Dynamo plants are to be installed on
Little Humboldt River to supply Spring
City district with electric power.
A bill will be introduced in the coming
Legislature providing for an increase in
Washoe county officers salaries.
A miner of Goldfeld who expressed
uncomplimentary terms about the Union,
was run out of camp last Saturday.
Goldfeld will organize a changing
shortly and arrest every loafer in town
and put him on the streets to work.
1t is reported that number of Indians
have died at the Walker River Reserva-
ton within last week Of pneumonia.
Charles Mcdonald, brakeman on the
v. & T. road, was killed at Washoe last
Thursday by being thrown from train.
Twenty thousand head Of cattle and
forty thousand head of sheep are being
fed on the Big Meadows, near Lovelock.
Since the completion of the Las Vegas !
railroad to Rhyolite over 100 cars of de-
layed freight have been delivered there.
Austin is to have new bank. 1t will |
be called the National Bank of Austin |
and will start with a capital of SIS, 600, |
E. B. Clark, former newspaper man
of Fairview, has been arrested at New
Orleans on charge of forgery in that |
city.
George Slater, of Gardnerville, was
sentenced to thirty days in Jail at that
place last Saturday for insulting young
girl
]. w. Freeman, who owned 1000
acre ranch on the Carson River, near
Fallon, died in Santa Rosa, CAL, last
week.
William Hurst, fireman, was instant
ly killed by the overturning of steam
shovel at the smelter site at Ely last Sat
nrday
Miners employed on the Inter Noun
tain mine, near Winnemucca, have quit |
work on account of the non-payment of
wages.
After a run of seventy days with dry
washers the Sundyside placer claim at
Round Mountain, Nye county, cleaned
mp $27. 600.
Arthur St. Clair, of Deeth, Elko
county, has passed the examination for
the Rhodes scholarship at Oxford Col
lege, England.
Farmers are homesteading lands in the
valley to the west of Searchlight, Lin
coin county. There are locations for
about 4,0O0 people.
Thomas Hodge, an old resident Of Lam
der county, was found dead in his cabin
at Austin last Sunday Death was due
from natural causes.
A. c. Bond, son of prominent Mon