Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1885-10-17
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

A large number Of Boston and Chi
cago excursionists are in Los Angeles.
Ventura county has received Phifa-
delphia order for 80, 600 pounds of dried
peaches.
The asphaltum deposits near Santa
Maria, Santa Barbara county, are to be
developed at an early day.
w. l.. Randle has been found guilty
at Eureka New, of horse stealing and
will be sentenced this week.
Vessels now find twenty feet OF water
in the Columbia river channel, which
has been deepened by sluicing.
Los Angeles is determined to drive
the scale bug away and proposes to ap-
propriate Sac, 200 for that purpose.
The Supervisors of Lassen county,
require sheep owners to pay certain
sum for every sheep owned by them.
There is theory that the son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Kay, who were murdered at
Folsom last week. was also murdered.
Lizzie Parker, who suddenly disap-
peared from Lot Angeles last Thursday,
is now thought to have committed sui
eide.
All Yook, Chinese woman of San
Francisco, has sued Ching Sing & Co.
TO recover s2oo for damages to her rep
utation.
Attempts have lately been made near
Redding, Shasta county, to wreck the
trains on the California and Oregon
Railroad.
The party sent out some time ago to
explore the petroleum fields on Van.
couver Island have returned with q
quantity of crude oil.
At Big Horn City, Montana Teriio-
ry, they spear ,hree-and hall pound
trout with pitchforks in The ditch which
runs through that town.
Five Chiaamen were killed in a shaft
at the Wellington collicry, Vancouver
Island, Thursday. A car rolled down
the shaft and crushed the men.
minen,:cattle-men of Elko county
New, have received orders from Wash
ington for the immediate removal Of
their fences from public lands.
Henry Irwin, one of the men charged
with assisting in the murder of DR..
Powers. in San Benito county, Cal. has
been admitted to bail in $40, 600.
A Chinaman caught stealing fruit
from George Redmain's orchard, at
Washington, Nevada county, was shot
in the leg with a charge from Redmain's
gun.
A prospector who returned to Red
ding lhe other day claims to have dis
covered valuable tin mine in the
vicinity OF Cinnabar District, Shasta
county.
A Belleville, Nevada man, shot at
hen with revolver and hit a neighbor
who was sitting on the fence watching
him. Both are agreed that the bullet
glanced from the hen.
/ A belief is prevalent at Walla Walla.
w. T., that T. NJ. E. Schanks, who was
supposed to have committed suicide,
died at the hands OF others, and an i'll
vestigalion is now going on,
An old man named George Pander,
living near Nevada City, placed his
| earnings, $500, in can and secreted it
in a wine.cellar. A thief discoqered
the hiding place and the old mans
treasure is lost to him.
Three men who killed an inoffensive
old Chinaman at Butte. NJ. T., some
time ago, have just been tried; one was
found guilty OF murder in the second
degree, while the others were allowed
to plead guilty of lower degree Of
that crime.
Henry Winters, accused of cutting
| lennie Wilson with knife in a house
on Pine street, San Francisco, on June
aIst, was acquitted Wednesday in De.
partment Twelve, Superior Court, the
woman swearing that the wound was
accidentally inflicted.
Fred Gambia, a notorious Mexican
desperate Of Mommoth, A. T., lost all
his money while PLAYING cards in a sa.