Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-03-27

BY consent Of the counsel on both
sides, the case of Calvin Pratt, charged
with forgery, was continued by Police
Judge Rix Wednesday until next Thurs.
day.
Orders have gone from Los Angeles
to Kansas City for several carloads Of
corn. 1t costs there IS cents per bush
el, with freight 80 cents. The home
product can be had at 81.
Tacoma, w. T., has an interesting
chicken stealing case on hand. Six
persons have been arrested and charged
with burglary and larceny in entering
the City Marshal's premises.
Susanville, Wheatland, Huron, Ba.
kersfeld and Vallejo indorsed, Monday
night, the Sacramento Anti Chinese
Convention. Much activity was shown
in the boycott of the Chinese.
A fir tree cut down on the ranch 'of
John Ely, near Santa Rosa, contained
inside of the trunk eleven gallons OF
pure balsam OF fir. That was the
amount saved, and it is thought that as
much more was lost.
A canoe containing three Indians and
an Indian woman, was upset last Wed
nesday between Victoria and Race
Rocks. The canoe had a cargo Of sup
plies for the lighthouse, and was picked
up floating bottom upwards.
Mrs. A. E. Erwin has applied to the
Probate Court for letters of adminisra.
ton on the estate Of the Ex-Governor,
William Irwin, her deceased husband.
The property is worth about IS, 900 and
the heirs are the widow and one daugh-
ter.
The action brought by Henry Toomey
against William Dumphy to recover
S2s, 900 commissions for finding a pur.
chaser for the Battle Mountain ranch,
Nevada, at a price of $3.50, 900, will
be tried, by agreement, by Judge Levy,
OF San Francisco.
Col. II. P. McCleave, of Tomales,
says that rust and the Hessian fly have
attacked the grain in his section, and in
some fields it has already been badly
hurt. The Sonoma County Assessor
reports the damage as general in the
fields along the coast.
Eastern railroad men at Los Angeles
think Fairs purchase of the South Pa
ci6c Coast Railroad was made in the
interest Of the Denver and Rio Grande
narrow gauge. The line will probably
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the Yosemite and pass thence down the
San Joaquin Valley to San Francico.
The hop growers of Sacramento met
Wednesday and re'' lived that boycott.
ing was lawless, strikes at industry and
imperils prosperity. The action Of the
hop growers Of Mendocino county, Vac.
aville and Newcastle was indoTsed, as
was also the memorial OF the recent
Anti-Chinese State Convention to Con-
gress. The further admission of Chi.
nese was opposed and the abrogation of
the BurlingAme Treaty favored.
Wong All Yung, a woman, and her
son aged about eleven years, were be.
fore Judge Sawyer Of the United States
Circuit Court this morning on writs of
habeas corpus, having been refused
landing from the Oceanic, as they had
no return certificates. The woman said
that she had lived at Chico, Weaver
vile and San Francisco, and that she
was sent to China by her husband. The
woman and boy were identified by
several Cinnamon and by special
watchman in Chinatown. Collector of
the Port, Tinnin, resident of Weaver
vile, stated that he had never seen the
woman or her husband in that town.
The Court allowed the woman and
child ~ land