Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-09-11
COAST ITEMS.

FISH.
The warehouses in Tularc county are all
filled with grain.
The grape crop en- Stanford's Vina ranch
this season is 1000 tons.
The Voting Registry of, TulAre county
has increased $50 since 1884,
About 400 Indians are encamped in Wal
Iowa Lake, Or, spearing red fish for winter
supplies.
An artesian we'll Mills Station, San Luis
Obispo county, is down $50 feet and will be
sunk still lower.
| John Joanovich, restaurant keeper, at
Sacramento, committed suicide near Wash
ington, Yolo county, last Saturday.
An effort is being made in the next Wash
! ington Territory Legislature to repeal the
Woman Suffrage and Local Option Acts.
| VIM Boggs and Miss Rivers Of Hollister
were married three miles out to sea from
Capitola last Tuesday. Paternal objections
were the cause of the marriage.
George Thomas has confessed 10 having
robbed the stage between Cloyerdale and
| Ukiah Monday He was arrested at Heads
burg, and cried like a child when the hand
cuffs were placed on him.
Thomas w Reid, we'll known as mag
netic healer, died at San Jose Saturday from
an excessive dose Of bromide Of potassium.
He had been drinking heavily and it is sup.
posed took the drug to induce sleep.
The Red Bluff Sentinel of September sd
says: carload of carpenters passed
through here on the $3.50 train Thursday. to
begin work on the railroad extension. The
railroad company wants all the men it can
get.
The Auburn Reba6iifan says: d. w. Lu-
beck came home from Tahoe last Friday.
He says there is some talk there that the
railroad company will soon build branch
line from Truckee to Tahoe, with q big
motel at the latter place.
J. T. Crum and - Leach have been hsld,
the former in $1,000 bonds and the latter
$500, at Chico, for poisoning the Biggs mare
at the race track during the recent racing
week. The preliminary examination showed
that Crum administered the poison.
In the grain field of c. II. Hoffman, near
| Merced, Tuesday, the harvester driving
wheel struck bowlder, producing sparks
which set fire to the standing grain. About
24o acres Of wheat, $50 acres of grass and
about $50 acres of stubble were burned.
During the entire campaign against Gerc.
nmo Captain Lawton has exercised the
greatest vigilance over the scouts in his com
mand. lie always had suspicion Of treach
cry on their part. Their cartridges were
counted out to them, and they were ordered
to return the shells, the penalty of disobcdi
ence or failure being death.
The closing of the saloons along the line
of the Northern Pacific beyond Cleelum has
given birth to new and most offensive class
of liquor dealers. They have their saloons
on the back of cayuse and their stock con-
cealed in gunny sacks. They neither pay
license nor rent, and travel from camp to
camp dealing out the vilest Of liquors with
an assurance which is bound to land them in
the penitentary.
The Willows, Colusa county, Cal, jour
nal Of September 4th says; "We are reli.
ably informed that work will be commenced
on the new railroad extension from Willows
west the FIRST of the coming week We
also understand that not less than three
hundred white men will be employed, and
no Chinese. The surveyors have placed
their grade-stakes as they went along, and
everything has the appearance Of immediate
action"
A Baker City, Or, paper gives an &C
count of the stopping of the Canon City
stage on the way to Baker City, by two men,
one with double ,barrcled shot gun and the
other with a revolver. Three Chinese pas. |
sengers were robbed OF $1,000, and Wells, |
Fargo & CO. box was taken. They de |
chned to take lady's satche with s. or 81 |
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