Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-11-10
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Angeles.
Grass Valley, CAL, will soon have ma j.
tional bank.
Contra Costa county is coming to the front
as grape growing section.
The nucleus of labor party was estab-
lished at Truckee last Thursday.
An English company has been organized
TO work rcbellious ores in Shasta county.
Tehama county Supervisors have decided
to give IS cents per scalp for jack-rabbits.
Surveyors are engaged in locating the
Donahue extension railroad from Cloyerdale
to Ukish.
The business of refining asphaltum for
shipment to Europe has been commenced at
Los Angeles.
Mrs. o. Howard tried to kill herself last
Wednesday at San Jose, by shooting herself
in the left breast
The new Coronado wharf at San Diego is
larger than any wharf in San Francisco or
on Puget Sound.
7. S. Van Dorm, the alleged Sonoma coun-
ty detaulter, has furnished bail on three ad-
ditional charges.
Watermelons were selling in the streets OF
Alturas, Modoc county, while snow was fall
ing thick and fast last Friday.
Another rich vein of ligneous coal has just
been opened on R. A. Kings ranch near
Mark West, Sonoma county, Cal.
Thomas J. Harding was convicted Friday
at Helena, NJ. T.. for the killing Of the
Lemdale stage driver last Spring.
Joseph Klockenbaum was badly lacerated
by the machinery of the Buckeye Min Com.
pany at Marysville on Thursday last.
Marriage licenses taken out the past three
months at Marysville, Cal, are more numer.
Gus than ever known there in the same space
Of time.
Fred Winkleman, the Baker City boy
murderer, last week made two attempts to
sentence is for life.
Capt. J. D. Potts, pioneer Of Tehama
county, aged sixty eight years, died at Red
Bluff Friday last. He was favoratly known
throughout Northern California.
There are two large, new, raisin vineyards
at Fresno, one of 200 acres owned by a gen
tleman from Texas, and another, of = full
section, by large land owner.
At large anti Chinese meeting at True
kee Saturday night, the agents OF the own
ers of the land in Chinatown announced that
every Chinaman should be evicted.
Benjamin F. Marshal, an old resident of
Eureka county, aged 81, was found dead in
in his cabin last week search revealed
81 900 in coin hidden away in the cabin.
James Kelley in endeavoring to rob Fred
erck Kalusba, at Portland, Or, administer
ed drug which proved fatal, for which Kel-
ley is now on trial, charged with murder.
A sweet potatoe is on exhibition at Chico,
thirty-onc inches in circumference and
weighing eight and three-quarter pounds. 1t
was received in q sack of potatoes bought
for Use at the hotel.
A carpenter named J. w. Robinson was
accidentally killed Wednesday at the Occi
dental mill, at Eureka, CAL, by being
caught in the betting He was forty seven
years Of age and native of New Brunswick.
The Ventura Free Press says: Construc,
ton trains are now at work about ten miles
this side of Newhall and work is rapidly
progressing A force of about 900 men is
at work We are infor med that as soon as
tbs road reaches Camulos regular trains will
be run to that point
At the Union gold mine Saturday, sbou,
three miles from San Andreas, CAL, the
night shift, in running crosscut from the
I2o.foot level, struck the footwall of the
lode, developing a three foot strata Of ore
showing breadth Of free gold all through
the quartz, which assays $50, 900 per ton.
The Idaho which arrived at Victona, B.
c., Saturday, brings news of shocking