Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-08-25
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Mare Island Navy Yard employs 42o men.
J. F. Robson killed himself in Stockton,
Utah, Friday.
E. Frodsham Jr. was drowned near Port
Costa Saturday.
The Gold Cliff mine al Angels, Calveras
county, has suspended.
Solano shows a decrease Of ninety one
| school children in one year.
Henry Webber has been held for trial at
| Folsom on the charge Of arson.
San Jacinto. San Diego county, has CON-
pleted its seventy. fifth artesian we'll.
The nickel mines near Winnemucca, New,
are to be worked by London company.
Salmon have begun to run up Frazer river
in vast quantities. The run is six weeks
late.
The West Coast Land Company has paid
$2Io, 900 for the Ysabel rancho in San Luis
Obispo county.
1t is reported that work will begin at
at Newhall this week in the extension Of the
Southern Pacific through Ventura county.
Miss Mamie Conlon, a San Francisco
school teacher, was thrown from wagon on
the Houser ranch, Sonoma county, Sunday
and killed.
d. G. Miller Krause has been convicted at
San Jose of obtaining money under false
pretences, and sentenced to sixty day i'm.
prisonment.
The new town Of Croker recently laid
out six miles south of the Paso Roble
| Springs, is creating boom in real estate in
that vicinity.
| There are no Indians in the Sierra Ma.
dres, according to information received at
Tombstone, and Capt. Lawton and Lieut.
Gatewood are on their way back.
P.S. Reed of Sierra Madre, Los Angeles
county, who owns a separate water right,
has just refused an offer $1,000 per inch for
all he will sell from his canyon.
Herman Freres, who had been convicted
with circumstantial evidence Of the murder
OF E. Cooley of Jay Hawk in Ell Dorado
county, last April, has confessed his guilt.
1t is reported that one gunsmith in Los
Angeles sold seventeen Winchester rifles in
| one day, about week since, to Cinnamon,
who are said to be supplying themselves
with weapons.
Two boys attempted to ride to Redding in
| the lumber hume Of Holbrook & Phelps last
| Saturday. One was killed and the other
had leg broken. The boys were the sons
| Of Armen Trout.
Carrie F. Bager, has been appointed
Postmistress at Aqua Caliento, Sonora coun-
| ty, and Thomas Jefferson Brewer has receiv-
ed the appointment of Postmaster at Hid.
| reth, Fresno county.
During quarrel Friday between Isaac N.
Robinson and Patrick Mulligan of Eureka
township, Nevada county, over the right to
divert water on Little Canyon creek, the
latter shot and killed the former.
Rewards aggregating $4,000 have been
offered for the apprehension of the murder
ers of Barney Martin and his family near
Vulture, A. T. The arrest Friday of c. 7.
Stanton, a citizen OF Weaver, A. T., charged
with the crime, has created great excitement
at Phoenix, A. 7.
1t now appears that the Indian killed by
the man Montgomery, near Clifton, A. T.,
and whose head was publicly exhibited, was
one of party of hunters from the reserva.
ton and was killed while STOPPING over
deer he had just killed.
The safe Of Louis Jacobson, Postmaster at
Redwood City, was blown open Saturday
night, and over 81 600 stolen. About 5000
of the property was in stamps and money
belonging to the Government. There is a
supposed clue to the thief in the person of a
stranger who was noticed on the street. dur.
ing the day.
A large force Of men are at work build
ing new trail up Wilson's Peak to the
scene Of the new and rich gold strike near