Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-03-20
STATE AND COAST NEWS.


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Cotton, Cal, talks Of having a vigi-
! lance committee.
The Pasadena Citrous Fair opened
Wednesday with fine display.
The Third District Agricultural Fair
will be held at Chico in August.
Ukiah had snowfall Of three inches
Wednesday, the first in four years.
Santa Barbara is not able to accom-.
modate comfortably all its visitors.
The loss by the sinking Of the steam
ship Oregon is placed at $1,000, 900.
Strawberries sell for fifteen cents a
quart in Pomona, Los Angeles county.
The hotels at Livingston, Merced
county, have discharged their Chinese
help.
A Texas man will set out 900 acres
of land in Ventura in olive trees this
season.
The deficiency OF Cashier Wilson Of
the Albuquerque Bank will aggregate
only s., 900.
The removal Of Gov. Murray, Of
Utah, has cast gloom over the Gentiles
at Salt Lake.
The snow piled up in the mountains
OF Arizona promises an abundance OF
water for irrigation.
Charles f. Haswell, of Stevens Bar
Ferry at Jacksonville, Or, committed
suicide Wednesday.
A colony Of seven hundred Welch
miners will shortly leave Pennsylvania
for Washington Territory.
James Pipes has been convicted, at
San Jose, OF sending obscene letters to
a respectable young lady.
Clarke Springer, carpenter from
San Francisco, was accidentally drown
ed at Stockton Wednesday.
The construction of a broad gauge
road from San Jose TO the Almaden
mines, is to be begun at once.
Fred Obi shot and killed Frank Han
brough at the Hildreth mines in Fresno
county, the FIRST OF the week.
Thirty vegetable gardeners at Stock
ton have organized an association 10
assist in boycotting the Chinese.
| Theodore Estrada was killed at L. J.
Baldwin's Santa Anita ranch Thursday
by cask Of wine falling on him.
A fox hunt, attended by ladies and
gentlemen from the Arlington, took
place at the Hope ranch, Santa Barbara,
Tuesday.
The examination Of Charles Gassen,
a Democratic politician Of Los Angeles,
on the charge of buying stolen cattle,
began Thursday.
| Fire destroyed The old established
Peoria House, situated on Camptonville
road, eighteen miles from Marysville,
the first of the week.
Three sluice robbers were surprised
at Niven's drift claim, near Nevada
City, Monday night. Shots were fired
at them, but they escaped.
George Strahord, a restaurant cook
at Sacramento, has come into possession
Of SIS, 900 from the estate Of his moth
er, who died in Jersey City.
George Q. Cannon's case was called
| Wednesday at Salt Lake in the Third
District Court. He did not respond,
and his bail Of S2S, 900 was forfeited.
Dudley Sale, an old resident of Elko
county, died suddenly at that place last
Thursday evening, aged S. years. He
was a native Of Rockbridge, Virginia.
Billy Edwards shot and fatally wound
ed John Connors at the Mayhower mine,
Forest Hill, Placer county, last Tues
day. There is talk of lynching Ed
wards.
| ]. II. Hamilton and Robert McIsaacs,
the Cloverdale and Mendocino stage
robbers have been sentenced to FIVE and
six years respectively in the State
Prison.
The snow storm has killed all the
peaches and apricots at Hiko, Nevada,
and throughout Phahranagat Valley the
spricots were all killed, the trees being
in bud.
| The Chinese at San Louis Obispo
hold monopoly in the vegetable busi.
ness, and when white man starts in
they cut prices SO low that he has to
give it up.
William Sampson, who left Eureka,
Nevada, two weeks ago for Butte City,
Montana, writes home that the number
of idle men in that section is something
almost appalling.
Tramps robbed lace peddler named
James Curtis between May6eld and
Mountain View, Wednesday. High.
way robberies in that vicinity are Of
frequent occurrence.
Experiments are being made in Wash
ington Territory in the manufacture OF
| snrure pum and the monopoly so long