Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-01-16
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

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the Pitt river to Redding in June.
An Arctic fur seal was killed at
Olympia, w. T.. last Wednesday.
The Mormons denounce Governor
Murray's message as highly offensive.
Mrs. Sarah A. Wilson died at Red
Bluff, Tuesday, from an overdose Of
morphine.
Pancho Alviso fatally stabbed Rafael
Higuera in quarrel at the San Gabriel
Mission Monday night.
Andy Johnson, for the killing OF John
Boyd, at Ocean View, Sonoma county,
has been held for murder, without bail.
Mrs. J. B. Parker, Of East Portland,
Or, dropped dead Tuesday, while
quareling with neighbor over a dog.
John Livingston Of Panoche, Fresno
county, Cal, has been threatened with
death If he does not leave that county.
T. Burnett, who stabbed John Shinn
to death last December, at Geyserville,
has been held on a charge of murder,
without hail.
f. Henderson was arrested at Salt
| Lake the first Of this week. He is sup
posed to be the principal in an express
robbery IN Canada.
Two Gypsies were married under
the laws of the United States at Fresno
last week. Their own ceremonies were
discarded on this occasion.
Four offenders of the Unlawful Co
| habitation laws of Utah were caught at
West Jordan, near Salt Lake. yesterday.
They had hitherto avoided arrest.
Some miscreant entered the barn of
Dolores Juarez, near Napa, last Friday
and. with knife, cut the leg OF val
liable mare belonging to Ed. Topping.
/ The saloon men at Vancouver, w. t.,
are working hard to defeat the local
option bill before the Territorial LeIis-
| la,ure and have raised fund for the
purpose.
Young Pearson, who shot Green at
Nephi, Utah, last Sunday. has been ad-
mitted 70 bail in $4,000. Many re-
ports put in circulation Monday are now
found to have been exaggerated.
DIR. T. W. Reed has been arrested at
San Jose for attempting to horsewhiP
Rev. ]. W. Snowden, who is accused of
slandering a lady whom the doctor is to
marry. Mr.. Snowden denies the charge.
T. B. Gray, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for ten years from Og-
den, Utah, for seducing his stepdaugh.
ter, aged tweve years. He claimed
that he, not the girl, had been seduced.
The ordinance introduced into the
Sacramento Council, providing for the
removal Of the Chinese without the
city limits by the first day of March,
will be considered on Tuesday Of next
week.
Isom Frost, who murdered his neph.
ew, James Frost. Jr., at Little Lake,
Mendocino county, Cal, on the tenth
Of April last, has been found guilty,
the Jury recommending imprisonment
for life.
A man recently appeared on the
streets Of Denver driving spanking
team of fully developed elks worth
$500, and capable of travelling 100
miles a day. The children thought
Santa Claus had come to town.
All the Chinese who are cutting wood
at Truckee offer to cancel their contracts
and leave that place if paid for the
work already performed. The steam
laundry will commence work next week.
Prominent Chinese merchants were at
tached the first of this week.
The preliminary examination Of Chas.
II. Wilson, the San Francisco hackman
accused Of the murder of Mrs. Lena
Bowman, otherwise known as Ella Joyce,
at the Louvre House. on Sutter street,
New Years night, has been set by
Police Judge Rix for the 25th instant.
Sixteen people are reported to have
been killed by Indians in two weeks
along the ella river. The friends Of
these people must deeply realize the
benefit OF living under the projecting
aegis OF the republic" 1t is not at all
clear that a single Indian has been
killed during these latter troubles.
Monday last a force OF men set to
work to bore an artesian well for NJ.
Rooney, at Santa Rosa. Thursday, at
the depth Of forty feet, flowing stream
was struck and soon flooded everything
around. 1t caused considerable excite.
ment, from the fact that the county has
been boring three or four months on a
we'll, and without success.
| The up stage from Milton to Sonora,
Tuolumne county, was stopped on Funk
Hill at 7 o'clock Tuesday night by two
masked men. Express messenger Banks
hred at each highwayman, but with
,yha, efIec, is not known. The driver