Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-09-18
COAST ITEMS.

The preserve factory at Pomona has done
good work this season.
The experiment in cotton. growing near
Winters is proving successful.
Trains will begin running on the Vancou
yer Island Railway, Oct. Is,.
San Diego proposes to establish factory
and deliver ice for one cent a pound.
Anaheim has an extra supply OF tramps
who won't work for any kind of wages.
An expedition has left Los Angeles in
search Of the traditional Gunsight mine.
A company has been formed to publish
another Republican morning paper at Los
Angeles.
Crcu, licenses can be obtained at Los
Angeles now for $500 day This is of re-
duction OF one half
John w. Mackay is in Victoria, B. C.,
looking alter his intetests in the Postal
Telegraph Company.
The Santa Rosa Rep"5ltem says that
vigilance committee is needed there to deal
with the numerous tramps.
A. Demouset has been sent to San Q uenlin
| for five years from Los Angeles for having
abducted young French girl.
Arthur Avery wounded himself in the
breast, Tuesday, at Stockton, while careless
ly handling shotgun. The wound is not
dangerous.
The schooner Eliza Mitchell, which went
ashore near Hueneme, has been hauled off.
Much grain had to lie thrown overheard to
! tighten her.
There is much complaint a, Seattle be-
cause unprincipled white men sell liquor to
the Indians who have gathered for the hop
picking season.
All the sealing schooners from Behring
Sea are in port. The seasons catch has been
profitable. The San Diego reached Victoria,
B. C., Tuesday.
| Safe blowers succeeded in getting about
1850 at Milton, Calayeras county. Tues
day night, from the stores of Peterson &
| Dake, and Hinton & Brown.
Work on the Almaden branch of the
| Southern Pacific Railroad is being vigorous.
| ly prosecuted, the track being now laid to
point FIVE miles southerly from Oak Hill.
well is being sunk at Chico for the pur-
pose of supplying that place with water AT
| a depth Of twenty eight feet pan OF gravel
was washed out which gave no less than
| twenty eight "colors."
In the Superior Court at Auburn, Placer
county, Tuesday, William Edwards was
sentenced to life imprisonment in San Quen.
tin for the murder of John O'Connor al
Forest Hill last Spring.
Clara Murdock was arrested at Port
Townsend. W. T., yesterday for smuggling.
Considerable opium was found on her per
son, and it is thought she has been extensive.
ly engaged in the business.
The dead body OF child was found in
bundle which was hung on a roadside fence
near Williams, Colusa county, few days
ago. Medical experts declared the child
was alive when placed there, and had actu.
ally died of exposure.
The Shasta Courier has been informed
that \ London and Leeds company of cap-
talistsS have been formed TO work what is
known as ''rebellous' ores in Shasta coun-
ty. They claim that under new German
and English processes they can make So per
ton ore, delivered at works, pay.
The railroad company received tele.
gram on Friday last, says the Sacramento
RefO,d- Union, from company of London
capitalists, sienifyng their acceptance of
terms for the purchase OF tract of 81, 900
acres in Tehaha county. The land consists
Of grazing and mountain land, of which
portion is timbered.
The men who have been working on the
big Gage Canal, and who were paid Oft and
and have been spending their money here
this week, have, most of them, got rid of
their spare cash and departed in search of
another Job. For a week past the saloons in
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