Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-11-20
COAST ITEMS.

Chambers is prevalent IN Los Angeles
county.
Chinatown in Fresno has several cases Of
leprosy.
New wine is offered in San Bernardino at
I2H cents gallon.
Portland, Or, is infested with thieves,
thugs and incendiaries.
San Buenaventura is to be supplied with
water by Los Angeles syndicate.
Joseph Dye is on trial in San Buenyentura
for the murder Of Herman Haines.
San Diego merchants contemplate the
closing of their places Of business on Sun
day.
w. G. Hendricks, of Hanford. had his
foot badly crushed by the cars at Huron Sat
urday.
Tehama county will hereafter charge liquor
dealers $500 per annum and require license
of $4,000.
A young man was whipped at Sacramento
Saturday night by his divorced wife, whom
he had slandered.
All the Chinese cooks employed in the
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road have been discharged.
David Burrell, aged fifty, committed sui
eide at Sacramento Saturday night. He was
out Of work and respondent.
The &C. o. D." mine, near Stockton Hill
Mojave county, A. T., has recently been
sold to a San Francisco firm for So, 900.
The reward for the arrest of Knealy's
murderer at Portland has been increased to
81 900 and will probably be made $1,000.
farmer named Haase. at Spokane Falls,
fell under the wheels of the passenger train
Saturday and his head was literally severed
from his body.
Miles S. Dean, an Oregon school teacher,
has been found guilty of attempting to use
postage stamps from which he had removed
the cancelling marks.
No one has yet been able to identify the
dead Mexican leader of the gang who as
saulted and killed man named Stanton, at
Prescott, A. T., Saturday night.
The charge of polygamy against Charles
A. Baxter, of San Jose, has been dismissed,
the alleged first wife not having put in an
appearance since the charge was made.
Fresno is agitated over the elopement Of
Prof. Birch with Miss Buckle, formerly of
Martinez Birch leaves wife and children
at Selma and was popularity known and gen
orally respected.
N. V. Jones and Frank Treseder, two
viceable Mormon agents, have been convicted
al Salt Lake of bribing United States Dep
uty Marshal, and sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary.
Chris. c. Anderson, while excava,ing
hole in the rear of store at Price, Utah,
accidentally stuck his pick into box Of
dynamite caps and was terribly mutilaied by
the explosion whc followed.
Mrs. A. NJ. Ricker:, who shot Superintend-
ent Tobler few days ago, over mining
claim at Daggett, San Bernardino county,
was held to answer in 81 900 bonds. She
was unable to give the same and was com
nitted.
The disappearance of Pat Cronin, we'll
to do miner at Lewiston, Trinity county, has
caused much excitement in the neighborhood
and 81 COO reward has been offered for his
discovery. He has been missing since the
I'd inst.
A number of capitalists of Gilroy have
united in the cost of scheme to drain Fra
zi.r Lake, and thus open to cultivation sew.
eral thousand acres of rich land. A canal
is to be built from the lake to the Pajaro
river, distance of about two miles.
Officer Linneville, of Portland, Or, at.
tempted to arrest man named Zeisler, who
was charged with beating woman, when
Zeisler ordered the officer off the premises
and advanced, threateningly with pistol in
hand. Linneville's warning to stop being
UNDECIDED, he fired, killing Zeisler instantly.
The jury at Provo, Utah, has given yer.
dict of involuntary manslaughter, with
recommendation to the mercy Of the Court,
in the case of Henry Pearson of San Francis.
co, who shot and killed Forest Green at
Nephi, last January. Both had been drink
ing and Pearson was crazed by the liquor.
The maximum penalty is five years.
Some days ago general purchasing agent
in this city, says Portland paper, received
an order from Josephine county for barrel
of packed butter. AS Josephine county lies
in one of the best grass regions in the State
and is known to be rich in cattle, the agent
was greatly surprised. He set out to make
the purchase, however, and again was sur.
prised to find that there was not a single
barrel Of packed butter for sale in this city