Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-02-06
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

The captain of the Idaho carried
whisky to Alaska invoiced as pork.
Trains are now running through on
the Canadian Pacific to Coal Harbor,
Buck O'Neil, the Merced safe crack
er, has been sent to San Quentin for five
years.
An effort is being made at Hollister
to raise the liquor license to S.. 900 per
annum.
The Chinese truck dealers at Wood.
land have reduced their prices about
one fourth.
The Board of Supervisors of San
Mateo have decided not to increase the
liquor license.
A negro named Joe Hines was killed
at Visalia the first Of this week while
stealing chickens.
The contracts with the Chinese at
Truckee made by Sisson, Croker & Co.
have been rescinded.
A young man named Isaacs cohfesses
to have shot and mortally wounded his
brother on Fraser river, B. C.
Miss Louise Perkins told the story in
court Thursday, at Los Angeles, of her
connection with E. J. Baldwin.
John Johnson, condemned to hang at
Ukiah, has obtained respit Of thirty
days from the Governor of Cal.
Lew Allen killed Elmore Decker on
Little Klamath Lake, Siskiyou county,
Thursday, in dispute about land.
A mountain lion made a meal in a
hennery in almost the center OF the
town Of Santa Barbara the other day.
The case Of John Lowell, charged
with the murder of Joseph Bowers, near
Brighton, Cal, is on lial at Sacramen,
to.
Marysville, San Rafael, Napa, Santa
Cruz, Gridley and Redwood have held
enthusiastic anti Chinese meetings this
week.
Coal oil sells for SIT a case at the
Granite Creek mines, in British Colum-
bia, and other necessities are proper.
tionately high.
The anti-Chinese Convention to be
held at Sacramento on March 10th will
have an attendance, it is thought, Of
FIVE hundred delegates.
A Chiuaman named Lee Kee Ki was
stabbed and killed at Courtland last
Tuesday by Lem Chew, over a dispute
about financial matters.
The citizens Of Gold Run, Cal, have
notified the Chinese to depart, and the
last one went last Tuesday, leaving the
town entirely free from Chinese.
Some more geological fossils IRE
mains of mastadons) have been uncov-
cred on Putah creek by the recent rains.
OF this Prof. Davidson has been mott.
fed.
Four horse thieves were arrested at
Albuquerque, N. NJ, this week by
Texas officers who had been on the trail
of the thieves for weeks. and had trav-
eled 1, 900 miles.
A big gold mine has been found five
miles from Tucson, in the cement beds
to the cast. The rock, pulverized, has
given 81 so in gold, by washing a lot
Of twenty five pounds.
Governor Murray, Of Utah, has We
toed bill passed by the Legislature
providing for the compilation of the
laws OF that Territory, and the Nor
mons are very indignant.
A message received from Fort Bay
ard, N. NJ, at FL Paso, Texas, states
that Geronimo has Internationally sur
rendered to Lieutenant Maus, who took
Capt. Crawford's place after the latter's
death.
Thompson, who was shot at Fairbank.
A. T., last week, by Justice of the
Peace Smith, died from the effects of
eangrene in the County Hospital at
Tombstone after having his left arm
amputated.
Snowden, the defaulting hotel.keeper
of Albuquerque, N. NJ, writes from
Cbihauhau that he will come back and
settle il his creditors will accept thirty
cents on the dollar. He owes about