Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1884-02-09
EXCHANGE CLIPPINGS.
Mormon missionaries are operating
in Northern Idaho.

Southern oregon FARMERS ouer
large premiums for coyote scalps.
The roads from Tucson to the Qui.
jotoa mines are reported filed with
teams and miners.
Emery Murray has been sentenced
at Red Bluff to Folsom for five years
for inducing a child to lead life of
shame.
E. E. johnson, charged with the
em bezz zlement of $4,000 from the
Northern Pacific Express Company,
has been discharged from arrest.
Plenty of water and wood in the
Coeur d'Alene country creates an
increased interest on the part of
miners in that section of the country.
At Miss Clara Cushman's mission
school in Pekin the feet of the girls
are not allowed to be bound--the
only school in China where that is
the case.
A beardless youth of nineteen
vaars is under arrest at Cattlesburg,
KY, on the charge of bigamy, and
no less than four alleged wives have
risen up to testify against him.
Seventeen hundred Chinese, at
work on the Green River extension
of tine railroad near Seattle, W. T.
struck Saturday, not being willing
to accept a reduction from 81 to 80
cents per day.
An immense aerolite fell on the
Rancho Rodeo de las Agnas, twelve
miles west Of Los Angeles, blowing
deep hole in the ground. The light
was visible from Los Angeles, and
the explosion was heard for miles.
The Los Angeles police raided the
gambling games last Saturday night.
A faro layout and about dozen
| players we're taken at one place and
a private poker game at another. A
tan game, with all implements, was
also captured.
Belknsr, N. r., is made the prin-
cipaI point of debarkation for the
Ceur d'Alene mines. A wagon road
is completed twelve miles, and will
be pushed on to the mines, distance
of twenty eight miles, and a lins of
stages put on at once.
The Sullivan com biDation showed
in Astoria, Or, las. week. Sylvester
Lagaroff, the Astoria champion,
lasted just twenty seconds before the
Boston boy. when be was knocked
down. He then threw up his gloves
and refused to stand up again.
A small insect closely embling
a fly has made its appearance in por
tions of Southern Oregon, destroying
all fall sown wheat, eating the blades
down level with the grouBd. Fall
grown wheat 10 sectious Of Eastern
Oregon is said to be greatly injured
by frost.
A family of six people named
Maxwell, from Alpine county were
buried in log cabin In Woodford's
canyon, under a snow slide, three
days without food. They were res
cued on Sunday night by a party
from Woodford's Station. All were
alive and we'll.
Mrs. GracIe Curtis, who on the
morning of the 4th of last January,
WIN lie suffering from delirium, jump
ed from a third story window at the
cor ner OF Sutter and Kearney streets,
San Francisco, did last Sunday even.
ing of blood poisoning, following
the injuries sustained at that time.
She was native of Massachusetts,
twenty-eight years old.
There have been only two known
cases of female lynching in this
country. The first occurred in 1851
at Donnery,lle, mining camp in the
Bodie district of CAL, and the victim
WAS a Spanish woman named 1nez
Psria, who had murdered and robbed
man in her husbands saloon. The
second and last case is the lynching
OF Mrs. Cuddingham in Ouray, Col,
few days ago.
X. Stuart, who devotes his time
to prospecting about Calistogs for
minerals, has discovered substance
in vein formation about nine miles
from Cslistoga, in Souoms county,
that is about the weight of magncsia
and resembles it in appearance. Ex
periments show that II is exceller TO
use as whitewssh. Ground and
mixed with little water it becomes
very much like putty, and has a3out
the same appearance, but is little
more adhesive. It's condition when
mixed with oil is about the same,
though it does not then become en-
tirely white when dry. The sub
| stance when placed in q forge fire