Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-01-05
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The people of Gardnerville will ask for
an injunction to prevent the County
Commissioners from locating the Doug
las county high school at Genoa.
Fifty deputy United States Marshals
have been placed in the workings OF the
Mohawk mine at Goldfeld to prevent
high-grading by the miners.
Patsy Dwyer, who is sentenced to be
hanged at Carson the 18th of this month
for the murder A. G. Williams at Austin,
is said to have killed man in Montana
some years ago.
Two men giving the name of Ryan
were arrested at Goldfied last Saturday,
and charged with the holdup of the Mer-
chants Hotel. The evidence against
them is strong.
The sportsmen of the State will try
and induce the Legislature to appropri-
ate sufficient money this Winter to stock
the State with game birds suitable to the
climatic conditions.
A robber locked the clerks of jewelry
store in at Tonopah last Wednesday from
the outside and then broke the show
window, securing $1,000. He succeeded
in making his escape.
Last Monday night the four-months-
old baby of Mr.. and Mrs. John O'Mal-
ley, of Goldfeld, was smothered to
death. 1t is supposed the mother rolled
over on it during the night.
Ed Spencer, who escaped from the
State prison last week Wednesday, was
captured two days later in Carson. He
had been living in piano box and SUBJ
sisting on the contents of swill cans.
Because the proprietor of Goldfield
restaurant would not pay him for carpen-
ter work performed on the place, the
woodworker nailed up the doors of the
place. He was fined SIS for his playful
ness.
The friends of DR.. ]. Grant Lyman,
who skipped out of Goldfeld after sky
rocket career and who was arrested in
Boston on a charge of fraud, have come
to his rescue and saved him from term
in prison.
A disease resembling CHAMBERS has
broken out among band of horses on
ranch near Carson. A veterinarian is
examining them, and if it is proven that
they are afflicted with that dreaded dis
ease they will be killed.
Martin Walford, miner employed at
the lease of the Jumbo Extension, of
Goldfeld, was killed last Saturday while
descending the shaft, the crosshead fall
ing and striking him on the head. A
companion escaped injury.
Two men have been arrested at Love-
lock under the belief that they are con-
cerned in the recent robbery of Wells
Fargo's treasury box at Reno. At first
the box was said to contain $50, 900, but
it has dwindled down to $500.
Some slick individual in Reno last
week collected several thousand dollars
on the strength that he was collecting it
for the benefit of the orphans in the
Home at Carson. Nothing has been
heard of the collector or the money
After wandering all night on the des-
ert near Eden, in the Belle Helen dis
trict, Nye county, Mrs. Mary Harding
was found in demented condition last
Sunday. She was taken to Tonopah,
where it is thought she will recover.
Thirty-nine cooks and walters from
Denver Union have been imported to To-
nopah to replace the 1. w. w. strikers.
They will work the same hours, and at
the same or even better wages than were
given to the members of the 1. w. w.
]. A. Amsbury entered tent at Rose
bud, Humboldt county, last week and
stole several blank signed checks. He
filed out several of them and got $500
on them at Lovelock, which he spent in
gambling and drinking before being ar
rested.
What is said to have been the richest
shipment of ore ever made by any mine
in the world, was made by the Hayes
Monette lease on the Mohawk mine of
last Monday. The cargo
amounted to thirty five tons and was
worth $700,O0O
AT Goldfeld last Monday two high
waymen attempted to hold up stage on
the outskirts of the town. They ordered
the driver to throw down the treasure
box, but he whipped up his horses and
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