Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-08-21

COAST ITEMS.

San Diego's new hotel will have 4oo-foot
frontage.
The oil belt near Livermore is said to be
very rich.
Livermore receives as much as 100 tons of
hay daily.
Hog cholera has appeared near Elmira,
Solano county.
The Redding mill will not manufacture
lumber this fall
The Napa cannenes are working on
peaches, plums and pears.
Henderson's lumber yard and Office at
Visaha were burned Tuesday night.
The woodchoppers of Nevada county, pur.
pose to raise the price of wood 81 cord all
| around.
Seven Mexcans are reported to have been
killed at different points in Sonora, Mexico,
by the Apaches.
At the Comstock mine near Kingston, N
M, 500 900 in silver was taken out in five
uays Dy thlIty Heh'
The merchants of Folsom, who were re-
Gently burned out, are contracting for the
erection of new buildings.
The water in the Yuba river is clearer
than has been known since hydraulic mining
was instituted in California.
Mrs. A. E. James, of Kaysville. U. T.,
was thrown from buggy at Salt Lake this
week and had her neck broken.
Assays ranging from $50 to sIoo per ton
was taken from samples of ore obtained from
the Northern Light mine, in Douglas Co.
The Puma Indians, hereditary enemies of
the Apaches, are to be pursuaded to raise
force for active field work against the hos
| tiles.
Parties have located 2,5oo acres of land
| near Idaho Sink, in the Colorado desert, and
will go into the business OF raising early
fruit.
Seventeen hundred men are at work on the
railroad fifteen miles north Of San Miguel
They are pushing the work rapidly south
ward.
o. C. Chamberlain, formerly connected
with the navy on this coast and a merchant
Of San Francisco, died at Santa Ana this
week.
The vineyards and orchards OF Santa
Clara Valley give evidence of bountiful
crop. The fruit is larger and finer than ex.
pected.
Fred E. Van Meerbeke, the bycyclist from
New York via New Orleans, is in Yuma and
will reach San Francisco about the 10th of
September.
A drunken man at Nevada City was knock.
ed ten feet from the railroad track Thursday
by passing train, and received no damage
beyond few bruises.
Miss Matte Allison, of Albany Or, in.
dicted as an accomplice in the murder of
Charles Campbell, has been granted change
OF venue to Marion county.
E. J. Baldwin's agent states that no ad.
vantage will be taken of the illegal manner
in which Mr.. Baldwn's assessments were
put on the roll at Los Angeles.
The Chicago Mining and Reduction Com.
pany's mine at Ophir is looking better than
ever and easily produces sufficient ore to
keep the stamps in the mill pounding stead
lily.
There have been big rains all through
Arizona Territory, and plenty of grass and
water are insured. The washouts on the
railroads have been repaired and trains are
running on time.
The larvae from which the sand -gnats
spring by the million on Salt Lake, Utah,
are gathered every morning in nets at Lake
Park, the summer bathing place and buried
in the sand. In this way the place is being
gradually rid of the pests.
Yesterday at Los Angeles, Owen and ia.
son Brown, sons Of OSsawattomie Brown Of
Harper's Ferry fame, had come to town
from their home near the foothills. The vet |
erans found them in their country wagon. |
unhitched the horses, attached ropes to the |
vehicle and dragged 1t triumphantly along |
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