Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1884-03-29
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pany has declared second dividend
of ten cents per share.
Suits are being commenced at Red
Bluff against the liquor dealers snd
others tor back licenses.
John Hiles, miner, was shot
while attempting to commit q burg
larry at Bisbee, A. T., Saturday.
The competitive examination for
the vacant West Point cadetship in
Nevada is to be held at Winnemucca.
The Supervisors Of Calsveras coun
ty, California, offer reward of $3.50
for every coyote killed in that county.
John Ryan, q sheepherder, was
drowned in dry creek, near San An
dress, Cslveras county, on Thursday
last.
Gov. Stoneman states that no re-
prieve will be granted to Mcdowell,
the San Bernardino murderer, beyond
Friday.
J.W. Murray, the assassin of Alfr I'd
Yenke, at Portland, Or, has been
sentenced to be hanged OIL the 9th
of May.
Good crop prospects are reported
from all parts of the State of Cali
fornis. The ground is unfit for
summer following.
A negro named Burleson was
hanged by the citizens of Gonzales,
Texas, Wednesday. for the attempted
outrage on Mrs. Knoeppa.
Cranberry culture is being exten.
sively engaged in by the residents Of
Pacific county, w. T., along the
peninsula on Shoalwater bay.
The Oregon wool clip this year will
be far above the average of other
seasons. 1t will also be much supe.
| rior in quality, owing to the good
condition of the focks.
No trace has yet been found of J.
II. McCallum. who is supposed to
have been lost 10 the snow. He left
Tru 'kee for bis home, forty.fve miles
distant, some eight days ago.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Road 10 at war with the Western
Union Telegraph Company In Texas,
and sends ten word messages through
out the State for fifteen cents.
Three persons, Mcclure, Oliver "a
one armed mani. and Raper, alias
Holden, have been arrested at Red
Bluff, charged with implication in
the robbery of the railroad depot.
At North Bloomfield, Nevada
county, last Friday at P. M, there
was q terrific report heard all along
theridge from Graniteville to Colum.
Hill. 1t shook every house on the
ridge. The noise, 1t is thought, was
occasioned by the fall of an aerolite.
E. NJ. Cooper has been appointed
General Superintendent of Wells
Fargo & Co.'S Express for the West.
ern department, which embraces all
the lines west of the Rocky mount
aims, including those in Texas, Louis
lana and Mexico, with headquarters
at San francisco.
"Calamity Jane" the most noted
woman of the Western frontier, and
the heroine of many thrilling nickel
novel, who has been living down the
Yellowstone for some time past since
leaving the Black Hills country, has
pulled up stakes and Joined the STAN.
pede for the CGur d'Alene mines.
Cowboys at Oxford, Idaho, on
Friday last, armed with revolvers,
tried to prevent the trial of w. L.
Stokes, q notorious outlaw, for the
murder of Reuben Wilson, a violin
list, whom he shot at q dance at
American Falls for amusement; the
rescuers were disarmed aid the pris-
oner remsnded.
Three men named Ramone, Orsnis
and Jones had narrow escape from
perishing in the northern part of
Elko county, Nevada, recently, while
attempting q journey on snow shoes.
Ram0ne and Oranis were novices On
snowshoes, and were compelled to
spend the night ia the snow, and
were badly frozen. while Jones push
ed on for succor.
Years ago John Q. Adams loved
the prsttiest girl 10 Alabama. Her
parents forced her to marry q man
named Jackson, who took her to
Texas, where she became the mother
of nineteen children. A year ago
her husband died. Meanwhile John
O. Adams, who was married early,
had not been idle. He acquired con.
siderable local renown by becoming
the father of twenty one children.
Recently his wife died. He has gone