Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-07-31

= Oregon has one newspaper to every a,2oo
people.
"White eye" is affecting cattle near Ash.
land. Or.
Independence, Iayo county, is rapidly re-
building.
Corn Crews nicely near San Miguel with :
out irrigation.
The woods around Truckee are flied
with busy men.
The MillvilIe coal discoveries give prom
Use Of a bonanza, rg s.
Redding is preparing boom to catch the
Big Bend drive Of logs.
The Steam laundry at Phoenix, A. T.,
has been forced to shut down. t.
Hop growers Of Sonoma will pay 81 per
100 pounds for picking this season.
Red Bluff busines men all close their
places at 8 o'clock in the evening.
-Four locations of oil claims in the
North Anaheim oil region were made on
last Monday.
A scheme is on foot to open up magnifi-
cent boulevard from Los Angeles to Santa
Monica beach.
Fifty.six trains arrive and depart daily
from Los Angeles, beside from six to twelve
specials daily. s5
Large schools Of trout have been noticed
in Coos Bay racently. 1t is said that th-
run Is unprecedented.
Newcomers are unable to find houses to
rent at San Diego, and yet numbers of
houses are being erected.
Two companies of the ninth Infantry
passed through Wilcox, A. T., this week
en- route to Fort Thomas.
Cotton claims to be the third shipping
point in the State, San Francisco and Los
Angeles being the first two.
Four big teams loaded with about so,o
pounds Of wool passed through Fall River,
Wednesday, en- route south.
w. Saunders, she Oregon murderer, who
recently escaped from prison, was recap
tured yesterday near Stuslaw.
The Petaluma Board Of Health declares
that no case OF leprosy has been found
among the Chinese in that city.
Fishing boats fairly swarm on Monterey
Bay, trolling for sea bass. Barracuda are
expected to be plentiful shortly.
d. NJ. Bardwell, a teamster, was found
dead from overhead by the side of his team,
neai Phoenix, A. T., few days ago.
r. O. Brian. publisher OF a paper at
Nanaimo, B. c., has been committed for
trial on two charges OF criminal libel, pre-
fered by K. Dunsmuir.
The Chau1auqua Assembly at Long
Beach, Los Angeles county, proved a very
interesting meeting and was we'll attended.
The session closed yesterday.
A boy living near Scholls Ferry. Or,
climbed tree, and passing hunter, seeing
only part Of the body, fred upon him. The
boy had several shot in his shoulder and
thigh.
A canal seven miles long, with a carrying
capacity Of 5000 inches, has been com
pleted at Azusa, Los Angeles county, to
take water from the San Gabrial river for
irrigation purposes.
E. B, Turner, who reached Merced Satur-
day and registered himself from Calistoga.
was found in his room at the Toulumne
Hotel with his throat cut, but not dead. 1t
was case Of suicide.
The developments at Meadow Lake, the
mining camp in Nevada comfy, have been of
such q character that many miners and
prospectors are preparing to leave for the
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Truckee. Fl
The citizens OF Washington, Nevada
county, notified A. G. Hoffman and E. B.
McPhetridge OF Msrysville to leave that
vicinity yesterday. The people claim that
they were there as spies. The mandate
was obeyed.
A proposition is on foot to extend
small iron pipe from the Chandler oil we'll
at Petrolia to San Pedro harbor, where it
will steadily discharge a small stream of
oil on the water and make it a placid sea,
on whose breast the ships that boat shall
have no barnacles. r
The surveyors on the extension of the
Southern Pacific Railway are now in camp
at Paso Robles Springs, having run the line
from San Miguel to that point. A new
town, having great promise, has been laid
out on the Paso Robles Ranch, six miles
south Of the springs
Well borers on Il enega ranch, within
six miles Of Los Az .es, recently discovered
a large outflow of natural gas, and an incor-
poration, called the Mexican Oil and Gas
Company, has been formed with capital of
$7, ,ooo, 900 to furnish gas to Los Angeles
and surrounding towns.
Eddie Wright, eleven years old, the son
of Rev. M. Wright of Riverside, while in