Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-08-28


boxes.
Napa wineries have commenced grape
crushing.
The tules Of Yolo are said to be literally
filled with ducks.
The close season for salmon commences
on the rst of September. - . q
The coal mine at Elsinore promises to
prove fortune to its owners.
Santa Rosa's wooden mills will ship ro,-
600 yards of flannel this week
Diptheria has appeared among the Indian
children around Tuscarora, New.
The cheese factory of John Payne, at
Cove, Union county, Or, was destroyed by
fire, Wednesday.
An oil well is to be sunk at Niles Station,
San Luis Obispo county, on the line Of the
narrow guage railroad.
Six more skeletons were unearthed last
Friday from the Indian mound at the foot Of
Willow street, Alameda.
The Pima Indians have sold the Hayward
Milling Company of Marico pa CO, A. T.,
! over 400, 900 pounds Of wheat this season.
The heavy washouts between Sonora,
Mexico, and Nogales. A. r., will not per
NIT railroad travel before the Ist Of Septem
Der.
Senator Stanford presented the Santa Rosa
Agricultural Park Association the purse won
by his horse at the races in Santa Rosa, last
week.
Mrs. w W. Kirk, living near Hoppner,
Or, committed suic de this week, by drink
ing water in which poisoned wheat had been
soaked
The infant son Of c. w. Payne, Of Sell
ma, Fresno county, Monday ate some cobalt
that was used for fly poison, and died few
hours afterward.
-Four OF the prisoners who escaped from
the Yolo county Jail last Sunday were cap
tured at Rocklin, Placer county, Wednesday
Three are still missing.
The $1,000 given by the late Senator
Sharon to the Orphans Home has been con-
verted into the first Industrial School Of Ne
vad, which has been completed at Reno.
All persons "without visible means of sup
port" have been ordered from Pheonlx, A.
r. Several incendiary attempts to burn
houses in the town have prompted the order.
c. A. Farnum, formerly of San Francisco
was accidentally shot at Creston, San Luis
Obispo county, Wednesday, and the ampuJa-
ton of his arm below the elbow was neces-
stated.
Two footpads have been taken to Yreka,
robbed an unknown man near Berryvale last
Tuesday They gave the names of Walter
and J. IL. Finnegan.
The petrifed vertebrae of whale has
been found about FIVE miles above Sequel
Near the same place large clans have also
been found, leaving no reason to doubt that
at one time that section OF the country form
ed part of the bay.
Solicitor of Patents, F. o. McCleary, OF
Washington, d. c., says the only thing that
did him any good, when suffering with a
cough Of several weeks standing, was Red
Sta Cough Cure, which is purely vegetable
and free from opiates and poison.
The Idaho WoyH says there are a thous.
and men in the placer mines recently discov-
cred in Yellow Pine Basin and the surface is
staked off in all directions for twenty miles.
Three miners have returned thence to Kctch
um and pronounce the country fraud so
| far as placers are concerned.
L. B. Ruggles, a member of the State
Committee on Irrigation, will publish pro-
| test against the action of that committee in
the Tulare county papers this week. 1t ap-
pears that the committee had secret springs
which did a work not wholly known to all
| its members until too late for action.
New and good placer diggings have been
found on the North Fork of the San Gabriel
river. 1t is supposed that the rich quartz
ledge recently discovered on Wilson's Peak,
near Pasadena, Los Angeles county, crosses
the fork. A large number of prospectors
from all parts of the State have gone TO Viii