Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-06-26
STATE AND COAST NEWS.
Grain fires are numerous.

w. T.
Cracksmen are trying to obtain booty
at Stockton.
The California Southern is to build a
wharf at San Diego.
Fresno raisin makers are anticipating
heavy crop this season.
A fine bed Of gypsum has been dis.
covered near Phoenix, A. T.
The Schuessler Winery at Yuba City
was destroyed by fire this week.
Los Angeles consumes about three
thousand barrels of petroleum monthly.
A vein of alum has recently been dis
covered near Clifton, Graham county
A. 7.
Two men attempted to rob a street.
car this week, in the suburbs of Santa
Clara.
Al Price, tramp, was shot in the leg
at San Jose by an officer, while resisting
| an arrest.
Jack Sullivan, an old resi- dent Of Can.
delaria, was found dead in his cabin,
I Monday afternoon.
A blight of some kind is causing the
shedding of fruit in the raisin grape
vineyards of Pomona.
Annie Thompson, a squaw, has been
sent to State Prison for ten years for
burglary from Oroyille.
The proposed new reservoir at San
Jacinto, San Diego county, will hold
1000, 600 gallons of water.
Charles Rasch, of Sprague, w. T.,
recently lost an eye by the cork from a
soda water bottle striking him.
The head gardener at Hayward's
p'a;e at San Mateo was robbed of cloth,
ing by sneak thief this week.
The child's skull was broken, and he
has not regained consciousness. Mrs.
Miner suffered no broken bones.
The gap between the Oregon and
California Railroad systems will be re-
duced to no miles by the first of July.
The Arizona pioneers are to hold
general Territorial mass meeting to ex-
press their views on the Indian question.
John Buloli, an Italian miner, was
poisoned at Grizzly Flat this week.
Suychnine was placed in his dinner.
basket.
Milton McGee has been convicted at
Oroville Of burglary STEALING chickens)
and sentenced to sixty years in the pen
iJen,iary.
Joseph Marti, aged twenty years, liv-
ing within four miles of Stockton, had
he side of his face blown off Tuesday,
by the accidental discharge OF his gun.
All interest in Indian affairs now cen
ters in the Sierra Azul, Sonora, where
the main band Of Apache hosliles is
known 10 BE- secreted with their squaws
and wounded bucks.
The prosecution in the case of Har-
Ian, for the killing of Craft at Wood
land, rested their case this week, The
defense, il is thought, will also finish
their testimony this week.
Louis Clark, one of the two men who
murderously assaulted the two Draper
brothers, English tourists, near Soledad
last month, has been sentenced to TWEEN
ty-one years at San Quentin.
Work has commenced on the exten.
sion of the Atchison system Of railroads
down the valley below Riverside. This
is the road that is to connect the Atchi-
son system with Los Angeles.
The lady who fell from the trestle
near Taylorvllle last Friday, on the
North Pacific Coast Railroad, is Mrs.
Milner. She and her child fell 10 the
rocks, twenty two feet below.
Mrs. Bundy, of Shngle Springs, FL
Dorado county, has obtained a verdict
for 5000 damages from Samuel Magn
ness for an assault, which originated in
a quarrel over nest OF eggs. She sued
for $4,000
the members of the Arizona Bar de-
ny that they signed petition charging
that he recently appointed Chief JUS
tice, Shields, was incompetent. The
rejection by the United States Senate of
Shields nomination has created much
feeling.
NJ. Haley and Ben Lovely while driv-
ing in Fast San Jose Sunday morning
about one O'Clock, were hailed by two
men. They whipped up the horse when
the men fired The horse was struck
with buckshot and died shortly after
ward.
The remains Of a man were found in
an old and abandoned tunnel at the
New Almaden mines and the Coronor's
jury established The fact that they were
those of Gumecindo Luera who disap
peared about twenty years ago. A Pis-
tol was by the side OF the remains and
bullet hole in the skull, but whether
death resulted from murder or suicide,