Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-11-27
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Chico win soon have an electric light.
San Luis Obispo has sixty three saloons.
San Diego county has eleven newspapers.
Scarlet fever has closed the schools at
Auburn.
A hard winter is predicted for Eastern
Oregon.
Napa Asylum consumes weekly 10000
pounds of beef.
Laborers are scarce in Tulare at $50 per
month and found.
The chain gang at San Bernsrdino refuse
to work in the streets.
The Goblin moth rs ravaging the apple or
ehards around Grass Valley.
Property Is advancing in Santa Rosa on
xccount of railroad prospects. 1
The sawmills at Glenbrook. Lake Tahoe,
have suspended operations for the winter.
The Bank Of Orange, Los Angeles county
has been organized with capital OF SIC, 900.
Yuba farmers are importing trees for tim
Der culture from the East and Walla Walla.
Helena, NJ T., wants bullion refinery in
connection with its United States Assay of.
fee.
The San Bernardino and San Diego Rail-
road Company has fled articles Of incorPor-
ssion.
The Camas No. ?. mine, in Wood river,
idaho, has been sold to Salt Lake parties for
$4,000.
Mr.. Mofehead, OF Hot Springs, Ark, COM
mitted suicide, near Shownigan Lake, B. c.,
last week.
The Oregon and California Railroad Com.
Dany is having all the bridges along its line
housed.in.
Oregon -four is taken to Idaho and sold
at 20 cents less on the barrel than the home
manufacture.
Mrs. Delphina J. Cutter has been appoint
ed Postmistress At Jenny Lind, Calaveras
county, California.
The journeymen bakers OF Los Angeles,
have been successful in q strike for shorter
hours, better pay, etc.
From one town alone in the Willamette
Valley during the past season 1000 doz.
en- eggs have been shipped to San Francisco.
John Rea was instantly killed and George
Detze fatally hurt by a fall of earth in a
canyon near Fort Douglas, u. T., this week.
Both were soldiers.
Rumors have been current at Bakersfield
during the past week regarding a settlement
OF the great water suit of Miller & Lux
and Haggin & Carr.
Work at the Anaheim petroleum wells is
progressing favorably. One we'll is down
600 feet, with good yield Of oil, but will be
sunk lower to increase the supply.
Dennis Delaney went into the pit OF the
gas-house at Menlo Park and lit match to
look at the machinery, when an explosion
occurred and Delaney was terribly burned.
Mrs.F. o. Ingham, Az W. Madison street,
Chicago, ILL.,, recommends Red Star Cough
Cure. few doses Of which gave her entire
relief from violent cold. Price, IS cents.
Southern California has never seen a sea-
son that began to compare with the present
for business activity and real estate trans
fers, and the season has hardly as yet be-
gun.
An Indian woman took the premium on
butter at the Spokane, w. T., Fair. She is
the wife Of Saltese, Chef Of the Occur
d'Alene Indians, and is very proud Of her
diploma.
There is an active demand for laborers to
work on the new irriga alton canals near Traver
and in the Mussel Slough country. Thirty
dollars per month and board is the usual
rate OF wages.
In prospecting for coal with q diamond
drill. at Roslyn, on the Upper Yakima, the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company struck
natural gas and run the prospecting engine
by the light Of the same.
Mrs. Barbara Hemphill, who was mangled
by the cars At Sacramento, Monday, while
endeavoring to save the fife Of her grandson,
had both legs amputated Wednesday half
way between the knees and hips.
The monster locomotive for the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company. to be used on
the switchback over the Cascades, has ar.
rived at Sprague, w. T. 1t has ten wheels,
and weighs in working order 20 900 pounds.
The cylinders are twenty-five inches in d.
ameter, and 36-inch stroke.
There is fear Of drouth al MERGED. The
teams which attempted to pillow this week
found work impossible, the ground not being
wet down more than three or four inches.
1t had been generally supposed the recent
rainfall had put the ground in a workable
condition.
Henry Hardy, the horse.thief who killed
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