Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-04-24
STATE AND COAST NEWS.
GIeanings from Our Exchanges.

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Butte, NJ. T., has five counterfeiters
under arrest.
A 73-pound boulder was found in a
bale of hay at Auburn recently.
James McCue has been acquitted for
shooting "Big" Byrnes at Cotton.
A Santa Barbara bush produces
roses III inches in circ umference.
A piece Of real estate at Riverside
brought over ST. per acre recently.
There will be about $50, 600 head of
sheep shorn in Fresno county this Spring
The oil belt in Ventura county will
increase the taxation of the county
about 81, 900.
A St. Helena business man stole a
doughnut Gas a Joke" He has been
held in $50 bonds for trial.
Ichi Ban. Modesto, Miss Courtney
and Moonlight were winners at the
races at Sacramento, Wednesday.
Many peach orchards in the vicinity
of Fresno have been seriously injured
this winter by a superabundance Of
water.
The California Southern runs three
trains day between Cotton and River
sides, to accommodate the rush Of
travel.
The trial Of w. P. Phillips, the odd
Juror in the Prewett case at Hollister,
for perjury, began yesterday with
closed doors.
Crockett Jones killed his wife by
choking and wrenching her neck last
Saturday, at Potklatch, fourteen miles
east of Lewiston, Idaho.
Six houses entered by burglars at
Tulare Saturday night. Ten tramPs
have been arrested and many Of the
stolen articles recovered.
A resolution was adopted at public
meeting at Petaluma Monday night to
boycott all Sacramento river potatoes
raised and controlled by Chinese.
The shipments of oranges East to
date from Los Angeles aggregate about
I,4oo carloads. About 500 carloads
remain, for which there is strong de.
mand.
Theodore Warlick has been convic-
ted at Mount Idaho, Idaho, of the
murder Of II. c. Savage last January,
and has been sentenced to he hanged
June 9th,
Mary c Miller, the widow, and Dora
Miller, the daughter, were appointed
by the Court yesterday at Napa ex-
ecutrixes of the will OF the late Senator
without bonds.
Seven pounds of giant powder and 100
feet of hose were found near Chinatown,
at San Jose, yesterday, and it is supposed
some crank was plotting the destruction
OF that quarter.
The Auburn mine and mill near Dun.
Glen, Humboldt county, has been sold
for taxes, amounting to SI,oS4. The
property cost the Chicago company
owning it 5000, 900.
Capt. Dorst has given up his pursuit
Of the Apaches. He found it impossi-
BILE to cross the mountains with pack
train, besides the enlistment Of his
scouts runs out in a few days.
The strike of the miners in the
Seattle coal region continues, with slight
hope of an early settlement. The
strikers threaten a general boycott Of
the Oregon Improvement Company.
Miss Jefferys Lewis had to request an
audience in Southern California town
recently to cease munching and crush
ing the shells of peanuts, so that the
voices of the actors might be heard.
An ill-feeling between Mexicans and
cowboys near Albuquerque, N. NJ, has
already resulted in bloodshed, and it
is believed that number of killings
will yet be the result of the quarrels.
A vigilance committee at Tulare yes
terday broke into the Jail and taking
therefrom the tramps who were arrested
for robbery. led them half mile from
town and set them free under promise
never to return.
The Los Gatos NsWs says: A. S.
Austin picked strawberries from his
ranch last TueSdey which measured five
and one half inches in circumference.
This looks as if a success of the straw
berry business might be made in this
section.
One day last week somebody robbed
the sluiceS in the Hughes hydraulic
claim near the Junction, Calaveras
county. Ben Hughes, the owner of the
mine, says the robbers must have got
in the neighborhood Of $26o as the re-
suit OF their labors.
The new Gentle postmaster at Provo,
Utah Territory, is being boycotted by
his rabid Mormon enemies. 1t is said
that by an organized system nearly all
The LETTERS in the city are collectedsand