Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-06-05

GIeanings from Our Exchanges.

Idle men are scarce in Placerville.
Farm hands are scarce about Santa
Rosa.
Beer is selling for IA cents glass
at Gault.
The steam laundry at Truckee is TO
start up again.
The Grand Prize mine at Tuscarora
has shut down.
Independence, Inyo county, is to ex-
penment in sinking for artesian water.
The barley yield in Southern Cali.
fornia is turning out quite up to the
earlier promises.
Cattle from Arizona now pass through
New Mexico with through bills of lad
ing without inspection.
The Shoshone Indians are holding a
grand fandango on the Humboldt river,
near Wells, this State.
Ex-senator Bones got the worst of a
fist fight, originating in a political dis
pute at Fresno, the other day.
The white men who have been enlist
ed to Gght the Apaches in Arizona are
to BE- paid $50 a month and rations.
Contracts have been awarded for the
construction of about twenty eight miles
of the Cascade division of the Northern
Pacific Road.
Santa Barbara wants the Chinese fish.
drying establishments removed from the
beach at that place, as they are said to
be nuisance.
The mail route from Mokelumne Hill
to West Point, Calaveras county, Cal,
has been expedited from three to six
times a week.
Ex Mayor Kalloch has gone into land
operations in Fresno county with a
partner. They propose to build up a
town at Sycamore.
Three polygamists received sentence
TO imprisonment and fine at Salt Lake
Thursday-Royal B. Young, Charles
Denney and Ludwig II. Berg.
A Fresno yiticulturist has made appG.
cation to the Anti.Chinese League Of
that place for about ninty women, girls
and boys, to pack the raisins on his
vineyard this coming season.
The business of catching seals and ex-
pressing oil therefrom is a thriving one
on the islands in the Santa Barbara
Channel. There are number of camps
where the business is engaged in.
A well authenticated report says Pa
cihc Coast engineers are between Santa
Barbara and Los Alamos, laying out the
most feasible route for the extension OF
their line of road to Santa Barbara.
A proclamation has been issued by
Gen. Martinez Of Mexico, calling on the
Yaquis TO surrender within twenty days
and receive pardon. In case of their re-
fusal the full power of the Government
will pursue them.
Tom Glover and John Taylor, old
residents Of Shasta county, have been
arrested on a charge of killing China,
man on Dry Creek last April. The
circumstances leading to the arrest are
not yet known publicly.
A veritable "sink, "akin to that Of the
Humboldt river, in Nevada, seem in
process of formation at the mouth of the
San Lorenzo. Where formerly large
stream cut its way through the shifting
odhhS W tllG bNIdilt bul - sliaA4 oAlNabit
easily stepped over, can be seen.
Edwin NJ. Crocker shot and killed Ly-
mon w Meacham Tuesday morning at
Bakersfield. Meacham was charged
with making defamatory remarks about
the family of brother of Crocker's,
and the dispute which followed led to
shooting. All parties are well known.
Two drunken Indians, elected from
the California and Oregon Railroad,
near Anderson, Shasta county, Sunday,
in revenge endeavored to wreck a
freight train by placing an obstruction
on the track. The engine passed over
the obstruction, which was secured,
and the noble redmen are being sought
for.
The Salt Lake Tji6nNe recently re-
vived the report that a narrow gauge
railroad is to be built from Utah to the
Pacific, crossing Southern Nevada and
entering California near the Big Tree
region. Stockton is hoping to make
connection with this projected road, by
means of the Calverous narrow gauge,
whose present terminus is Valley
Springs.
A Chinaman has been arrested at
Spokane Falls for having removed the
figures $50" from revenue stamp in
a very skillful manner and pasted them
on a 81 greenback in such manner as
to make it appear as $50 note. What
is most singular is the fact that he sue
ceeded in getting the bill changed, car
rying away for it $50 in good money.
He was not arrested until some days
afterward.
Shift Boss Henderson and seven min
ers named Borreo, IIumphries, Pestot,
Giacoma, Vigna, Pietro and Giovanetti
were sufiocated this week in the Eureka