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Show ! RHY0LITE, NEVl i i I Pete Busch and B. F. Shepherd re- turned from Skido.i Saturday. Dick Ryan, the pioneer and prosper- a ous prospector of the Funerals, xvas a Rhyolite visitor the fore part of the x-eek. Charles Ryan, secretary of the board . of trade, has resigned his position and will go to Mississippi in a fexv days, where he will pluck from that slate one of its fairest fioxvers and transplant ? it into Nevada, making Rhyolite his future home. He will ho married to Miss Anne Cas- sedy of Summit, Miss., a town on the Illinois railroad. Miss Cassedy is the daughter of Judge Cassedy of Summit, and she is one of the leaders of society in Mississippi. PVank McIIugli has been appointed to take Mr. Ryan's place xvith the board of trade. lie was until lecently secretary of the local miners' union, & and is well known and popular. "Mysterious" Walter Scott has been J brought to a show-down e n his mining 4, proposition. "Scotty"' came to Rhyolite G on Tuesdas" and met an old friend of his by the name of J. Jones, a contrac- tor on the Shoshone. Jones has coniuc- tions that mean money in any leeiti- 4 mate proposition and ho made "Scotty" an offer. Louis Schlos-s of Goldfield and San Francisco was .in the city ami Jones took him in on the ileal. Schloss if a xvell known mining man throughout J Nevada. The next day. Wednesday. "Scotty" "ditched" his wife, put her on the train bound for the east and, climbing up en his high seat, xvith his brace of & six-shooters and his Winchester, and xvith Jones em the seat beside him, J shook enil his ribbons and took to the trail, headed for De-ath valley. Where he xvas going and how long he xvould be on the road he woulel not say. The out- T fit consisted of five mules and a heavy J buckboard. xvell loaded with sacks and boxes. ' The plan was to get samples and mane maps or jicouy s mine, auu 11 the property proved to be as represented, represent-ed, Jones and Schloss xxere to take it over" and pay "Scotty's" price. gjj ThJs incident bids fair to clear up the fl mystery of "Death Valley Scotty" and i his mine. Bullfrog Miner. r |