Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-01-02
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

light.
Wheatland held an anti Chinese meet
ing this week.
Portland has been exempt from FIRE
for seventy days.
Sneak thieves are giving trouble to
the people OF Merced.
The Philadelphia smelters at Ketch-
um, Idaho, have closed down Temporal
rily.
Mary Wilson, sixteen years old, kill
ed herself with strychnine at Salt Lake
this week.
The Vekol mine, near Casa Grande,
A. T.. is yielding an output Of $685.
per month.
A strike Of considerable magnitude
has been made in the Defiance, at Inde-
pendence, lnyo county.
Hurley, Fresno policeman, has gone
crazy on the subject Of religion. He
imagines that he is John the Baptist.
J.B. Williamson, a merchant of Mil
ton, Or, was murdered Tuesday by
Robert Elliott, who used pickhandle.
The carpenter and the Chinese cook
of the steamer Idaho at Port Townsend,
w. T., are under arrest for smuggling
opium.
Several white women in Wheatland,
have commenced taking the washing
that had been previously been given to
Cinnamon.
The first ore from the recent strike in
the Defiance mine, al Darwin, lnyo
county, has been shipped. Inferior ore
will be smelted at Darwin.
The jury in lawsuit over band Of
turkeys at Williams, Colus.. county,
last week, had rough and tumble tight
before they could come to conclusion.
The residence OF William Vanderbilt
known as the Summit House, between
Valley Ford and Tomales, Marin coun.
ty, was totally destroyed by FIRE Tues
day morning.
A. P. McMurrin, who was shot by
Deputy Marshal Collins at Salt Lake
some weeks ago, has disappeared. He
was wanted in the Collins examination
this week. 1t was supposed he was in
bed from his wounds.
Brig. Hampton, has been sentenced
to the full extent of the law by Judge
Zane of Utah--one year in the comfy
Jail and costs. Hampton was convicted
on a charge Of conspiracy, and received
a scathing lecture on his wickedness.
In conseq6ence Of the reported rich
strike in the Ida mine in Lost Basin,
Mojave county, A. T., prospectors are
focking there from every direction, and
the probability is, numerous rich strikes
will be made in that district in the next
few months.
An old pioneer miner named Felty,
pounded out in a mortar, a few days
since, about 81 900 from quartz taken
out OF little ledge he discovered on
Hull Gulch, above Johnson's quartz
mine, in the Mugginsville district, Scott
Valley, Siskiyou county.
1t is rumored that smelling furnace
will be erected at Reno, next spring, to
reduce the extensive deposits of carbo,
nate ore in Washoe county, New, and
the refractory ores of the Comstock lode,
providing Congress does not pass any
law to further depreciate the value Of
silver.
The levee Of the Suffer Land Compa-
ny on the borders Of the tule basin,
broke yesterday morning. An inside
levy protects 500 acres be longing to the
company and other grain farms. The
tract protected by the outside levee was
not under cultivation. The water is
falling rapidly.
President Cleveland has. granted par
don to Siven Jensen, Frederick King.
ston, George c. Snyder, John S. Painter,
Wells Chase, Jane Chase, orawell ST.
mons and Charlotte E. Sharp, convicted
at Salt Lake of polygamy and unlaw-
full cohabitation, on their assurances
that thew have abandoned the alleged