Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-12-04
COAST ITEMS.

Stock in the Modoc county ranges are not
in very good condition.
Parties at Newport, Or, are canning dog
| salmon, which is worthless.
Gold is said to be plentiful in the black
sands of Coronado Beach, San Diego,
The body Of a Cbnaman perforated with
bullets, was found near Pennington, Utah,
this week
Los Angeles real estate transactions dur
ing the month OF November aggregated
s4555,799.
Graders on the Southern Pacific extension
are at work at the Sespe, more than half
way between Newhall and San Buenventura.
The trial of Henry Beaver for the murder
of c. S. Hayes, of the Travers 1idings is in
progress at Visalia, and attracts much atten-
ton.
December 18th is the day fixed for the
trial of John Bailiff and w. A. Reed, who
are charged with killing James T. Noon, at
Santa Rosa.
A hunter at West Point, Calveras county,
mistook J. E. Buchanan for deer, and the
latter has had a load of buckshot taken from
his back by surgeon.
child of Lottie Allen at Sacramento caught
fire this week, and the child was terribly
burned about the head and body.
Wilson Douglass, an old resident of Co
chise county, A. T., has been convicted of
the murder of Clements Linstrum, and has
been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Trouble is threatened among the striking
mill employees, at Fort Blakely, w. T..
and Governor Squire has sent militia to Sc
cure peace and protection to property.
Harry Sinclair has sued Santa Clara
county to recover SIS, 900 damages for the
breaking of an arm while working as one of
the county prisoners at Alum Rock quarry.
1t is currently reported at ST. Helena that
a narrow guagc railroad is to be built from
that place to the summit of Howell Noun
tain, and that a hotel and summer resort will
be established there.
Work is to be commenced within ninety
days on the narrow guage road projected be-
tween Tucson and Globe, A. T., and the
road will be in running order in one year
from date of contract.
Z. !. Baldwin is about to build standard
guage railroad from the San Gabriel depot
of the Southern Pacific to Monrovia. The
road will pass through the Rose, Chapman
and Baldwin properties.
Mrs. Adrian Warrington eighty one years
DID, died at her home on Taylor Mountain on
Saturday. She lived thirty years near Santa
Rosa without visiting the place, and had
never seen railroad or steam cars.
Most of the miners in Inyo county who are
taking out lead and silver ores are making
4batr he
new reduction works at Reno 1t is report
ed that some shipments of gold ore will also
be made.
Milford II. Holiday shot and killed 10
seph Dobson at Kanab, Utah, Sunday. Hol-
lday had just served a term for unlawful
cohabitation and on his return home learned
that Dobson had been intimate with enc Of
his wives.
Lorenzo Stutz, who pleaded guilty to an
indictment for unlawful cohabitation before
Judge in Salt Lake, ives yesterday told he
must obey the law and live with his first
wife. Stutz said she was too old and he
preferred going to prison.
A young man while hunting in North
Park, Col, attempted to set bear trap and
both his hands were caught and held fast
After a week of indescribable agony he
thought to release himself by gnawing
through his wrists. He bled to death after
he had gnawed off one hand.
The Deluge Hose Company at Chico can
vassed the town to sell tickets for a ball,
and it looked as if they would come out
$50 dollars behind, when canvass of Chi
natown was made and thirty five tickets were
purchased by the Mongolians. The boys
were thus secured from financial loss.
A few days ago Samuel Barnum was ar
| rested near riverside on charge of having
murdered Thomas Herring p Wisemiller
was very ofhcious in endeavoring to fix the
crime on Barnum, but upon examination the
arrested man was discharged, while enough
was found to warrant the locking up of
Wisemiller, and he is now in the San Ber-
nardino Jail with the charge of murder
against him.
The detectives believe that they have Sc
cured sufficient evidence to prove that the
burning of the store of C. o. Buckley at
Hopeton, MERGED county, was the work of a
gang of which the proprietor of the store
was one. Goods supposed to have been in
the store at the time Of the fire have been
found hidden on the ranch of the brother Of
Buckley, and several arrests have been made
Of the conspirators.
| A story reaches Los Angeles that William
Kettner, a recent arrival from St. Paul, MIMI,
while hunting in the San Jacinto Mountains
/ e., ,.,aa1,s fo,pJ On old n,;n;pr eba g.