Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1884-04-19
EXCHANGE CLIPPINGS.

Oob. a tbAo "NSAf AOA sNS
of Jailor Holbrook.
The Superior Court of San Fran
cisco has decided that Nelson must
be tried for the slander of Captain
Lees.
The delegates to the State Repub-
lican Convention from Santa Clara
are sol i'd for Blaine and Lincoln.
Modesto'chose delegates Wednesday.
1t is reported at Victoria, B c.,
that Stanford, Crocker & Dunsmuir
are to run q. line of steamers between
San Francisco, Victoria, China and
Japan.
Thomas Whitcher was lodged in
Jail al Salinas yesterday, charged by
his wife and son with forced illicit
relations with his daughter seventeen
years of age.
1t is said that a wealthy New York
company is making preparations to
erect smelling furnace at Luning.
en- the c. & c., for the reduction of
base ore in that vicinity.
A. W. Coos, a brewer at Alturas,
Modoc county, attempted to poison
Fred 5ognor, an employe, and then
to kill him self, by putting strychnine
in some beer this week.
A snowslide between tnnnels 7 and
s, on the Central Pacific, over the
summit, this week, carried away
about sixty feet of snowsheds A
landslide is reported near Clipper
Gap.
Three young women named Purdy
are successfully conducting a farm
in Long valley, Washoe county, New.
They will seed 1870 acres of wheat
and forty acres of barley this year, in
addition to hay and vegetables.
At Lincoln, Placer COUNTY, this
week, two Cinnamon engaged in a
bloody battle. One of the pagans
| had both arms almost severed be-
tween the elbow and wrist by blows
with a hatchet, and also received a
cut on the head, through which the
brain ooZed.
John Warselge. who murdered his
divorced wife at Los Gatos in 1889,
and who was reported to have been
arrested at El Paso. Texas, has been
fully identified by Sheriff Branham
of Santa Clara, who reached El Paso
Wednesday with requisition for the
murderer.
Poor old Peter De Crocey, soldier
of 1912, and nearly u hundred years
of age, went to Minnesota poor
house because his descen dants would
not support him. When he came in-
to possession of a warrant for quar-
ter section OF land and $1,000 back
pension, how the family gathered
about him and hung to his neck
but the old man got on his military
ear then, and routed them from the
premises.
1t is estimated that one thousand
buildings are in process of construc-
ton in the CGur d'Alene mining dis
trict. Every man who will work
finds ready employment at from $5 to
IS per day. There is any amout of
small rigid timber suitable for log
houses, and the sound of axes and
falling trees can be heard in every
gulch and from every hill side. Cab
ms are costing from $3.50 to $4,000,
every log delivered on the ground
being worth S., Lumber, wbipsawed
ia worth $3.50 thousand and finds
ready sale. Shakes are So per hun
dred, cedar best adapted to their
manufacture.
Prosecuting Attorney Dixon sue.
ceeded Wednesday in getting Grand
Jury. composed of fifteen Genties,
the Mormons being expugned be.
cause of belief in the plural mar.
riage doctrine, the same as taught in
the Mormon Church. The Mormons
claim the jury is illegal, but its
purging was in conformity with the
Edmunds law. 1t is not known
that any polygamy cases will come
before the jury, but the District At
torney is determined to have none
but qualified persons on the jury.
Judge Hunter comedies with him in
| this respect.