Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-08-04
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looms in Los Angeles.
Tacoma expects to clear eighty wheat
ships for Europe this season.
There are At least a dozen large century
plants in bloom at Pasadena. ........
A case Of small. pox has been discovered
In San Diego Canyon. near Santa Ana.
A amending and darning store" has been
opened at Willows, Cal, by Young lady
Leon Lebrun. who shot and killed the wife
Of Domingo Ulloa, at Marsh's Flat, has been
acquitted.
The Hudson Bay Company will move It's
headquarters for the Pacific from Victoria 10
Vancouver, B. c.
1t is still raining in Southern Arizona
Rain has been falling for three days and
washouts are plentiful.
James Porter has been arrested at Port
lsad and taken Eas, for forseries on the
First National Bank at Chicago.
Eastern fishermen propose raid on the
sturgeon in the Columbia river for the East.
ern markets. the supply becoming exhausted
in the waters there.
Frank Fray. the alleged bandit chief and
barn burner of Antelope Valley. Los Ange-
ton Fixed for to-day.
Antelope, Sacramento county, on the Cen.
trail Pacific. Wednesday morning. The air.
brakes would not werk properly.
A movement is on foot TO establish an
elaborate gambling resort across the Mexi
can line, near San Diego. Los Angeles cap
italists are said to engineer The scheme.
The miners who imprisoned the keeper Of
Q mine that had been enjoined. until they
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City, have been arrested and held in $500
each.
D. D. Ford, an old prospector OF Tucson,
ARR, was murdered and robbed by Paraso
Indians some weeks ago. His body was
found near Quinlan's ranch; on tie Quijotoa
road.
The Governor has offered reward of$5oo
for the arrest and conviction OF the murderer
OF murderers Of Percy H. Pratt, who was
killed near Camptonville, Nevada county,
on the 77lh OF July.
The Traver, Tulare county, Adpante, saws:
II our female population continues 10 leave
US woman will soon be as great curiosity
IN this town as she was in the mining town,
in the Golden State in the days Of '4o.
Some Indians got drunk near Genoa. New.
Sunday, and murdered one OF their number
The Indian was knocked down and while he
begged for his life they jumped upon his
body and mashed it into shspeless mass,
The Willamette Pulp and Paper Company
OF San Francisco (capital 5000, ooo) will be
gin building a mill shortly at the Villa /
mette Falls, Oregon City. From 1000 to
&c, 900 cords OF cottonwood will be used per
year. /
There are extensive fires in the woods be
tween Grass Valley and Colfax on the line
Of The wagon road. People have been fight
ng day and night to save th-ir houses
Heavy losses have been oecasioned in fences
md timber
A successful result has followed the ap
olcalion Of an invention 10 the base ores OF
Meadow Lake district, Nevada county. The
Excelsior mine has, in a partial cleanup
produced a bar of gold valued at $3.50 by !
he process.
Many fine lots Of beef cattle are now be.
nE shipped from Nevada to California In |
Northern Nevada there are whole herds Of !
cattle that are rolling fat. In one range,
about the head of the Owyhee, there are ne
fewer than 500 fat cattle.
The bodies of two Mexican horse thieves |
were taken TO Benson the FIRST of the week
BY party who had killed them in the wilds .
They had been followed from Wilcox, where +.
they had stolen nauber OF horses. Their |
names could not be learned
At Tacoma, w. T. the wheat warehouses
are packed full Of wheat, twelve bags high,
and additions al warehouses, occupying dis
lance Of 1000 feet on The water front. are
being erected. Nearly all this wheat is from
the Palouse country, in Eastern Washington
Territory.
Sheriff Shaw this week at Tucson, A. T,
brought in the Two PapagO Indians " no mur.
dered J. D. Ford two months ago near Hum
boldl Camp. The murderers are each but
sixteen years old and confess the deed, say
ing they wanted his grub and killed him 10
get it.
On Tuesday last four stuhble fires were
started between Acampo and Arno by the 10
connective attached 10 the passenger train
which was bound for Sacramento from Gal
About one mile of fencing and forty acres O
stubble were burded by one fire. The Other
fires were extinguished before much damage
was Gone.
A Chinaman died Of heart disease on Mrs.
AyChseh IahCn, near Napa, last fHday,
and blanket was spread over his remains
where he had fallen, under a tree, and the
devotional Punks were stuck around him and
lighted. These set FIRE 10 the grass and the
clothing Of the corpse was soon ablaze. The
hciy was nearly consumed.
Two young Indian women jumped from
the Redding local rain Sunday, near Hooker
Station, about ten miles north Of Red Bluff,
and were killed. The fore part of the bag
gage car on which they were riding, lhr oush
some unknown means, caught hre, and the
flames communicated 10 the dresses worn by
the squaws, and they, in their fright, leaped
10 their death.
A terrible thunderstorm visited Whitman,
county, w. T, north of Snake river, Wed
nesday, working sad havoc with crops sand {.
ing and partly harvested. The storm was
accompanied by fierce lightning. several
houses being struck, though no lives were
lest SO far as heard OF. The storm extended
ever an area of 50 by 100 miles and worked
great damage. u.s.,