Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-06-19
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

900.
Muscatel is a new town in Fresno
county,
Diphtheria is prevalent among the
Piute children at Wadsworth, New.
Chico is to rebuild at once the recent
ly-destroyed buildings on the race track.
The cavalry in Arizona is to be sup
piled with better and longer range
gun.
A pet bear seized and badly lacerated
child of w. II. Reynolds, at Dag
gett, this week.
The United States Deputy Marshals
OF Utah make midnight calls upon po-
lygamist mormons.
The South Pacific Coast road has ac-
cumulated material at Almaden for an
extension to Gilroy.
Guaymas is threatened with water
famine. The railroads are bringing
water from Hermosllo.
Los Angeles fruit-dealers are pack
ing good oranges in dry sand to keep
lOl AoullllllIi anu i All uSC.
Trout are killed by Indians in Neva.
da county by placing an emulsion of
soaP-root plant in the streams.
A drive of 4 900, 900 feet of logs will
be started down the Sacramento river
for Redding about the first Of next
month.
The Harlan case is progressing at
Woodland. The testimony is the same
as was given at the preliminary exami-
nation.
The Apaches captured a Mexican
near Nogales. A. r., yesterday, tied
him to a tree and hacked him to death
with knives.
Last week lightning struck in the
dense mountain forest west Of Fall
River Valley, setting a considerable
area ablaze.
NJ. Kalkman, convicted Of an attempt
to commit robbery, was sentenced at
Los Angeles this week to five years in
San Quentin.
There are I,Soo Cinnamon and 800
white men at work on the railroad ex-
tension at Soledad. Fifteen miles Of
track have been laid.
About 5000 acres of grain were de-
stroyed by fire in the fields near Los
Banos, Merced county, the first Of this
week. The loss is about S25, 900.
Eight or ten men and FIVE or six plow
aud 90 a xUnrl- on the
Owens River Canal. The big plowing
machine will be put on some time next
week.
The prospect Of obtaining jury at
Hollister, in the second trial of Prewitt,
for the murder Of DR.. Powers, is very
slim only one juror has SO far been OBJ
tanned.
Mrs, Ida Hatch, wife Of Judge
Hatch of the Superior Court Of Santa
Barbara county, was yesterday admitted
to practice in the Superior Court at
Los Angeles.
Seven bodies were found in tie ruins
at Vancouver, B. c. Three thousand
persons are homeless, and the aggregate
loss will be $500, 600. a few frame
buildings are being run up.
J. NJ. Davis of the Los Angeles En-
press, while trying TO take his family
to Antelope Valley by wagon, lost his
way and wandered three days in the
mountains, the whole family suffering
dreadfully for lack OF water.
The number of personal hair breadth
escapes from the Indians occasionally
telegraphed from Arizona, show remark
ably bad Workmanship on the part Of
the Indians, or craving desire on the
narrators for newspaper notonety.
A dispatch from Guaymas, dated the
18th. says: The troops from Yaqui
river returned today, Several Gov,
ernors have pronounced in favor Of
CaJeme, who is reported with 700 men,
well armed, at Mariscas, near the
mouth Of the river.
Thomas Brown, the stage-robber,
who made his escape from Folsom We'd
nesday, placed cayenne pepper in his
shoes to disconcert the dogs which he
knew would be put upon his trail. The
ruse was partially successful. 1t is not
doubted that Brown will soon be cap.
tured.
Mrs. John Sebers, OF Winters, tied
her IS-months old child in a high chair
the other day and then left the room
for a short time. When she returned
she found that the baby had slipped
down, and becoming entangled in the
cloth used for fastening it in the chair,
had been strangled to death.
There is trouble threatened by the
Haulapai Indians at Kingman and
Peach Strings, A. T. The protection
given by the whites TO the family Of
the Indian Pisa, who recently in jeal.
Gus rage shot his squaw and wounded
seven bucks and squaws and then kill
ed himself, is the alleged cause of the