Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1884-05-03
EXCHANGE CLIPPINGS.


connecting telegraph line.
The bricklayers OF Victoria strike
on the first of May for nine hours a
day.
The highest tides known for years
are reported at San Pedro and Santa
Monica.
The salmon run on the Columbia
river is reported light, but on the
increase,
A "death trap" is what a Tucson
Grand Jury style the new public
school building.
Yreka held public meeting last
Saturday to secure the passage of
the railroad through the place.
H. Won Sohren has been arrested
at Los Angeles in connection with
the recent burglaries committed
there.
The Grand Central mine at Tucson
has posted notice that So day will
be the wages paid after the first of
the month.
Henry X. Mite hell and George W.
Baker, two prominent lawyers of
Eureka, New, had knock. down
fight in court Tuesday.
Sundays stage from Ventura to
Newhall, got stalled in Peru creek,
and the passengers had to disrobe
and wade in its ice cold waters.
The wife of Rev. ]. w. Soss, a
well-known Methodist clergyman of
San. Jose, was yesterday committed
to the stockton Insane Asylum.
The planning mill of Donald Mac
lelay was destroyed by fire at Port
land, Sunday night. The dwelling
of Gen hivens was also burned.
From the slip at San Francisco to
San Rafael, over the new route on
the North Pacific, the trip was made
yesterday in forty eight minutes.
John and LeaDder Belts, two boys
| aged II aud IA, killed two California
lions at the foot of Hog mountain,
Tuolumne county, the other day.
lhe linnets and cedar birds have
in many places denuded the fruit
trees of the few blossoms which the
rain did not wash eff, in Auaheim,
Cal.
William Baxter, convicted of the
murder of a Chinaman at San Jose,
recovered his sanity when he found
the verdict of the jury fixed lie
sentence.
Reports from Southern Utah say
| that over half the cattle on the ranges
have died from starvation and expos
ure, because of the deep SHOWS dur
ing winter.
Capt. John Zebeck, a prominent
grain dealer and citizen. committed
suicide at Mountain View, Santa
Clara county, Tuesday, by shooting
himself in the forehead with a re-
volver.
Most of the travel from Geyser.
vile to Santa Rosa is by team, as
the passenger rates on the railroads
are so high that farmers can make
big wages by driving down and home
again the same day.
j. X. Mercer, who killed A. C.
Macdonald at Portland five years
ago, has been pardoned on condition
that he leave the State. The two
men were editors of rival evening
papers, violent abuse of each other
| led to an alteration and Macdonald
was killed.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany has put on the steamer Gypsy,
to run between Portland and Gray's
harbor. This is the first step towards
regaining for Portland the valuable
trade which for the past SIX months
has been by sailing vessels between
Gray's harbor and San Francisco.
Frank Menk lost his brewery at
Truckee by fire several months ago,
and the two companies he was insur-
ed with refused to pay the face ofthe
policies. He sued for his insurance
and jury Tuesday at Nevada City
awarded him the full amount of the
policy, $4,000 tog ether with interest,
and costs.
Charles Henricksen, employed at
the pump house near the town of
Benson, A. t., shot and fatally
wounded Mexican named Cipriano
Cruz, Tuesday. Henricksen has been
in the habit of exacting kiss from
the Mexican women when they came
tor water, as toll, and when Cruz,
after being refused water started to
take it, he was ahot by Henricksen.
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