Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1884-02-23
EXCHANGE CLIPPINGS.


| to be closed to day.
The river at Sacramento 10 scven-
teen feet EIGHT inches.
William 81. Dickson has been con-
frmed az United States Attorney for
Utah.
Barney Finnegsn is on trial OF Oro-
Vile for the murder of VIM. Jones,
at Nord, last Fall.
A carload of Mormon emigrants
are on their way from the Southern
States to Salt Lake.
Wsdsworth, New, has ghost that
swings q blue lantern and gives all
the signals known to railroad men.
A move IS being made to thwart
the efforts of the Board of Supervis-
ors of Butte to suppress gambling.
The stampede to the Ceur d'Alene
mines 10 beginning in earnest. Many
have goue already, and Salt Lake is
full of men waiting for the weather
to settle.
The Keystone mine, at Amador
City, one of the Oldest quarts mines
in California, shipped $50,00O in
bullion last month.
The young ladies of Marysville
have raised q purse of S127 with
which to purchase banner for the
| Native Sons of the Golden West.
A San Antonio, Texas, lady has
become affected with the old time
quail eating fever, and is now per
forming the thirty days feat for .
wager of q diamond ring.
Heate, as accessory to the Bisbee,
AT, murders, has been convicted of
murder in the second degree. The
five men convicted of murder are
to be hanged on the 23th of March.
Zachary T. Barton OF Montana has
been appointed Receiver OF Public
Moneys at Helena, and William K.
Wheaton If California Registrar Of
the Land Office at San Francisco.
Teddy Widen of Nevada City cut
a man named Dover severely with q
pocket knife, Sunday, and Thomas
Wesley was shot by Jas. Lutte in the
right thigh Saturday night at Grass
Valley.
| 1t reported that all the wheat
fields iu Lane county, Oregon, are
covered with snow to depth that
fully protects the young growing
grain from all danger of damage by
freezing.
A man named Kent, who lives at
Orc Grande, has constructed and put
into operation steam ferry boat on
the Mojave River. 1t Is the first
steamer that ever run on Q San Ber-
nardino river.
The costs of the Rowell murder
trial, which fall on the taxpayers,
amount to $2,780. Mr.. Rowell will
establish himself in the boxmakiug
industry in Batavia and sue for di-
vorce from his wife.
H. T. Hubbard, working at the oil
wells at Petrolis, Los Angeles, robbed
tive of his fellow workmen Of $3.50
last Tuesday. He borrowed their
pistols and then presented the muz
zles to both of them, aski ng them to
pay over the wages they had just re
ceived, which they did. Hubbard
made his escape.
II During the recent cold weather, Ed
Green, walking from Colfsx to Neva-
ds City, to obtain work, and the night
being dark, fell and broke leg.
1.-Two scoundrels, who answered his
cries for assistance, robbed him and
left him to freeze, and had it not
been for two friendly woOdch"ppers
passing by shortly afterwards Green
would probably have died from ex-
posure.
The wire fence controversy in
| Nebraska is the antithesis of that in
Texas. In Nebraska it is aranch
company which has fenced in, as it ia
alleged fifty.two thousand acres If
grazing land belonging to the public
dom ain, and the United States Dis
trict Attorney has begun suit for the
removal of the fence, sverring that
settlers have bcen prevented from
taking up the land.
A mass meeting has been called to
meet in Walla Wslla, saturday, the
2Sd inst. The call has been signed
by over one hundred prominent far
mers. merchants and citizens of that
section, and the announced purpose
of ths meeting is to take some action
to express the public's views in re-
gard TO important legislation now
bending before Congress, concerning
the forfeiture of the unearned lands