Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1885-10-24
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

Crowds are reported to be rushing to
Granite Creek, B. c., mines.
Virginia Hernandez was arrested yes
terday at San Jose for bru.al assault
on child nine years old.
The Board of Supervisors Of Yolo
county have appropriated $500 to aid
he anti-debris litigation.
The various branches OF the Yuba at
and around Downieville are lower now
han they have been for years.
Miss Christina Tanner, the young
Lady who Gu, her throat few days ago
at Santa Paula, Ventura county, died
Wednesday.
William Kay, the son Of the recently
murdered old couple at Folsom, has
been arrested at Marysville, on the be.
lief that he knows something OF the
murder.
The Big Bend tunnel is in a distance
Of over 10, 900 feet, and will be ready
in March next to receive the North Fork
Feather River. and dump it into the
ozark Canyon"
Five tons Of ponderous machinery ar
rived at Sacramento from the East last
Sunday for the new dry dock at Mare
Island. The machinery was shipped to
its destination last Monday.
J. X. Stout, Justice OF the Peace in
North Yakima, w. T., while on spree
Monday, stabbed William Johansen sew.
eral times in the neck and shoulders,
and was himself terribly heated on the
head.
Miners from all sections are hocking
| into Hawthorne district, Nevada, and
new locations are made daily. All
signs in the old diggings fail, but when
piece OF rock contains plenty of gold
they all agree il is rich.
A colored man and a WOMAN applied
for a marriage license Saturday, in Sac.
ramento Ci,y. but we're refused by
County Clerk Hamilton, under the pro.
visions of the Civil Code, which pro.
nounces aga INST such marriages.
The Cottonwood rnicxie mines have
been sold to an Eastern company. The
price paid has not been made public,
but it i, believed TO exceed $3.50 900,
They are said to constitute the greatest
nickle deposit ever discovered on the
coast.
Thomas Harris obtained divorce in
Superior Court Number Two oil Sacra
MEMO, on the ground Of cruelty. on
Saturday last, and on Monday married
his adopted daughter. His former wife
was left with four children. Harris is
6fy-seven years Of age and his new vile
is eighteen.
An old man has been brought into
Haily, from Louis Creek, Camas prairie.
His only food for a long time was Tar
weed, which he boiled in a kettle. He
wore old gunny sacks as clothing and
was in fearfully hlthy condition. His
name is Old Riley. and he is an old
Ca iifornian.
The last Of this years grain crop in
Ventura, California, is now harvested.
Total receipts Of wheat and barley,
10000 sacks, being $4,000 less than
the earliest estimates. There is less
grain now in the warehouses here than
for many previous years at the same
time, amounting 10 $4,000 sacks all
told.
William Kay, who was arrested at
Marysville under the belief that he was
cogn,zant OF, if not an assistant in, the
murder OF his father and stepmother at
Folsom, in apublished interview denies
all knowledge of the affair, and gives a
detailed statement OF his movements Of
late. lie claims never to have had
trouble with his father or stepmother.
The biggest mining excitement ever
known at Grass Valley, for many years,
was caused by rich strike in the Crown
Point quartz mine last week. The mine
was known as the William Penn mine
in early days, and has a shaft nearly
900 feet deep. Work was abandoned
in the mine three years ago. and was
never resumed until recently, when a
Frenchman named Gauthier, who was
very poor, conirived to build a Io.stamp
mill upon the ground and succeeded in
pumping the water out Of the shaft.
Good rock has been coming out of the
mine for the last month or TWO, but last
week a six.foot ledge was opened in the
southwest drift, at the depth of ISo