Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-01-30
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

Tulare has begun work on new
roller Touring mill.
The Central and Union Pacific roads
are all running on time.
While on a spree John J. Wall killed
himself at Helena, Nj. T., last We'd
nesday.
Mrs. F. J. Fidalgo jumped into the
Russian river at Duncan's Mills during
the freshet and was drowned.
A Chinaman at Victoria, B. c., shot
with bird shot while stealing chickens,
cut his own throat to end his sufferings.
A Chinaman resisted arrest near Lew
iston, Trinity county, yesterday, and
was killed while attempting to escape.
The body of Thomas Williams, for
which reward Of 500 was offered,
was found in the bay at Vallejo, last
Tuesday.
The Chinese merchants at Victoria,
kitchens for the relief of their starving
countrymen.
The recent storm demolished the last
building which marked the site Of Ham
ilton, the once thriving town and county
seat of Butte.
A coal vein was recently discovered
near Olequa, Cowlitz county, w. T.,
has sent swarms of prospectorS into that
section Of country.
A man named Bush, while attempting
=, 4 ti, IN
the San Pasquale Valley, San Diego,
last week, was drowned.
Miss Amanda Taylor, whose parents
reside at Fresno Flats, was drowned
while attempting to cross Mariposa creek
on horseback Sunday morning.
Edward Everett, a printer, well
known in Bodie and also IN San Fran
cisco, was shot in the leg in San Die
so, Sunday, by rough known as Tex
as Tom.
Rober, Pitt, convicted for murder in
| Shasta county, in November, 1882, has
been pardoned by the Governor because
at the time of the murder Pitt had The
| deliTium tremens.
Lewis O'Neill convicted of the mur.
der of Lewis Mcdaniel of Ashland, Or,
on November 20, 1884, was sentenced
yesterday to death. The 18th of March
is the day fixed for the hanging.
Two men, in attempting to so to Red
Bluff, Monday, from Cones ranch, were
upset from raft in a slough One of
them swan ashore, but the other was
IN tree for hours before he was res
| cucd.
A dead body was found in the Mer-
ced river at Smelling last Saturday,
which was supposed to be that of Mich
ael Carroll OF Jackson, Amador county,
who was drowned in Mariposa county
some time ago.
G.. O. Buxton, the Sierra Valley stage
driver who was thought to have perish.
ed in the recent severe snow storm, has
been found all right. He wisely stop
ped at remote station, and did not
venture into the storm.
Walter Stone, who left Los Angeles
ten days ago for San Francisco with
considerable money on his person, has
not been heard from by his family, and
fears are entertained that he may have
met with an accident or foul play.
w. X. Williamson was stopped on
the highway near the New England
Mills, near Sacramento, Tuesday night,
and robbed of $500. He was then tied
near the railroad track and left there.
He got loose and went to the section.
house, with his hands still bound, and
was given shelter.
A lady OF Santa Rosa applied to the
city authorities lately for permission to
shoot rats with fife around her prem
ises, which are inside the city limits.
On being asked il she could take the
life of a rat at fifty PAGES, she answered
that she could not, but her sister could
blow humming birds head off at
thirty PAGES.
Last Thursday J. X. McComber Of
Folsom undertook to kill an old and
sickly OK belonging to George Handy,
the animal being in such a condition
that it were better dead. He placed
the muzzle of his gun close to the ox's
head and fired, but the bullet rebounded
from the skull and hit the shooter near
the corner of the right eye, making
quite wound, and showing that the
| variation of an inch or so in the course
of the bullet would have caused the
loss of an eye.
Unitdd States Deputy Marshal Collins
was arraigned before Commissioner Me-
| Kav, at Salt Lake, Monday, on the
charge of shooting McMurrin. The lat.
ter attempted an assault on Collins and
was shot. The Commissioner discharged
the prisoner, saying the proof was COM
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